Designing for Edge and IoT Success

The real winners in satellite IoT in 2026 will be those who treat resilience, migration planning, and data discipline as strategic priorities.

For manufacturing organizations that embraced smart manufacturing in 2025, the payoff extended beyond operational metrics to strategic value creation.

The industrial sector has always thrived on adaptation. AI, IoT, software-defined systems, and digital twins represent the next stage of that evolution.

IoT data is the fuel that powers adaptive edge intelligence. By analyzing IoT data directly at the edge, organizations gain the ability to interpret context the moment it occurs.

To operationalize sub-second RAG, the author proposes the FLASH Framework (Fast Latency Architecture for Streaming Hybrid retrieval), a 4-step methodology distilled from deploying 50+ enterprise pipelines since 2024.

Far from accelerating Excel’s extinction, AI agents are extending Excel’s lifespan by making it more accessible and more powerful.

In this week’s real-time analytics news: The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking focuses on AI Gigafactories and sovereign AI.

Organizations that embrace event-driven architecture early will build more resilient, scalable, and maintainable AI systems. EDA enables greater resilience, scalability, and observability, which are essential for robust, enterprise-ready Agentic AI.