Author Archives: John Rinaldi
The Control Engineer’s Guide to Amazon AWS – Part 2
The AWS IoT Architecture In part 1, I described AWS history and the creation of [...]
Nov
In the OPC UA vs. MQTT Battle, Manufacturers Lose
Those of us with more gray in our hair and a more leisurely gait have [...]
Nov
Meet MQTT, The Industrial Protocol That Takes Your Data To The Cloud
MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) is a mechanism for moving data around the factory floor [...]
Oct
A Very Unusual Birthday
I write this on July 4, three weeks after my birthday. As birthdays go, this [...]
Sep
The Control Engineer’s Guide to Amazon AWS – Part 1
It’s not news that Amazon AWS is a growing presence on factory floors across the [...]
Sep
What In The World Is A Single Protocol Gateway
One of the really great things about having a good communication channel with customers is [...]
Jul
Even More On Normalization of PLC Data Tags
I’ve written a number of articles in the past on normalizing PLC data especially Allen-Bradley [...]
Jul
The Always Confusing World of Data Scaling and Normalization
Many IIoT devices create ‘landfills’ of unusable data because it hasn’t been standardized, scaled or [...]
Jul
Celebrating a Grand Experiment
Most of us have just celebrated the 4th of July. We were all outside with [...]
Jul
Network Address Translation: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You!
There is little in automation that is used more often and is less difficult to [...]
Jun
