The Trending Tech Podcast returns to the topical issues of Connected Healthcare and IoT’s role in Industry. We hear from two experts, Jash Bansidhar and Michael Wernaert from Advantech, how automation is improving patient outcomes, including through robotic surgery’s greater accuracy, faster patient release dates and lower care costs. We ask how ‘co-created’ solutions on open source platforms can benefit hospitals and healthcare OEMs? And can OpenAI’s ChatGPT enable industry’s digital transformations? There’s even time to see how ESG is creating an intelligent, sustainable planet. Not bad in half an hour.
February 15, 2023
Posted by: Barto Szkaradek
ARC Forum 2023, Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) and OPC Foundation have announced a liaison agreement to accelerate the development and adoption of digital twin-enabling technologies. The DTC and the OPC Foundation have worked closely in several open-source reference implementation projects on GitHub and have agreed to collaborate even closer. (more…)
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Kirkland, United States – Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), a trade association that oversees Bluetooth technology, has announced the release of a wireless standard for the electronic shelf label (ESL) market. Until now, ESL systems have relied on proprietary protocols for wireless communication, presenting a potential barrier to global adoption. To address this challenge, leaders from the ESL industry teamed with the Bluetooth SIG to create a scalable, ultra-low power, highly secure ESL wireless standard based on Bluetooth technology. (more…)
February 14, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Lightweight electronics, meet the heavyweight champion for protecting your information: Security experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a victor in their program to find a worthy defender of data generated by small devices. The winner, a group of cryptographic algorithms called Ascon, will be published as NIST’s lightweight cryptography standard later in 2023. (more…)
February 13, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Chicago, United States – UScellular is delivering a high-performance private cellular network solution to expand the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s (UWM) Connected Systems Institute (CSI) manufacturing research facility to include private 5G technology. With UScellular’s 5G private wireless network, the CSI research facility will connect their operations with 5G IoT sensors and controls. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
San Rafael, United States – Skyway and Moonware have announced a partnership to accelerate ground infrastructure readiness for advanced aerial mobility. Skyway offers air traffic navigation and vertiport airspace management services while Moonware offers automated aviation ground operations through its AI-powered software and autonomous ground vehicles. (more…)
February 12, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
San Francisco, United States – Linux Foundation Energy, an open source foundation focused on harnessing the power of collaborative software and hardware technologies to decarbonise our global economies, has announced recent momentum and plans for 2023 including a new member, several new projects, updates to existing projects, and four events to bring together stakeholders building important technologies to drive the energy transition. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Digital cooperation capability from IOTICS is said to be enabling a decentralised data ecosystem for Britain’s Northern Gas Networks (NGN) Customer Energy Village. Northern Gas Networks has selected technology from IOTICS and architecture to enable a multi-party, cross-sector data ecosystem. (more…)
February 10, 2023
Posted by: Shriya Raban
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has announced that it has awarded 12 grants as part of the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Programme (CMC). (more…)
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Telefonica Tech beacon with Narrow Band-IoT (NB-IoT) connectivity will be launched on 1 February by KPS Group‘s road safety and consumer electronics accessory brand FlashLED. The new beacon, ‘FlashLED SOS V16‘, will be available at automotive and consumer electronics shops at a price of 59.95 euros. (more…)
February 9, 2023
Posted by: Shriya Raban