Natural gas leaks and explosions can result in deadly and destructive crisis situations for homeowners, businesses, and entire communities. According to the Environmental Defense Fund, “In the vast web of natural gas pipes beneath America’s streets, leaks are a persistent challenge, with significant implications for our climate. Major leaks are typically fixed promptly. But when sufficient resources...
In the never-ending game of security one-upmanship between IT and OT departments, both have been gaining ground recently. (Remember: this is not now, nor has it ever been, an either/or proposition. We need both.) What’s more, simultaneously with these departments making strides toward better security (often achieved by actually working together – gasp!), the trend...
It’s no secret that the energy industry is at an inflection point with respect to energy transmission (and has been for a while now). This period of change is being driven by the twin forces of global rising energy demand, which an October 2022 ExxonMobil report said is likely to hit 660 quadrillion BTU by...
Two companies that have been working to revolutionize edge devices and computing have signed a letter of intent to combine their technologies into one powerful solution, according to a recent release. Veea and Ostendo announced Feb 26 that they will merge Ostendo’s quantum technologies and wearable display assets with Veea’s smart edge connectivity business to...
With the growth in 5G and the proliferation of new wireless connectivity options, coupled with the increase in the number and types of connected devices, wireless testing to ensure the safety and efficiency of our cellular networks has become an integral part of network development. I spoke recently with Rex Chen, Director of Business development...
Today, smart factories are providing the once technologically stagnant industrial sector with the ability to reap the benefits of digital transformation. At every step, from design to assembly and delivery, smart factories are helping revolutionize the manufacturing process by becoming Sustainable Smart Buildings. Through smart factory technologies, industrial enterprises are provided enhanced data generation that...
In a recent announcement, ClearBlade, a company leading the Internet of Things marketplace in universal software platform solutions, released the details of the now-available Lion Nebula Release of its IoT software. ClearBlade has always set itself the task of creating an universally applicable, flexible and secure IoT platform. The company’s software is in use today...
Today, many technologies are coming together to create a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: the age of autonomy or Fourth Industrial Revolution. In this new age, physical spaces and objects have become intelligent and connected. In the same way, electronic trading platforms talk to each other at sub-millisecond transactions, intelligent objects, and robots operate at the same speed...
Although many people imagine that enclosed spaces such as offices would offer enhanced protection from outdoor pollution, indoor air can be contaminated by many harmful substances. This rings especially true for workers in the industrial sector, where factory floors can be home to any number of air-quality pollutants due to the nature of the machinery...
The number of global operators with 5G networks has grown from 200 at the start of 2019 to 493 by May 2022. Among those are 794 private LTE and 5G networks, while the total addressable market for private networks is forecast to grow from $3.7 billion in 2021 to more than $109 billion in 2030, a CAGR of 44...
Technology’s role in smart manufacturing has long been to enhance operational efficiency through innovation, leading to increased productivity and decreased downtime. Now, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that the agency is incentivizing projects that add energy efficiency in Smart Manufacturing to that list of goals through a $1.8 million investment for six...
Out of the gate this year, we’re seeing an uptick in the number of new players in the SmartAg and Precision Agriculture spaces as farmers in the fields are deploying everything from self-driving tractors to tracking earrings for cattle that monitor herd health and detect cows in heat. But what’s happening inside – way beyond...
The Frontier Hub, the source for News and Analysis on Industrial Innovation, announced today that it will be appearing at ITEXPO, held February 14-17, 2023 at the Broward County Convention Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. ITEXPO is the communications and digital transformation event where influential buyers gather to make their purchase decisions. Meet The Frontier Hub...
It’s a new year, and as is always the case in early January, organizations are introducing new products and solutions, announcing partnerships and joint ventures, and gearing up for trade shows and conferences with great enthusiasm and optimism. One of the most interesting announcements to cross my desk this week was issued by Veea, a...
