Prior to taking important financial decisions, it is common practice to investigate current tools and make some calculations to find out alternatives with the best returns on investment. Though deep analyses are not always made, fundamental economic indicators such as exchange, interest and inflation rates are taken into account at the least. When it comes […]
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By its nature, IoT is open and interoperable. In fact, that’s the very spirit of IoT – and the reason why so many fast-growing companies are driving innovation within an open digital ecosystem. As any startup knows, you may launch with a great use case. But how and where can you scale, both in terms of your application portfolio and market […]
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Engineers do amazing things every day. Their efforts radically transform our collective future. Imagine describing industrial operations today to someone living just one hundred years ago. Modern manufacturing facilities and energy production systems are downright miracles. All manner of goods are produced more efficiently than ever. Almost anything can be transported effortlessly around, and even off the […]
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Traffic isn’t just bad. It’s actually getting worse. Do you think the traffic is bad where you live? Try moving to Boston, where commuters suffer the worst highway congestion in the nation. Residents of the New England city spent an average of 164 hours sitting in their vehicles going nowhere slowly last year, losing as […]
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ARC Advisory started a series of podcasts focused on Smart Cities. The first episode focuses on Planning a Smart City and looks deeper into the needed technology, actors, and the development of such a complex infrastructure. Larry O’Brien, Vice President of Research at ARC Advisory Group and Jim Frazer, Vice President of Smart Cities, discusses […]
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We are all experiencing the impact of the digitalization. Name any tech buzzword – be it artificial intelligence, Fourth Industrial Revolution (4.0), big data, Internet of Things (IoT) – and you will see a ripple effect on different industries, opening up new opportunities, rethinking new business models, but also creating new challenges for societies. In […]
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Find out how Penn State securely connected and isolated their building controls across 640 buildings in record time, using IIoT micro-segmentation. Download this case study sponsored by Tempered Networks. Tom Walker, system design specialist, leads the FAS group which is responsible for maintaining the high availability, integrity, and confidentiality of building systems supporting nearly 150,000 students and University employees. […]
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I had the honor of speaking on IoT security policy at the annual CyberNextDC conference organized by the Cybersecurity Coalition. As the number of connected devices grows and these devices are increasingly used to perpetrate “botnets”, global policymakers are under pressure to regulate the cybersecurity of the Internet of Things (IoT). Below are just a […]
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Buildings are an integral part of everyday life. With people spending an estimated 90 percent of their lives indoors, the drive to ensure that those buildings are comfortable, safe, secure and provide the functionality that we want is more important than ever. But how do we take what are essentially inanimate, silent and passive structures and turn them into living […]
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What is the Connectivity Challenge for IIoT, and why will it persist? The challenge is pretty straightforward … and fundamental. Simply stated, computing and connectivity obey different laws. The law of computing is one of exponential power, Moore’s Law. From the dawn of computing to the present day, it’s the driving force behind Gartner’s recent […]
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Converged infrastructure is only as valuable as it is secure. Attacks on critical infrastructure have grown in frequency and sophistication as bad actors, including nation states, seek to disrupt or disable essential services or to gather intelligence into strategic operations and planning. The damages of a breach have been well documented. Billions of records have […]
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While climate change is right at our doorstep, threatening to wreak havoc, radical global action that could make a difference is still missing. Population growth and carbon emissions remain unabated. Cities are expanding at an alarming rate, adding 50 million people per year. By 2050, almost 70 percent of the world population is expected to […]
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