From the basic premise of e-commerce through to digitisation of the technologies delivering that product sold, and data science in-between, our Smart Industry Series has explored the bandwidth of transformation that Industry 4.0 is bringing to the industrial gases business.
Here, in this sixth and final instalment, we drill down into the software that enables the secure connectivity of the smarter industry of tomorrow with 128 Technology, a Massachusetts-based company that offers a breakthrough approach to networking. And when we talk about networking, we don’t mean the kind that forges relationships at business events – we’re referring here to the data transmission and security that will be pivotal to the realisation of smart industry.
A ‘smarter’ industry or society is predicated on a network that delivers secure connectivity anywhere, and to any device. There will be more than 40 billion connected devices worldwide – with billions of those for optimising industrial operations – by 2022. Demand for more speed and reliability of connectivity keeps rising as a result, as does the need to protect against more sophisticated cyber threats. But today’s hardware-centric networking model only makes the network more complex.
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