The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) regulations create a crucial but complex system of hurdles for stakeholders in electrical utilities. Detailed records must be kept…
Electric vehicle (EV) chargers are no longer the passive devices they used to be. With the rise of smart EV chargers, intelligent networked charging becomes possible, ensuring load management, making…
The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming the way companies do business and deliver value to customers. Harnessing the power of smart interconnections between systems and assets by deploying smart…
What is the most vital performance factor for electric rotating machinery? The answer is machine uptime. In times when an hour of downtime can equate to thousands of dollars in…
Is there an alternative to the traditional purchase of machines that makes it possible to enable innovative business models? The pay-per-part model offers companies in the sheet metal processing industry…
Much of what happened in 2021’s IIoT platform market was a reverberation of 2020’s events. This sets the stage for the IIoT platform trends we see emerging for 2022 and…
According to Kaspersky, the number of attacks targeting IoT devices doubled from the second half of 2020 through the first six months of 2021. Much of this increase is due to the surge in work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In these challenging times, normal is not normal anymore. But this is not necessarily bad. In 2021, many companies and organizations have scrambled to adapt to the COVID-19 crisis. Now,…
A few weeks ago, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) issued a study defining guidelines for securing the supply chain for IoT. For cause, as there is still a…
The phrase “employees are the weakest link in cybersecurity” is still a common thought process, even among cybersecurity professionals. Yet is it still true or just a saying we should…
Pedro Mier
Pedro Mier holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineer ing from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, MBA from ESADE and PADE from IESE. He is currently President of AMETIC (Association of Electronics, Information Technology and Telecommunications Companies of Spain), Shareholder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of TRYO Aerospace & Electronics, Board Member of the Premo Group and Committee of CTTC. member of Space Angels Network and Member of the Sc ientific Advisory