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 ...

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Enables automation applications to be built using portable, proven-in-use software components, independent of the underlying automation hardware. Allows the user to distribute the application to any ...

Eight vulnerabilities have been found in the Open Automation Software Platform that could allow an attacker to carry out a variety of malicious actions. The platform, from the company of the same name ...

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 ...

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 ...