IoT fever sweeps Texas

摘要

The heat of the Texan sun is being rivalled only by the fever generated by optimism over the Industrial Internet of Things at this year's NI Week event. NI Week has opened in the Texan capital of Austin, the home of host National Instruments - as well as an impressive list of Fortune 500 technology companies, which makes this corner of Texas seem like a small, displaced enclave of Silicon Valley. The Internet of Things (IoT) is at the top of the agenda for the company that provides the platform on which industrial systems and networks are measured, validated and controlled. With a prediction of 50 billion connected devices being in existence by as soon as 2020, the company and its partners have their work cut out.