BootCtrl Industrial Automation Insights https://bootctrl.com/insights Evidence-led analysis for engineers building and operating industrial automation. en A real-time kernel was not enough: what our 10 ms Linux control test showed https://bootctrl.com/insights/linux-control-jitter-10ms-study https://bootctrl.com/insights/linux-control-jitter-10ms-study Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT Dr. Mehran Kiani-Oshtorjani Measured results from two Raspberry Pi pilot controllers show why PREEMPT_RT and explicit SCHED_FIFO policy both mattered for a 10 ms loop. Engineering evidence Store-and-forward telemetry: design for the outage, not the demo https://bootctrl.com/insights/store-and-forward-industrial-telemetry https://bootctrl.com/insights/store-and-forward-industrial-telemetry Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Dr. Mehran Kiani-Oshtorjani A practical design for durable industrial edge telemetry: bounded local storage, sequence-aware replay, deduplication, and honest data freshness. Industrial telemetry Safe remote machine updates require more than a rollback button https://bootctrl.com/insights/safe-remote-updates-industrial-machines https://bootctrl.com/insights/safe-remote-updates-industrial-machines Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT Dr. Mehran Kiani-Oshtorjani A rigorous remote-update design for industrial machines: signed artifacts, compatibility gates, staged rollout, health evidence, and tested recovery. Deployment engineering The Control Loop Belongs at the Edge: A Practical Architecture for Cloud-Connected Industrial Automation https://bootctrl.com/insights/control-loop-belongs-at-the-edge https://bootctrl.com/insights/control-loop-belongs-at-the-edge Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMT Dr. Mehran Kiani-Oshtorjani A practical industrial edge computing architecture for deterministic machine control, resilient telemetry, secure remote access, and safe software updates. Industrial edge architecture Modbus to cloud without putting the cloud in the control loop https://bootctrl.com/insights/modbus-to-cloud-architecture https://bootctrl.com/insights/modbus-to-cloud-architecture Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMT Dr. Mehran Kiani-Oshtorjani A practical Modbus-to-cloud architecture that preserves local control, adds semantic signal models, limits write risk, and survives lost connectivity. Industrial connectivity The 2026–2027 Cyber Resilience Act checklist for machine OEMs https://bootctrl.com/insights/eu-cyber-resilience-act-oem-checklist https://bootctrl.com/insights/eu-cyber-resilience-act-oem-checklist Sun, 26 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT Dr. Mehran Kiani-Oshtorjani A practical CRA work plan for machine builders: scope, product inventory, SBOM, vulnerability handling, reporting drills, support periods, and evidence. Product cybersecurity