The Internet can be a dangerous place, wrought with fraud and data theft. To help protect your small business data it's a good idea to have a basic understanding of secure Internet protocols. These ...

Two similar wireless protocols—WirelessHART, promulgated by the HART Communication Foundation (www.hartcomm.org) and ISA 100.11a, promulgated by the International Society of Automation ...

Terms can sometimes play tricks on the mind. Take EtherNet/IP, for example. Many people will read “IP” as internet protocol and think that EtherNet/IP refers to plain old, standard industrial Ethernet ...

Whether it’s wired or wireless, most data communications today happens by way of packets of information travelling over one or more networks. But before these networks can work together, though, they ...

Sponsored by IDT: Energy-constrained IEEE 802.15.4 sensors and devices will form a major portion of the IoT and must meet IPv6 protocols. 6LoWPAN will make that happen. Linking all kinds of different ...

It’s an important time for connectivity with artificial intelligence. You might say that 2024 was the year of finding out about AI’s agentic capabilities. Although you might argue that most execution ...