Tony Paine: Where I think IoT really adds a lot of power is that we’re going to be able to take the same things that we do within a single organization, where an organization may have multiple campuses or sites, and cross organizational boundaries so that we can tie into the consumers of the goods
Tony Paine: When you think of the oil and gas market where you have remote sites that are perhaps drilling wells, that information has been historically self-contained on the site and requires someone to be out there to take measurements. The thought is, that is not realistic going forward. The industry doesn’t have the same
Tony Paine: What we are seeing now is there is a big push to Internet-enable these systems so that people can get visibility into what’s going on at multiple, remote sites and pull it into a central location and to be able to make intelligent decisions based on it. Kepware is starting to get pulled into this
Tony Paine: This was the beginning of our introduction to, what I would call today, Internet of Things. We were network-enabling a wide variety of data sources and making them available to other parties. Over the next couple of years, the industry got together and decided that vendors shouldn’t go and create their own inter-operability
Internet of Things has actually been around for a while, especially in the industrial automation space. Kepware Technologies has been catering to the needs of that industry for 20 years. Let’s discuss why things are accelerating now and where the gaps are. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as