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Making Sense of IoT Platforms: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBM vs Cisco

Altexsoft

But to build and run a robust infrastructure, a manufacturer or service provider needs a solid foundation — or, in other words, an IoT platform that connects devices, collects data, and creates insights. IoT infrastructure contains several key layers, with an IoT platform acting as a bridge between physical world and business processes.

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IoT Architecture: the Pathway from Physical Signals to Business Decisions

Altexsoft

But between your command and tasks fulfilled, there lies a large and mostly invisible infrastructure, that involves multiple elements and interactions. The second level is in charge of all communications across devices, networks, and cloud services that make up the IoT infrastructure. analytic solutions using machine learning.

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Rail Fleet Management: How Technologies Help Handle Asset Tracking and Maintenance in Freight Rail Industry

Altexsoft

Railroads are an indispensable part of the supply chain when transporting both bulk shipments and intermodal containers. Most businesses mainly focus on asset tracking and maintenance, but there are more activities involved. It’s crucial to keep just the right number of assets to meet transportation demand and freight requirements.

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Fleet Management Software: Key Functions, Solutions, and Innovations

Altexsoft

Businesses involved in transporting cargo require more complex solutions: Maintenance scheduling, registration, tracking, driver management, and operation costs are only the tip of the iceberg. ensure smart transportation. So it’s high time to go over the FMS solutions that can help your business handle its transportation needs.

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The Good and the Bad of Docker Containers

Altexsoft

During shipment, goods are carried using different types of transport: trucks, cranes, forklifts, trains, ships, etc. What’s more, the goods come in different sizes and shapes and have different transportation requirements. Then came standardized intermodal containers that revolutionized the transportation industry.

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Implementing a Data Management Strategy: Key Processes, Main Platforms, and Best Practices

Altexsoft

A data architect focuses on building a robust infrastructure so that data brings business value. Transporting data from local repositories into a warehouse. Data analytics and business intelligence: drawing insights from data. As there’s no infrastructure to manage, this DMP is easy to use.

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It’s Time for Data Historians to Become … History

Actian

Many of these systems were built from the ground up on expensive legacy hardware where resource constraints and lack of standards meant that functionality was pared down and focused only on the localized and immediate requirements of the OT infrastructure and process at hand. In essence, they’re libraries built only for the librarians.