There’s an often-impenetrable alphabet soup of protocols, standards and technologies around the Internet of Things. Here’s our attempt to wipe away some of the fog, in the hopes of making the language ...

Physical access and logical access have historically been two separate (and likely unequal) silos within an organization. IT has their password access mechanisms; with some modern improvements.

Google recently announced a new networking protocol called Thread that aims to create a standard for communication between connected household devices. If that description sounds familiar, that’s ...

Released late last year by AI firm Anthropic, model context protocol (MCP) is an open standard designed to standardize the ...

A look at how open data access protocols like Profinet can be used to provide data for Internet of Things deployments. Where standards exist, innovation is driven; disruptive technologies emerge; and ...

Two similar wireless standards—WirelessHart and ISA 100.11a—are competing for dominance as the enabler of smart instrumentation and all its promised benefits. Some users, however, are seeking ...

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