Industrial Video Surveillance Meets IIoT: How Smart Cameras and Machine Data Create Complete Factory Visibility
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Manufacturing plants have had security cameras for decades. And they've had machine data — PLC readings, SCADA screens, operator logs — for just as long. But these two data streams have lived in completely separate worlds: cameras watched by the security team, machine data watched by maintenance and operations.
That separation is ending. The convergence of industrial video surveillance and IIoT platforms is creating something neither system could deliver alone: complete factory visibility that connects what happened on the machine with what happened on the floor.