It organizes the data AI can see. Someone still has to sense the physical world.Operations software has always assumed a person on the other end. Dashboards, reports, and interfaces all expect someone to read them. Cory LaFleur of Thinaer presented at a recent defense...
Notes from AWS's keynote, with Thinaer on stage, at the AWS Defense and National Security Industry Partner ForumInside the AWS Defense and National Security Industry Partner Forum Last month, Thinaer spent a week at Amazon HQ2 in Arlington, Virginia, for the AWS...
AI models only see what's digitized. Most operations floors aren't. Equipment runs without a sensor attached, materials move without anyone logging where, and by the time a report reaches a decision-maker, it describes a shift that ended hours ago. Operational...
Zero trust programs are becoming mandatory, not optional, under CMMC and DoD mandates. Once that shift happens, every connected device has to justify its place inside the architecture. That includes the sensors and gateways an IoT vendor puts on your floor. This isn't...
Most industrial operations are still making decisions on data that's hours — sometimes days — old, and by the time a report reaches a manager, the floor has already changed. Operational intelligence closes that gap, converting near-real-time signals from physical...
Evaluating connectivity for a distributed, outdoor, or remote deployment usually means running into three unfamiliar acronyms at once: LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, and increasingly, satellite IoT. All three fall under LPWAN — low power wide area network. It's the category of...
You've got budget approved for an edge AI pilot. A vendor is promising real-time predictive maintenance or quality control right at the machine. No cloud round-trip required. Before you sign anything, it's worth asking what actually changed in 2026 to make this...
Schneider Electric just agreed to pay $3.1 billion, in cash, for Cognite — a company most manufacturers had never heard of a month ago. The deal, announced June 30, 2026, is still pending regulatory approval. But the price tag alone says something worth sitting with:...
In July 2026, a security researcher pointed a wire-tap at xAI's Grok Build coding tool. The finding was specific. The model needed 192 kilobytes to answer the coding question. The tool uploaded 5.10 gigabytes of the developer's full codebase to xAI's cloud storage...
Most Azure customers aren't short on AI and analytics horsepower. Power BI, Azure IoT Hub, Azure AI — the tooling is there. What's usually missing is the thing feeding it: real operational data from the physical floor, in a structured form those tools can actually...
