What better place to present a vision for a ‘super-smart society’ to the West, which you call Society 5.0 than Germany, the land of Industrie 4.0 or Industry 4.0?. That’s exactly what CeBIT 2017 partner country Japan is doing at the annual gathering of the German, and increasingly international, tradeshow/conference.

Chance is high that by now you have heard about the third platform. If not, you probably will soon as it takes center stage in digital transformation.. At the IDC Directions 2011 event Frank Gens of IDC stressed the impact of the third platform concept, which the research firm coined, and more importantly, emphasized how third platform technologies, or at …

To succeed in digital transformation, organizations need to effectively use information as “a critical enabler of the digital transformation of enterprises” the research firm emphasizes.It seems like the most obvious thing in the world.

Narrowband IoT or NB-IoT is a wireless communication standard for the Internet of Things in its different forms. NB-IoT belongs to the category of low-power wide-area networks (), enabling to connect devices that need small amounts of data, low bandwidth, and long battery life.This makes it suitable for a variety of applications and use cases for IoT.

An Industrial IoT and smart manufacturing timeline. Keeping the different possible definitions of the Industrial Internet of Things or IIoT in mind (so, as a synonym of the Industrial Internet or as, essentially, the usage of IoT in industrial markets and use cases which tend to be very different in nature, scope and technologies used, among others) below is a …

A look at what the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) says on explicit consent, which is needed in specific circumstances. The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (WP29) has provided guidelines on consent under the EU GDPR. The GDPR consent guidelines were published in December 2017 to offer guidance to supervisory authorities and can help you in attaining GDPR compliance.

Feb 3, 2025 · Agentic AI ranks high on the list of evolutions in artificial intelligence.Enabling systems to make (semi-)autonomous decisions and take action without direct human input, agentic AI is seen as a key driver of a next phase in AI and digital transformation and is placed at the top of Gartner’s top 10 strategic technology trends for 2025.. The attention for and awareness about artificial ...

Moreover, let’s not beat around the bush, as Information Age reported end March 2017, looking at yet another report and again other findings on the state of digital transformation and Industry 4.0 in the UK, the British industry has a barrier towards adoption that is pretty unique. Made Smarter Review. It’s called Brexit and half of participants in the tackled survey stated that it is ...

Use cases and benefits for the Internet of Things in retail. An overview of IoT in retail with market data, examples, use cases and the importance of emerging technologies and applications such as smart shelves, LiFi, LED, smart mirrors, digital signage, beacons and more in the blurring of digital and physical retail.

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