Factory IoT Saves Intel $9 Million

jfruh writes Want a good way to sell someone a new technology? Prove to them that you believe in it enough to use it yourself. Intel has been trying to get customers to buy into the concept of the "Internet of Things," in which tiny distributed networked sensors would improve manufacturing processes. To prove its point, they implemented such a system in one of their Malaysian factories, and claimed $9 million in savings.

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I only need three things in my Internet

[ArcadeMan]

And that's a theme park, with blackjack and hookers.

The Internet of Things, aka

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

the next giant leap in ubiquitous mass surveillance.

I just can't wait for all the devices that surround me to snitch on me and report all my life habits to their corporate or state masters 24/7...

Re:The Internet of Things, aka

[Mr D from 63]

This is just simple equipment monitoring with networked devices.This has been done for decades. Just a PR puff to get some brand names out.

Re:Investment?

[sandytaru]

I RTFA. They didn't go into specifics, but it seems to have been cheap WiFi point communications coupled with thermal sensors. So if a machine was running hotter than expected, they could stop that line and fix the problem before it broke completely and took that line down for a few days. So the "savings" could be what the cost of that line going down previously had been. Or something.