SI talked with 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.
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.
lmost 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.
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”.
As artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly makes decisions, there are growing concerns around AI decisions making, and how it reaches its answers.
While killer robots may exist only in science fiction, a growing number of people inside and outside the world of technology are concerned that AI can do harm through embedded and latent prejudices.
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.
Water leaks, even small ones, can add up to large volumes of wasted clean water and – increased costs for property owners.
Around the world, artificial intelligence (AI) is almost everywhere. In just a few years, it has spread beyond something only technology nerds get excited about, to permeate every realm of business, from supply chains to hiring, manufacturing to marketing, and customer services to medicine.
While improved safety is the main benefit of anti-collision systems in mining, construction, and ports, many operations also see productivity and efficiency gains as a result of the technology investments. At the same time, anti-collision technology can be a stepping stone to remote control and even full automation of machines, vehicles, and equipment.
Robots are increasingly common in our daily lives. They are versatile, smart tools that help complete basic, repetitive, and dangerous tasks, promote security service upgrading, and reduce expenses. A leading brand of smart patrol robots, with over 20 years of experience in public safety, working together with Advantech, created a specialized robot for various application scenarios.
The global installed base of connected vending machines reached an estimated 4.2 million units in 2019, says Berg Insight, an IoT market research provider, in a newly-released report.
Visionstate Corp. has shipped its first “Internet of Things” IoT buttons to hospitals in Vancouver, BC, marking the initial deployment of the new technology developed by the Company. The buttons, called Wanda QuickTouch, were developed to address the need for rapid deployment in a facility of any size.
MachineSense is releasing a beta version of FeverSense a low-cost, infrared temperature scanning system that can be installed in the form of a gate or retrofitted to be installed at any entrance location for the automatic scanning of human body temperature.
RealWear has announced a series of hardhat headsets with Microsoft Teams functionality that allow industrial workers to use both hands for complex work procedures while remotely collaborating with subject matter experts from around the world.
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