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Industrial IoT (IIoT) & Sensor Data Basics

Industrial IoT projects fail in a predictable order: instrument everything, build a dashboard, discover nobody changes any decision because of it, quietly stop looking. The projects that work start from a decision somebody wants to make better and instrument backwards from there. This day covers the technology honestly, from sensor to dashboard, and spends the first module on the question that determines whether the rest is worth doing.

Programme Agenda

Starting From the Decision

Identifying a decision currently made on instinct or on a monthly report, and working backwards to what would have to be measured to improve it. Rejecting the use case that produces a nice chart and no change.

Sensors and What They Measure

Temperature, vibration, pressure, flow, current, and machine state. Accuracy against precision, sampling rate, placement, and the environmental ratings a plant floor demands.

Getting Data Off the Equipment

Reading from PLCs and existing control systems, retrofitting sensors to machines with no digital interface, and the industrial protocols involved. Gateways and protocol conversion.

Connectivity

Wired, industrial wireless, and cellular options compared on reliability, cost and the practical realities of a metal-heavy environment. Bandwidth, and why sending everything is usually the wrong design.

Edge and Cloud

What should be processed at the machine, what belongs in a central platform, and the latency, cost and resilience factors that decide. Buffering for the connection that will drop.

Data Quality and Context

A sensor reading without context is nearly useless. Timestamps and clock synchronisation, units, asset identity, and the metadata that lets you compare two machines. Detecting a sensor that has failed reading plausible values.

Storage and Visualisation

Time series data and why it is stored differently, retention and downsampling, and dashboards that support a decision rather than display everything available.

Security and Rollout

Keeping an IIoT deployment from becoming a route into the control network, and rolling out from a pilot to a line without the pilot's shortcuts becoming permanent.

Learning Outcomes:
Select a use case starting from a decision rather than from available sensors
Choose sensor types, sampling rates and placement appropriate to the measurement
Extract data from PLCs and retrofit sensors to equipment without interfaces
Compare connectivity options for an industrial environment
Decide what to process at the edge and what to send centrally
Attach the context and metadata that make readings comparable
Store and visualise time series data in a way that supports decisions
Deploy without creating a path into the control network

Duration: 1 Day (8 Hours)
Training Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Level: Beginner
Training Mode: Physical, Online, or Hybrid
HRD Corp SBL-KHAS Claimable
Certificate of Completion included

Frequently Asked Questions

Plant and maintenance engineers, automation and control engineers, production managers, IT staff supporting manufacturing, and operations managers evaluating smart factory proposals.

No. The programme covers architecture, selection and data handling rather than software development. Where code appears it is short and provided.

No. Platform options are compared, but the material stays on the underlying decisions, which are the same whichever platform you buy. That is deliberate: platform choice is usually the least consequential decision in these projects.

This programme covers security at the level of not making things worse. The OT and ICS Security programme covers securing the control environment properly and is a natural follow-on for sites connecting production systems for the first time.

Yes, this programme is HRD Corp SBL-KHAS claimable. Our team can assist your HR department with the documentation required for the grant application.

Yes. Any programme can be booked as a team day. Everyone works the same brief together, so your people come away having built something and knowing each other better.

If you are claiming under HRD Corp, the session has to fall at least 14 days after your HRD Corp approval. If you are not claiming, the date is flexible and we work around your calendar.

Put them on the self-paced e-learning instead. Your team works through the modules on our LMS in their own time, sits the assessment, and earns the same certificate, so nobody has to clear a full day together.

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