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Smart City Initiatives: Guidelines for Success

Collaboration is the key to launching smart city initiatives that meet expectations. Read up on...

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Why the Road to Autonomous Vehicles Is Bumpy

The autonomous vehicle (and flying car) genie is out of the bottle, but consumers are still...

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A Pragmatist’s Guide to Understanding Industrie 4.0

Will Industrie 4.0, the German-government-backed framework for rebooting the manufacturing...

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Smart City Initiatives: Guidelines for Success

Collaboration is the key to launching smart city initiatives that meet expectations. Read up on cross-functional teams, collaborative funding, IT’s role and shared priorities.

Why the Road to Autonomous Vehicles Is Bumpy

The autonomous vehicle (and flying car) genie is out of the bottle, but consumers are still skeptical and regulatory hurdles remain.

A Pragmatist’s Guide to Understanding Industrie 4.0

Will Industrie 4.0, the German-government-backed framework for rebooting the manufacturing sector, lead to a new industrial revolution? And if so, would it be the fourth such revolution, or the third? Or does Industrie 4.0 herald something more like an incremental but substantial software upgrade, as its software-derived name also suggests? This report takes a look […]

IoT Implementation Research: Stepping Toward Maturity

Our study of IoT implementation practices, based on research conducted with 670 people, suggests that practitioners are finding greater success and expanding the scope of their projects.

A Guide to Selecting an IIoT Platform

The IIoT platform market remains confusing, but after answering these questions, you should have clearer priorities.

Making Sense of 12 Smart Building Technologies

It is estimated that as many as 2.5 billion people could move to cities by 2050. This spike in population, along with the growing popularity of sustainability initiatives, will force buildings to become more energy efficient, and — in a word — smarter. The integration of emerging smart building technologies is a central hurdle to […]

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How AI Adoption Will Enable the Next Level of IoT

It seems no single technology has as much promise, or is as elusive, as artificial intelligence. While artificial intelligence promises to transform the face of modern business, it can be difficult for business leaders to even know where to begin in separating AI fact from the AI fiction presented in marketing brochures and in science […]

The Difficulty of Managing Internet of Things Security Spend

Allocating Internet of Things security spending wasn’t straightforward to begin with, but the hype around blockchain and quantum computing raises new questions.

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Digital Supply Chain Transformation: The Role IoT and Blockchain Could Play

With online commerce and the manufacturing sector on the upswing, and everything from IoT to blockchain to drones, delivery robots, and autonomous semi trucks and ships promising further advances, it’s arguably never been a better time to be in the supply chain and logistics business. Yet for logistics companies it can be challenging to meet […]

Strategies for Smart City Success

The smart cities marketplace is poised to be a trillion-dollar market, but achieving an ROI for even a single project can be a challenge. This guide highlights the way forward.