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7/13/2026

The original title is "Can you trust your sensor data? A developer's guide to the full stack"
Original: Can you trust your sensor data? A developer's guide to the full stack
Short summary
A developer's guide tracing a single temperature reading from a PT100 sensor through transmitters, PLCs, SCADA historians, and into cloud applications. At each stage the author explains what can go wrong — sensor tolerance, electrical noise, scan-cycle latency, deadbanding — and what code should account for. The piece is not AI-related but provides useful context for anyone building data pipelines on top of industrial sensor data.
- •Traces sensor data quality issues across the full industrial IoT stack
- •Covers sensor tolerance, 4-20mA transmission noise, PLC scan-cycle latency, and historian deadbanding
- •Not AI-specific but relevant for developers building data pipelines on industrial data
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