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About Bob McIlvride

Bob McIlvride is the Director of Communications at Skkynet, as well as Communications Manager at Cogent Real-Time Systems, and is responsible for writing and editing technical documentation and marketing communications, as well as keeping in touch with sales partners and customers. He has a Master’s degree in Professional Writing, and 25 years experience writing and publishing in the natural gas and process control industries. He has lived on three continents, speaks three languages, and considers the whole world as his home.

Entries by Bob McIlvride

Secure IoT Gateway Architecture

by Bob McIlvride

An enhanced, secure-by-design OPC UA to MQTT gateway can pass data through a DMZ or IT department, keeping all inbound firewall ports on the plant closed.

Think Big, Start Small, Scale Up

by Bob McIlvride

How to scale up a pilot or prototype is a major challenge facing engineers and executives who implement Industrial IoT and Industry 4.0.

Security by Design

by Bob McIlvride

Security by design means that security must be an integral, built-in part of the design of industrial hardware, software, and control systems.

Skkynet and Siemens Mobility collaborate on Secure IIoT

by Bob McIlvride

Skkynet and Siemens Mobility collaborate on a hardware/software combination to provide secure access to industrial data, or “Secure IIoT”

Case Study: Papeterie de Mandeure, France

by Bob McIlvride

French paper company, Papeterie de Mandeure, accesses data from their OT system and feeds it to their IT system and MES, using the DataHub.

Trust and the Industrial IoT

by Bob McIlvride

Success in life or business is based on trust. A trustworthy Industrial IoT implementation must be secure, safe, private, reliable, and resilient.