2015 was a big year for the connected car, writes Martin Booth from SanDisk Industrial and Automotive Solutions. It was the year that the fabled car of the future made a giant leap from a concept towards something we can actually touch and feel, with various car manufacturers pushing the limits with a broad range of connectivity features and functionalities. With many of these vehicles featuring advanced connected applications that were once only possible on a smartphone or, in some cases, on the pages of science fiction novels, it is safe to say that we are now in the age of the connected car. (more…)
March 24, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
Andreas Schierenbeck, the chief executive of thyssenKrupp Elevator, discusses how modern IoT developments are bringing one of the world’s oldest industries – construction – into the 21st century. (more…)
January 27, 2016
Posted by: George Malim
The telecoms industry is being transformed overnight as consumers’ insatiable appetite for data and faster, better quality services continues to grow, writes Chris Mills the chief technology officer EMEA of Pivotal. (more…)
December 16, 2015
Posted by: George Malim
Since we started talking about Software Defined things , we have moved, along with the rest of the IT industry, from using the narrow term SDN to the broader SDx. This has allowed us to use one acronym to encompass software-defined networking, data centres, storage, server and any yet to be developed technologies that are all software-defined. What we didn’t anticipate was the Software Defined City, writes Chris Gabriel, the UK CTO of Logicalis.
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December 4, 2015
Posted by: George Malim
By Saverio Romeo, the principal analyst at Beecham Research
The healthcare sector has been an attractive sector for some time for the technology industry. We had the era of the e-health, followed by the subsequent period of the mobile health, and as the Internet of Things evolves into this transformative – almost revolutionary – vision for economies and societies, a growing view on the Internet of Things in healthcare is inevitable. (more…)
September 25, 2015
Posted by: Saverio Romeo
M2MAPPS: Sigfox has employed license-free spectrum to create a cellular network that is dedicated to M2M and the IoT. The obvious question is why? What is wrong with cellular technology?
THOMAS NICHOLLS: I’d like to start with a reminder that M2M and IoT applications come in numerous sizes and shapes. Those that need relatively high data rates work well with existing connectivity technologies, but many others only need to exchange small messages every so often. (more…)
May 13, 2013
Posted by: IoT global network