Continuing on our journey to evaluate best IoT resources and bring you the scoop on latest IoT innovations and knowledge, we present you three articles that are worthy of your time.

Predictive Maintenance – Solutions for Maintenance Planner of Connected Factory

Lately, Predictive Maintenance has become the priority in Maintenance arena of every manufacturing enterprise. Predictive maintenance is designed to determine the condition of equipment and predict when maintenance should be performed, resulting in the convenient scheduling of corrective maintenance and cost savings over preventive maintenance as tasks are performed only when warranted. To be done right, the necessary premise is to have the right information at the right time. Smarter Chains has evaluated six solutions that connected factory’s maintenance planner should know.

Innovative Smart City Solutions – That sound you are hearing is the cities getting Smarter!

The UN predicts that by 2050 some 66 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, up from 54 percent today. As more and more of us move to cities, significant efforts are going in improving overall life in cities. Smart City projects are growing around the world and smarter solutions are being developed every day. By harnessing data, we can make our cities more efficient and livable. Data from traffic patterns can help to ease autonomous cars through our streets and keep accidents to a minimum. Already, cities are using data to respond more quickly to fires (in New Orleans) and to prioritize health inspections of city restaurants (in Chicago) and to help global cities manage their power, water, and energy metering. The article by Vinay Nathan shades light on specific integrated IoT Solution for noise monitoring that is making cities smarter.

Cloud Security – Is it safe?

In the world where daily we hear new security breach, Cloud security is the topmost worry for most enterprises, as Gartner predicts. Concerns about security have led many CIOs inhibiting their organization using public cloud services, thereby limiting their organization’s ability to gain a competitive advantage in many other areas. As observed by Gartner, The challenge exists not in the security of the cloud itself, but in the policies and technologies for security and control of the technology. In nearly all cases, it is the user — not the cloud provider — who fails to manage the controls used to protect an organization’s data. Through 2022, at least 95% of cloud security failures will be the customer’s fault. This article by Gartner is very insightful to guide CIOs on cloud security and answer the key question – Is the cloud secure?