Noise to Harmony: Data Integration

The IIoT world is largely made up of two participant groups; young software-based System Integrators with resources focused on IIoT system integration, and traditional Industrial Manufacturers that have made product components for Industrial markets over a longer period. The exceptions to this pattern are those Large Industrial firms attempting to become integrators themselves (think GE or Rockwell Automation).

For this reason, traditional Industrial Manufacturers who are NOT a part of the Large Industrials group will be well served to focus on their products’ integration into broader IIoT systems. This assertion is supported by three underlying points.

1. Established manufacturers’ ability to agnostically integrate into a broad spectrum of IIoT applications will naturally drive system integrators toward their products.

IIoT System differentiation will be sold not on component product features, but rather on interactions between and among parts of a network and, most importantly, how the data from one product adds to system insights. The tools that System Integrators possess today that manage sensor and machine data are not designed for a diversity of device data types or the massive volume of datapoints generated from real-time product interactions. Correspondingly, a product designed to contribute raw data to any network seamlessly will make…