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.

Satellite imagery to play a key role in monitoring blue-green algae

Increased blooms of blue-green algae in recent years, observed across the UK, is being monitored and tackled in a new £450k initiative launched by the UK Space Agency, with phase one of phase two having already begun.  The Lough Neagh:…

Q&A: Anand Gandhi from Eseye discusses report findings

Eseye recently released its State of IoT Adoption Report for 2024, with a key finding being that a mere 0.4% of companies operating in the IoT space are only achieving connectivity levels of more than 98%. To understand more, IoT…

IoT Unplugged: S4:E1 – The future of cellular connectivity

Season 4 of IoT Unplugged returned with a bang as the first episode looked at the future of cellular connectivity, bringing insights from Sabrina Bochen, Director, Product Planning and Marketing at u-blox. Bochen highlighted there had been substantial growth in…

The user experience and growth of LoRaWAN: Blynk talks to IoT Insider

Blynk, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year following its launch in 2014, recently announced a partnership with The Things Conference, an event focused on LoRaWAN and low-power IoT, in a move that the company’s Founder and CEO, Pavlo…

Investing in LTE-M: Telit Cinterion and Sony Semiconductor Israel talk to IoT Insider

News of Telit Cinterion celebrating the approval of its ME310M1-W1 module on AT&T’s network showed how a continued, close collaboration between Telit Cinterion and Sony Semiconductor Israel bore fruit. The module is a Cellular Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) device…

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…