Tag: Energy
IoT Security: How to fight attacks on health, energy, and transport
The health, energy, and transport sectors are among IoT-enabled systems at increasing risk of a cyber attack. But why is this, and what can...
Aerones creates drone to de-ice and service wind turbines
Malek Murison explains how a Latvian drone startup is repurposing consumer technology to provide critical infrastructure maintenance.
Aerones made headlines last year when one of...
Group protects rainforest with recycled phones, machine learning
Rainforest Connection, a San Francisco-based non-profit organisation, is using recycled phones and Google’s open source machine learning framework, TensorFlow, to protect the rainforest.
The group...
Electric car demand supercharges lithium-ion battery market. Positive news?
But questions remain around the supply of materials to make lithium-ion batteries, the resources needed to recycle/reuse them, and the carbon emissions associated with...
Volkswagen: €34bn to reinvent as electric, autonomous car maker
The Volkswagen Group has laid out an ambitious electric vehicle and autonomous driving roadmap, with 16 locations around the world now set to produce...
Oil spill detection enhanced by Norwegian IoT partnership
Two Norweigan companies, Miros and Ocean Visuals, have formed a partnership to combine their oil spill detection technologies.
The deal will see the two companies...
Smart fridges to come out of cold in $342 billion boom
Increasing interest in the Internet of Things (IoT) could drive smart appliance revenues to over $342 billion worldwide, claims a new report.
When analysts started...
Councils partner with Telensa on smart city programmes
The UK County Councils of Essex and Hertfordshire have today announced a partnership with technology company Telensa to pilot a range of smart city...
Q&A | SAP’s Henry Bailey on the Cloud for Energy
In an exclusive interview, Henry Bailey, global VP of Utilities at SAP, sets out his vision of the new 'digital prosumer' and the opportunities...
Battery breakthrough puts superfast-charging electric vehicles on road
Research into battery technology by Surrey and Bristol universities, in partnership with Superdielectrics, could lead to electric vehicles that match the range of fossil...
Mass transformation in energy: Exclusive Q&A with eurelectric’s Anna Dimitrova
As the European energy industry strives to balance its role in enabling a competitive European economy with the production of clean, carbon-neutral energy, Internet...
IoT microgrids could hold key to energy resilience
Microgrids are helping communities in Puerto Rico get back on their feet – but smart systems and 'energy clouds' might also contribute to greater...