Recently BBC News quoted former VW group president and now head of the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership, Jonathan Browning. He cited foreign investment as key to the region’s spectacular recovery that has lead to the lowest unemployment for 30 years and the region becoming the ‘brains’ of the UK vehicle industry, writes Stephen Chadwick, the managing director for EuroNorth at Dassault Systèmes. (more…)
March 3, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
The Internet of things (IoT) has everyone giddy, writes Neil Chapman, the senior vice president and managing director for EMEA/International at ForgeRock. (more…)
February 22, 2016
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Beecham Research has been working with specialist IoT event organiser Vinelake to create a new series of IoT events organised specifically around business users (see outline of events at this link). The aim of these, explains Robin Duke-Woolley, the chief executive of Beecham Research, is to be user centric and to explore the opportunities that M2M and IoT have for business users by assessing the business benefits they can gain from introducing connected device solutions. (more…)
February 10, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
By connecting everything to the internet, the Internet of Things (IoT) promises to revolutionise the way we live, writes Tobias Zillner, the snior IS Auditor at Cognosec. The temptation to bring the latest technological advances to critical infrastructure is understandable – indeed, the optimisation of infrastructure is perhaps where the IoT has the most revolutionary potential. (more…)
January 7, 2016
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In the second part of her blog exploring how the Internet of Everything is enabling the intelligent high street, Sarah Eccleston, the director for enterprise Networks at Cisco UK & Ireland, expands on how IoT technologies can help integrate online and in-store behaviour. (more…)
December 29, 2015
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This year we saw a continuation in the decline of consumers visiting local high streets, writes, Sarah Eccleston, the director for enterprise Networks at Cisco UK & Ireland. November alone saw a 2.1% reduction on the previous year at what is usually expected to be one of the busier retail months, with consumers favouring the ease of online shopping and the thrill of getting themselves the best bargains from the comfort of their home. As such, the current challenge for UK retailers is all too easy to see. (more…)
December 28, 2015
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Redknee has launched the latest version of its Intelligent Network (IN) solution for GSM-Railway (GSM-R) networks at ProRail, the Dutch railway infrastructure operator. (more…)
December 24, 2015
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Event date: February 9-10, 2016
Near London
Hear John Lewis, Tesco, Net-A-Porter, Dixons & other experts
Comprising of job titles such as VP, CTO and CIO, our speaker panel brings you senior experts from the world’s biggest retailers.
5 exclusive case studies: how are retailers using IoT? (more…)
December 15, 2015
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Softeq’s Embedded Programming Team worked against a tight deadline to develop a technical proof of concept for a smart furniture prototype featuring a set of 17″ LED panels integrated into a table top.
Designed to display tweets and images, playback a greeting message on detecting a human presence, as well as to support multiplayer games, the solution is set to reinvent guest experience in Entertainment and HoReCa business. The prototype was showcased at HD Expo 2015 in Las Vegas.
As the hype transitions to commercial deployment, it seems the M2M industry is starting to fulfil the early potential by driving the kind of innovation that is set to make tangible impact on how we live our lives, writes Phil Cole, the sales director of Wireless Logic. (more…)
December 2, 2015
Posted by: George Malim