David Purón

The digital twin is one of the main topics of discussion about connected industry or industry 4.0. There are sectors where they are now not only a reality, but a key part of operations. Manufacturing uses digital twins in their day-to-day operations, helping to operate machinery, monitor material, predict behaviour, or plan tasks, using a virtual copy of the systems involved, and thus saving hundreds of field visits.

In this future context, where neither production nor distribution are optimally guaranteed, all eyes are on the so-called Active Demand Management or "Demand Response" mechanisms, which could be translated into English as "demand response".

What differentiates the industrial world (OT) from the IT world and why is the feeling of insecurity increasingly high in industrial companies? The answer lies in the inability of industrial companies to update software and firmware.

Edge AI has emerged as a game-changer technology for the Industrial World. Industries with highly distributed critical assets will be the great beneficiaries of taking advanced computing to the Edge.

It is time to take stock of this year, in which, with the support of our new partners, we can proudly say that it has been the best year in the history of the company.

The railway sector is one of the most complex industrial environments in terms of digitization. Technically, it presents a multitude of obstacles that make it difficult to integrate existing systems into modern digital architectures, which explains its low digitization. Edge Computing can be the answer to many of its challenges.

Data Sovereignty is the ability of individuals, corporations or governments to decide how, for what purpose, and at what price third parties can use their data. In this sense, the energy market is currently the one that can benefit the most from a data sharing sovereignty environment.

IoT Edge Computing has the potential to transform the energy industry through its ability to process large amounts of data in real time ultimately improving the operational safety and efficiency.

Edge Computing technology has emerged as one of the hottest new technology proposals; data does not need to be fully centralised, instead some of it can be processed on distributed computers called Edge Nodes, that is, in the same place where the data is being generated.

Disrupting technologies like IoT, AI, or Edge Computing have come to enhance SCADAs and PLCs. Proper co-existence and integration of product, human and processes, between OT and IT, will be the key for the industrial sector to jump on board with the fourth industrial revolution.

The future electrical grid will need to respond to a multidirectional energy flow that demands real time information between the utility, its suppliers, partners and customers. Edge Computing is the technology that enables real time information, and the ability to scale.

The Utility sector, with its geographically widely distributed infrastructure and digital assets with old or even obsolete technology, has proved to be one of the most vulnerable one.