Spotlight: Smart City
Building the Best Autonomous Brain - When I’m bumper-to-bumper in a sea of exhaust fumes and distracted drivers, it seems like autonomous driving can’t get here fast enough. Nor can the potential rewards that come along with fully autonomous vehicles, like far fewer accidents and mobility for people who struggle to get around on their own. To do my part, I’m...
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Industrial Internet Creating Transformational Business Value - This is the second in a two-part blog series on trends in next-generation digital efficiency. In part one, I wrote about how commercial fleet vehicle management systems can drive efficiency while reducing CO2 emissions. To learn more, check out the eBook we created in partnership with GE Ecomagination titled “Digital Efficiency: Driving Decarbonization and Unlocking...
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Commercial Fleet Vehicle Management System Drives Efficiency, CO2 Reductions - This is the first in a two-part blog series on trends in next-generation digital efficiency. To learn more, check out the eBook we created in partnership with GE Ecomagination titled, “Digital Efficiency: Driving Decarbonization and Unlocking Business Value Across Industries.” Looking out across the vast Internet of Things (IoT) landscape, we’re seeing the emergence of...
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Accelerate Adoption of Remote Care to Dramatically Reduce Costs
- There are many challenges to the long-term viability of our healthcare systems. An increasingly older and growing population demanding care amid a shortage of qualified personnel. A shift from infectious to more costly chronic disease management. An evolving policy and regulatory landscape. How can these challenges of cost, quality, and access be addressed? Providers are...
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Using Data to Create Personalized Experiences for a Better Bottom Line
- The Need for Personalization Today’s retail landscape is more competitive than ever. Brands have to rely and work with not only brick-and-mortar chains, but with websites around the world, many of which operate on thinner margins. Brands that are trying to break through are facing an increasingly difficult disrupted marketplace, where new competitors seem to...
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Illuminating New Business Opportunities with Smart Lighting
- Now that most people live in cities, urban areas are the de facto laboratories of the future. Cities drive innovation because of their swelling populations, professional networks, and perhaps most important, the richness of data they offer. Information is everywhere, and the challenge is how everyday activities can be captured and translated into actionable insights....
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Facial Detection and AI Helping Customize Retail Experiences
- When shopping online, today’s customers want all the personalization of an in-store experience. And when they walk into a brick-and-mortar store, they want continuity from this online experience, based on the choices they made across all other touchpoints. Savvy retailers have met these expectations by pulling in incredible amounts of data for highly personalized cross-channel...
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Future of Brick and Mortar Begins With Responsive Retail: 7 Questions With JDA
- We recently had the pleasure of sitting down with JDA Software GVP Product Strategy Todd McCourtie to discuss the future of brick-and-mortar stores. Successful retailing comes down to one thing: getting the right product into shoppers’ hands. That may sound simple, but success requires inventory accuracy, efficient sales associates and the flexibility to quickly adapt to...
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The Path to the Enlightened City: Smart Streetlamps
- For a glimpse of the future, look at the cities of today. The vast majority of economic activity, innovation, and energy consumption already happens in urban areas, leading 77 million people to relocate from rural to urban areas every year. The number of megacities (containing more than 10 million people) has doubled over the past...
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Reinvent the In-store Experience by Unlocking the Power of Data-driven Insights
- Shopper behavior and spending habits are changing dramatically, causing the retail industry to face a period of significant disruption. As shoppers are empowered by mobile devices, social media and the Internet, they expect retail experiences that combine choice, convenience, superior service, and a clear understanding of their individual preferences. This shift has been heavily influenced...
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Future of AI-driven Brick-and-Mortar Begins with Responsive Retail
- We don’t live in a static world. When I “look” toward the future, I see sensing, machine learning and deep learning leading us toward a time when artificial intelligence (AI) could enable more secure and actionable retail insights with tremendous results. I envision stores using technology that always knows if shelves are stocked or not,...
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Retailers Get Big Sales Bump by Investing in RFID Technology
- Overhead and handheld radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology is transforming brick-and-mortar retail. Today, nearly 73 percent of all retailers are implementing RFID to track their inventory. The benefit is clear: As consumer shopping behaviors and expectations have shifted dramatically in the digital age, customers now expect to find whatever they want, when they want it, and...
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Intel’s Vision for the Future of Smart Video
- What is sight without the power to understand what’s being seen? As the Internet of Things (loT) revolution continues, smart video technology keeps creating huge amounts of data. But even as these video technologies become more prevalent in cities, industrial facilities, retail stores, and even private homes, it's still a major challenge to store and...
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