Is Platform Polarization a Barrier To Industrial Deployment of Smartphones?

Posted by RAD DeRose | Date: December 12, 2012

I posted a comment recently on a new white paper from Honeywell Scanning & Mobility entitled Are Smartphones and Tablets Suitable for Use in Warehouse and Distribution Center Operations? and encourage you to read the paper in full for yourself. The survey it discusses provides interesting insight into current thinking on the subject of industrial…

Intelligent Building with Advantech’s WebAccess

Posted by Jeremy Miller | Date: December 11, 2012

In my previous blog article, I talked about the growing emphasis on intelligent building. To summarize, Intelligent Building can automate the following areas: Integrated and Intelligent Systems Energy Management System & Services Service Support & Maintenance Advantech’s intelligent building solution (AiBS) software, WebAccess, can accomplish the tasks listed above. WebAccess is a graphical control SCADA/HMI…

The Growing Emphasis On Intelligent Building

Posted by Jeremy Miller | Date: December 10, 2012

As economies adjust to ever-rising demand for and costs of energy, an increasing range of enterprises are focusing on intelligent-building strategies. Globally, commercial buildings currently consume just fewer than 25 percent of all electricity production, making intelligent, automated management of those resources critical not only to enterprise efficiency, but also to global energy-allocation challenges. While…

Potential For Smartphones In Warehouses and Distribution Centers?

Posted by RAD DeRose | Date: December 5, 2012

Not to give my age away, but the first PCs I recall installing in a commercial workplace were four IBM XTs with Intel’s 4.77 MHz 8088 processor, 256 kB of RAM, 5.25-inch floppies and 20-MB hard drives. Total price tag, including custom software: ~$24,000.00 in mid-80s dollars, or about $50,000.00 in 2011 dollars. Their proud…