Cities are imperceptibly becoming Smart Cities. But what does that actually mean?
The term smart city has evoked various descriptions at some point, but the world’s existing cities will need to smarten up as IoT evolves, as Giacomo Lee reports.
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Robots make more business sense with AI – just don’t expect fireworks
Robot use is becoming increasingly practical, which means that such machinery is being increasingly employed...
Robots make more business sense with AI – just don’t expect fireworks
Robot use is becoming increasingly practical, which means that such machinery is being increasingly employed...
Points Predict: detecting faults accurately with Thales
Smart maintenance systems allow train operators to detect railway faults, alerting them to danger and...
Face recognition is just the tip of the AI Computer Vision iceberg
Flaws in AI training give as bad a name to face recognition. But as Giacomo...
Chatbots: AI tech can be useful in real-world business applications right now
Chatbots are one of the main real-world business implementations of artificial intelligence (AI) software today, with companies all over the world using them to reduce the need for expensive human…
Poll on technology replacing human jobs invokes mixed response
The pace of automation and technology deployment is only expected to increase over the next few years as businesses aim to digitalise their operations. Verdict has conducted a poll to…
Ramping up railway: a look into Egypt’s megaprojects
In the last few years, Egypt has seen an exponential increase in funding for infrastructure. According to research by KPMG, transport – and in particular railways – have in the…
Quantum computers, here but not here – what businesses need to know
The future may see us living on Mars, paying for everything with crypto, and relaxing or working as we travel effortlessly about in our driverless cars. But there's an even…
Is cybersecurity in rail more important now than ever?
4SECURail has recently reached its mid-term objectives for the design of a computer security incident response team (CSIRT), which will allow for identified threats to be shared with targeted railway…
IoT must become the Internet of Secure Things for widescale acceptance in the 5G era
As the world reopens for business, 2021 is seen as a year of cyber security catch-up for the IoT (Internet of Things) – one of many technology themes impacted by…
