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The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is beginning to mature, and market leaders are stabilizing. Whispers that it may be as significant as the Industrial Revolution itself have become standard statements across key business analyst publications. This means that soon, all industrial manufacturers will be benefiting from this technology. When is the right time for you to start?

Every IIoT transformation begins at the edge of your machinery and systems. Before machine data gets to middleware platforms, that is before data is visualized in convenient dashboards, edge devices begin aggregating disparate data into ready-sifted chunks of information. To tackle the myriad problems that come with fitting an edge to railway and rails systems, GE Transportation has come up with its own EdgeLINC™ platform with leveraged relayr's device management and smart data collection specifically in rail systems.

Over the past ten years or so there have been many smart manufacturing initiatives that have promoted the need for production facilities to become much more efficient and effective through the use of technology. Initiatives such as Industry 4.0, initially conceived by the German government, have been adopted by other nations as a template for how process and production-based organizations can improve their overall productivity and efficiency.

The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to enable many new business models. In industrial markets the concepts of IoT, or Industrial IoT – IIoT is already gaining traction. At the simplest level, for example, it’s providing the ability to more closely monitor a production line in near real time, or, in another example, manage buildings and their associated plant more efficiently, but for some the ability to radically change their whole business approach is attractive.