2 posts tagged with "data-engineering"

If you're sending PLC tag values as JSON from edge gateways to the cloud, you're wasting 80–90% of your bandwidth. On a cellular-connected factory floor with dozens of machines, that's the difference between a $50/month data plan and a $500/month one — and the difference between sub-second telemetry and multi-second lag.

This guide breaks down binary telemetry encoding: how to pack industrial data efficiently at the edge, preserve type fidelity across the wire, and design batch grouping strategies that survive unreliable networks.

If you've ever stared at a raw Modbus register dump and tried to figure out why your temperature reading shows 16,838 instead of 72.5°F, this article is for you. Data normalization is the unglamorous but absolutely critical layer between industrial equipment and useful analytics — and getting it wrong means your dashboards lie, your alarms misfire, and your predictive maintenance models train on garbage.

After years of building data pipelines from PLCs across plastics, HVAC, and conveying systems, here's what we've learned about the hard parts nobody warns you about.