Online, America's aching Achilles' heel is the wide-open automated control systems that run the nation's networks for electricity, water, gas, oil and more.
Infoblox, which was founded in 1999, says it believes that the market for automated network control will grow as more businesses replace their legacy network controls.
Infoblox CEO Robert Thomas explained in an interview with Forbes this afternoon that the company focuses in an area called automated network control: effectively, the goal is to make it easier to manage complex corporate networks more efficiently.
Unwanted intrusions have occurred in some 50 incidents over the past ten years to automated systems that control important physical equipment through the Net, says Joseph Weiss, a security consultant in San Jose, Calif.
It's an ideal time to add compact instruments, Internet links and automated switches to control the flow of electricity.
The docking itself was automated, though the taikonauts had the opportunity to take manual control if need be.
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The Lexus advanced active safety research vehicle is equipped with an array of sensors and automated control systems to observe, process and respond to the vehicle's surroundings.
In bad weather, automated systems basically are used to control the descent to touchdown.
They're already widely deployed to monitor and control the insides of homes, offices, automated factories, cars, ships and planes.
Five years ago all lighthouses in the U.K. became automated, run from a single control room in Harwich, Essex.
In addition to the small display, the board can be programmed to send text message or email alerts, and in the future could tie into venting or heating systems for completely automated control.
The right actions may require workflow or process orchestration, whether manual or via software engines, to control the flow of work and to trigger the execution of human (or automated activities) at the right time.
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Moreover, mission controllers on Earth will have no contact with the craft once it begins its seven-minute, automated descent and no way to control it until it has safely landed.
Control of the drones and the assignment of packages for delivery would eventually be handled by an automated operating system.
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Such automated systems are designed to eliminate confusion and missteps because they provide objective control and amount to "the only pilot in the cockpit without an ego, " according to Honeywell's Mr. Esposito.
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