Tag: Internet of Things
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Connect Expo 2017
Connect Expo The Connect Expo is on each year around late March in Melbourne at the Exhibition and Convention Centre. I had gone to previous events but this was our first time as an exhibitor. This was by far the best Connect Expo I have been to. The mix of software vendors, web platform vendors,…
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SEBN Business Breakfast 2016 – Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 and Bosch Australia This is the first of a two part post covering the SEBN (South East Business Network) business breakfast just before Christmas 2016. The first speaker was Gavin Smith of Bosch Australia. His talk was title “Life After Auto” and here is my summary. In the 1960s you could make anything in…
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IoT Security
IoT Security The Internet of Things, or IoT, is a pivotal component of the future and is driving initiatives from Smart Cities through Ubiquitous Computing and Augmented Reality. Of course the next step up from Smart Cities is a Smarter Planet. But we aren’t at Smart Cities yet. An enabling technology like IoT can…
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Wearables – A History
Wearables started when? The buzz technology of the past 18 months has been Wearables which is short for Wearable Technology. So when exactly did Wearable Technology begin? Like most overnight successes, it started a long time ago. Below is an infographic from http://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-history-of-wearable-technology/ that is an excellent overview of the topic, with some notable exceptions…
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CEDA – Meeting the Innovation Challenge
CEDA and Australia’s Innovation Challenge CEDA, or the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, run regular industry sessions to discuss topics of national economic importance. The latest was a lunchtime session covering the benefits of Innovation and also some of the challenges we need to overcome to take advantage of Innovation in Australia. …
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Predicting the Future
Predicting the Future How hard can it be. Surely everything follows on from everything else? This is what was behind Sir Isaac Newton’s proposition that if we work out the equations of the universe and plug in the initial conditions, we can predict everything. And so science became the new religion of western society.…
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IoT in 2016
Internet of Things 2016 This is the year that the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to become the single biggest category for connected consumer electronics products. This was covered in more detail in our post on The Internet of Things drives economic growth. But what about other sectors like Infrastructure? In the Pace Zenith…
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5G Mobile Communications
5G Mobile Technology 5G is the latest in the mobile communications and follows on from 4G which is what is powering most high performance mobile commuting devices in advanced economies today. However the exact technical standards and technologies to implement 5G are still being formulated. At its heart lies the requirements for increased mobile data, the…
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IoT versus M2M
IoT versus M2M M2M or Machine to Machine communications have been around for a long time. So how is the IoT or the Internet of Things different? The picture below shows that basic paradigm shift between the two concepts. The easiest way to think about this is that Machine to Machine communications is a…