The IoT is ready for the process industry today

摘要

In today's competitive business climate, process plants are looking for ways to quickly reduce costs, improve operations, and comply with regulatory requirements. Addressing these challenges with yesterday's technologies, while practical, often has unsatisfactory results and does not yield the desired competitive advantage. But there is a technology ready for deployment right now that can address many operational challenges, and it is proven in use with more than 5 billion operating hours. This innovation consists of adding wireless sensors to process plants, and then connecting these sensors to internal intranets or to the Internet to create an industrial Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure. The data from these sensors can then be interpreted and analyzed to help users save energy, improve reliability, and increase throughput. This is not some futuristic vision of the IoT, but is a current reality at many process plants around the globe.