Protecting the Future of Industrial IoT

Industrial IoT (IIoT) systems are the backbone of modern factories and infrastructure, but they’re under constant threat. Transient surges, electrostatic discharge (ESD), and power faults can cripple sensor nodes, controllers, and connectivity networks, causing unplanned downtime that costs manufacturers an estimated $50 billion every year.

Even a single hour of downtime can cost an average facility $260,000. For engineers designing IIoT systems that must operate 24/7, reliability isn’t just a goal; it’s a necessity.

Explore the whitepaper

This in-depth whitepaper from Semtech explores how engineers can design resilient, high-uptime IIoT systems by unifying protection, power integrity, and connectivity into one platform-level strategy. You’ll learn how to:

• Protect against real-world electrical stress, from high-voltage surges to USB-PD transitions up to 48 V

• Design for continuous uptime in harsh industrial environments

• Ensure robust and efficient power behavior, with stable startup, precise sequencing, and low standby draw

• Build long-range, reliable connectivity that keeps distributed devices operating cohesively over time

 

Why Read It

As IIoT networks expand and factories move toward predictive maintenance and remote monitoring, system-level resilience becomes the foundation of digital transformation. This whitepaper helps you shift from reactive troubleshooting to proactive design, ensuring your IIoT architecture is robust, efficient, and future-ready.

Learn from the Experts

Discover how Semtech technologies empower engineers to build next-generation IIoT systems that combine predictable protection, power integrity, and long-range connectivity — the three pillars of reliability in modern industrial design.

Whitepaper Introduction

Many industrial systems operate around the clock, exposed to high-voltage power lines, switching transients, and environmental extremes. USB Power Delivery (USB-PD) transitions from 20 V to 48 V are accelerating, driven by new factory and edge computing architectures. Designers are now tasked with meeting tighter energy and thermal budgets, surviving real-world transients, and maintaining standards compliance across increasingly compact and connected systems. And as remote monitoring and predictive maintenance become table stakes, the ability to ensure robust, uninterrupted performance becomes the foundation of digital transformation. 

Meeting these demands requires a platform-level approach that unifies circuit protection, power integrity, and resilient connectivity. At the protection layer, surge suppression must be treated as a design principle, engineered to perform consistently under real-world stresses. Power behavior must be approached as a design foundation, embedding startup stability, sequencing, and low standby draw directly into the architecture. And at the system level, connectivity serves as the backbone that allows distributed devices to operate cohesively over long lifetimes and distances. 

Together, these design strategies shape the foundation for resilient IIoT architectures. They reflect a shift in thinking from reactive troubleshooting to proactive design, from isolated components to cohesive systems, and from short-term fixes to long-term scalability. Semtech is at the forefront of this shift, offering integrated protection, power, and connectivity technologies that help designers build IIoT solutions that are robust, efficient, and future-ready. To illustrate how Semtech enables resilient and connected IIoT systems, we explore three key solution pillars that define system-level reliability: predictable protection, power integrity, and long-range connectivity.