More than half of the more than 233,000 industrial robots in the country are found in just 10 Midwestern and Southern states, led by Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana.

One solution can be found in proprietary sensors — a technology my business is currently working to develop — that can measure the concentration of fumigant, humidity and temperature levels in real time, transmitting data wirelessly to a cloud-based analytics platform.

Today, enterprises are moving toward a clean SOA and embracing the concept of an MSA within a SOA. Possibly the biggest draws are the componentization and single function offered by these microservices that make it possible to deploy the component rapidly as well as scale it as needed. It isn’t a novel concept though.