The Industrial Internet of Things has been heralded primarily as a way to improve operational efficiency. But in today’s environment, companies can also benefit greatly by seeing it as a tool for finding growth in unexpected opportunities.
In the future, successful companies will use the Industrial Internet of Things to capture new growth through three approaches: boost revenues by increasing production and creating new hybrid business models, exploit intelligent technologies to fuel innovation, and transform their workforce.
K4-IDEKO organiza la tercera edición de la Jornada sobre "Nuevas tecnologías para la eliminación de vibraciones y facilitar la rotura de viruta en los procesos de mecanizado" el próximo 16 de Diciembre de 09:00 a 13:30 de la mañana.
The VC who placed a $26.5 million bet on Uber in 2011 is now leading a $7.5 million investment round in Cue, a San Diego startup developing a wireless diagnostic device that enables consumers to run clinical lab tests at home to measure their own health.
In a statement from Cue yesterday, Sherpa Ventures managing director Shervin Pishevar said the five-year-old company is taking a unique approach to consumer health, and “is a prime example of the ‘on demand’ economy applied to health and wellness.”
Dull, dirty, and dangerous. Those are the tasks robots are best for, but it also describes jobs with General Electric’s Field Services division, inspecting wind turbines and oil pipelines.
OneFold, a cloud-based Silicon Valley startup, is unveiling its first service, dubbed BigData Warehouse, for mobile and Internet of things sources.
OneFold has created a data warehousing technology that sits atop the Google public cloud. It leverages Google’s cloud-based BigQuery technology for better “big data” capabilities compared to Amazon Web Services’ competing RedShift data warehouse. OneFold’s BigData Warehouse is now available as a public beta.
Keeping an eye on your house while you’re away doesn’t have to mean spending a lot of money on fancy cameras — or even buying cameras at all.
CamioCam, a company that turns your smartphone or tablet into a surveillance camera, is finally releasing its free iOS and Android apps publicly. Although a beta version has quietly been in the App Store for a few months, the official version is now out and with a few new features including full-video recording and playback, two-way talk, and live streaming capabilities. CamioCam also works with the Chrome and Firefox browsers, as well as with Internet-connected cameras.
Many smart-grid entrepreneurs have recognized that utilities could make better use of the reams of smart-meter data they produce every day. At the same time, entrepreneurs have learned that selling to utilities can be slow and frustrating.
But after a number of stalled efforts, it seems that a growing cadre of companies can claim success doing both: showing business benefits from analyzing energy data and convincing utilities to invest in new technology.
On Thursday, Sunnyvale-CA-based Bidgely will announce London Hydro plans to use its software for an energy portal the Ontario-based utility is developing for its customers. Texas utility TXU Energy last week said it will use Bidgely’s software to offer a similar service.
Spain’s IAAC institute has developed a new type of building material that responds to the temperature outside and automatically switches from cooling to insulating.
Durante la semana del 17 al 23 de Noviembre, millones de personas de todo el mundo participarán en las actividades organizadas en el marco de la Semana Mundial del Emprendimiento 2014, iniciativa destinada a fomentar la creación de empresas. Así, está previsto que en el curso de esta semana se desarrollen más de 25.000 eventos, en 150 países, con la participación de cerca de 20 millones de personas que festejarán la Innovación, el Emprendimiento y la Creatividad.
No question about it: The world wants mobile medical apps (MMAs)—and demand won’t slow down any time soon.
“The demand for remote patient monitoring is growing dramatically,” says Jeannette Tighe, from the HealthTech Advisory practice at Sagentia, a global technology advisory and product development company headquartered in Cambridge, U.K.
