Monthly Archives: September 2021

IIoT: Removing the barriers to smart factories

With recent reports highlighting that 5G-enabled factories could deliver a productivity boost to UK manufacturing of between £2.6 billion (€3.03 billion) and £6.3 billion (€7.34 billion), it is perhaps surprising that smart factory technology simply wasn’t on the radar of 27% of respondents to the Annual Manufacturing Report in 2019. Two years after the DCMS 5G Testbed and Trials (5GTT) programmes launched in […]

The risky new world of work

It’s fair to say that 2020 dramatically changed the workplace. Globally, governments mandated citizens to work from home, where possible. Large office blocks emptied as IT teams scrambled to implement technology and systems to support a predominantly remote workforce. As we start to look beyond COVID, organisations plan to permanently adopt these long-term hybrid and […]

What does SpaceX’s acquisition of Swarm say about space IoT?

SpaceX is notoriously quiet when it comes to mergers, and so it came with great surprise that a company had been acquired by the spaceflight company and that company was one that deals in the Internet of Things (IoT). CNBC highlighted the early August deal, in which US$85 million (€71.75 million) was handed over for Swarm, who provide satellite-linked home IoT. This particular […]