Wong King Man, Assistant Government Chief Information Officer gave a speech on IoT in China. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China just released the “14th Five-Year Plan for Information and Communication Industry Development” last month. Among them, five key tasks are proposed, including the…
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Growth is driven by increased adoption of location tracking, facial recognition, remote working, etc. Asia Pacific spending on Internet of Things (IoT) will expand by 9.6% in 2021, accelerating from 1.5% in 2020. The latest release of IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things Spending Guide indicates a gradual growth of IoT…
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The importance of Industry 4.0 technologies to become clearer. The fourth industrial revolution—also known as Industry 4.0—will benefit not just traditional manufacturing and logistics but all areas of business in 2022, notes leading data and analytics company GlobalData. In its latest report, ‘Tech, Media, & Telecom (TMT) Predictions 2022 –…
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Connecting project spaces with IoT devices and flexible digital workflows. The number of cranes across a city’s skyscape is a fairly good measure of the health of the construction sector. But those cranes are also a pointer to potentially hazardous worksites – almost one in five workplace deaths in Australia…
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Manufacturers are under extreme pressure to digitise. The Manufacturing Execution Systems market has been pretty lively in 2020-21, noted Gartner. Much of the activity has been the crush of vendors rushing to embrace microservices, containerized applications and low-code/no-code development, wrote Rick Franzosa senior director analyst at Gartner. In a blog…
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A COVID-19 driven new digital transformation wave will fuel higher growth across all IoT markets. The global internet of things (IoT) market by revenue will be worth US$1.1 trillion by 2024, with much of the growth coming from wearables, reported analyst firm GlobalData. In its latest report, ‘Thematic Research: Internet…
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Finding out what’s wrong with buttercup with the help of cloud and IoT. Australia has almost as many cattle as people. Add to the 24.7 million cattle in Australia, the 189,000 people who work in the red meat industry, the $15 billion gross value of the sector and it quickly…
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COVID-19 has had a negative impact on projects that integrate innovative technolgies. Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis finds that Asia-Pacific’s Internet of Things (IoT) market is rapidly being transformed by mega trends, including the integration of edge-computing networks into IoT systems and new narrow-band (NB) IoT deployments. Driven by growing…
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The ability of operations to consume data insight and enable resilient decision making will become critical. The shift in maturity of integration of IT and OT systems will bring a critical focus to processes and organisations. In a recently released report, IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT/OT Convergence 2021 Predictions — Asia/Pacific (excluding…
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COVID-19 had a negative impact on the growth of IoT spending. Asia Pacific’s excluding Japan spending on Internet of Things (IoT) was deeply impacted in 2020 due to the pandemic hitting major economies in the region, with spending growth descending to 7.1 per cent YoY in 2020 – down from…
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