Hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) and horizontal drilling are not the only technologies producing profits these days in the oil patches of southern Texas. Another is the open-source software that has ...

"The genie is out of the bottle on open source. There’s no going back to the proprietary model." —Andy Stanford-Clark, IBM CTO and co-inventor of MQTT. By now, you’ve likely seen a number of reports ...

New Distributed Control Node (DCN) software framework to help drive open automation Solution helps replace vendor-specific hardware with plug-and-produce offer Interoperability and portability support ...

Open Automation Software (OAS) is proud to announce the launch of its latest innovation: a cutting-edge Sparkplug B interface designed to redefine the standards of integration and communication within ...

A detailed look at O-PAS™ Standard, Version 1.0 Process automation end users and suppliers have expressed interest in a standard that will make the industry much more open and modular. In response, ...

For decades, the factory floor has been dominated by proprietary automation systems that are closed, specialised, and tied to single manufacturers. While this legacy approach was once found to be ...

Build or buy? That's the typical discussion around network automation. In reality, however, the discussion is more involved and nuanced than that. Every project today has some open source. It drives ...

Open RAN investments have been a slow burn But a new wave of rollouts, such as AT&T’s in the US, is set to spur the market One research house, SNS Telecom & IT, expects investments in Open RAN ...

Schneider Electric has launched the Open Automation Movement, a bold initiative aimed at liberalizing industrial automation and making it more accessible through Open, software-defined automation. The ...

Building automation systems (BASs) and open-source software are two areas of interest for me, so I’d like to share some thoughts on how they intersect, at least from the exposure I’ve had to them.