Monthly Archives: February 2021

Geospatial technology will be at the heart of the IoT Big Data analysis

In an ever more connected world, Esri a global provider of geo-spatial and analytical software is about to embark on a new journey to help organisations understand and analyse vast amounts of Internet of Things (IoT) big data through location intelligence. As we know, the digital transformation of people’s lives from recent events has become […]

What Is a Convolutional Neural Network? A Beginner’s Tutorial for Machine Learning and Deep Learning

There are a lot of different kinds of neural networks that you can use in machine learning projects. There are recurrent neural networks, feed-forward neural networks, modular neural networks, and more. Convolutional neural networks are another type of commonly used neural network. Before we get to the details around convolutional

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

There have been three basic industrial revolutions. The first was the steam engine, the second was the assembly line driving mass production, and the third was the speed of computers. Today there is a fourth revolution taking place called Industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 uses IoT (internet of things) and IoS (Internet of Systems) to improve […]

The great business story of 2020 that everyone missed

One of the biggest stories of 2020 wasn’t about the pandemic, politics or protests, says Marc Price, CTO of Matrixx Software. It was about private networks or, more specifically, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s opening up of wireless spectrum that would enable private 5G networks to be deployed by almost any company that had a mind to do […]

Why 5G matters in a world of IoT, VR, AR, AI and Edge

When 4G launched, it offered some significant performance improvements over 3G. But with 5G, says Guy Matthews, editor of NetReporter, something far more profound is going on. The doors of possibility have been blown off their hinges. So what lies beyond? With all the buzz that surrounds 5G right now, it is an interesting contrast to look […]

Loon is popped by sharp truths: Balloons won’t be ‘Connecting people everywhere’

(A Week in IoT) – When the news came on Friday that Loon’s journey is coming to an end it was a disappointment if, like me, you’re an admirer of flights of scientific and engineering ambition that combine business opportunity and social benefit. To be fair though, the news did not come as a shock, says […]