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How to evolve media infrastructure, and sleep well at night

Imagine you’ve made a decision to move out of your house—the one that’s faithfully served your needs in the past years—to a new one. You want your new house to be part of the digital world around you, and to enjoy all the benefits of modern technology, so you make it connected, smart, automated. (more…)

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September 19, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

Enabling the Internet-of-Everything with intelligent data distribution

When I speak with customers, a common goal is to achieve reliable, efficient, and scalable real-time distribution of data among people, devices, sensors, and machines – what I like to call the Internet of “Everything” (IoE).

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Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

Premier Farnell introduces an integrated colour display module with touch interface along with the Android SDK

Premier Farnell, the Development Distributor, has introduced an integrated colour display module with touch interface, along with the Android SDK (software development kit), for the WaRP7 development platform, which targets IoT and wearable applications. (more…)

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September 18, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

Mobileye and Munich Re, US announce collaboration to reduce automotive collisions

Mobileye, an Intel company, the provider in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving technologies, announced a unique collaboration intended to reduce commercial fleet collisions and enhance road safety in the United States. (more…)

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Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

The benefits of interconnectivity in the workplace

The term, ‘smart building’, is bandied about quite a lot. But what actually qualifies a building as smart? Ultimately, it comes down to having purposeful visualisation of data. It’s not about hoarding data, but rather having a clear reason to collect the data in the first place. People should always ask ‘why’ they need the data — and the reason is different for every business.

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Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

Retrofitting industrial machines with IoT board to measure their performance

EIT Digital is introducing its ’I4.0 Production Monitoring Solution‘, a new initiative launched as part of its Oedipus High Impact Initiative, and designed to help manufacturers quickly assess whether their machines are performing well or need some fine-tuning.

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September 15, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

IoT: The cure for rising healthcare costs?

The rising costs of healthcare continues to dominate the headlines. In recent years, health insurance premiums have increased at a rate higher than annual income, according to recent reports. (more…)

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RS Components and Legal & General join forces to tackle £900m water leakage problem

RS Components (RS), a global distributor for engineers and the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc, and Legal & General(L&G), the FTSE100 financial services group, have joined forces in an open call to the world’s engineering and maker community with a new IoT design competition, the ‘LeakKiller Challenge’. (more…)

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September 14, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

Live NB-IoT demos showcase temperature monitoring sensors at MWC Americas

u‑blox, a provider in wireless and positioning modules and chips, will feature a live Narrowband IoT (NB‑IoT or LTE Cat NB1) demo at MWC Americas in San Francisco, featuring SARA‑R410M-02B, a configurable LTE Cat M1/NB1 multi‑mode module with worldwide coverage. (more…)

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Hazelcast IMDG and Apache Cassandra combine to deliver real-time smart meter IoT platform

Hazelcast, the open source in-memory data grid (IMDG) with hundreds of thousands of installed clusters and over 39 million server starts per month, announced details of a new IoT platform designed by Future Grid – the developer of an operational intelligence data platform which provides electric power generation (more…)

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Posted by: Avadhoot Patil