CHAPTER 4 Four Battlegrounds
Companies label many products, such as speakers, doorbells, and coffee machines, “smart” nowadays merely because they have relatively more digital features than their analog counterparts do. However, digital displays, software functionality, and network connectivity do not make a product smart.
A similar pattern emerges from the announcements made by the industrials. Their focus is squarely on connectivity and automation: the autonomy of vehicles such as cars, trucks, tractors, and haulers; software applications to fine-tune machines and connect them with related equipment; Bluetooth and cellular networks; and digital dashboards that display a wide array of metrics. Industrial machinery that is called smart isn’t ...
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