CareAR™, A Xerox company and trusted service experience management (SXM) market leader. Last month, they announced the availability of CareAR Experience Builder, a new visual augmented reality and AI-based design tool that enables anyone to create self-guided instructional experiences at scale. The company has been on a fast track for the last few years. While acquiring other...
The number of private networks globally continues to rise, moving the needle from 656 in February 2022 to 794 in May 2022, an increase of 21 percent in only three months, while the total addressable market for private networks is forecast to grow from $3.7 billion in 2021 to more than $109 billion in 2030,...
There are nearly 500 operators worldwide investing in 5G. At the same time, the number of private networks continues to rise at a staggering amount, with customer announcements growing at a CAGR of 101 percent from 2016 to 2021, with 140 more in the first half of 2022 alone (as per GSA). With the total addressable...
There’s a new storage and processing architecture coming to the IoT called Serverless Computing. It is designed to make coding and development more efficient while streamlining processing—especially at the network’s Edge. Recently, I sat down (remotely) with Delano Seymour, CTO of Edge and Serverless Computing company EDJX. He gave me a sneak peek into their serverless capabilities and shared...
The total addressable market for private networks is forecast to grow from $3.7 billion in 2021 to more than $109 billion in 2030, a CAGR of 44 percent. Per the GSA, the percentage of 5G or 4G/5G private networks has gone from 25 percent of the installed base to 33 percent from November 2021 to...
In the distributed edge, the processing power needed for many applications will be done at the network edge instead of a centralized site. With data not needing to travel as far, latencies are reduced, and network bandwidth is improved. I talked recently with Michael Recchia, Global Telco Solutions Architect at Red Hat. Recchia has decades of experience...
If the world and IoT industry are going to move into the uber-connected future envisioned and predicted by the market analysts and futurists of the tech world, the first technological hurdle to be jumped is Energy. Energy is integral to building a Smart IoT System of Systems, and the infrastructure of energy has to be...
The manufacturing industry is rapidly changing right before our eyes, as the fourth industrial revolution, also known as industrial 4.0, creates a new factory floor more digital than ever. Today’s need by manufacturers to optimize the productivity of their expensive equipment, reduce waste, maximize yields, and reduce cycle times has led manufacturers to start adopting...
Some might believe that the automotive industry’s future lies in automated, self-driving vehicles that allow passengers to relax and enjoy the ride to their destination. However, due to a plethora of environmental concerns, the future of the automotive industry has begun to pivot toward more eco-friendly electric forms of transportation. An electric vehicle (EV) produces...
On October 1, 2021, a significant oil spill was discovered off the coast of central California. The oil slick, seen here via NASA Earth satellite imagery, might be months old, or even years old. 126,000 gallons of oil couldn’t leak from a pipeline overnight. The California Department of Justice (CA DOJ) is still investigating the California oil spill....
Water insecurity due to climate change has the potential to uproot nearly every aspect of modern society: food production, urban and rural settlements, energy production, industrial development, economic growth, and natural ecosystems. Water and climate change are wicked problems, independently and jointly. In a 1973 article in Policy Sciences, Horst W. J. Rittel and Marvin M. Webber introduced...
The global market for the Internet of Things is expected to rise from $300 billion in 2021 to $650 billion in 2026, at a CAGR of 16 percent. One forecast estimates there will be more than 41 billion IoT devices by 2027. With all of these new devices online, there is a genuine concern about handling security. Does the...
I can’t be the only one who is ready to start hearing about the interesting interactions between 5G and all the other industries and technologies that it’s going to transform. Well, it looks like we’re going to start getting our wish, and it’s happening with an interesting 5G cloud services platform coming out of a...
5G connectivity is transformative with its upgraded enhancements that include lower latency, greater network capacity, and up to 10x faster data transfer speeds unattainable with older standards. 5G technology creates a tremendous opportunity for numerous industries, setting the stage for large-scale disruption. The manufacturing industry is on this list of those that will most notably...
