Blogs

Printing the IoT

Dr Janos Veres, who leads Parc’s Novel and Printed Electronics programme, looks at turning printing into a manufacturing technique for electronics to meet the needs for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. (more…)

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October 10, 2018

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Are smart homes actually safe?

In 2017, online retail giant Amazon revealed its plans to introduce a smart home system that allows couriers to unlock its customer’s doors and leave packages inside. (more…)

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Posted by: Anasia D'mello

The economics of NB-IoT and LoRa

What drives the profit or loss for an IoT service? People seem to be very confused about which line item is most important here. (more…)

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October 9, 2018

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

QR payments hit pay dirt!

Scanning a QR code to make a payment is somewhat incongruous in countries like the United Kingdom, but it’s exploding elsewhere. This technology, originally developed in Japan, has captured the Chinese and Indian markets, and the rest of the world is starting to pay attention. (more…)

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Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Cool IoT Use Cases: Vital role for mission-critical communications over LTE

Market Overview

The transportation and mining industries rely on advanced communication technologies. Mission-critical communication over LTE enables push-to-talk, push-to-video, text and multimedia chat, as well as location information. (more…)

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Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Connecting clouds – Have your (layer) cake and eat it, too

Cloud Computing offers businesses many benefits, not in cost savings – that myth has been well and truly busted – but in flexibility of deployment and responsiveness to changing business demands. (more…)

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October 8, 2018

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Offshore rig monitoring: A true reflection of IoT

The Internet of Things (IoT) has not left out any industry with its challenges and has paved a way for them to come out with more opportunities. (more…)

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October 5, 2018

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

How IR sensor 2.0 will improve IoT technology

The next generation IR sensor 2.0 will be more flexible, much thinner and cheaper to manufacture than old sensors. This opens up for a big improvement and more areas of use within IoT. (more…)

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October 4, 2018

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Users failed by VPN security and performance, but SD-WANs no option for industrial IoT. So where next?

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have significant security and performance drawbacks for use in networking cloud applications. This was the start-point for a recent survey and primary research by industry analysts, Futuriom, that (spoiler alert) leads the firm to conclude that Application Specific Networking (ASN) may be a way forward. (more…)

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October 1, 2018

Posted by: Anasia D'mello

Telcos desperately turning to value-added ICT services for revenue growth, but can they do this well?

“Telcos could talk to enterprise customers about applications and security,” one vendor advises.
“And I could become a Princess,” says one analyst sarcastically.

As revenues from core connectivity services continue to collapse many network operators are turning to other value-added services (VAS) to shore up their balance sheets. (more…)

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September 28, 2018

Posted by: Anasia D'mello