Scotland’s construction industry has knowledge at its fingertips

The Scottish Construction Leadership Forum (CLF) has taken a major step towards greater openness, transparency and information exchange in the construction industry in Scotland with the launch of a new data dashboard. Available via its own website, the dashboard will…

Industrial information’s key role in sustainable industrial growth

AVEVA recently demonstrated how information – contextualised industrial data – is fundamental to sustainable growth across the energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure sectors while unveiling its product roadmap to industry leaders and partners at the AVEVA PI World conference in Amsterdam.…

Digital solutions help Toyota incorporate sustainable fuel generation

Emerson and Toyota Australia have collaborated to transform part of Toyota Australia’s operations into a commercial-grade hydrogen production, storage and refuelling plant. The project, supported by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), adopts Emerson’s automation expertise to provide the control…

Designing a modular overlay network for data processing optimisation in the IIoT

Data processing optimisation in Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems to support lean manufacturing can be accomplished through condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) analysis and tracking, diagnostics, and troubleshooting. The problem in many…

5G and standalone networks fuelling the 4.0 paradigm

Telcos and consumers are well-versed in the high-capacity, low-latency, high-speed connectivity benefits of 5G for the consumer market. What’s lesser known is that businesses can also unlock greater value with the rise of 5G standalone (SA) technology to access the…

What is Edge AI and how does it work?

Smart speakers, surveillance cameras, robots, and even self-driving cars utilise edge AI, but what is it, and how does the technology work? Despite the impact of COVID-19, the deployment of Edge infrastructure and applications has continued over the past two…

Smart factories and the role of Edge computing

Making sense of the Edge According to Google Trends data, worldwide searches for ‘edge computing’ have increased tenfold in the last five years. Google alone boasts 340 million search results for the phrase – hardly simple revision for those curious…

RISC-V embedded cores enable AI/ML edge customisation

Codasip, an innovator in processor design automation, announced the L31 and L11, the latest in its range of low power embedded RISC-V processor cores optimised for customisation. With the new cores, customers can more easily customise processor designs using Codasip…

Manufacturing at the Edge (Future Factories: Episode 1)

The Modern Factory Floor Factories of tomorrow are a very different landscape from the factories of old. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has enabled plant operators to monitor every aspect of the manufacturing process. From a single sensor on…

Top 10 technologies of 2021

Despite only launching in August of this year, our IoT news site has seen an amazing range of interesting and innovative stories. It’s been a hard task to narrow them all down, but here’s our top ten technologies since launching!…