Technology

Choosing an Industrial Edge Gateway for MQTT and Sparkplug Industrial data architectures are moving away from repeated point-to-point polling by every consuming system and toward brokered, event-driven distribution. Field protocols such as Modbus may still…

Soft PLCs and OpenPLC: The Industrial PC Underneath Industrial control is becoming more software-defined. Traditional PLCs remain essential, but their runtime, engineering environment, and hardware are usually delivered as one vendor-managed system. A soft PLC,…

The Edge Gateway Behind AI Data Center Monitoring: Inside the Ignition SCADA Architecture The data center build-out driving today’s power headlines is, overwhelmingly, AI infrastructure: training clusters, inference sites, and the “AI factories” that have…

Physical AI in Action: BoothPilot Brings Real Time Edge AI Conversations to Automate 2026 At Automate 2026, NODKA is showcasing BoothPilot, a Physical AI demo built on the NODKA AP-6121 Embodied AI Robot Controller. The…

Physical AI at the Edge: The Intel Robotics AI Suite on Core Ultra Series 3 Physical AI at the edge is moving artificial intelligence from screens and cloud services into machines that can sense, reason,…

Optimizing Local LLMs for Real-Time Machine Vision on Edge AI Platforms AI-powered machine vision is moving beyond detection, classification, OCR, barcode reading, and defect inspection. The next step is adding local LLM intelligence that can…