What are Managed Services for the Internet of Things?

Managed Services business models have become much more prevalent over the last few decades thanks to advances in cloud computing technology. More recently, Managed Services Providers (MSPs), in particular, have grown increasingly popular as companies try to optimize operations and decision-making around data streams. What are Managed Services for the IoT? So, what are Managed … Read more

How Much Are You Paying Your Systems Integrator?

Systems integrators (SIs) are a recent global phenomenon. Wikipedia defines a systems integrator as “a person or company that specializes in bringing together component subsystems into a whole and ensuring that those subsystems function together.” In other words, they help customers manage the complexity of big technical projects, such as those involving digital transformation.  Overall, … Read more

Your Remote Monitoring System Is Older Than Your Kids

Updating Remote Monitoring Remote monitoring and control systems consist of many interconnected layers of hardware, networks, software, and people. How do you know when it’s time for a remote monitoring system upgrade? On the hardware front, you have the physical assets themselves, the measurement hardware (sensors), processing hardware, and communications hardware. When it comes to … Read more

Don’t Dismiss What Your Remote Monitoring System is Telling You

Remote Monitoring Data Insights One of the main goals of implementing a remote monitoring system is to build a data-driven culture that produces positive business outcomes. With rich, quantitative data, leaders can enhance decision-making, optimize operations, and increase the productivity of their workforces. However, building an effective remote monitoring alerting is not as simple as … Read more

Greenfield IoT versus Brownfield IoT – Can you do both?

Large-scale industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) deployments tend to stall out and fail before they even get started. From data collection problems to bad technology, there are numerous issues that prevent organizations from implementing digital projects successfully.  We’ve learned that many of these challenges exist as a result of how leaders approach IIoT deployments. They … Read more

Rapid, Incremental Change is the Key to Digital Success

Industrial leaders use the Internet of Things (IoT) to change the way they do business. They want to pursue digitization to make operations and infrastructure safer, more efficient, and more sustainable for their workers.  However, many fail to realize that big business process change is hard to get right. Organizations can’t simply add an IoT layer on … Read more

Remote Equipment Servicing at the Forefront in 2020

At WellAware, we understand how much value there is in having real-time access to high-resolution information about physical assets.  Service providers that can remotely manage smart sensors are empowered to proactively address equipment failures, reduce downtime, and optimize maintenance processes. They can study the health of valuable machinery and mitigate problems before they occur.  Many … Read more

Why Remote Monitoring is Crucial for Employee Health & Safety

Remote Asset Monitoring Employee Health and Safety

Whether in the office or at manufacturing sites and other production facilities, the health and safety of workers dictate the success of daily operations. In today’s environment, unforeseen health and safety hazards pop up at a moment’s notice. For industrial companies, equipping your factory or manufacturing operations with the tools necessary to remotely monitor and control assets is crucial to not disrupt operations during an unforeseen event. Working from a remote location then becomes an easy … Read more

How to monitor remote assets: Discover Missing Data

One of the biggest data challenges facing industrial companies trying to learn how to monitor remote assets is the problem of missing data. What do we mean by missing data? Basically, it’s valuable information about our people or assets that just isn’t being collected because the perception is that doing so would cost too much or … Read more

A complex relationship between cybersecurity and productivity

Welcome to the last (but certainly not least) post of our industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) data problem series! Throughout this journey, we’ve covered a wide range of challenges and topics. Our goal has been to help leaders understand the data problems that industrial businesses face when deploying IIoT networks. We’ve saved cybersecurity for last, as it … Read more

Data from SCADA systems is incomplete

Continuing with our data problem blog series, we tackle the topic of incomplete data, another challenge many businesses face when considering digital technologies like SCADA systems to improve their business processes. Incomplete data is distinct from the problem of missing data. Missing data is information that companies don’t collect because it’s either unavailable or too expensive to gather. Incomplete … Read more

Industrial dashboards are full of unprocessed data

Digital transformation initiatives are full of utopian visions of beautiful dashboards that help engineers, managers, and executives make great decisions every time. But how sure can we be that these dashboards are telling the truth? Let’s talk about science for a second. Have you ever heard someone proclaim “It’s Science!” with great authority about a … Read more

Selecting an industrial monitoring system for compliance

Compliance managers, site superintendents, and engineering technicians are often responsible for connecting their assets to a monitoring system to ensure compliance with federal and state laws. People who are considering new systems, or need to replace or upgrade their existing ones, should keep in mind the most important factors as they evaluate their options. How … Read more

Remote monitoring systems can misidentify data sources

In our industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) data problem series, we’ve arrived at the tricky issue of misidentified data in remote monitoring systems. Misidentified data is high-quality, complete, and on time. However, the identity of the asset it represents in the remote monitoring system has been mislabeled. As a result, the misidentified data is highly misleading. Digital monitoring systems … Read more

Edge compute solves the industrial low-res data problem

Through our data problem series, we’ve covered several data challenges that industrial companies face when pursuing digital projects. Some struggle with low-quality data, while others are limited by data silos and legacy systems. Many of the specific issues we’ve covered are symptoms of the Digital Age. We have more data than ever before at our fingertips, and we are … Read more