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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

Investing in the Internet of Things

by Bob McIlvride

As the Internet of Things becomes more and more a reality, we can expect an increasing amount of capital to flow towards the underlying technologies…

Exposure on the Internet of Things

by Bob McIlvride

Shodan, a search engine for the things on the Internet of Things, is a wake-up call to consumers and industrial users to keep their guard up…

Is Your Country Cloud-Ready?

by Bob McIlvride

Just as the clouds in the sky have no geographic limits and glide over all borders, we might hope that cloud computing would also be an international phenomenon…

Smart Computing in Real Time

by Bob McIlvride

What could “smart computing” possibly mean? How do computers get smart? And what does smart computing have to do with real-time cloud computing, if anything?

Sidestepping Delays

by Bob McIlvride

The Beer Game illustrates an interesting similarity between business systems and industrial processes, and suggests to me how real-time data cloud services may be able to help business sidestep costly delays.

Data-Powered Forecasting

by Bob McIlvride

Connecting to the cloud provides more depth and reach for forecasting systems, as hard data and empirical evidence become more readily available, and up-to-the-second.