Blogs by: George Malim

In the third and final installment of a series of blogs by Todd Rigby, the director of business development for Rajant Corporation, he discusses the use of robotics in mining, manufacturing and logistics as well as the myth that autonomous vehicles and industrial robotics are eliminating human jobs. (more…)

Blogs by: George Malim

Over the next decades airline fleet modernisation and aircraft retirement will continue to feed the growth of commercial aviation, writes Stephen Chadwick, the managing director for EuroNorth at Dassault Systèmes. This drives the need for continuous improvement of new and existing production lines. These developments require a solution that delivers factories capable of driving greater efficiencies. And that capability needs to be build today. (more…)

Blogs by: George Malim

When developing a new IoT product or service, it is all too easy to allocate so much time and resource to the visible elements – the analytics, web GUI, or the smartphone app – that some of the less sexy but equally critical elements get treated as commodities, writes, Matthew Own, the managing director of M2M Intelligence. (more…)

Blogs by: George Malim

In his last blog, Rajant Corporation’s Todd Rigby discussed the impact of autonomous applications and robots on industry and the need for ironclad network infrastructure to ensure autonomous vehicles and industrial robots operate flawlessly. Here, he discusses the major role mesh networks play in providing the real-time, continuous communications required to run these machines. (more…)

Blogs by: George Malim

The British manufacturing industry is experiencing a seismic shift in priorities, with digital transformation shaking up traditional working models and processes, writes Damian Hennessey, the commercial director at Proto Labs. (more…)

Blogs by: George Malim

In a series of blogs, Rajant Corporation’s director of business development, Todd Rigby, discusses the major role the Internet of Things will play in the rise of industrial robots and autonomous vehicles and the necessity of wireless networks in ensuring the smooth operation of such machines in various industries. (more…)

Blogs by: George Malim

In the British model of policing, officers exercise their powers with the implicit consent of the public – termed ‘policing by consent’. In other words, the legitimacy of policing in the eyes of the public is based on a general consensus of support which follows from transparency about the powers of the police, their integrity in exercising those powers and their accountability for doing so, writes James Wickes, the chief executive and co-founder of Cloudview. (more…)

Blogs by: George Malim

As the Internet of Things becomes a reality and revolutions such as smart cities, digital manufacturing and connected vehicles are proliferating, the number of data points that could potentially be attacked by hackers are also rising at a staggering pace, writes Pavan Singh, the vice president and business head of the data security platform at Covata. Indeed, Gartner predicts that by 2020 there will be 9.7 billion connected devices, all of which represent a possible entry point for an attacker. (more…)

Blogs by: George Malim

The Internet of Things interconnects various devices and they all can store data. Any data residence is a potential threat to security and we have to address these issues carefully not giving a chance to cyber-attackers. With so many various devices in the internet of things, we have to be more versatile in terms of choosing the right protection measures, writes Alex Seryj, the editor in chief of QArea. (more…)

Blogs by: George Malim

The API revolution is fuelling digital transformation across a spectrum of industries and opening the way for new IoT use cases. But capturing the full commercial potential of the IoT will depend on addressing lingering consumer concerns over consent and privacy, explains Eve Maler, the vice president of Innovation and Emerging Technology at ForgeRock. (more…)