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...
A board meeting. A slide shows "94% operational efficiency" rolled up across the network. Someone asks how the number is calculated. Nobody in the room can answer with confidence. That's not a dashboard problem. It's what operational reporting quietly becomes once it...
Most manufacturers reach the same conclusion once an MES (Manufacturing Execution System) is up and running: "we have visibility now." The system tracks work orders. It logs quality checks. It shows the schedule on a screen. The visibility problem feels solved. It...
A plant manager pulls up the shift dashboard. According to the screen, six CNC machines are running, the calibration cart is parked in bay 3, and work-in-progress on line 2 is on pace. None of that matches what's actually happening on the floor right now — two of...
Search "industrial IoT sensors" and you'll find plenty of lists: temperature sensors, vibration sensors, pressure sensors, proximity sensors. Useful, but incomplete. Knowing what a sensor measures doesn't tell you whether that data will actually make it off the floor...
Every wave of enterprise technology has had a foundational architecture. For cloud, it was virtualization. For analytics, it was the data warehouse. For the current wave of AI in physical operations, the architecture has a name: Capture, Learn, Act. This is the...
New sensor types, an expanded map experience (beta), and broader data export extend Sonar's day-one visibility and strengthen the AI-ready data foundation underneath it.DALLAS, June 24, 2026. Thinaer, the Physical AI capture layer, today released Sonar Web 6.1.0. The...
Everyone says IT/OT convergence is the goal. Fewer people explain what it requires to get there — and almost no one talks about why so many attempts stall before they produce anything useful. The answer, in most cases, comes down to data. Specifically, to whether the...