Technological innovations are rapidly reshaping the landscape of various industries, and none more so than the introduction of 5G. 5G will be faster and able to handle more connected devices than the existing 4G LTE network, with improvements that will enable a wave of new kinds of tech products. And amongst them, fixed wired access...
AIOps is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance IT operations, using machine learning, analytics, and large data sets. Interest in the field has grown significantly over the last few years as the volume of data available to telecommunication networks and other businesses has grown exponentially. Managing such large data sets by hand is...
By Nikhil Chauhan, Digital Transformation Officer at Wind River By 2030, $7 trillion of the U.S. economy will be driven by the machine economy. Fueling this future is the growth of 5G, AI, automation, and cloud native technologies, as well as an increasing intersection between IoT and the edge. This is particularly notable in the...
Digitalization today is rapidly reshaping the way business is done, with the integration of digital technology into all aspects of daily processes. Organizations across nearly all industries are enjoying the benefits of digital transformation, which include enabling accelerated efficient workflows, strengthened security, and increased profitability. However, some industries have been slow to adopt the plethora...
During my early days in sustainability consulting, the value proposition for sustainability was frequently framed as the “triple bottom line” and the “right thing to do.” My experience was that these value propositions gained very little traction with corporate clients except for a few that were adventurous and committed to exploring sustainability. At that time,...
Despite the fact that forecast numbers and market size estimates are often questionable and always to be taken with a grain of salt, we can compare by looking at one reliable firm’s numbers. Markets and Markets measured the Smart Home market at 5.3 billion in 2010 and about 84.5 billion in 2021. That’s certainly some...
Meeting the demand for increasingly climate-friendly solutions across various industries, the onset and growing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) has become exceedingly prominent for consumers eager to solve the global climate issue by purchasing vehicles that lower or eliminate emissions output. However, a significant point of concern potentially reducing the benefits of buying an EV...
The automotive industry is currently capitalizing on the breadth of innovation in digital transformation. Market leaders are adding unique and differentiating features that redefine and transform the industry’s traditional business model. According to a report by Fortune Business Insights, the global Connected Car market size will reach $191.83 billion at a CAGR of 18.1 percent by...
Throughout many industries, one of the most critical and influential driving forces over the last decade has been the development and distribution of innovative and ground-breaking IoT solutions. Enabling these solutions has led to the considerable onset of intelligent edge systems, which boost the integral ability to congregate and analyze data at rapid speeds, allowing...
Look. If we’ve learned nothing else from the last two years of the global COVID pandemic, it’s that the global supply chain is problematic. It wasn’t always thus, and to many people, it really shouldn’t be in this day and age. As I see it, the problem is the fault of so-called lean manufacturing practices. For the...
Political turbulence in Afghanistan means the cost of lithium-ion batteries will skyrocket. The Taliban now controls one of the world’s largest lithium deposits. With the global demand for lithium (and lithium extraction) expected to grow 40 fold by 2040, the grim reality is dawning for owners of electric vehicles (EVs). Future lithium battery replacements will come at an exorbitant...
On Aug. 16, the U.S. federal government declared a Colorado River water shortage for the first time. This unprecedented action was triggered by the precipitous drop in Lake Mead’s water level: It’s at 1,067 feet above sea level, or about 35 percent full. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation expects the lake’s water level to remain about 1,066 feet...
Some of the biggest domestic mega-corporations believe the Biden administration will decarbonize the nation’s power rapidly. And it’s not only Americans who think this way. Companies around the globe are buying more renewable power than ever — by statistically huge amounts. Wind and solar have become the big players, the VIPs of renewable energy, but...
What’s With the Colorado River Basin? The Colorado River Basin (CRB) and, in general, the American West, is in the midst of a water crisis. This crisis has been in the making for a long time as the watershed is over-allocated, infrastructure is outdated and underfunded, and the impacts of climate change are taking a toll....
