{"id":3646,"date":"2019-06-13T08:49:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T08:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2019-06-13T08:49:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T08:49:51","slug":"what-is-a-smart-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/what-is-a-smart-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Smart Factory?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new article at IoT World Today asks <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Is My Smart Factory Smarter Than Yours? It\u2019s Hard to Say (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iotworldtoday.com\/2019\/05\/30\/is-my-smart-factory-smarter-than-yours-its-hard-to-say\/\" target=\"_blank\">Is My Smart Factory Smarter Than Yours? It\u2019s Hard to Say<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latter part of the article explains how, when there&#8217;s a problem in a smart factory, it can have large affects. The onus is on technology that can predict problems before they cause downtime. This leads to questions where the data processing should be the observations that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;In the long-run, pushing everything to the cloud doesn\u2019t work from a cost point of view.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Once you aggregate and compress the data, for example, to \u2018max,\u2019 \u2018min,\u2019 \u2018outliers,\u2019 \u2018average\u2019 and stuff like that, you lose the ability to run data science&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Such situations are the focus of our new <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Sensor Cognition\u2122 technology (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sensorcognition.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sensor Cognition\u2122 technology<\/a> that can provide machine intelligence at the edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new article at IoT World Today asks Is My Smart Factory Smarter Than Yours? It\u2019s Hard to Say. The latter part of the article explains how, when there&#8217;s a problem in a smart factory, it can have large affects. The onus is on technology that can predict problems before they cause downtime. This leads &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/what-is-a-smart-factory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is a Smart Factory?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,240,174],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3696,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions\/3696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}