Monthly Archives: July 2020

COVID-19: What healthcare IoT cyber security learned from the first wave

Healthcare organisations, like hospitals and medical research institutions, have been hit hard by the COVID pandemic and cyber criminals have, unfortunately, taken advantage of the situation. Cynerio CEO, Leon Lerman reports that attacks have risen by 300% since the pandemic started. If a lesson can be taken from the first wave of COVID, it’s that the healthcare industry […]

An Introduction to the Helm Package Manager for Kubernetes

Before we dive into the Helm package manager, I’m going to explain some key concepts to deploying any application anywhere, and then give a brief introduction to Kubernetes terminology. What is Kubernetes?Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications kubernetes.ioNow you

How to Calculate the Average of a List — Statistics and Python’s Mean Function Explained in Detail

Mathematics and programming go hand in hand. If you are a programmer, at some point you will have to use mathematics. Data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrencies are all based on complex underlying mathematical principles. However, using math functions doesn’t have to be complex! Python abstracts everything away,

Telcos must be cautiously aggressive to ‘Roar out of Recession’

As we approach four months since essentially the entire world went on lockdown, telcos have gone through a very mixed experience. On one hand, from what we’ve seen, core revenues from prepaid customers are down 20-30% as people have gone into lockdown. Whether this is due to economic shock hitting consumers or simply greater usage […]

Exploring IoT’s top five challenges through the 5 Cs – Part 2

2. Continuity Continuity is about ensuring and extending the battery life of the device. Battery life is one of the most important considerations for IoT devices. Long battery life is a huge competitive advantage in consumer IoT devices. For industrial IoT devices, a battery life of five or ten years is the common expectation. For […]

Exploring IoT’s top five challenges through the 5 Cs – Part 1

IoT deployment is happening rapidly. According to IoT Analytics, the number of connected devices in 2019 is expected to surpass initial forecasts by 14% to reach 9.5 billion. The three main drivers are explosive growth of consumer devices, much stronger than expected cellular IoT/M2M connections, and strong device connectivity growth in China due to government […]

How to Build and Train K-Nearest Neighbors and K-Means Clustering ML Models in Python

One of machine learning’s most popular applications is in solving classification problems. Classification problems are situations where you have a data set, and you want to classify observations from that data set into a specific category. A famous example is a spam filter for email providers. Gmail uses supervised machine