Investment in renewable energy continues to grow at a rapid pace. In this article, we’ll look at the current state of the grid storage investing marketplace and future investment prospects for that space. Where Grid Storage Investing Is Right Now In the United States, utility-scale electric power generation totaled more than 4.1 trillion kilowatt-hours in 2019. Of...
There are two global markets that drive the demand for energy storage: stationary (old-school power) storage and electric vehicles (EVs). For the short term — through 2025, which is only four years out — energy storage deployment is targeted to grow over 40% per year. Two factors are converging that are responsible for the uptick in demand...
Entrepreneurs To Solve Wicked Water Problems While water scarcity, poor quality, lack of access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene and inequity of water services are a global problem, the solutions are typically at the local scale: the watershed. Framing water challenges and solutions at the watershed scale provides the potential to engage local...
Low-carbon fuel standards (LCFS) are rules enacted by states to reduce carbon intensity (CI) in transportation fuels like gas and diesel. In layman’s terms, carbon intensity is the weight of carbon released into the environment per a given amount of fuel. For the sake of readability, we won’t get too deep in the technical aspects of CI...
The digital transformation of the water sector, both the utility and industrial sectors, was well underway before the pandemic. The digital transformation trend has accelerated over the past twelve months as the public and private sectors come to realize that analog solutions to managing water, from the river basin to manufacturing, or from treatment to the...
Security in IoT development and deployment has sometimes, I think we can all admit, been an afterthought. It has been neglected, ignored, and what’s worse — treated as irrelevant, all too frequently as the industry developed. It’s the worst-kept secret in IoT. This is, thankfully, changing across the industry. Security (and privacy) are becoming early...
When we were born, our world mainly was our mother, but it became our immediate family in short order. Our data exchange was minimal, and that worked just fine. By the time we entered pre-school or kindergarten, our interactions expanded to a larger group, mostly our young classmates, the teachers, neighbors, and family. As we grew, those...
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 is highly questionable, as the status quo is difficult to disrupt. Difficult, that is, but not impossible. A report from 2019, “Digital With a Purpose: Delivering a SMARTer2030”, authored by GeSI and Deloitte, framed the value of the information, communication technology (ICT) sector in achieving the SDGs. It...
Data is the lifeblood of modern business, providing valuable business insight and supporting real-time control over critical business processes and operations. Companies are always looking to optimize how the data is used, which is where the edge comes into play. Focused on optimizing data driven capabilities by bringing data collection, processing, and reporting as close...
The energy the world uses to keep things turning ten years from now is still somewhat of a wild card. With so many divisions still existing over what the model should become, it brings wild speculation about what the next few years will bring. It’s still worth exploring what innovators continue bringing to energy transformation....
With the recent rise of digitalization, Session Border Controller (SBC) technology has become more commonplace throughout various industries. Special-purpose devices protect and regulate IP communication flows while deployed at network borders to control IP communications sessions. SBC technology was originally conceived to protect and control VoIP networks but is now used to regulate all forms...
Digital technology has transformed transportation, healthcare, education, energy, and entertainment. Those industries provide valuable lessons for the digital transformation we are now witnessing in the water sector, where we work. However, the realities of this transformation can be challenging. Roadblocks include the readiness of the workforce for training and a company’s culture of innovation (or...
All over the world, renewable sources are being explored for energy. Today, we see them as alternative options; however, the future goal is to shift completely to clean, inexhaustible, and increasingly competitive energy sources. Advantages of renewable energy use include causing little to no damage to the environment, unlike fossil fuels. The switch to renewable...
It is estimated that currently 844 million people live without clean water, and 2.3 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation, according to water.org. Water scarcity affects more than 40 percent of the world’s population, and this figure is projected to rise due to increased demand and the impacts of climate change. Climate change...
In recent years, the adoption of digital transformation within educational institutions has rapidly increased, primarily out of necessity. Due to the global pandemic, learning institutions were forced to adapt to remote teaching and learning, as 100% virtual instruction was implemented during government lockdowns. While the industry has been on a steady path towards digitalization for...
