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Kepco is seeking 20 trillion won from Samsung and 5 trillion from SK Hynix as prepaid electricity, to fund the grid build-out their semiconductor clusters require.
Google is offtaking from a West Virginia project pairing 86 MW of solar with 280 MWh of lithium and a 100 MWh zinc long-duration system, phased across 2028 to 2030.
Energy Vault has converted a lease agreement into outright ownership at Stoney Creek, a 125 MW / 1 GWh project underwritten by a 14-year contract worth $25–30 million a year.
ST Engineering iDirect demonstrated the INT3000 carrying 5G NR-NTN and DVB-S2X in a single user terminal, aimed at operators who must run both during a migration measured in years.
Hexagon's Vehicle Intervention System reaches EMESRT Level 9 — it can inhibit propulsion and apply braking itself when thresholds are breached, across mixed fleets without OEM lock-in.
Boardcon's CM311Y3 puts two Cortex-A78 cores, six A55s and an 8 TOPS NPU supporting INT4 through BF16 onto a SoM smaller than a credit card, with up to 16 GB of LPDDR5X.
Syslogic is building rugged computers around NVIDIA's Jetson Orin Nano 2, rated IP67 and IP69 and specified from −25 to +70 °C, aimed at cameras on machines that work outdoors.
Quectel has added an LGA variant of the RG660Qx on FRMCS bands n100 and n101, so rail suppliers can begin validation ahead of the migration away from GSM-R.
TXOne is pitching inspection at the physical point of entry — cleared files, an audit record of what crossed, and no agent installed on production assets or network connectivity required.
Ignition's Create Project Role setting was empty by default, so the gateway enforced exactly what it was told: no role required. Fixed in 8.1.54, and configurable in a few minutes on older builds.
CVE-2026-75925 scores 9.6: unauthenticated config injection in the IXON VPN client runs code as root or SYSTEM on the engineering laptop, and persists across restarts.
Rand Water says treatment, quality control and bulk supply stayed operational through a cyber incident that damaged servers, and it has moved operations to a disaster recovery site.
Telit Cinterion opens an 8,000 square foot plant in Bristol in October to build 4G and 5G modules domestically, citing traceability and trusted sourcing as procurement requirements.
5.4 GW of storage against 23.8 GW of installed capacity — 22.8%, built in two years on €590 million of EU grants that mobilised €1.5 billion of private investment.
EDF subsidiary Luminus has commissioned Navagne at Lixhe: 150 MW over four hours, €160 million, 132 containers, connected straight to Elia's high-voltage network beside an existing hydro plant.
The $1.2 billion Kuna facility uses closed-loop cooling: one fill, circulating for seven to ten years, in a state where water rights are the binding constraint on industrial siting.
Kinéis is putting its 25-satellite IoT constellation behind Netmore's LoRaWAN service in 18 countries, with handover managed inside one platform rather than by the device.
A Series C at $1.6 billion funds custom processors and sensors that combine 4D coherent vision, imaging and inertial sensing on one synchronised timeline — the alignment problem, solved in hardware.
Hexagon's OPTIV S claims 30% higher dynamics and a 15% shorter inspection cycle, with AI-assisted camera and lighting calibration aimed at the least repeatable part of optical measurement.
FANUC's R-50iA Compact DC takes 24 to 48 V directly, removing the inverter between an AMR's battery and the arm riding on it — plus an 11 kg cobot and three new ROBODRILL models.
A 9.8-rated stack overflow in Pyramid Solutions' NetStaX EtherNet/IP stack reaches devices that never carry the vendor's name, because the stack is licensed into other people's products.
One crafted CIP packet crashes every version of Rockwell's 1756-ENBT, and recovery needs a manual restart. The vendor's remedy is a different module, which makes this a capital decision.
An open Series G from existing investors funds a shift from robots that assist pickers to a system meant to pick, put away and replenish on its own.
Fervo and Google signed the largest enhanced geothermal agreement to date for Cape Station in Utah, with an option to expand by roughly 600 MW to nearly 1 GW by June 2030.
The US added 6.7 GW of instantaneous power in Q2 2026, roughly a tenth of the entire national storage fleet in three months, with seven individual projects each above 1 GWh.
Anglian Water extended its Samotics framework for two more years. The technique reads cavitation, bearing wear and misalignment from the motor's electrical signature, with no sensor on the asset.
Sygnia reports a China-linked group turning Cisco IOS XR routers and TACACS servers into a collection platform — compromising the layer that authenticates and audits administrators.
A revised information collection cuts the estimated respondent count by 92% and the annual burden from 210,684 hours to 22,167 — a large change in who actually carries surface transport cyber obligations.
Kontron Transportation won several contracts on the Romanian section of the Orient/East-Med Corridor, working under Hitachi Rail Romania, with a 48-month delivery period.
