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.

Eseye asserts IoT technology is crucial to supporting agriculture

Following the discussion on LBC recently by Mark Spencer, Minister of State for Food, Farming and Fisheries, regarding the difficulties faced by UK farmers, Nick Earle, CEO of Eseye, asserted that IoT technology is crucial in addressing challenges in agriculture…

Cato Networks debuts MSASE Partner Platform at breakfast briefing

IoT Insider was invited to Cato Networks’ breakfast briefing on 19 June, where the company debuted its first managed Secure Access Service Edge (‘MSASE’) Partner Platform, a way for channel partners to deliver and profit from these services, by enabling…

INWED: Recognising influential women in IoT

International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) enters its 11th year this 23rd June 2024, as it continues to spotlight women working in engineering roles and seek to bring more women into the industry. As part of its 10th edition last…

McDonald’s ends two-year AI trial

As McDonald’s has begun to embrace automation and AI for streamlining processes manual workers would otherwise do, it suffered a setback more recently when it made the decision to remove artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology from its drive through restaurants.…

Q&A: Chris Jones, Crypto Quantique, warns preparation ahead of CRA

The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is coming hard and companies need to be prepared, warned Chris Jones, Director of Applications at Crypto Quantique in his talk at Hardware Pioneers. In this part three of interviews highlighting experts present at…

Researchers looking to revolutionise wireless tech

The concept that your earbuds could replicate everything your smartphone does, but better, may not be far off, thanks to a new category of synthetic materials potentially sparking the next revolution of wireless technologies and the work of researchers. A…

Q&A: Simon Ford, Blecon, praises the power of Bluetooth

Sometimes it’s the obvious things that open up a whole world of opportunities once realised. That was the message impressed upon by Simon Ford, Co-Founder of Blecon, who spoke to IoT Insider at Hardware Pioneers and makes up part two…

Media briefing: u-blox talks through indoor positioning solution

A newly launched indoor positioning solution from u-blox marks the company’s entrance into the end products market, which was born out of this “large demand” u-blox saw coming from customers, according to a recent media briefing hosted by Magnus Johansson,…

Bluetooth hailed as transformative for IIoT

The unveiling of Blecon’s Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) solution at Hardware Pioneers last month in London demonstrated an ongoing shift towards embracing Bluetooth as a technology capable of transforming IoT applications. For Blecon, part of the mission is to increase…

Q&A: Toby Gasston, Wireless Logic discusses cellular connectivity

Debuting a four-part series highlighting experts IoT Insider spoke to at Hardware Pioneers, in this first part we speak to Toby Gasston, Mobile Core Product Lead at Wireless Logic, who was present at the event to talk about cellular connectivity.…