IIOT Video

PICMG CTO Doug Sandy presents PICMG industrial IoT initiatives. The video was first presented at Embedded Tech Trends 2021.

PICMG CTO Doug Sandy explains what the standards body is doing at the last foot of the network, using a demo that shows how binary time-series data from an analog sensor is communicated over a serial interface, converted into JSON format, and transported to the enterprise via Ethernet. Besides making the last foot of IoT networks plug n’ play, Doug provides a sneak peek at COM-HPC.

The Internet of Things suffers from a lack of common data models. Interestingly enough, PICMG, traditionally a hardware standards organization, is helping developing data models based on open source software as a possible remedy. Here, Doug Sandy CTO of PICMG uses a simple CNC machine to deconstruct the complexity, and also alludes to a potential standard, postage-stamp-sized hardware platform that will help fulfill the IIoT vision for embedded engineers.