Hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) and horizontal drilling are not the only technologies producing profits these days in the oil patches of southern Texas. Another is the open-source software that has ...

"The genie is out of the bottle on open source. There’s no going back to the proprietary model." —Andy Stanford-Clark, IBM CTO and co-inventor of MQTT. By now, you’ve likely seen a number of reports ...

New Distributed Control Node (DCN) software framework to help drive open automation Solution helps replace vendor-specific hardware with plug-and-produce offer Interoperability and portability support ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has formed a strategic relationship with Wood, a global leader in delivering ...

KiCAD EDA is a free, open-source, and cross-platform electronic design automation suite. This software contains three different modules including Schematic Editor, PCB Layout, and 3D Viewer. Schematic ...

Build or buy? That's the typical discussion around network automation. In reality, however, the discussion is more involved and nuanced than that. Every project today has some open source. It drives ...

At the recent ARC Industry Leadership Forum event, Schneider Electric (Rueil-Malmaison, France, a global energy technology leader, announced ...

Building automation systems (BASs) and open-source software are two areas of interest for me, so I’d like to share some thoughts on how they intersect, at least from the exposure I’ve had to them.