Category Archives: Technology

Top 3 Industries that Need Outdoor Asset Tracking and Monitoring | Blog | Link Labs

Keeping track of business assets is an essential part of maintaining workplace operations. As every industry relies on the use of people, tools, equipment, and other important assets for their day-to-day operations, asset tracking and monitoring has become a vital part of daily processes. By guaranteeing that assets are properly maintained and getting to where […]

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 […]

How IoT is Connecting Workplaces

GSMA Intelligence forecasts that total Internet of Things (IoT) connections will double between 2019 and 2025, reaching 24 billion. IoT technology is transforming many industries and workplaces, thus creating value for businesses and their customers. In a way, 5G has become a catalyst for the next generation of IoT products because of its ability to […]

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 […]

Recap: How Bluetooth LE and XLE are the Future of Asset Tracking and Monitoring

Over the past few months at Link Labs, we have been breaking down the differences between Bluetooth Low Energy (LE)  and Xtreme Low Energy (XLE), and how these two connectivity solutions play a role in the future of asset tracking and monitoring.  In this article, we will explore a full recap of the topics explored.