Smart Solutions
Authentication and Identity Management: About Security and Things
Predictive Maintenance (PdM) is outgrowing industrial applications and starting to transform consumer products. More accessible and cost effective solutions will change the way we relate to technology.
Logistics: Automating the last 50 Feet
The last mile of the logistics chain is a huge challenge but the closer you approach your destination, the more complex and expensive it gets. Not coincidentally, the ‘last 50 feet’ is considered by experts to be the true bottleneck for e-commerce growth – and that’s where a large part of the future of retail is being decided. Start-ups and online retailers alike are working hard to close that final gap.
Smart Companies: Formula One and Acronis
Racing drivers and their teams obviously have no time to lose. That goes for laps and laptops: A typical Formula One race car can generate up to three terabytes of data over the course of a racing weekend – data that needs to be stored and sent back home to the team of developers who will use them to shave fractions of seconds off the car’s fastest round.
Augmented-Reality: Making a MES
Augmented-Reality (AR) is very much part of the digital revolution in manufacturing. By simply donning a hands-free headset, workers can add a virtual layer of contextual information on top of what they see before them along with detailed information about a machine or process. Today, AR is mainly used in maintenance but, once you realize that the application of AR is only limited by the imagination, that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
Smart Industry – The IoT Business Magazine
Editorial: Europe Takes the Lead
Tim Cole is the editor of “Smart Industry – the IoT Business Magazine” – he writes about the industry, markets and developments.
Title story: AI Means Business
Around the world, applications for artificial intelligence (AI) are popping up all over the place. Once something only for nerds, AI is transforming virtually every aspect of business, from supply chains to hiring, manufacturing to marketing, and customer services to medicine. And managers everywhere are asking themselves: how can I best seize upon the business potential of AI?
Content
Discover the world of the Internet of Things Business. An overview about all stories and interviews.
Smart Communication
Cybercrime in Space: How Secure Are Satellites?
Unlike their military counterparts, civilian GNSS systems are vulnerable to jamming and spoofing. Cybercrime in Space must change.
IoT Agencies: How to Jump-Start Projects
Many companies face the challenge of realizing their IoT projects, and agencies can help. Their services range from the examination of the idea to developing the operational prototype. We explain how IoT agencies differ and what to look for in the selection and cooperation.
LoRa WAN: A Network for Everybody
The ecosystem of connectivity solutions is very competitive in these still-early days of IoT. Senet has rolled out their own LoRa WAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) solutions for the low-power, broad-network needs of IoT, providing coverage and connectivity readiness in over 80 countries and 225 cities across the U.S.
Li-Fi: IoT at the Speed of Light
The future demand for wireless communication networks within buildings and outside will further increase. The optical light communication called Light Fidelity (Li-Fi), using LED-based light sources as data transmitters, offers an alternative to existing technologies such as Wi-Fi and LTE.
Smart Business
Top Down: Why AI Initiatives need CIO support
According to a recent pre sentation at a Gartner event in Cape Town, South Africa, vital new digital initiatives – such as AI initiatives will ultimately depend on the CIO, in partnership with the chief of human resources, to help lead the cultural change that must accompany technology evolutions.
IoT in Mining: Deep Connectivity
Almost a mile below ground in an iron mine in northern Sweden, human operators control what is going on and plan their attack on valuable seams of iron ore. But unlike the hands-on extraction of decades past, these mining professionals are sitting in an office a thousand kilometers away, relying on IoT sensors, cameras, underground Long-Term Evolution (LTE) networks, and a powerful private cloud to guide their blasting and tunneling in real time with IoT in Mining.
Blockchain Smart Contracts: Mutually Reinforcing Power
Two young technologies are poised to remake business processes around the globe. Ubiquitous data access and control technologies (IoT) are now being combined with the “guarantee” of distributed ledger (aka blockchain) to produce startling new business opportunities – Blockchain Smart Contracts.
Risk Thinking in Business Forecasting: Rethinking Risk
Business Forecasting, as every manager knows, is essentially a guessing game but, now, in the age of IoT and AI, the ancient art of predicting the future based on past experience is being replaced by forward-looking strategies and scenarios. The magic phrase is “risk thinking”.
Behind the scenes Smart People
All over the world, brilliant individuals are hard at work creating the technologies and solutions that will one day make the Internet of Things come alive.We visited a few of them and listened to their fascinating stories.
