In response to the rising demands of cargo volume and vessels size in catching up with the global trading hubs, port terminals are looking to improve operational efficiency and increase productivity. Meanwhile, port authorities must also ensure that they remain attractive by enhancing their smart port journey with the availability of critical infrastructure.
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Piezoelectric energy harvesting has seen very little commercial success despite decades of intensive research worldwide. Nonetheless, the number of patents on the subject is rising strongly and google trends show rising interest generally.
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Security is one of the biggest factors holding back deployment and adoption of IoT, and one of the most difficult to overcome. Get it wrong and you can undermine trust in your brand for years to come. Then there’s ‘Secure by Design’ (SbD); the UK is set to be the first country to enshrine it in law, with standards in other territories such as the EU and US also aligned to it.
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Event 24
In the Internet of Things, there's no such thing as a mobile device that operates in isolation. And yet, mobile devices and apps are often marketed, sold, and bought as if they're independent products. Manufacturers and consumers alike need to think less in terms of "discrete product" and more of "interconnected systems." No one wants 50 different mobile apps to control 50 different things in their smart home or smart health environments. With IoT product manufacturers championing different communications protocols, the challenge is to enable one mobile app to control many devices.
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