Digital technologies are transforming humanity’s relationships with water, but to accelerate the adoption of digital solutions, we must challenge the status quo and provide our workforces with the strategy, culture, and tools to succeed. It should come as no surprise that I am an advocate for the digital transformation of the water sector. Actually, I...
The focus ESG frameworks place on climate change runs the risk that we fail to solve the problem of ensuring access to water and sanitation for all. We need to change the way ESG frameworks are structured – beginning with their consolidation. Here are the three most urgent changes we need to make. Environmental, social...
Unlike large infrastructure initiatives, including the New Deal, which helped raise the US out of the Great Depression, the 2021 legislation comes at a time when the lines between the physical and digital worlds are becoming increasingly blurred. This notion that we can more broadly define what infrastructure means today, compared to the natural understanding...
It is estimated that currently 844 million people live without clean water, and 2.3 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation, according to water.org. Water scarcity affects more than 40 percent of the world’s population, and this figure is projected to rise due to increased demand and the impacts of climate change. Climate...
We are now witnessing the emergence of one of the most significant trends of this century: vertical farming writes Will Sarni. We need an agricultural revolution The world population is expected to reach nearly 11 billion by 2050. Representing an increase in agricultural demand of approximately 70 percent, we will need a revolution in agriculture...
One of the biggest vertical industry winners to benefit from the passage earlier this year of the U.S. Infrastructure Bill is the automotive industry, which is already the second-largest in the world. According to government statistics, in 2018, U.S. light-vehicle sales reached 17.2 million units, the fourth straight year in which sales reached or surpassed...
While American politics continue to prove more polarized than ever for manufacturers and the supply chain, including innovators developing improved ways to build better and more efficiently, the advent of the related Jobs Act as part of the Infrastructure Bill passed last month is a welcome breath of fresh air. U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.),...
Corporate water stewardship is dominated by water footprint strategies such as replenish, water neutral, water positive, etc. While carbon and climate strategies lend themselves to a strategy to become “neutral” or “positive” with respect to emissions across a company’s value chain, this does not translate well to water. The reasons are straightforward: Carbon is fungible...
Technology doesn’t sell itself Digital water technologies are here to stay and will only increase in adoption. The digital transformation of the water sector was taking off before the pandemic, yet this unprecedented event has been a trend accelerator. However, now more than ever, it is too easy to fall in love with innovations and...
An abundance of new devices and applications that are adding ease and efficiency to daily processes are turning factory floors into digital havens. Known as “Industry 4.0”, or the fourth industrial revolution, the growth of technology in manufacturing is accelerating at a staggering pace. Just a few years ago, in 2019, the industry 4.0 market...
The narrative of successful companies is ever-changing. The length of time the average company stayed on the Dow Jones Industrials list is roughly half what it was 50 – 60 years ago, and the tenure continues to decline. Time plows forward, as does the related technology. The rate of acceleration of the technology continues to...
COVID-19 pandemic has compounded the slow progress of achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Mass adoption of digital technologies, and increased engagement from the private sector, have the potential to reignite action. Our ability to rapidly adjust highlights our willingness to collaborate and rebuild a more resilient, sustainable world. Did anyone really believe...
One of the most commonly asked questions (typically meant to act as a “gotcha” moment when the discussion comes up) about green energy is: What’s going to happen when the source of the energy isn’t available, but there is still a demand that needs to be filled? What happens when the wind stops blowing, the sun...
Noting compatibility with leading heat pumps from Vaillant, Daikin, Kensa and Samsung, is Sunamp, a thermal storage company based in Scotland. Last month, Sunamp announced the rollout of its 4th generation compact thermal batteries for what the company describes as “instant, fast flowing hot water in homes.” The new extended Thermino range, which cuts carbon...
