Arlen Nipper
Arlen Nipper is president and CTO of Cirrus Link. He brings more than 40 years of experience in the SCADA industry to Cirrus Link as President and CTO. He was one of the early architects of pervasive computing and the Internet of Things and co-invented MQTT, a publish-subscribe network protocol that has become the dominant messaging standard in IoT. Arlen holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (BSEE) from Oklahoma State University.
Articles
Modernizing SCADA vessel control systems with Ignition
Setting out to make better use of data and workflows in the remote, a maritime company adopts data-driven technology.
Industrial IoT made fast and easy
With the tools available today, implementing the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is not as hard as people think.
How to build scalable data models with MQTT Sparkplug
A key to bridging the OT/IT gap is enabling successful data modeling, which is how organizations define and organize their business processes.
Modernize electronic flow measurement with MQTT
MQTT is a publish/subscribe, extremely simple and lightweight messaging protocol
MQTT’s role as an IoT message transport
Messaging queuing telemetry transport’s (MQTT) role as an Internet of Things (IoT) message transport derives from its simple design, when it began as an industrial communicator for a pipeline supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system.
SCADA is not a middleware
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) can improve operations. Learn how.