Tag: Internet of Things

  • Programming Languages for 2016

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    Programming languages It is 2016 and we are a long way from the 1970s. So of course the world has moved on. Today’s programming has advanced significantly and we have super low powered systems of extraordinary capacity and easy to program securely. Surely!   Or should that be surely?   So here are the IEEE…

  • Predicting the Future

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    Predicting the Future How hard can it be. Surely everything follows on from everything else?   This is what was behind Sir Isaac Newton’s proposition that if we work out the equations of the universe and plug in the initial conditions, we can predict everything. And so science became the new religion of western society.…

  • IoT in 2016

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    Internet of Things 2016 This is the year that the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to become the single biggest category for connected consumer electronics products. This was  covered in more detail in our post on The Internet of Things drives economic growth. But what about other sectors like Infrastructure? In the Pace Zenith…

  • 5G Mobile Communications

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    5G Mobile Technology 5G is the latest in the mobile communications and follows on from 4G which is what is powering most high performance mobile commuting devices in advanced economies today. However the exact technical standards and technologies to implement 5G are still being formulated. At its heart lies the requirements for increased mobile data, the…

  • IoT versus M2M

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    IoT versus M2M M2M or Machine to Machine communications have been around for a long time. So how is the IoT or the Internet of Things different?   The picture below shows that basic paradigm shift between the two concepts.   The easiest way to think about this is that Machine to Machine communications is a…