On December 2, ZEDEDA hosted the second episode of their ZEDEDA Transform Digest series. In this series, leaders from across industries discuss topics from the ZEDEDA Transform 2021 event held earlier this year that brought together experts from the edge computing and IoT landscape. Moderated by Jason Shepherd, VP of Ecosystem at ZEDEDA, episode two...
As the public sector worldwide continues to struggle to solve economic, environmental, and social challenges, the private sector is now being called upon to fill the gap. Yet this falls outside of the role that business has traditionally played. Instead, the private sector is just one of many stakeholders that must come together to solve...
If you read my last piece about RFS, then you know the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) missed the November deadline for establishing Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) minimums for 2022 and beyond. While obligated parties — refineries and importers of petroleum fuels — weren’t completely surprised about it, thanks to COVID-19, it leaves the renewable fuel and biofuel...
Welcome to the second article on Renewable Energy Credits (also known as RECs and SRECs.) Previously, we discussed what RECs are, how clean energy producers generate them, and how they’re traded among organizations and individuals for a profit. A Quick Intro to RECs If you didn’t read the first article, know that Renewable Energy Credits (RECs)...
Water insecurity and low resiliency revealed by the Covid-19 pandemic make it clear that stewardship is not enough: We need greater collaboration, innovation, and engagement with public policy June 19, 2020 — As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the world, health professionals constantly remind us to wash our hands and practice good hygiene. Simple enough …...
Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) are a way to represent your investment in renewable, clean energy. Buying RECs is not the same as purchasing electricity, paying a power bill, or investing in a cleantech startup. RECs aren’t like stocks or bonds, either (though they might be represented that way, wrongly, by marketers or brokers.) Instead, they...
“If climate change is the shark, then water is the teeth.” This catchy saying has gained traction over the past several years, which is problematic. The saying appears to have originated from James P. Bruce, a Canadian hydrogeologist and is repeated often in climate and water discussions. Increasing greenhouse gas emissions and a resulting changing climate does impact water...
The digital transformation of the water sector was ongoing before the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital technologies have now emerged as essential tools in solving water quantity and quality challenges. They’re also helping to vastly improve monitoring of water supplies (surface and groundwater) and how infrastructure assets are managed, as well as communication with customers and consumers...
Qualcomm has been a major player in technology and, especially since the company was so early in seeing the potential for IoT and mobile processing, it’s been growing in leaps and bounds. Of course, that’s because the company refuses to rest on its laurels — literally ever. Qualcomm’s long-standing and aggressive partner program is a...
World Water Day was Sunday, March 22, and now more than ever it is time to address head-on the global crisis of water. Water is our most precious resource. We can no longer afford to manage it the old way. It simply isn’t working. But there is hope in new digital approaches to water management....
Tick-tock. No, that isn’t the sound of a Chinese video-sharing platform. It’s the sound of time running out as the deadline for Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) passed by without meaningful action by the EPA. “Small” refineries — those that produce 75,000 barrels of crude oil per day or less — can sigh in temporary relief. Many...
We all know the Biden Administration is dedicated to climate issues, leading to ideas like the AIM Act. Cutting emissions and reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs) are on the top of their list of priorities. If you read our discussions about renewable energy credits (RECs), low carbon fuel standards (LCFS), and renewable identification numbers (RINs), you have a clue of...
After a few months of processing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy and business, it is now a bit easier to start to draw conclusions and pose questions on what the future may hold for digital water. One my favorite quotes is from William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and credited with creating the...
Access to water is one of the greatest challenges to business continuity and growth. Businesses across a range of sectors – from energy to agriculture to food and beverage – are discovering the importance of water use across their value chain. They are investing in access to water supplies as well as improvements in the...
Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs, otherwise known as Skunk Works, was responsible for several innovative aircraft designs. Will Sarni believes the water sector can learn a lot from the development. Innovation is lumpy One of my favourite quotes is from William Gibson, Author of Neuromancer: “The future has arrived – it’s just not evenly distributed...
