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- "Turning the analogue into the digital": infrared sensing 2.0? (27/09/2018)
  
  In a connected world flooding with data, there will be many opportunities to achieve a safer, more environmentally-friendly society. But to achieve this, we must use the right technology: it is time for an IR sensor 2.0. Robert Ekström, CEO of JonDeTech, offers his thoughts…
- Optimising real time rail maintenance efficiency (01/05/2018)
  
  Integrating passive UHF RFID technology directly with an IoT philosophy can significantly improve the maintenance procedures of tram and train operators; and maintenance data can be managed on a central system.
- Sensors enable the smart home (05/03/2018)
  
  Real-time sensing will help define the smart home – to allow the Internet of Things (IoT) to decide exactly what the ‘things’ need to do. Widely-deployed sensing becomes the gateway to an ‘internet of awareness’ that will feed the IoT, delivering the right services at the right time.
- Combining passive Wi-Fi sensing and machine learning systems to monitor health, activity and well-being in nursing homes (12/02/2018)
  
  Coventry University researchers explain how they used National Instruments LabVIEW and USRP to create a passive Wi-Fi sensing system that can detect one's body movements and vital signs through walls – and without any physical contact.
- Hacking implantable medical devices to expose life-threatening security flaws (06/02/2018)
  
  Most implanted medical devices include wireless capabilities that use proprietary security protocols. This piece explains how researchers successfully reverse engineered such protocols in order to highlight the need for stronger security mechanisms in future medtech.
- Miniaturised medical interconnects serve rapid evolution in medtech (05/02/2018)
  
  This article discusses how technological demands from hospitals, practitioners and patients is driving miniaturisation of equipment, sensors and probes – and how cable and connector manufacturers are responding.
- The benefits of cloud computing in the manufacturing industry (16/01/2018)
  
  The domestic canary isn’t what many of us would consider an obvious tool for industrial labour. Today, connectivity advancements and cloud computing are making industrial environment monitoring much more sophisticated than the former. As we enter the era of the smart factory, COPA-DATA discusses the benefits of cloud computing for the manufacturing industry.
- Components of effective machine vision (12/12/2017)
  
  This article from Sony Europe Image Sensing Solutions discusses how factors such as takt time have become increasingly important in determining the overall throughput and efficiency of a production line.
- Artificial audio intelligence: making the home truly smart (05/12/2017)
  
  This article explores how artificial audio intelligence technology is enabling smart home (and beyond) applications, making the devices around us more human-like and useful – like a Shazam for everyday, real-world sounds.

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