Joe McKendrick

The U.S. Air Force saved $1.5 million in one year through real-time vehicle tracking and condition-based maintenance.

Quickly deciding whether to store power, rely on a utility, or discharge a battery is difficult on a grid with variable energy sources such as solar. Here’s how ELM and Dell tackle the challenge with controllers, gateways, and edge analytics for on-site and remote power systems.

Infosys and the Industrial Internet Consortium are testing how predictive analytics could help reduce downtime for aircraft landing gears.

A real-time parking system in Los Angeles with mobile tech is aimed to reduce traffic, driver frustration, and emissions. The system requires 100 percent uptime.

The Industrial Internet Consortium’s “Infinite” testbed will look at real-world applications for the IoT in industries ranging from manufacturing to healthcare. Infinite is also IIC’s first large-scale European testbed.

A new McKinsey report argues that most of the value for the IoT lies in business applications such as factories, oil and gas, agriculture, and retail. Challenges include producing actionable insight and demonstrating value. Experts advise to take a “start-up” approach to IoT efforts.

One of the key applications to real-time capabilities within the industrial world is predictive maintenance, which enables companies to address issues with machines and production systems before they break down and create bottlenecks. RTInsights Industry Insights editor Joe McKendrick discusses the collaboration between IBM and National Instruments on a cloud-based, predictive maintenance solution.

The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that the Internet of Things (IoT) will add between $4 trillion and $11 trillion to the global economy by 2025. That’s a lot of money on the table. But for businesses, realizing some of the proceeds—either in additional revenues or cost savings—is going to take a bit of legwork as RTInsights Industry Insights Editor Joe McKendrick explains.

The banking and financial services industry has been moving toward an “omni-channel” presence in which the same customer services are seamlessly rendered, whether in person, online, over the phone, through social media or via mobile apps. RTInsights Industry Insights Editor Joe McKendrick explains how BMO Financial Group took this level of omni-channel interaction to the next level.

Many of today’s commercial properties already have high degrees of energy efficiency. However, even the most finely tuned heating and air-conditioning systems are subject to glitches and performance problems that may wash out any energy savings. RTInsights Industry Insights Editor Joe McKendrick explains how the deployment of real-time monitoring of energy usage helped one commercial real estate company prevent energy glitches.

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has launched an energy-focused test bed called the Communication & Control Testbed for Microgrid Applications. RTInsights Industry Insights Editor Joe McKendrick explains how the project seeks to develop and promote smart microgrids to efficiently incorporate solar and wind energy into the smart grid.

The U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VHA) needed to provide its hospital managers with greater visibility into its onsite equipment to improve coordination, communications and collaboration between caregivers and other staff. This case study explains how they created a real-time location system.