While digital twin technology was first pioneered in 2002, the digital twin market is rapidly expanding. The global digital twin market was capped at USD 3.1 billion in 2020, while some analysts predict the market will grow at a CAGR of 58 percent, projecting a market size of USD 48.2 billion by 2026. The vast...
Qualcomm Technologies’ Snapdragon Ride ADAS platform is beginning to look like a Magic Dragon as the company extends its long-standing partnership with BMW Group. As part of Qualcomm’s Investor Day, Cristiano Amon, president, and CEO of Qualcomm Incorporated unveiled the Vision Perception, Vision System-on-Chip, and ADAS Central Compute System-on-Chip offering BMW selected as fundamental to...
As more industrial companies implement more connected solutions, the concept of federated networks is taking off as an opportunity for entrepreneurial exploration and a strong alternative to legacy “telecom” providers who are fighting to maintain their “walled gardens.” According to VMWare, a federated network “is a network model in which a number of separate networks...
For most people reading this, water is just a turn of the tap away. As we go to press alarming headlines about water scarcity in Texas are in the news, underlining just how precious and precarious water is as a resource. Many of the articles in this ConWatch highlight daunting problems with the world water...
There are many elements to the Internet of Things, and in a broader sense, cyber-physical transformation. It can be complicated. From sensors to security, communications choices to power sources, from governance to the curation of the data, and more, there are numerous complexities and interdependencies. The progression is towards increased interaction of these solutions. It...
Today, as businesses of all sizes across all industries look to digitally transform to keep up with the competition and consumer expectations, no application is becoming more essential to these companies than edge technology. The explosion of data is driving a necessary increase in processing at the edge for reasons including latency, bandwidth savings, security,...
Over the last two decades now, cloud computing has dominated the business technology space, revolutionizing how companies operate and do business when it was introduced, as computers that were hundreds of miles apart in distance are now just milliseconds away in terms of communication. With the rise of IoT, 5G, and our never-satisfied need for...
For nearly three decades, the United Nations has been bringing together almost every country on earth for global climate summits – called COPs – which stands for Conference of the Parties. During that time, climate change has gone from being a niche issue to a global priority. Taking place in Scotland, as part of the...
Who had the edge? Who claimed the Digital Twin Smackdown title and took away the championship belt? “Digital Twin: SMACKDOWN,” was held November 11, and pit Rob Tiffany, VP and Head of IoT Strategy at Ericsson, and Aaron Allsbrook, Co-Founder, and CTO of ClearBlade, against each other. Moderator Jason Shepherd, VP of Ecosystem at ZEDEDA,...
The “edge” is expanding and accelerating as companies of virtually every size and industry continue to adopt and leverage many of the new, innovative devices and applications that help bring ease and efficiency to the operations of everything. IoT has advanced well beyond its origins, as sensors and devices connected to secure and increasingly fast...
The current electricity grid we’ve set up today is a complex and incredibly important system and one of the most impressive engineering feats of the modern era. It transmits power generated at a variety of facilities and distributes it to end-users, often over long distances, providing electricity to buildings, industrial facilities, schools, homes, and more....
Today, numerous cities across the US and the globe as well, are quickly adopting and leveraging innovative technologies, transitioning into what has been deemed “smart cities.” Harnessing digital technology and intelligent design to create a sustainable city, services like power or public safety are seamless, efficient, and provide for a high quality of life for...
Today, all forms of smart technology are rapidly being adopted by industries of all types, thanks to the myriad of benefits they offer for optimization and efficiency. While pinning down a definition for something as diverse as smart technology can be quite an arduous task, the word “SMART” refers to “self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology.”...
With every passing day, digital transformation begins to truly seep into every industry. Innovative new devices and applications are adding ease and efficiency to a myriad of daily processes for businesses of every size, with IoT, 5G, the edge, and other new technologies revolutionizing the way we interact and the way work is done. One...
