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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Safer construction solutions with IoT
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…
Read MoreGlobal IoT market will surpass the US$1T mark by 2024
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…
Read MoreKeeping track of cattle with biometrics
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…
Read MoreAsia-Pacific’s Internet of Things market worth close to US$437B by 2026
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…
Read MoreIT/OT convergence to support resilient decision making in APAC
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…
Read MoreAPAC spending on IoT expected to reach US$288.6B in 2021
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…
Read MoreIoT and applying it to different fields in Hong Kong
Huang Jingwen, Assistant Government Chief Information Officer (Industry Development) discusses the importance of IoT for HK. The technology and application of the Internet of Things have developed rapidly around the world. According to the results of the “IDC Global Internet of Things Decision Makers Survey 2019”, it is found that 63.5…
Read MoreU-MING Marine Taiwan installs IoT fleet management platform
Benefits will include increased efficiency, greater safety, reduced costs, and lower environmental risks. Taiwanese bulk carrier, U-Ming Marine Transport Corporation (U-MING) will use Ericsson to partner with to digitise its fleet performance management through intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity. The new fleet performance management platform (FPM) will enable professionals…
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