November 2, 2025

How To Enrich The Unified Namespace with Knowledge Graphs

While the Unified Namespace is great for knowing where data is and how to use it in real-time, it lacks deep context.

If you’ve implemented a UNS, you’ve laid a powerful foundation. It gives your organization:

⇨ A single source of truth.
⇨ Real-time data accessibility.
⇨ A clear, hierarchical structure.

But here's the challenge: real-time data alone isn't always enough.

What if you need more context?

What if your teams need to understand not just what’s happening, but why it matters, across departments, domains, or time?

That’s where Knowledge Graphs come in.

They enrich your UNS by adding:

✅ Ontologies and semantic layers
✅ Cross-domain relationships
✅ Contextual data without duplication

With this added layer:
⇨ You don’t need to move data around to make it useful.
⇨You can query across domains without breaking the structure.
⇨ You can make smarter, faster decisions based on both live and contextualized information.

When Knowledge Graphs and UNS work together, your data ecosystem evolves from operational awareness to context-rich insight.

Kudzai Manditereza

Founder & Educator - Industry40.tv

Kudzai Manditereza is an industrial data and AI educator and strategist. He specializes in Industrial AI, IIoT, Unified Namespace, Digital Twins, and Industrial DataOps, helping manufacturing leaders implement and scale Smart Manufacturing initiatives.

Kudzai shares this thinking through Industry40.tv, his independent media and education platform; the AI in Manufacturing podcast; and the Smart Factory Playbook newsletter, where he shares practical guidance on building the data backbone that makes industrial AI work in real-world manufacturing environments. Recognized as a Top 15 Industry 4.0 influencer, he currently serves as Senior Industry Solutions Advocate at HiveMQ.