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Schneider Electric is leading the digital transformation of industrial automation markets. Therefore, delivered through our EcoStruxure architecture, our IoT technologies are ready for smart manufacturing. We can deliver new business opportunities for plants and machine builders. So that,  both profitability and productivity will increase.  EcoStruxure delivers innovation at every level of the plant or machine,  from connected products to edge control and to apps, analytics and services. Our connected products include ranges from motor controllers to circuit breakers and sensors.  They enable customers’ assets to provide advanced process data for smarter operations. In other words, they bring intelligence to our customers’ systems.   Challenges Worldwide demand for energy is expected to double by 2050. Growing concern for the environment is driving the emergence of more stringent energy-efficiency regulations around the globe. Motors account for up to...

Congress Has a Chance to Finally End the NSA’s Mass Telephone Records Program Earlier this month, the New York Times published a major story reporting that the NSA has stopped using the authority to run its massive, ongoing surveillance of Americans’ telephone records. After years of fighting mass surveillance of telephone records, the story may make our jobs easier: NSA has consistently claimed this surveillance was critical to national security. But now it appears that the agency couldn’t properly use the authority Congress granted it in the 2015 USA Freedom Act, so it has simply given up.  Coincidentally, EFF had organized a briefing of congressional staff the day after the Times report on the controversial surveillance law used to conduct telephone record surveillance: Section 215 of the Patriot Act. As we told Congress, it is long past time to end the telephone records program for good. Now, we’ve signed a letter to House Judiciary Committee leadership repeating th...

One of the most important benefits of digitization is the ability to capture and analyze data and to derive business value and profitability from that data. However, until recently, only a small percentage of the data generated within organizations has been captured and exploited to drive business value. Forrester reports that between 60 and 73 percent of all data within an enterprise goes unused for analytics. [1] Even in today’s new era of digitization and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), where more field devices than ever are producing even more data, most businesses are challenged in their attempts to extract, understand and take meaningful action based on this new data. Major obstacles such as lack of openness of hardware technologies, proprietary software and the cost and complexity associated with mining and interpreting data have held many organizations back from making progress in this area.  In addition, most major automation technology suppliers have been usi...

Who Defends Your Data? Report Reveals Peruvian ISPs Progress on User Privacy, Still Room for Improvement Hiperderecho, the leading digital rights organization in Peru,  in collaboration with the Electronic Frontier Foundation,  today launched  its second ¿ Quien Defiende Tus Datos ? ( Who Defends Your Data ?),  an evaluation of the privacy practices of the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that millions of Peruvians use every day.    This year’s results are more encouraging than those in 2015’s report , with Telefonica’s Movistar making significant improvement in its privacy policy, responses to judicial orders, and commitment to privacy. F ive out of the six ISPs now publish specific, detailed policies on how they collect and process personal data. However, the report also revealed that there is plenty of room for improvement, especially when it comes to user notification and Peruvian ISPs’ public commitment to privacy.  Internet access has gro...