Nexus, connecting siloed engineering & unlocking smart manufacturing

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has announced an open platform for smart manufacturing, Nexus, which will revolutionise how technology professionals collaborate and innovate. Announced at Hexagon’s HxGN LIVE Global 2022 conference in Las Vegas, Nexus will enable real time data sharing…

Standardising data collection in breweries

As the beer industry continues to expand globally, brewing companies that operate across multiple international sites face issues with data management. There is often little consistency in how these sites track data, making it impossible to optimise performance across the…

AgTech’s new wave (Farm Different: Episode 3)

This three-part documentary from Digi-Key dives deeper into the people, technology and challenges of modern agriculture. To farm better we must farm different. The previous episode saw Digi-Key visit the Grand Farm in Fargo, North Dakota. In their final episode, they sit down…

Targeting global growth with immersive technology investment

A Cumbrian engineering firm, supported by Made Smarter, is using immersive technologies to drive global growth and innovation, and create new highly skilled jobs. Forth Engineering, based in Flimby, specialises in the manufacture of bespoke robotics that can be used…

Delivering private cellular networks for the education sector 

Baicells Technologies, a global provider of LTE and 5G NR network solutions, and Kajeet, a provider of wireless and IoT connectivity solutions, announced a partnership to deliver turnkey private cellular networks for the education sector.   In March this year,…

Accelerating the implementation of smart manufacturing

Apacer and ASUS Cloud decided to collaborate to improve data security for remote device management in industrial applications, particularly smart factories. ASUS Cloud and Apacer worked together to help a major client – a provider of independent semiconductor assembling and…

Plex Systems announces modularization of its smart manufacturing platform

Plex Systems has announced a modularisation approach for its smart manufacturing platform to enable accessibility and scalability for digital transformation in manufacturing. This approach, enabled by Plex’s innovative cloud-native platform, more closely aligns with customers’ needs as they build their…

Smart eye technology: medical and marketing applications

Smart eye tracking technology can be used for a multitude of applications. Here, IoT Insider explores specifically the use cases of smart eye technology for marketing purposes and medical applications. Smart contact lenses Smart contact lenses, although still in development,…

Encord announces automated label quality assessment tool for computer vision

Encord, the platform for data-centric computer vision, has released an automated data quality assessment tool that automatically finds errors within annotated training data. Currentmethods of collating training data for AI are inherently manual, and with millions of data points to…

Gas sensor with AI: Bosch’s BME688 complements the Rutronik sensors portfolio

Environmental sensor technology with artificial intelligence: this is the first gas sensor with artificial intelligence and integrated highly linear and highly accurate pressure, humidity and temperature sensors. With the BME AI-Studio tool, it is also possible to train the BME688…