IoT in agriculture and 10 agritech startups in India

IoT in agriculture has always been a hot topic since food is the basic essential element of people’s survival. TECHDesign has previously pointed out the rapid growth of the smart agriculture market to $15.3bn by 2024 from the article of…

How the contact centre, AI, and CRM landscape are converging

The COVID lockdowns triggered an unprecedented demand for customer service, with both contact centres and digital channels seeing rapid growth. Tim Pickard, Chief Marketing Officer, Sabio Group discusses the changing landscape. Indeed, demand for human reassurance across some sectors resulted…

5G-Advanced to launch in 2025 and 75% of 5G networks will upgrade by 2030

The 3GPP approved the Release-18 package in December 2021, making the official start of 5G-Advanced with the planned freeze date in December 2023. ABI Research expects that 75% of 5G base stations will be upgraded to 5G-Advanced by 2030, five…

IoT and the future of smart factories

Across manufacturing, businesses are trying to realise the future of factories through digital transformation. Whether a company is just starting out their journey or is further along, they are all looking ahead to the potential possibilities of the smart factory:…

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…

Cobot colleagues: how robots will help leaders reinvent the workplace

– Originally written by Michel Spruijt, senior vice president of International Business and general manager of Brain Corp – In the space of a year, workplaces of all kinds have been transformed and have had to adapt their practices to…

Why OEMs are partnering with startups in race for driverless tech

From Lennon and McCartney, to Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak – it is often the case that collaborative partnerships are more effective than solo efforts. It is no surprise then, that the world’s largest truck manufacturers are partnering with innovative…

Advanced network capabilities for Digital Realty’s data centres

Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG), one of the fastest growing pure-play metro dark fibre providers in the US, has announced its dark fibre connectivity solutions are now available across Digital Realty’s connected data centre campuses in Silicon Valley and Atlanta, two of the…

Embedded machine learning for industrial applications

Over the last few years, there have been countless predictions of how our lives are about to be transformed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). All this comes at a cost, with the worldwide market forecast to grow…