Sigfox

Sigfox currently provides a comprehensive broadcast and reception infrastructure in around 60 countries. Coverage varies, as some countries such as France or Denmark are almost completely covered, while in the USA, for example, it is still mainly limited to the metropolitan areas. Germany currently has coverage of around 85 percent. In addition, Sigfox covers almost all major airports worldwide, creating an advantage for logistics and tourism projects.

The French company’s technology limits the sensor device to 140 data transmissions per day and 12 bytes per message. This solution enables self-sufficient transmitters that can be used for several years on one…

By Natural Language Processing, or NLP, we mean the field of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence concerned with the interaction between computers and human languages.

In brief, NLP is used to teach computers how to read, decipher, understand humans’ sentences. While nowadays many people daily rely on Natural Language Translation services, like Google Translate, or on personal assistants, like Google Assistant or Siri, it was not an easy way to get where we are now.

So, we use Natural Language Processing to accomplish several tasks, such as:

· Language translation applications (we mentioned Google Translate)

· Word Processors, like Microsoft…

From its humble beginnings as a collection of simple scripts designed to eliminate repetitive tasks, automation has evolved into advanced tech that provides sophisticated capabilities thus transforming the way IT teams work but also our lives. Let’s take a look where automation will take us in the near future.

Today, automation streamlines operations improves the customer experience and reduces costs by being efficient and effective.

Machine learning, coupled with the availability of massive computing power to manage big data, is providing increasingly deep insights. These developments in artificial intelligence technologies lead to automated decision-making that goes far beyond the traditional…

Since the IoT concept and pilot implementations explosion in the last couple of years, the technology’s expansion among industries is likely to continue in 2020, with connected devices and sensors, robotics, immersive reality, and AI taking over the physical world with an unprecedented level of technological sophistication. An overhaul of the existing IT infrastructures in order to enable intelligence for the next generation of technology will become more pressing than ever and a renewed focus on hardware needs, balanced with cloud and edge computing will be commanded by these technologies in order to harvest the rising opportunities. …

Start-up CEOs rising overnight as superstars of the Auto industry, AI becoming the base technology for every engineering department and consumers talking more about embedded technologies than about horsepower. Well, prepare yourself; the Automotive industry is changing, and it is changing at F1 speed rate.

Today’s vehicles are becoming computers on wheels, the high-end cars nowadays gathering up to 100 Electronic Control Units (ECUs) and running close to 100 million lines of code.

The development of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), autonomous driving and connectivity are fast enriching the features of modern vehicles and elevating the driving experience in terms…

As cars’ touch-screen infotainment systems are evolving and enhancing the driver’s experience with features such as voice recognition, seat controls and connectivity, the necessity of developing tests for both the software and the hardware makes more complex and time consuming the release process. Moreover, software testers must often be engaged in repetitive tasks.

Automation — old challenges, new solutions

When the software is tested manually, the software tester performs an interaction with the device where the software is run, searching for errors and, when the process is complete, repeat the steps over and over again.

That’s when automation can step into the game. The work of…

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most talked-about technologies in the era of digital transformation. Some even call it the 3rd industrial revolution; it is the core technology behind smart homes, self-driving cars, and smart cities. Some of its first beneficiaries, the Automotive industry, healthcare, and logistics, have taken giant steps and led the manufacture of everyday “things” that connect with computers.

And it will be probably even bigger. According to Gartner, there’ll be around 26 billion devices on the IoT by 2020, a huge jump from the 2016’s 6 billion and IoT product and service suppliers…

As in the previous articles we discussed the history and the main concepts that characterize the functioning of Computer Vision, it’s time to dive in and get to the way technology impacts people’s life.

Computer Vision is currently employed in several industries, such as Automotive, to develop self-driving cars, Healthcare, Security and more.

In this article, we are going to talk about why computer vision matters in the Retail industry as well.

In-Store today

As many brick and mortar stores have already built and integrated online platforms, other digital-native brands who gained popularity online are opening physical shops, not with the purpose…