Augmented manufacturing: ‘The robots are your friends, not the enemy’
Humans are the key piece of successfully implementing digital change in augmented manufacturing Speaking during a World Economic Forum panel discussion today, industrial leaders drove home the point that the …
“Smallest ever” mmWave IoT sensor for wearable glucose and blood monitors
California-based healthcare tech company Movano claims to have completed functional testing of the “smallest ever” mmWave sensor for non-invasive glucose and blood pressure monitoring. The firm said it has designed …
Bluetooth growth fixed at 20% for five years in key IoT segments
Annual shipments of Bluetooth devices will pass seven billion in 2026, according to the latest annual market update from the Bluetooth SIG (via ABI Research); the forecast number represents a …
NEC creates new digital healthcare division, targeting $4.5bn revenues by 2030
Japanese tech giant NEC has announced a new digital healthcare and life science business, as part of its stated mid-term strategy to develop new business units to drive growth for …
Understanding the IoT opportunity in healthcare: A Q&A with KPMG
KPMG: “As we begin to emerge from the pandemic, we’ve witnessed a major shift of momentum into large-scale digital transformation, and this has caused healthcare leaders to desire a comprehensive …
Bluetooth-based COVID-19 notification systems to be extended to wearables
A new Bluetooth specification is being developed so wearable devices can participate in existing smartphone-based coronavirus (COVID-19) notification systems, being deployed with Bluetooth technology. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) …
Sensing and sense-making: Seven key supply chain technologies
I read it somewhere, and it made sense; the application of new digital technologies in the global supply chain is about two critical functions – ‘sensing’ and ‘sense-making’, where the …
Nokia Technologies president resigns following close of digital health sale
Digital health wearables unit returned to Withings co-founder as Nokia focuses on B2B In 2016 Nokia Technologies spent $190 million to acquire consumer-facing health wearables firm Withings. After standing up …
Two years after spending $190 million on Withings, Nokia selling digital health business
Nokia says move reflects focus on business-to-business and licensing activities In May 2016, Finnish network infrastructure vendor Nokia spent $190 million to acquire Withings, a maker of connected devices focused …
Orange Business Services exploring IoT wearables
The Orange Business Services IoT connectivity service is part of Datavenue, a modular IoT and analytics solution Orange Business Services and Finnish firm Yepzon Group, a developer of wearable technology …
