Building a resilient industrial IoT architecture: From sensor to insight
Resilient industrial IoT architecture designed to avoid the integration risks at the boundaries between protocol, gateway, security and analytics layers.
Predictive Maintenance Systems for IoT Sensors: A Practical Guide
Predictive maintenance IoT sensors have moved from pilot projects to procurement line items across manufacturing, energy and logistics operations. Where a maintenance team once relied on fixed service intervals or a technician to notice that ‘something doesn’t sound...
IEC 62443 industrial security: Safeguarding IoT devices from cyber threats
IEC 62443 industrial security requirements shape almost every stage of connected device design across manufacturing and process industries. The standard offers a comprehensive approach to identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities within industrial networks by...
ESP32 industrial IoT gateways: Turning design principles into functioning hardware
The previous post in this series detailed the architectural decisions that any industrial gateway should make: how much intelligence sits at the edge, how legacy OT protocols get translated into MQTT, what uplink to specify, and how the OT-IT security boundary gets...
Industrial IoT Gateway Design: Where Protocol and Connectivity Converge
Every architectural decision covered covered in this series eventually has to physically live somewhere. The MQTT broker placement that structures the topic hierarchy, and the WiFi HaLow or cellular link that carries data off-site, terminate at the same piece of...
WiFi HaLow in industrial sites: An engineering and procurement guide
WiFi HaLow industrial deployments are moving from field trial to production line across UK manufacturing, utilities and logistics sites. Built on the IEEE 802.11ah standard, WiFi HaLow operates below 1GHz, giving it the long-range, low-power, and wall-penetration...
MQTT Industrial IoT Architecture: Reliable Messaging for the Smart Factory
Every connected factory, from a single production line to a multi-site manufacturing group, needs a way for thousands of sensors, machines, and control systems to talk to each other and to the cloud without drowning the network or losing critical data along the way....
Inside the industrial IoT gateway solutions connecting the modern factory
Industrial IoT gateway solutions sit at the centre of every successful factory digitalisation project, doing all of the translation work (e.g. interpreting protocols from legacy devices, or contextualising raw data for decision-makers sitting three layers up the...
Defence electronics interface risk: The integration blind spot
Across this series, we've examined eight distinct disciplines in defence electronics design: communications protocols, autonomy integration, secure updates, sensor power design, electromagnetic compatibility, radio selection, firmware security, and enclosure...
Rugged defence electronics design: Key enclosure features and compliance standards
Rugged enclosures are the primary defence against system failures Behind every piece of defence electronics that survives a battlefield, a maritime deployment or an aircraft hold, there is an enclosure doing work that rarely gets much credit. Rugged defence...
Secure embedded firmware for defence systems: Military cybersecurity’s ultimate foundation
What is firmware security, and why is it crucial for defence equipment? Every piece of defence equipment, from a section radio to an uncrewed aerial vehicle, runs on software buried deep inside its hardware. This is firmware: the code that powers a device, tells it...
Why firmware update architecture is mission-critical for secure OTA defence systems
The Defence IoT problem often left undiscussed OTA stands for over-the-air: the method by which software or firmware on a connected device is updated remotely, without physical access to the hardware. In consumer technology, you see it every time your phone downloads...
EMI and EMC in defence electronics and ‘smart’ battlefield design
The importance of electromagnetic protection in military solutions Defence electronics cannot rely on commercial-grade devices and regulations, as they understandably have to pass highly rigorous military and aerospace standards to ensure durability in contested...
Tactical sensor power design for defence-grade reliability
Prioritising the power budget for military sensors Power is one of the most unforgiving constraints in tactical sensor design. A sensor that runs out of energy in the field is, from an operational standpoint, worse than no sensor at all, as it creates a gap in...
Choosing radios for defence deployments: A guide to defence RF communication systems
The importance of secure RF communication for military-grade deployments This post is our sixth in a series within a growing body of work we have produced for the UK defence sector, covering the electronics and firmware challenges specific to military-grade hardware....
MAVLink integration in defence UAVs: Architecture, security and deployment considerations
What is MAVLink and why does it matter for defence UAV integration? UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles, more commonly called drones) have moved from niche military tools to a central component of modern defence operations, used for reconnaissance, logistics, and...
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