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.

Reflecting on IoT Tech Expo Europe: an event to discuss and share challenges

IoT Tech Expo Europe took place at RAI Amsterdam over a two-day period, from 1-2 October, and served as the meeting point for IoT professionals to come together to discuss technologies, challenges and the state of the IoT industry, more…

How IoT is being applied to telecoms: panel at IoT Tech Expo Europe 2024

How IoT is being applied to telecommunications, its use cases and its evolving role were all discussed at length in a panel at day two of IoT Tech Expo Europe. Moderated by Benedict Gromann, Public Policy Manager at Connect Europe,…

£8 billion investment from AWS for the UK

As of the 11th September, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the UK government has secured an £8 billion investment from Amazon Web Services (AWS) which it said it anticipated will support thousands of jobs across the UK.  The jobs expected to…

Considering the energy consumption of a Raspberry Pi

The energy consumption of a Raspberry Pi single-board computer (SBC) is an important consideration for IoT engineers who are looking to develop energy-efficient applications, particularly for battery-powered wireless devices. The growth of these devices have fed a need for energy-efficient…

Weighing up ambient IoT and RAIN RFID: experts share their thoughts

Sometimes, the emergence of new technology is assumed to take the place of the pre-existing technology because it offers new benefits and features that trump the previous. This is not necessarily the case in ambient IoT, an emerging technology that…

New metamaterial is expected to improve satellite communications

There is certainly no shortage of technologies, time and investment being poured into satellite connectivity, as the anticipated 3GPP Release 18 will further integrate satellite non-terrestrial network (NTN) access into 5G. In more recent news, researchers from the University of…

Protecting critical infrastructure: Q&A with Ashish Khanna

Industry verticals like manufacturing and retail, which have been classified as critical infrastructure, can be especially vulnerable to cyber attacks, IoT Insider learned in a recent conversation with Ashish Khanna, Senior Director at Verizon Business.  “A lot of people are…

IoT Unplugged – S3:E9 – Matter from the consumer experience

Matt Maupin, Senior Product Manager at Silicon Labs discussed Matter from the consumer experience in the latest episode of IoT Unplugged, sharing findings from his experiment as well as actionable insights for smart home device manufacturers. Over the course of…

Recent webinar talks through ambient IoT and RFID gen two

As part of a series looking to demystify ambient IoT, hosted by global industry alliance AIM, Jeanne Duckett, Senior Manager of Food Traceability and Transparency for Avery Dennison and Steve Statler, Chief Marketing Officer at Wiliot came together to discuss…

Top IoT stories this month: August

Every month on IoT Insider, we feature a wide range of contributed articles from industry experts in our insights section, on topics anywhere from impending legislation to understanding connectivity technologies and the ever-evolving threat landscape. In the first of this…