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Making plans for Nigel

NI’s chief technology officer Kevin Schultz tells Steve Rogerson why this is the best time to be an engineer. A problem technology has always faced is that as it [...]

Spring Into Preventive Care: Connected Health Solutions for Early Intervention

Preventive care is becoming more continuous, connected, and data-driven – but the shift only works if healthcare organizations can trust the infrastructure behind it. As connected devices move care [...]

Why Industrial IoT Breaks at Scale (and How to Fix It)

Industrial IoT often works in pilots. Scaling is where rigid connectivity models start to break. A deployment that performs well in one region, on one carrier, under controlled conditions can [...]

MNO vs MVNO: Choosing Your IoT Connectivity Partner

When an enterprise team sits down to source connectivity for an IoT deployment, the conversation often comes down to a choice: do we go with a Mobile Network Operator, [...]

deviceWISE® Intelligence Suite: Enabling Active Intelligence 

Factories have progressed from traditional automation to Industry 4.0 practices based on connected data and adaptive processes. Each stage of advancement has expanded manufacturing capabilities. For years, manufacturers have [...]

Living on the edge

Steve Rogerson visited this month’s Advantech World Partner Conference in Taipei and found everyone talking about edge AI. Is edge AI the new IoT? That, on the face of [...]

Let the robot wars begin

Steve Rogerson met some robots at last week’s Computex in Taipei. Though I have travelled widely for work, including to Taiwan many times, and attended an uncountable number of [...]

Smart Meter Design Considerations

Precise engineering yields optimal results for Internet of Things (IoT) smart meters. For battery-powered meters, which often need to operate in the field for a decade or longer, it’s essential [...]

IoT market strong despite uncertain times

Steve Rogerson looks at the latest IoT forecasts. I must admit to feeling slightly depressed as I listened to a webinar this week from Transforma Insights giving its annual [...]

Robots are coming to a shop near you

Steve Rogerson talks with VenHub CEO Shahan Ohanessian about the future of smart retail. When I was in Nuremberg for Embedded World in March, I popped into what Google [...]

What Is eUICC, and How Is It Used? 

Embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) technology is central to the Internet of Things (IoT). It is the software component of an embedded SIM (eSIM) platform. With it, IoT device connectivity managers [...]

Happy World IoT Day

Better than Christmas Day? Probably not, but World IoT Day is still going strong, as Steve Rogerson found out. Do you know what day it is? I suspect some [...]