The key role of AR in Industry 4.0 for Manufacturing: Part 2
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The key role of AR in Industry 4.0 for Manufacturing: Part 2

This post is the second of a 3-part series. Check back in next week for the conclusion of this series. In the first part of this series – The key role of Augmented Reality in Industry 4.0 for Manufacturing: Part 1 – we looked at the fundamental ideas behind what has been called “Industry 4.0” – […]

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Smart Cities are Made Smart by Planning and Strategy
· Smart Cities

Smart Cities are Made Smart by Planning and Strategy

Cities around the world are making huge investments in technology that will help them provide better services, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and operate in a way that leverages the power of IoT, artificial intelligence and 5G technologies. Put together, these investments are part of the story in delivering on the vision of “Smart Cities” – […]

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Litmus Automation Q&A: An Intelligent Edge Computing Platform
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Litmus Automation Q&A: An Intelligent Edge Computing Platform

A few weeks ago, Litmus Automation announced LoopEdge 2.0, the latest iteration of their edge computing platform designed to seamlessly connect all industrial assets and derive value with instant analytics.  We asked COO John Younes to share a few details about the changes with our readers. John, can you describe LoopEdge for those who are […]

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Who is really adopting AI in their industry?
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Who is really adopting AI in their industry?

During the space race of the 50s, 60s, and 70s, there was a reason so many monkeys and chimpanzees were shot up into space.  Getting into space is relatively easy. Getting back safely, is the hard part (How the Spaceship Got Its Shape, credit starc@)  One particular difficulty involves atmospheric re-entry.  If a spacecraft’s speed […]

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The Smart Region opportunity for electric utility companies
· Smart Cities

The Smart Region opportunity for electric utility companies

The emergence of next generation technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, and data science, are poised to transform today’s cities into advanced smart cities. Electric utility companies, with their critical infrastructure and essential services, are well positioned to co-lead this transformation. While smart cities represent a major business opportunity […]

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IoT is driving the next industrial revolution
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IoT is driving the next industrial revolution

IoT is driving the next industrial revolution. But hackers now see the supply chain as an easy target. The challenge: to mitigate the risk and drive more efficient, connected production, but without neglecting to invest in security and training – a topic very much in focus on the agenda at Internet of Things World in […]

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AI – Putting the “Smart” in Smart Lighting Solutions
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AI – Putting the “Smart” in Smart Lighting Solutions

In the realm of IoT, smart lighting seems so last year – people tend to think that the only feature of a smart light is the ability to remotely turn on and off the light, which is something that people just expect now in a smart device.  However, remotely controlling a light is just the beginning of possibilities […]

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Siemens Board Level Perspectives on IIoT & Blockchain
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Siemens Board Level Perspectives on IIoT & Blockchain

Recently, Lucian Fogoros, Co-founder and Managing Director of IIoT World, interviewed Klaus Helmrich, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO Digital Industries. Some of the questions we asked were crowdsourced. Lucian Fogoros: Industry 4.0 is today mostly about customization of products – how does Siemens see customization opportunities in Industry 4.0 without a […]

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Anton van der Merwe, Partner
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Anton van der Merwe, Partner

Anton specializes in costing and decision support system design and implementation and has published and spoken widely on these topics. His Management Accounting Philosophy and the Debating the Principles articles led to the global adoption of a set of principles for the use of financial information in internal decision making. He served on the International Federation […]

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ABB highlights at Hannover Messe 2019 – Day 2
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ABB highlights at Hannover Messe 2019 – Day 2

This year at Hannover Messe, ABB is streamlined into four entrepreneurial businesses: Electrification, Industrial Automation, Motion, and Robotics & Discrete Automation. As our main focus is IIoT, “the factory of the future” is clearly one of the topics we want to know more about. ABB’s “factory of the future” features at Hannover Messe a model […]

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What is eXtended Reality and how does it help workers?
· Augmented Reality

What is eXtended Reality and how does it help workers?

Through all the industrial revolutions, tools and machines have been central to workers’ realities. But it is only recently that large portions of a worker’s reality could be digitized with IoT devices and approaches. In 2015, Henning Kagermann, former CEO of SAP AG, argued that this “digitization—the continuing convergence of the real and the virtual […]

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Ten Best Practices for Building Smart City Innovation Labs
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Ten Best Practices for Building Smart City Innovation Labs

A new wave of technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI), is transforming cities into smart cities. Many of these cities are building innovation labs and zones as part of their new civic landscape. Smart city innovation labs are vital components of the smart city ecosystem (Figure One). They […]

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