Lucy Barnard
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Bringing over two decades in journalism, Lucy Barnard has reported on everything from London’s property chessboard to Abu Dhabi’s vertical ambitions — and always delivered the story before deadline. Lucy is interested in how technology intersects with major global challenges, from climate change to gender equality and social justice. She believes innovation isn’t just about efficiency or convenience—it’s a powerful tool for building a fairer, more sustainable world.

Tackling wildfires with tech: Q&A with Carsten Brinkschulte, Dryad Networks

The alarming increasing extremity of wildfires during the year of 2018 when destructive and devastating fires featured regularly on the news, prompted Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO and Co-Founder of Dryad Networks to think about how technology could be harnessed to fix…

ZENCROSS Alliance announced to address needs of cellular IoT

Murata has unveiled ZENCROSS, an alliance offering integrated hardware, firmware and network services platform designed to address the needs of globally distributed cellular IoT networks. This solution combines Murata’s low-power hardware with cellular connectivity, Cloud services and a device Connectivity…

IoT Insider to participate at electronica 2024

IoT Insider, the go-to resource for IoT engineers, developers and industry professionals, is pleased to announce it will be participating in the electronics fair electronica, running from 12-15 November in Munich, Germany. IoT Insider will be supporting its sister publication…

IoT Unplugged: S4:E4 – Redefining IoT connectivity with SGP.32

In the latest episode of IoT Unplugged, Bertrand Moussel, Chair of the Trusted Connectivity Alliance (TCA) discussed the significance of eSIM technology and the SGP.32 specification. In the podcast, Moussel spoke about existing machine-to-machine (M2M) and eSIM provisioning architectures, which…

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2024: Best cybersecurity practices

This October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an annual event first established by the US and Congress in 2004, and spearheaded by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), designed to spread education about online safety and promote best cybersecurity practices…

10th edition of IoTSF Conference: emphasising knowledge sharing

The tenth edition of the IoT Security Foundation (IoTSF) Conference in London on the 23rd October greeted a gathering of cybersecurity and security experts, as discussions revolved around the increasing risks posed by more devices becoming connected; the importance of…

Dissecting AIoT with Fatima Elleouet from Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

In theory, AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) should combine the best of both worlds: the millions of connected IoT devices that gather real-time data, and the capability of AI to sort through this data and glean meaningful insights. In practice,…

Harnessing the ancient art of kirigami to create antennas

Antennas are an essential component for devices to communicate wirelessly, and in recent years have been driven by demands to become smaller, more compact and flexible. Researchers from the University of British Columbia in Canada and Drexel University in the…

Creating IoT building blocks: Q&A with Daan Pape, DPTechnics

An investment in “IoT building blocks” to enable companies to accelerate their projects without having to start from scratch and thus saving time and investment, promoting open-source software, and reducing reliance on the Cloud, were all topics of conversation in…

Q&A: MedUX shares findings from broadband benchmark report

In July 2024 MedUX published its 2024 UK benchmark report (in addition to its Europe benchmark report) on fixed broadband performance – with some surprising results. One aspect mentioned in the report was that the UK leads in fibre deployment…