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Combining the Best of OT and IT

Two worlds are converging as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) takes the controls industry by storm. This white paper examines how professionals from Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) can find common ground to establish the IIoT. Through IIoT solutions such as MQTT, a lightweight communications protocol, industrial organizations can gain the ability to easily collect data from large remote systems and share it with the enterprise level.

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webinar Manufacturing

IIoT: Bringing OT & IT Together

In this webinar, Don Pearson and Travis Cox of Inductive Automation will join Arlen Nipper, president of Cirrus Link Solutions and co-inventor of MQTT, to discuss the changes taking place in manufacturing and the best way to go forward.

63 min video

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webinar Manufacturing

Ignition: IIoT That Works

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) promises to revolutionize manufacturing. Although there has been plenty of IIoT hype, there hasn't been an IIoT solution rooted in operational technologies and seamlessly integrated into the IT layer – until now. The IIoT is here, it works, and it's Ignition.

59 min video

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icc | 2015 Community Session  |  Data Center

Leveraging IIoT Technology: Building for Tomorrow with Ignition & MQTT

MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) was invented in 2001 as a TCP/IP message transport designed specifically for event-based real-time SCADA. MQTT remained relatively obscure until the recent emergence of M2M/IIoT technologies in the development community at large. Now MQTT is one of the leading message transports in IIoT. This session introduces a high-level explanation of MQTT, why it was invented for SCADA, and how it can be used natively in Ignition, right now.

56 min video

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