Category Archives: Industry

Securing IoT for better lives: The decade that matters most

One year on from setting Kigen’s new mission, Vincent Korstanje, the company’s CEO, reflects on the potential of secure IoT for positive impact to people and planet. There isn’t a moment to lose simple decisions today for anyone investing in the Internet of Things (IoT) will help shape a future we can trust. In the last 12 […]

Re-defining the virtual world through the metaverse

In a world where everything is moving further and further into digital, the metaverse is part of a wider transformation of our digital lives. It is a pure online world where people can choose to retreat to game, work and communicate. It is considered bymany as the latest evolution of interpersonal communications. In another way, […]

Unleashing the potential of IoT with cloud computing

The Internet of Things (IoT) is disrupting how we operate our homes and businesses. Since it first emerged as a concept 20 years ago, IoT has become an established feature of our daily lives. From Fitbits to the Amazon Echo and Google Home, today’s consumers are using connected smart devices and wearables to track daily […]

IIoT technology: The holiday miracle for the supply chain crisis

Shelves sit empty, customers rush into stores to panic-buy and order fulfilment slows to a halt while these scenarios may seem familiar from the early stages of the pandemic, businesses face a similar supply chain crisis now. The crisis is affecting nearly every sector, from construction to energy, and even McDonalds milkshakes, says Marcus Jeffery […]

Opt-in software-based government – Nationality as a Service (NaaS)

The government functions to serve and represent its citizens, but around the world, citizens experience substandard public services with minimum transparency.  The governments fail to support individuals and communities efficiently. The services provided in many parts, from education to health, are broken. Reading this, some people might advocate the idea of bringing privatising public services. […]

Data centre industry: latest developments and challenges operators are facing this year

The global COVID-19 pandemic continues to have an impact on the data centre business. Overnight, we saw a large increase in demand for web-enabled and digital services as people around the world sought refuge in their own homes. Furthermore, organisations that had not previously advocated for digital transformation and cloud adoption found themselves reconsidering their […]

Low-power flagship for artificial intelligence

SMARC based platforms based on the NXP i.MX 8M Plus processors are an ideal fit for embedded AI applications. Equipped with an extensive ecosystem with application-ready 3.5-inch carrier board, Basler cameras, and AI software stack, fast proof of concept is possible says Martin Danzer Loncaric is director of product management at congatec AG. Implementing Arm […]

Why is 5G a boon for enterprises exploring IoT development?

There’s an interesting analogy to understand IoT, the devices are the neurons all connecting to the giant brain called the internet. Every small device in this network is holding an important set of data. Now, the performance of this neural-like network will directly depend upon the efficiency of data transmission.  That’s exactly what 5G is […]

Future of data integration: 2022 and beyond

Traditional methods including manual creation of scripts, scrubbing the data, and later loading it into a data warehouse or ETL, (extract-transform-load) was used to integrate data from different sources. These methods were adopted in the era of resource constraints and have now become very time-intensive, expensive, and error-prone, says Yash Mehta, an IoT and big […]