World’s first hands-free connected home urine lab created

A modern bathroom suite.

Withings, a specialist in connected health, has developed U-Scan, which it describes as a breakthrough in-home biomarker analysis platform.

One of the company’s most technologically advanced devices to date, U-Scan is a miniaturised health lab that hygienically sits within any toilet bowl to unlock the wealth of health information in daily urine.

The device, which took four years to develop, has already been recognised by the Consumer Technology Association as a CES...

4 January 2023 | Healthcare

Edinburgh eyes smart city status with cutting-edge control centre

Edinburgh Castle.

The City of Edinburgh Council Leader Cammy Day has officially opened a revolutionary new City Operations Centre.

Harnessing high-tech to help keep the city safe and moving, the new centre will position Edinburgh as a leader in the UK for smart security and surveillance tools.

It has been delivered in partnership with IT service and solutions provider North as part of a £2.6m contract, funded by the Council and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 2014-2020...

12 December 2022 | IoT

IoT street lighting project helps Aberdeen reduce carbon production

Aberdeen.

An intelligent street lighting project has been rolled out by Aberdeen City Council, unlocking sustainability and decarbonisation improvements across the city.

The Lighting Up Aberdeen project is part of a partnership with the UK’s leading IoT service and solutions provider, North, and is helping the local authority create a greener future through the use of energy-efficient lighting across the city.

The project has seen a state-of-the-art IoT solution installed to...

11 November 2022 | Environment

Mathworks: How mathematical computing is changing the world for the better

For anyone who doesn't know about MathWorks, could you tell us a little bit about what it does?

MathWorks is the leading developer of mathematical computing software and has two flagship platforms, MATLAB and Simulink. MATLAB is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation. Simulink is a block diagram environment for simulation and Model-Based Design of multidomain and embedded engineering systems. Engineers and...

19 September 2022 | Connected Vehicles

Serge Kozloff, Conundrum: How AI is optimising factory processes

Serge Kozloff, Conundrum.

Conundrum's head of product explains the benefits of using artificial intelligence in manufacturing and beyond.

Could you tell us a little bit about Conundrum and what you guys do?

Conundrum is a startup, and we optimise the processes in the factories. One of the products that we have is the Conundrum Euler defects detection system, which is based on simulation data. 

So, basically, if you’ve heard about deep fake - they put your face on a celebrity instead of...

14 September 2022 | AI

Scottish IoT project aims to keep rural roads pothole-free

The landscape on the Isle of Skye.

A consortium of research partners in Scotland could help solve the perennial problems facing the UK’s transport infrastructure, with the development of an internet of things (IoT) sensor network that provides real-time monitoring of rural road conditions.

DigiFlec, a start-up based in Dunfermline, is working with CENSIS – Scotland’s innovation centre for sensors, imaging systems, and IoT technologies – and Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) as part of the Scottish...

25 July 2022 | IoT

DataQube collaborates with NodeWeaver to provide full edge cloud capability

DataQube Global, an edge data centre company, has partnered with NodeWeaver, a provider of autonomous and agnostic edge cloud technology, to augment the edge computing capabilities of its podular data centre products.

The agility of NodeWaver’ edge cloud solution is said to be perfectly aligned with DataQube’s flexibility and scalability, and the new partnership could empower colocation customers to benefit from enterprise-grade cloud functionality at a compelling price...

22 June 2022 | Edge Computing

Huawei and Nordic Semiconductor enter into licensing deal

People sitting next to a Norway flag as the sun sets.

Huawei Technologies has entered into a patent license agreement with Nordic Semiconductor, headquartered in Trondheim, Norway.

The agreement is said to grant a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) royalty-bearing component-level license of Huawei’s low power wide area (LPWA) cellular IoT standard essential patents (SEPs) to Nordic and its customers.

Huawei and Nordic were able to conclude the agreement through what Huawei described as "a transparent and...

21 June 2022 | IoT

Jeff Tao, TDengine: Becoming the de-facto standard IoT big data platform

Could you tell us a little bit about the company and what it offers?

TDengine builds innovative products to collect, store, compute, and analyze time-series data, based on the team’s deep understanding of the applications and characteristics of time-series data. Its flagship product TDengine is an open source time-series database with high performance, scalability and SQL support.

What are the main IoT big data trends you're seeing at the...

4 April 2022 | IoT

IoT Tech Expo 2021: Smart buildings, digital transformation and measuring success

An image depicting IoT in action in a manufacturing factory.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has certainly come a long way since it was first coined, purely as a concept, by Kevin Ashton in 1999 during his time working with Procter&Gamble. Ashton, who was working in supply chain optimisation at the time, hoped to draw senior management's attention to a new tech called RFID.

Since then, IoT has crept into various aspects of our lives, from voice assistants to smartwatches, and they are shaping the way we work, talk, and engage with each...

9 September 2021 | AI