Mimosa Mine in Zimbabwe spent three years migrating legacy OT networks, adding segmentation and controlled access — a migration shaped by conditions that make mining the hardest place to do it.
The VISION Award shortlist includes a sensor measuring velocity at every pixel from Doppler rather than frame differences, and software that simulates an inspection system before anyone buys the hardware.
EinScan Trak moves the retroreflective targets from the part onto the scanner body, so large components can be scanned without the hours of sticker application that normally precede the measurement.
TwinDEX pairs a wearable data-collection glove with an identical robotic gripper, and reports 5.3 times the throughput of on-robot teleoperation with no on-robot training data at all.
TI's BQ79826Z-Q1 integrates an impedance spectroscopy engine on the monitor die and reads 26 cells, letting a BMS separate state of charge from permanent chemical degradation.
Hydrostor's 200 MW / 1,600 MWh Silver City project at Broken Hill has AEMO and Transgrid approval, with 50 MW / 250 MWh reserved as backup power for the town itself.
Modelling puts the threshold at 5.4% of ERCOT's storage fleet, and the detection problem is severe: a battery flipping from charge to discharge in under a second is normal behaviour.
CVE-2026-78319 scores 9.8: a time-of-check time-of-use race in the update service of SAUTER modulo controllers lets an unauthenticated attacker run code and take the device.
Sixty-tonne machines stacking four-high with twin-lift spreaders, delivered with every module of the fleet management system — the telemetry is part of the purchase, not an upsell.
ZS Robotics built a four-way shuttle just 125 mm high and a lift occupying one pallet position, aimed at the low-clearance warehouses that high-bay automation has always skipped.
Festo's VTUG-EX takes EtherNet/IP, PROFINET and PROFIBUS directly into Class I, Division 2 locations — 24 valve stations, 630 l/min, and no long wiring run back to a safe-area cabinet.
One milled surface measured Ra 1.60–1.74 µm in one direction and 0.09–0.78 µm in the other. A single-line parameter from the 1930s is giving way to areal measurement as optical profilers reach the shop floor.
Chevron's SHIELD clamps to the outside of a deepwater flowline, harvests thermal energy through the Seebeck effect and infers wax deposition — correlating with CT scans at R² 0.907 over ten months.
A $550 million, 1.3 million square foot plant in Ohio opens with an automated storage and retrieval system and a Boston Dynamics Spot trained to run thermal and acoustic inspections.
Petro-SIM 7.7 puts hybrid modelling beside first-principles simulation, with an embedded hub that generates synthetic data so engineers can train models without a data science team.
The oilfield services major is buying Kelvion from Apollo funds, with data centres already accounting for $1.2–1.3 billion of the target's 2026 revenue and a combined 2028 target of up to $5 billion.
Yokogawa will distribute BuyCo's container transport management platform to materials producers, pushing plant optimisation past the fence line and into outbound shipping.
ARENA confirmed the hundredth installation and allocated a further AU$23.2 million across three projects, generating a public dataset on how distribution-connected storage actually behaves.
DNP3 to DNP3-SAv5, CIP to CIP Security, Modbus to Modbus Security, OPC DA to OPC UA. The UK agency's OT guidance is unusually specific, and doubles as an equipment replacement schedule.
The company says an incident identified on 25 August is affecting its ability to manufacture products and process orders. Cloud systems are unaffected; the damage is confined to certain on-premise systems.
CHINT's first EPC project for the Philippine grid operator replaced a 100 MVA transformer while the old secondary system stayed in service, then rebuilt the switchyard as 12 GIS bays in a five-storey building.
The site volunteered, the integration was unbilled, the benefit was measured by its advocates, and nobody owned it afterwards. Six structural reasons, and the reframing that fixes them.
Consequence, likelihood and lead time — and it is lead time that inverts the intuitions built on price. Why a €50 sensor can outrank a €50,000 drive, and the three metrics that tell you if you got it right.
They are not competitors: a register protocol, an information model and a transport pattern. What each is genuinely good at, the two failure modes that recur, and why the choice is per link rather than per company.
The screen is drawn on a quiet afternoon and read during an upset. Why colour should be reserved for abnormal, why a bar beats a number, and the one test that tells you whether the design works.
A FAT moves risk before the machine moves. Most of them demonstrate the happy path instead — here is the list of failures to force, and why a test that passes everything first time tested nothing.
Protective earth and signal reference are different jobs sharing a word, and confusing them is where most noise starts. Where to bond a shield, why the frequency changes the answer, and what to measure first.
The arithmetic is trivial and the definitions are where it breaks: the denominator, the ideal cycle time, the stop threshold and where quality is counted. Four choices that move the number thirty points.
The pilot of ten was configured by hand by the people who built it. At a thousand, the manual steps stop being slow and start being the defect. Identity, claiming, verification and the paths nobody plans for.
