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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IoT-Driven Manufacturing Trends to Look for in 2018
- With Internet of Things (IoT) technology spending forecast to reach $772.5 billion this year — an increase of 15 percent over 2017 — the world’s top manufacturers are set to shift into exhilarating overdrive down the path to AI-driven and IoT-enabled automation. So where will 2018 take us on this journey? First and foremost, the...
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Five Brilliant Innovations from CES for the Smart and Connected Home
- At CES 2018, the smart home is leveling up. It’s no longer enough to simply connect more devices. Those connections must be fast, reliable and secure. Personal assistants are growing in popularity, bringing more intelligence to the home and adding more advanced capabilities, as proven by the broad range of innovative new devices coming to...
read more- IoT-Driven Cold Chain Tracking Provides Quality Control on the Go
- For some products, maintaining strict temperature controls during shipping is critical. Certain pharmaceuticals and vaccines require an unbroken chain of refrigerated environments to guarantee safety and effectiveness. Frozen foods need low temperatures to prevent bacterial growth, which can cause serious illness if consumed. Fresh produce depends on a specific conditions to maintain shelf life once...
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Remote Care! The Great Healthcare Disruptor
- In late October in Boston, Mass., the top minds in healthcare and technology came together at the Connected Health Conference to envision how connected healthcare will transform patient care and the systems used to deliver it, making remote care the standard of care. And right after the conference, as if on cue, Medicare published new...
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Smart Public Kiosks Enhance Livability, Connect Communities
- Cities are busy places, and they’re getting busier. Thankfully, many of them are also getting smarter by enabling smarter parking, better transportation and better air quality management for better citizen experiences. Among the most groundbreaking of innovations contributing to those experiences are smart public kiosks — replacing outdated infrastructure, such as phone booths and static...
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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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