** Use the discount code DATAFLOQ'for 20% off! ** It's estimated the number of things connected to the Internet will reach 50 billion by 2020. At the RE.WORK Connect Summit in San Francisco, November 2015, we will explore the opportunities of emerging trends in IoT as well as how we can use the huge amounts of data generated by an increasingly connected digital … [Read more...] about RE.WORK Connect Summit, San Francisco 2015
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Smart Cities Are Vital to Cope with the Aging Population
As Tejvan Pettinger wrote in his blog The main impacts of an ageing population, we must be proud of the great achievement of the twentieth century regarding the dramatic rise in life expectancy. However, the aging population comes with many challenges for smart cities across social, financial, economic, and political dimensions. Managing healthcare quality and costs for … [Read more...] about Smart Cities Are Vital to Cope with the Aging Population
Internet of Things (IoT): More than Smart ‘Things’
By 2020, experts forecast that up to 28 billion devices will be connected to the Internet with only one third of them being computers, smartphones and tablets. The remaining two thirds will be other devices sensors, terminals, household appliances, thermostats, televisions, automobiles, production machinery, urban infrastructure and many other things, which traditionally have … [Read more...] about Internet of Things (IoT): More than Smart ‘Things’
5 Steps to Datafy Your Business and Be Successful
In the fast-changing world, it has become common to create new words by combining two words or linking it to the fication suffix. Examples of these include gamification and the latest is datafication. Datafication is the process of making a business data-driven. It involves collecting (new) data from various sources, storing them in a centralized location, combining them with … [Read more...] about 5 Steps to Datafy Your Business and Be Successful
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT): Challenges, Requirements and Benefits
The idea of a smarter world where systems with sensors and local processing are connected to share information is taking hold in every single industry. These systems will be connected on a global scale with users and each other to help users make more informed decisions. Many labels have been given to this overarching idea, but the most ubiquitous is the Internet of Things … [Read more...] about The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT): Challenges, Requirements and Benefits
