AI and The Environmental Train Wreck 

Artificial Intelligence has reached a new level of public consciousness (and perhaps its own?) with the advent of easily accessible tools, portals and applications and breathless forecasts of utopia and doom that are washing over us like high tide on a Cape Cod Beach. The C-suite of the Fortune 500 are rapidly conducting workshops and offsites, startups are quickly editing their VC pitch decks and we’re all becoming a bit more educated on what AI could do, would do, and should do.

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Plumbing, Electrical, HVAC… and 5G

Private 5G holds out a promise of ultra-low latency, secured and private, ubiquitous connectivity – across the campus, the factory floor, and across acres of commercial property – completely in the control of the IT department. Like any respectable tech, it had its own “mini” hype cycle. Every tradeshow had multiple a private 5G demos competing on speed, capabilities, coverage – you name it.

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The Edge is a Team Sport

Edge Compute is arguably one of the most of exciting and innovative areas of promise for commercials businesses. As semiconductors increase performance and use less power due to ever- improving fab processes, networks improve their capacity, latency and reach, software development leverages cloud native capabilities, and AI inferencing leverage cloud-trained models, we’re at an inflection point on how these systems can transform business.

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C-Suite Insight: What Is the Industrial Edge?

What is the Industrial Edge? This is a topic that is heavily debated in techno circles outside of the industrial domain. Schneider Electric describes the industrial edge as, “the places where digitized industrial assets and human operators are located. Siemens describes it as, “an open, ready-to-use Edge computing platform consisting of Edge devices, Edge apps, Edge connectivity, and an application and device management infrastructure.”

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