Shawn’s Blog

  • The Smart Factory for Brewers isn’t Just for the Big Brewers; is Your Independent Brewery Ready for IoT, AI, and the Cloud?

    The Smart Factory for Brewers isn’t Just for the Big Brewers; is Your Independent Brewery Ready for IoT, AI, and the Cloud?

    Wouldn’t it be great if every beer bottle that left your brewery met with your exacting quality standards, if overflowing and excessive foaming were yesterday’s problem, and not a persistent, wasteful expense? Read more

  • Do IoT Edge Systems Obey Conway’s Law?

    Do IoT Edge Systems Obey Conway’s Law?

    Conway’s Law and the Shape of Organizations If you aren’t familiar with Conway’s Law, it’s an adage introduced in 1968 by author and computer programmer Melvin Conway. Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure. – Melvin E. Conway There have… Read more

  • I Read and Summarized the 3rd Edition of IoT Signals So You Don’t Have to

    I Read and Summarized the 3rd Edition of IoT Signals So You Don’t Have to

    A report built based on survey data taken by the company named, ‘hypothesis’. This is a combined effort between Microsoft and Hypothesis to capture the most current state of IoT from the view of business leaders in certain sectors; manufacturing, energy, mobility, and smart places. Read more

  • Operationalize Machine Learning for Manufacturing

    Operationalize Machine Learning for Manufacturing

    MLOPS is not free. There are operational costs associated with the practice. This is not a cost you can avoid. Too much depends on the accuracy of your models, especially in a production environment to take on the risks without the assurances that a good MLOPs practice brings to manufacturers. Read more

  • Azure IoT Central Now Features Organizations

    Azure IoT Central Now Features Organizations

    Now you can use IoT Central as a multi-tenant hub Azure IoT Central now supports multi-tenant. What does this mean? It means that you as the application administrator can now manage your devices, device groups, and users under different organizations. This gives you the ability to either segment off portions of your organization or allow… Read more

  • How do you use AI to improve reliability?

    How do you use AI to improve reliability?

    If you’re an IT service provider, systems reliability is one of the concerns high on your lists. Back in my earlier days of development I worked for a medium sized electronics parts company. They had the unique business model of selling very small parts, like transistors and capacitors as individual parts. Back before the whole… Read more