Tag Archives: IoT

Toronto has got its Digital Twin

The  University of Toronto is  among the few that  has a full course on Digital Twins for Intelligent Buildings targeting undergraduates.  This shouldn’t be a surprise since Toronto is among the cities that have taken the decision to adopt Digital Twins to monitor and manage the city, and its infrastructures. …

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Computer Society Technology Predictions 2023 – IV

Let’s take a look now at four technologies having a strong success probability. As such these will likely be pursued by business and in turns their uptake by the market may accelerate both evolution and deployment. Augmented Reality: it is difficult to refer to Augmented Reality as an emerging technology. …

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Smartification: a Megatrend impacting everything

Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating to an Industry Session at ICCE2023, organised by Kathy Grise (FDC) in conjunction with CTSoc (Consumer Technology Society). The topic for the Panel was “How Megatrends drive Innovations in Consumer Technology”. I focussed on the impact I expect from the Megatrend that I …

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Wrapping up the year – Tech and Biz

In a McKinsey  Global  Survey involving many CTOs and CEOs of companies ’round the world, that took place in July/August 2022, from several industry sectors the response on what will be the most needed technology in the coming years the overwhelming consent is on artificial intelligence. Doesn’t matter the industry …

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From Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0 – V

In the previous post on this series I considered a few technology areas that support the “operation” of Industry 5.0 (noting that these are already applied in Industry 4.0). Let’s now move on to take a look at technologies that are likely to “foster” the transition from Industry 4.0 to …

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From Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0 – III

After publishing the first post on the transition from Industry 4.0 to 5.0 I received this interesting comment: There is a Sustainability reason behind the shift from industry 4.0 to industry 5.0. We need to put again humans at the center of the equation. Industry 4.0 is an intensification on …

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Digital Twins for Healthcare – I

As conclusion to my talk in the MediRes AI Program I spoke about the future of Healthcare. Of course it is a very broad subject and my focus was on the use of Digital Twins and Personal Digital Twins. I came up with the circle diagram shown in the picture. Healthcare …

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A glimpse on 2025 – V

7. Tailored Streets Here again Huawei is using an unusual naming, Tailored Streets, to indicate the expected evolution of vehicle to whatever communications. The quest for full autonomy continues, and it always seem just ’round the corner. Autonomous vehicles have been demonstrated, there are a few autonomous cabs in service …

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DT evolution in Manufacturing – XV

The Manufacturing industry has been the first to adopt the technology of Digital Twins. No surprise since the use of CAD for product design and for the shop floor design is rooted in the last century. It was a simple, natural, step to take the digital model produced by CAD …

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