Europe's energy digitalisation: regulation, smart grids, and the hardware that enables compliance Jun 18, 2026 Arduino & Raspberry Pi Industrial News, Industry 4.0, IoT Europe's energy sector is being redesigned from the ground up. The combination of decarbonisation targets, the shift to distributed renewable generation, and an accelerating regulatory agenda is forci... Read more
Industrial automation trends for 2026 and beyond Jun 18, 2026 Arduino & Raspberry Pi Industrial News, Industry 4.0, IoT Three forces are converging right now: AI is moving from the cloud to the factory floor faster than most roadmaps anticipated, EU regulation is making OT security and energy monitoring mandatory, and ... Read more
How to change MTU size on Raspberry Pi PLC Jun 18, 2026 Raspberry Pi for Industry Network packets have a maximum payload size defined by the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit). The standard value is 1500 bytes — a limit inherited from early Ethernet hardware. In industrial environment... Read more
ACS712 current sensor with Arduino-based PLC: wiring and sketch Jun 18, 2026 Arduino Industrial The ACS712 is a Hall-effect current sensor by Allegro MicroSystems that outputs an analog voltage proportional to the AC or DC current flowing through it. Connecting one to an Arduino-based PLC gives ... Read more
FZ0430 voltage sensor module with Arduino-based PLC: wiring and sketch Jun 18, 2026 Arduino Industrial The FZ0430 is a resistive voltage divider module that scales DC voltages up to 25 V down to the 0–5 V range readable by an Arduino analog input. Connecting one to an Arduino-based PLC gives you direct... Read more
How to reset a forgotten Raspberry Pi password: SD card method Jun 18, 2026 Raspberry Pi for Industry The default Raspberry Pi OS password is set during initial configuration. If you skipped that step, lost your notes, or inherited a device, you can still recover access without reinstalling the OS. Th... Read more
Industrial remote monitoring with ESP32 PLC 14 and GateBerry: wind, solar and machinery applications Jun 16, 2026 Arduino & Raspberry Pi Industrial News, Industry 4.0, IoT Remote monitoring has changed. The question is no longer "how do we see what is happening without being on site." It is "how do we capture enough data from distributed assets to act before something f... Read more
LoRaWAN for smart farming: a field-to-server architecture with Industrial Shields Jun 16, 2026 Arduino & Raspberry Pi Industrial News, Industry 4.0, IoT Connecting sensors distributed across hundreds of hectares is one of the core challenges in precision agriculture. WiFi reaches tens of metres. Cellular costs per-device per month. Wired infrastructur... Read more
Controlling ESP32 PLC digital outputs with Arduino Cloud Jun 15, 2026 Arduino Industrial This article is the second in a series on using the Industrial Shields ESP32 PLC with Arduino Cloud. It shows how to add a cloud variable, configure the network, upload the sketch, and build a dashboa... Read more
Detecting RFID tags with the RC522 reader and M-Duino PLC Jun 15, 2026 Arduino Industrial RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology enables automatic identification of objects and people via tags that transmit a unique UID when brought near a reader. This article shows how to connec... MDuino Open-Source SPI Read more
Store data and display it on Node-RED Dashboard with Raspberry PLC Jun 15, 2026 Raspberry Pi for Industry This article shows how to log sensor data to a file on the Raspberry PLC with Node-RED and the flogger node, then read that file and display the data as a chart in the Node-RED Dashboard. This two-ste... Data Storage Node-Red RaspberryPLC Read more
Reading the IE5345 inductive proximity sensor with M-Duino PLC Jun 15, 2026 Arduino Industrial The IE5345 is an IFM inductive proximity sensor that detects metallic objects at a range of 5 mm and outputs a digital signal. Because inductive sensors respond only to metal, they work reliably in we... MDuino Sensor Read more