From Dashboards to Decisions: How Agentic AI Is Changing Industrial IoT
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For years, the promise of the Internet of Things was visibility. Connect machines, collect sensor data, display it on a dashboard, and alert someone when a value crosses a threshold.
That was an important step. But visibility alone does not improve an operation.
A dashboard may show that a motor is overheating. It does not necessarily explain why, estimate what will happen next, determine whether production can continue safely, or coordinate the right response. Those decisions still happen outside the system, through phone calls, spreadsheets, maintenance meetings, and the experience of individual operators.