The Smart People 1/2020
More Smart Industry
Smart Factories: From preventive to predictive Maintenance
Predictive Maintenance (PdM) is outgrowing industrial applications and starting to transform consumer products. More accessible and cost effective solutions will change the way we relate to technology.
Wireless Deployments: Giving Antennas a remote chance
The cost of IoT sensors continues to fall, allowing more organizations to roll out remote IoT and M2M over Wireless deployments that often require hardware to tough it out in harsh conditions with minimal maintenance. Antennas are particularly vulnerable and bad buying decisions can make them the weakest link.
Mirror Image: All about Digital Twins development
Digital twins have become one of the hottest IT topics in years. They promise to revolutionize innovation and reduce time and cost of development, as well as improving collaboration along the supply chain. But what are they really?
5G technology is coming faster than expected
Mobility is one of the many drivers for the fifth generation of mobile networks (5G technology). Due to its new features, many never seen before, 5G opens the market for new applications and business models.
Airborne IoT: Drone It Yourself
Out of the ashes of disaster, drones are rising to the challenge of setting up communications – Airborne Networks – to help the rescue services fighting to save lives in the most trying of environments.
Airborne Networks: Drones to the rescue
Out of the ashes of disaster, drones are rising to the challenge of setting up communications – Airborne Networks – to help the rescue services fighting to save lives in the most trying of environments.
Micromobility: Getting E-round
E-bikes are all the rage, but increasingly they are being joined by growing fleets of e-scooters. For urban planners, new forms of on-demand micromobility are increasingly being viewed as a quick way to reduce congestion in the inner cities.
Autonomous Transport: Trains and Boats and Planes
More than fifty years ago, Dionne Warwick had a hit with Trains and Boats and Planes. Today, all of these vehicles are operated in ways nobody would have imagined back then – but what we can expect in the near future is even more astonishing with autonomous transport.
IoT Health-Care: A shot of…
The value of the IoT health-care sector is set to surpass $136 billion by 2021. As the prospect of truly connected health care becomes a reality, which digital services should hospitals be looking to adopt to better serve patients – and are they prepared for the impact on existing networks and systems?
Transport Supply Chains: Affordable IoT Tracking”
The world is entering a new era in logistics; one where it is possible to oversee the complete supply chain in real time by IoT tracking containers, pallets, trailers, and trucks anywhere, anytime, cheaply and using little energy.
Avnet Silica: Product Highlights
IoT: Supply Chain Security
As enterprises enter the new world of IoT, they do so at their peril. Traditional methods of securing devices and systems break down when data ?ows through the global internet and corporate networks, all with different levels of trustworthiness. Personalization is the key for Security IoT – and Avnet Silica has found a way to provide it as a service quickly and efficiently.
IoT Complexity simplified
Bringing flexibility to the challenges and choices in Internet of Things system evaluation and development network management and application delivery.
Smart Industry Interviews
Marcus Weldon:
About Nokia Bell Labs
Marcus Weldon was appointed as the 13th president of Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent, in 2013 and became the corporate chief technology officer of Nokia.
Dr. Myriam Jahn:
Q-loud: Not many Companies Can Do that
She talks about Q-loud – a spin-off from QSC, the large German broadband and data center operator.
Dieter Kempf:
IIot: Germany is Well-positioned
Professor Dieter Kempf, the president of the German Industrial Association (BDI), about small to medium-sized businesses (Mittelstand) and the race to lead in IIoT.
Günter Oettinger:
Aiming for a Digital Union
As the European Commissioner for Digital Economy Society, Günther Oettinger is reponsible for IoT in Europe. At CeBIT in Hanover, we sat down with him to discuss the digital future.
Oliver Niedung: Microsoft IoT
Smart Industry caught up with Oliver Niedung, Senior Channel Executive IoT Microsoft and talked with him about what people in Redmond are thinkling lately.
Vernon Turner: State of Internet of Things
Analyst Opinion: Interview with Vernon Turner, Research Fellow and IoT Evangelist at IDC.
Guillaume Crinon:
IT security and Internet of Things
Guillaume Crinon Technical Marketing Manager EMEA at Avnet Silica talks about IoT security and how to make the world safe.
Alexander Thamm:
Prediction system Big Data Analysis
Data are the crude oil of the 21st century. But how to make sense out of petabytes of information? Alexander Thamm has set himself up as Europe’s first Data Science service provider. Smart Industry asked him what that means.
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