Segmentation is not a firewall purchase, it is a list of what talks to what. Why VLANs alone are not a boundary, how to write a conduit down, and the exception that quietly eats the design.
Nyquist is about the highest frequency present, not the highest one you care about — and everything above half your rate folds back in permanently. What rate each job actually needs, and the six things to write down.
Four clocks touch every reading and nobody decided which one counts. What that costs, how much accuracy each use actually needs, and the short list of decisions that fixes it for good.
The link will fail. Whether that costs you an inconvenience or a hole in the record comes down to how the gateway buffers, what it drops first, and how politely it drains when the connection returns.
Retention is usually decided by whatever the historian defaulted to, which is the wrong way round. What the questions you will ask later actually require, and where downsampling destroys the answer.
An alarm system that produces more signals than a person can act on has not made the plant safer; it has trained the control room to stop reading. What goes wrong, and the specific fixes that reverse it.
The headline accuracy figure is the least informative number on the page. What the conditions clause is doing, why drift usually matters more than accuracy, and the specifications that are absent on purpose.
When a service call costs more than the device, every design decision changes. Power, communications, failure modes and diagnosis all get re-argued from the assumption that nobody is coming.
A temperature logger records data. A compliant cold chain produces evidence, which is a different and much harder thing. What the record has to survive, where designs usually fail an audit, and how to build one that does not.
Running containers on an industrial gateway solves real problems and creates a new class of them. What genuinely improves, what quietly becomes your responsibility, and the decisions worth making before the first deployment rather than after.
The regulation is often summarised as security requirements for connected devices, which is true and not actionable. What it actually obliges a manufacturer to build, to document, to report and to keep doing for years after the sale.
Almost every disappointing inspection deployment fails for the same handful of reasons, and none of them are the model. What changes between the demonstration and the running line, and how to design so that it does not matter.
The technology works in the demonstration and disappoints in the plant, and the reasons are consistent enough to plan around. What the pilot proved, what it did not, and the failure modes that only appear at fleet scale.
The comparison is usually argued on throughput, which is the one specification that rarely decides it. What separates the two in practice is who owns the spectrum, how the network behaves at the edge of coverage, and what happens when a device roams.
Edge or cloud is the wrong first question. A practical way to place a model, built around six constraints that decide the answer before any hardware is chosen, and the mistakes that come from optimising the wrong one.
TSN is sold as deterministic Ethernet, but the guarantee is narrower and far more conditional than the phrase suggests. What the standards bound, what they leave alone, and what has to be true of your network before any of it holds.
Every occupancy technology fails in a characteristic way, and the failures are not random. How to combine sensors so the mistakes cancel instead of compounding.
The standard assigns different duties to asset owners, integrators and manufacturers. Which parts actually bind a product vendor, and what a Security Level claim commits you to.
The data mostly exists already — scattered across an ERP, supplier questionnaires and spreadsheets. What it takes to assemble it into one record that stays correct as the product changes.
Buried electronics face water, fertiliser, frost and a tractor. The failure modes that end field deployments, and the design decisions that decide whether a probe lasts one season or five.
Four technologies that all claim to locate things indoors, separated by what they physically measure. How to pick using the accuracy you actually need rather than the best number available.
The algorithms are standardised and the deadlines are real. What changes for a device with kilobytes of RAM and a ten-year deployment, and where to start when you cannot patch the field.
Repairability is decided in the first mechanical review and cannot be retrofitted. What the EU rules require, and the connected-device problem the rules barely mention.
Three ways to shrink a model until it runs in kilobytes of RAM, what each one costs in accuracy, and how to tell which constraint you are actually up against.
Three regulators now require you to publish a support period. Working out what number you can actually honour, and what it commits your engineering team to for years.
Three radios that look interchangeable on a datasheet and are not. How range, power budget, message size and who owns the network decide which one a deployment can actually live with.
Most IoT deployments ship far more data than anyone reads. A practical framework for deciding at the device what is worth transmitting, what is worth keeping locally, and what to discard immediately.
Botnets are not built from clever exploits. They are built from devices that shipped with a password everyone knows and a firmware update nobody applied. What onboarding has to do instead.
A shared credential flashed into every unit is the most common and most expensive shortcut in IoT. What per-device identity costs to build, and what it saves the first time a key leaks.
The choice is usually made on habit rather than on constraints. How connection model, payload overhead, battery cost and delivery guarantees really differ, and when plain HTTP is the better answer.
A field device that fails an update may be unreachable forever. The rollback, staging and power-loss safeguards that separate a routine firmware release from a truck roll.
Running inference on the device is not automatically faster or cheaper. A breakdown of latency, bandwidth, privacy and real cost, including the cases where the cloud is still the right call.
Matter, Zigbee and Z-Wave solve overlapping problems in different ways. A practical comparison of range, interference, power and interoperability, and when a bridge is the honest answer.