We’re in the middle of what is now widely acknowledged as the fourth industrial revolution. The digitization of industrial and manufacturing processes has transformed the way industries produce and operate on a daily basis. Arguably, the biggest cog in the machine that’s fueling this revolution is the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT). IIoT unifies industrial assets, network communications, advanced analytics, and industrial workers. It creates new opportunities for automation, smart and intelligent manufacturing, asset maintenance and performance, and centralized control while enabling better customer service and faster time to market.

Like any other IT environment, IIoT systems and environments generate a huge amount of machine data containing highly valuable information and critical insights that require some unearthing. Once unearthed, tackled, and utilized the right way, data from smart sensors, meters, control systems can offer significant competitive advantages and several benefits to the organization.