The Covid pandemic and, more recently, the Russian invasion of Ukraine have taught businesses hard lessons around energy and highlighted vulnerabilities in the UK’s energy supply. For increased resilience and a smarter approach, digital transformation and the adoption of IoT…
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ABB provides a complete range of robots for Nobia’s new kitchen factory
ABB Robotics has been selected by Nobia to supply robotic automation solutions for their new factory in Jönköping, Sweden. By securing the contract, ABB Robotics furthers its expansion into new industry segments. “ABB’s contribution to Nobia’s new state-of-the-art factory clearly…
OQ Technology’s 5G NB-IoT LEO-satellite operating growth
The seven satellites that will be added to OQ Technology’s constellation, are the previously announced ‘MACSAT’ and ‘PHI-Demo’ satellites and five additional 6U nanosatellites, Tiger-4 to Tiger-8, which the company has already ordered. Concluding the launch of the first batch,…
The changing role of women in manufacturing
In the build up to International Women’s Day, Georgina Goff, who leads marketing, communications and sustainability in EMEA for Flex, a $26 billion global design, manufacturing and supply chain company, takes a look at the past and the future of…
Zeroing in on Cyber Security Awareness Month
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, made to encourage industry members to learn about cyber risks. Smarter Technologies discusses. Although no models are truly impenetrable, we’re zeroing in on zero trust architecture as the number one thing your organisation…
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…