著者：ジェリー・ファン

Edge computing security in industrial IoT is not only about whether a gateway supports VPN, firewall rules, or encrypted communication. Those features matter, but they are only part of the discussion. The harder question is usually more practical: when an edge gateway connects industrial equipment, remote users, cellular or Ethernet networks, cloud platforms, and management…

For remote industrial assets, the cost of a problem is often not only the fault itself. It is the uncertainty around the fault. This is where edge computing for remote industrial assets becomes practical. An edge gateway should not be expected to remove every maintenance visit. Its role is more specific: it can provide site-side…

Edge computing in IoT becomes much harder to manage once gateways are deployed as a fleet. A single industrial edge gateway can often be checked manually. A fleet of gateways across remote cabinets, energy sites, utility stations, smart city infrastructure, OEM equipment, or distributed industrial assets is a different matter. At that point, the real…

EV charging station connectivity is becoming a core operational issue for public, commercial, and distributed charging networks. For charging operators, it is not enough to know that a charger has been installed. They need to know whether the charger is reachable, available, reporting correctly, connected to its backend, and diagnosable before a technician is sent…

Battery energy storage systems are built from multiple field systems. A BESS site may include a battery management system, power conversion system, energy management system, energy meters, thermal management equipment, protection devices, environmental sensors, and local controllers. Each system plays a different role, and each system may provide different data. This is why BESS data…

EV charging station remote monitoring is becoming more important as commercial charging sites become more complex. Many charging locations are no longer only made up of standalone EV chargers. They may also include solar PV systems, battery storage, energy meters, site controllers, network equipment, and cloud-based charging or energy management platforms. This creates a different…

Battery energy storage systems are becoming an important part of renewable energy sites, microgrids, commercial facilities, utility projects, and distributed energy portfolios. But a BESS site is not a single device that can be monitored with one simple status signal. A BESS usually includes multiple systems: battery racks or cabinets, BMS, PCS, EMS, energy meters,…

Renewable energy assets are often spread across many locations instead of being concentrated inside one controlled facility. A solar PV site, a remote inverter station, a hybrid solar-storage installation, or a distributed energy resource may operate far from the central operations team. For asset owners and system integrators, this creates a practical monitoring challenge. Teams…

Industrial robots are no longer isolated machines performing repetitive motion in the background. In many factories, they are part of production cells that include PLCs, fixtures, conveyors, vision systems, end-of-arm tooling, sensors, safety systems, and upper-layer monitoring platforms. This makes industrial robot data acquisition more complex than simply asking whether a robot can be connected…

Industrial IoT projects often start with a practical question: how can field-side data be collected, transformed, and forwarded without building a complete custom software application from the beginning? In many factories, project teams may need to read selected Modbus values, convert serial data into a structured format, publish machine status to an MQTT broker, send…