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Ethernet & IIoT Becoming a Vehicle for Industrial Applications
During an interaction with Nitisha from BISinfotech; TS Shankar, Regional Sales Manager-India, Analog Devices highlights the impact of IIoT on communication and automation industry. He says, IIoT tools can play a vital role in enabling location based services, ensuring a seamless transition through various changes. It will have a lasting impact on businesses. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) drives significant improvements in production and operational efficiency, proving transformative for industrialisation. He emphasized the ADI and its deep domain expertise, advanced technologies which connect the industrial equipment and networks of the future with solutions.
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Please explain the impact of IIoT on the automation industry. How is it going to help businesses? Automation prevails as a supporting driver of technology and business decisions, data insights, continuous delivery and business profit. Over several decades, we have seen the benefits of automation and are now promoting these systems with advanced data, machine learning and artificial intelligence. And as autonomous systems become more interconnected and communicated, it becomes easier to analyse and interpret data to make intelligent decisions across factories. The interaction between humans and machines is on the verge of a revolutionary change through IoT that will introduce many possibilities. IIoT, a connected network of intelligent machines, will dramatically change business, just as the
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TS Shankar
Regional Sales Manager-India, Analog Devices
