Spotlight: Smart City
Why Cities Need to “Get Smart” About Pollution - When we think about protecting the environment, we often think of faraway issues like melting ice caps or dwindling rainforests. The reality, however, is much closer to home. The World Health Organization estimates that 92 percent of the world’s population doesn’t have access to clean air. This is more than a health problem. The World...
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- Here’s Your Quick Guide to All Things IoT at Mobile World Congress - It’s time for this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 27 to March 2, and I’m excited to share what we have in store for the Internet of Things (IoT). At MWC 2017, Intel will show how 5G will transform and improve all aspects of our daily lives such as in smart cities, connected...
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Smart Building Trends for 2017 - Note: This blog post originally appeared on AutomatedBuildings.com. Smart city tech deployments are expected to increase in the next year and of them significantly; the biggest one will be commercial-smart buildings. Connected building solutions, whether it’s environmental controls, communications interfaces, video surveillance, or energy conservation, can deliver cost savings and efficiency gains when building automation...
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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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Smart Agriculture: AI and the Right Compute Transforming Farming
- As the director of public sector and agriculture for the Intel Internet of Things Group, I focus on technologies, ecosystems and partnerships that need technologies that solve problems in a range of areas. We believe the technologies that we focus on: retail, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, and environmental monitoring, align well with the food and...
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Remote Patient Monitoring: A New Standard of Care for 21st Century Healthcare Delivery
- I just came from the quadrennial meeting of the 21st IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics, where I noticed some things worth sharing. There’s been a tectonic shift in industry framing of aging — from costs of infirmity to value of capability and contribution of elders. Not too long ago there was resistance to these...
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