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Talking About (Industrial) Revolution | Conversations with industry about IoT in… Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)

In a new Q&A report series, Enterprise IoT Insights talks with select industry leaders about how digital systems – including 5G, AI, IoT, and edge, plus other key technologies – are transforming industry. This report maps the vision, signs the obstacles, and charts a course...

Global workplace experience apps market to reach $988m by 2025: research

  The global workplace experience apps market within commercial office space is expected to reach $988 million by 2025, up from an estimated $406 million in 2020, according to Swedish smart building research firm Memoori. The report expects this market will grow at a compound annual...

Talking About (Industrial) Revolution | The state of ‘things’ in smart manufacturing – how enterprises are grasping for and grappling with industrial IoT

In a new Q&A report series, Enterprise IoT Insights talks with select industry leaders about how digital systems – including 5G, AI, IoT, and edge, plus other key technologies – are transforming industry. Despite the bluster and hype from the tech industry, and the slow...

Talking About (Industrial) Revolution | The trouble with smart cities – and where are all the ‘lessons-learned’?

In a new Q&A report series, Enterprise IoT Insights talks with select industry leaders about how digital systems – including 5G, AI, IoT, and edge, plus other key technologies – are transforming industry. This report maps the vision, signs the obstacles, and charts a...

Digital Factory Solutions | Industrial 5G SLAs – the new turf war over the supply and management of 5G in Industry 4.0

The only way for operators to generate more revenue is to take more risk. The promise of 5G networks is in selling augmented connectivity solutions to enterprises, and not to consumers. But the operator community must guarantee 5G services, offered on network slices or in...

Editorial Report: Smart Manufacturing and OEE – Transform Your Performance

Technology investments are typically made to solve specific business problems. Smart manufacturing is about more than investments in digital transformation and the attendant technologies. Smart manufacturing, at its core, is about the pursuit of continuous process improvement. Standard KPIs - like OEE - may seem...

Editorial Report: Wi-Fi, public 5G or private network: What’s an enterprise to do?

With advances in Wi-Fi and cellular technology running parallel to each other, enterprises are encountering more and more options when it comes to building a network. As network architecture and topology becomes more flexible, many enterprises are left wondering what the best solution to...

Making Industry Smarter: Challenges with digital change in healthcare

Healthcare is, arguably, the most complex sector for technologists to crack – and one that  offers the greatest opportunity for change, as well. Healthcare is delivered differently in every market, and the business case is unfamiliar: a matter of life and death. The stakes are...

Digital Industry Solutions: Asset tracking – and the march towards massive IoT

It’s one thing to know where something is, it’s another to know how its contents have been treated – whether they are frozen, unfrozen, damaged, dropped, lost or stolen. Asset tracking and asset management are a boom industry, and a foundation stone for industrial...

Digital Industry Solutions | Digital thread and digital twin – translating data into business value

Digital threads and digital twins are the foundation stones for digital transformation. In manufacturing, they enable ways to assess processes and products in a virtual environment – without the need for physical iterations, and with huge impacts in terms of cost, efficiency, productivity, and...

Digital Industry Solutions | Short-range + long-range IoT – the clamour for hybrid IoT

A single connectivity technology will suffice for certain IoT applications, but the real magic is being realised when two or more complementary IoT technologies combine. Increasingly, solution providers are looking to make multi-mode connectivity a springboard for more complex and ambitious IoT solutions. This webinar...

Digital Factory Solutions (report series): Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers

How augmented reality (AR) is transforming production and raising the influence of workers in the robot age.

Digital Industry Solutions (report series) | Smart lighting – as a platform

Smart lighting as a platform. Lighting is everywhere humans are, and already connected to power, making it the perfect apparatus for future wireless technologies and sensors. This report considers how smart lighting platforms are developing in the buildings / commercial real estate (CRE) market,...

Digital Factory Solutions (report series) | Agile Innovation – Crossing the IT/OT Divide

The only way to innovate is to collaborate. In the fourth installment in our new series on smart manufacturing technologies, UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman looks at how the technology ecosystem is coming together in industrial settings to collaborate to define and develop...

Making Industry Smarter (report series) | Metals & Mining – Digging with Data

Digging for gold. The digital transformation of the metals and mining sectors – a review of the strategies, technologies and stakes in play as the mining industry seeks more sustainable and competitive ways to dig for gold and other everyday treasures. UK-based global editor-in-chief editor...

Digital Factory Solutions Report Series: Operational Intelligence

How is data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) transforming the manufacturing sector? In the third installment in a new series on smart manufacturing technologies, UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman looks at the role of data analytics techniques to bring intelligence to manufacturing operations.

Editorial Report: IoT Connectivity – Who’s Winning What?

For all the experience of LTE and excitement of 5G, the IoT market has been propped by low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies. The concept of smart-anything as the prerequisite for industrial change – in buildings, cities, manufacturing, logistics, agriculture – has gained credence, in large...

Editorial Report | Making Industry Smarter Report Series: Energy & Power

With localised power generation, the flow of electricity and data has to go both ways. New electricity metering infrastructure establishes an integrated system of meter hardware, communications networks, and data management systems to enable this two-way communication between utilities and customers. This new gadgetry also...

Editorial Report | Making Industry Smarter Series – Connecting Agriculture

The digital transformation of the agricultural sector – a review of the strategies, technologies and stakes in play as farmers seek more sustainable and competitive ways to feed the world.

Editorial Report | Digital Factory Solutions Series – Industrial LTE and 5G

How will incoming cellular technologies transform smart manufacturing? In the first installment in a new series on smart manufacturing technologies, UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman looks at the role of LTE and 5G in the future of manufacturing.

Editorial Report: Making Industry Smarter Series – From supply chain to demand chain

If the internet of things (IoT), utilising both low-power and high-bandwidth connectivity, establishes an architectural springboard for digital change, then AI provides the industrial elasticity that will make the market bounce. This report looks at how IoT and AI, combined, will make the demand...

Editorial Report: AI and IoT at the cutting edge – when to move industrial intelligence closer to the action

Operational intelligence does not come just by connecting machines; it requires advanced analytics to sort the data and recommend a course of action. Many critical use cases at the edge can’t wait for the cloud. Instead, they demand insights and decisioning at the source,...

Editorial Report: AI/ML–Making smart buildings smarter

Machine learning and artificial intelligence-based technologies in the smart building sector are generating new opportunities for value creation in commercial and industrial real estate. Innovations in image recognition, natural language processing and behavioral data are generating a deeper understanding of how occupants interact inside...

Editorial Report: How to buy and sell a smart city – Procurement models to make every city smart

The problem with smart cities is no one wants to buy them. Because no one knows how to sell them. The technology is proven, but the commercial models are only just emerging. This report discusses how tech vendors have developed new business models around certain...