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he Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is flooding that generates intelligence in lockstep with business
today’s industrial sector with data. Information is needs. Understanding the value of the analytical life
streaming in from many sources — from equipment cycle — and capitalizing on its potential — is one of the
on production lines, sensors in products at customer key elements of a successful IIoT strategy.
facilities, sales data, and much more.
This report shows how to craft a strategy that will turn
Organizations that can find meaning in these rich data IIoT data into competitive advantage. It explains how to
sources will gain a competitive edge. But harvesting evaluate IIoT solutions, including what to look for in end-
insights means filtering out the noise to arrive at to-end analytics solutions. Finally, it shows how SAS has
actionable intelligence. combined its analytics expertise with Intel’s leadership in
IIoT information architecture to create solutions that turn
To do that, industrial leaders need an analytical platform raw data into valuable insights.
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When evaluating platforms, assess candidates for security, and integration with storage platforms such as
how well they deliver a holistic analytical life cycle. In Hadoop. The result is a full-fledged IIoT solution designed
particular, look for solutions that: for easy implementation.
An IIoT Checklist
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focus on what’s most important to the business. • Are there barriers (cost, technology, other) to
transmitting all of the required data to the data center?
IIoT gateways are an important underlying technology
for supporting edge analytics. An IIoT gateway provides Step 4:
a bridge between industrial sensors and the existing IT Choose the Right Analytics Solutions
infrastructure. Thus, the system can communicate status Analytics is at the heart of successful IIoT deployments,
and performance information to management systems but setting up analytics often presents one of the biggest
that monitor the industrial environment for predictive hurdles for new IIoT efforts. For this reason, it’s important
maintenance and other activities. to evaluate analytics technologies as much for their ease
of deployment and ability to minimize project risk as for
Intelligent gateways enable predictive analytics at the the sophistication of their insight tools.
edge for fast responses to potential production failures
or other events. For example, if such a gateway detects To do this, work closely with those in business and
excess vibration in a piece of equipment, the machinery operations units who will benefit most from IIoT
can be idled or slowed and operators alerted so they can intelligence. Not all organizations employ data scientists,
address the problem before an equipment failure occurs. which is why the analytics tools should be designed so
these users can slice and dice available information and see
While valuable in many IIoT applications, edge analytics visualizations of the results without having to pull in experts.
is not required for all use cases. Edge analytics will likely
be needed if project managers answer yes to any of these When choosing IIoT analytics, decision-makers should
questions: also look for solutions with a track record for minimizing
long-term risk. For example, SAS Analytics for IIoT
• Is the latency resulting from an edge-to-cloud round trip
built on Intel and SAS technology provides a trusted
unacceptable?
environment that IT and operations-technology staffs can
• Are there times when the assets are not connected to depend on for the long-life requirements of IIoT.
the network?
Consider the Intel IIoT gateway architecture used by
SAS Analytics for IIoT. This architecture leverages Intel’s
expertise in manageability to simplify integration with IT
infrastructure and to enable scaling across a multitude of
factory assets.
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consideration when choosing analytics platforms for IIoT. IIoT’s potential, organizations may require simultaneous
To avoid malicious access, IIoT needs enterprise-class changes in thinking and in culture. The process of gaining
security across all the data gathering, communications, and insight from data, including IIoT data, is by its nature
analytics components. To avoid costly manual maintenance, iterative. It takes a mixture of analytics capability and
manufacturers need a centralized environment that can domain expertise, combined with vision and imagination,
manage all of their IIoT devices. With these requirements in to achieve success. But when this happens, organizations
mind, Intel and SAS worked closely together to provide the see a valuable opportunity to operate more efficiently,
highest levels of protection and manageability, starting with serve their customers more successfully, and establish
the gateway and extending into the cloud. true competitive differentiation in their markets.
Finally, the IIoT environment should provide a scalable Experience has shown that moving to IIoT by chasing the
platform. As IIoT matures and business goals evolve, biggest, most impressive use case often results in failure.
industrial organizations may need analytics in new ways. Many organizations do better by starting with smaller
Care must be taken to ensure that the analytics platform steps such as easy, quickly deployed use cases, or dividing
and architecture can scale to support expanding data and larger projects into multiple parts and then iterating
computing requirements. Tapping solutions designed by toward larger goals over time. This allows them to build
technology leaders such as Intel and SAS ensures the ability on success, gain confidence, develop internal skills, and
to deploy and grow intelligence where it is needed. cultivate wider organizational support for IIoT.
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