Bea O'Flaherty
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What’s coming to Industry 4.0?

Janus, the Roman god of new beginnings, is represented by a double-faced head, one facing the past and the other facing the future. Taking inspiration from this, manufacturers looking to accelerate their digital transformation should consider the impact of the…

9 companies ‘leading the way’ in the Metaverse

The metaverse, a recently super-hot searching word after Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announced his company brand changing from Facebook to Meta Platforms. Metaverse is a compound word of “meta” and “universe”; while “meta” refers to “transcending”, hence “metaverse” refers…

Digital manufacturing for aerospace

Aerospace original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) must strive to manufacture aircraft that can travel sustainably for longer distances and support net zero goals. They must produce quality components with tight tolerances from difficult-to-machine materials like HRSAs, while also keeping production cost-effective…

Future vision for lawn care – ‘the smart private gardener’

From robotic lawn mower to smart private gardener – that is the vision when the Innovation Team of Husqvarna Forest & Garden, a division within Husqvarna Group, looks into the future of lawn care. The future robot is described as…

Smart software for consulting, planning and sales

Eturnity’s smart software simplifies planning and consulting for photovoltaic systems, heating systems and e-charging stations. The demand for renewable energies and e-mobility continues unabated. With Eturnity, installation companies and municipal utilities can optimise their consulting and sales processes. A new…

Fast tracking solutions to climate change with IoT

Tracking turtles through affordable, ubiquitous global Satellite IoT is just the start of a revolution in climate change understanding that should herald a new era of provable, positive environmental change, explains Laurent Vieira de Mello, COO, Astrocast. Ticking Clock In…

93% UK decision makers have achieved automation success

According to new research from Intelligent Automation company ABBYY, 99% of UK IT decision makers have implemented a form of automation technology in the last two years, while pre-pandemic one in six (15%) UK businesses had no automation plan in…

The Road to Smart Cities (City Digital: Season 1, Episode 1)

Following on from their ‘Hardware for All‘ series, this three-part documentary from Digi-Key and Supplyframe present a three-part series highlighting some of the most advanced cities in the world, to discover how the latest technology and innovations are reshaping the way people…

Third Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress to focus on cyberattack prevention

The third edition of the Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress (BCC), an international event focused on the field of cybersecurity that will take place from May 10 – 12 within the framework of the IOT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC), will address the…

Components for Machine Learning on the Edge

Machine learning directly in the device has the potential to revolutionise countless products, whether it be the categorisation of objects from an imaging sensor, gestures from an accelerometer, or sentences from an audio stream. However, to achieve this, the algorithms…