Cognex has introduced the world’s first industrial smart camera powered by Deep Learning software. This combination expands the possibilities of what can be successfully and precisely inspected in factory automation.
The vast majority of global retailers believe that artificial intelligence and machine learning offer significant added value in demand forecasting. More than half are also convinced of the positive effects of modern technologies on the supply chain.
SparkLabs Group, a network of startup accelerators and VC funds, has launched a new program focused on IoT, smart cities, and proptech by the name of “SparkLabs Connex”.
Manufacturer Skydio wants to produce drones that are useful because they are smart. The US-based company has introduced the Skydio 2 line which combines artificial intelligence AI and a 4K camera that can shoot up to 60 frames per second.
Brent Seales of University of Kentucky Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupted in 79 AD and buried the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash and lava. Everything was buried in the inferno, including an invaluable library of scrolls whose contents were rendered unreadable – or at least they were considered […]
In the past, IoT was focused mainly on getting things connected through sensor networks that were capable of collecting huge amounts of data – but the bigger questions remain: What should we do with all this data? How can we use and monetize it?
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.
Designers and manufacturers of men’s and women’s apparel are exploring ways to predict trends faster and more accurately than ever before. They are helped by researchers who are looking for ways to utilize artificial intelligence. Smart Industry went to Cornell University in New York to talk to two bright young scholars who are teaching computers everything about garments, fabrics, colors, and patterns and how style is manufactured.
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”.
In the health care sector, product malfunctions can be critical to a person’s life, so monitoring and maintenance are crucial. Citycare is able monitor the correct functioning of its Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) daily, wherever they are installed.
Kerlink, a specialist in solutions dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), and Hydrao, which makes smart demand-management solutions that enable significant water and energy savings.
Nokia has announced the completion of a narrowband ‘Internet of Things’ (NB-IoT) network deployment in L 800 band as part of its strategic partnership with Saudi IoT Network Mobily.
Radio frequency identification and IoT are injecting sober scoring into an interactive table for beer pong so that winners and losers need not rely on drunken tallies.
When the Port of Moerdijk had a large wind farm installed at the Southern Netherlands municipality in 2020, operated by Vattenfall, one of the European leaders in green energy, officials realized the turbine towers could serve an additional purpose: hosting an IoT network that provides key sensor data to the bustling port 120 meters below.
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