Wireless Solutions for Manufacturing Challenges
Wireless Solutions for Manufacturing Challenges
Engineers hold the future in their hands, whether they realize it or not. The things they create shape the world we live in and now that the Internet of Things (IoT) is so prevalent in our lives, there’s even more they can do.
We had a chance to chat with Robbie Paul, Director of IoT Business Development with Digi-Key Electronics about just how big and powerful the IoT really is and how engineers can use their work as a force of change for the future (and even the present, at this rate). And while we hear about it more today, and engineers work on it much more, IoT isn’t new. It’s gone through several iterations and name changes over the years. From machine-to-machine learning to various other pseudonyms, people have been trying to figure out “how to get the human out of the whole machine to machine connection and add intelligence at different levels,” as Paul puts it, for some time.
Key Ideas Covered:
- How big is the IoT?
- How companies differentiate with so much competition.
- Macro trends enabling edge computing.
- Rapid expansion of the Helium Network.
- What engineers should consider as they design for the IoT.
- Supply chain issues and potential light at the end of the tunnel.