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How Smart Cities Use IoT to Enhance Emergency Systems

Kait Donieto — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 02:15:51 +0000

In the face of growing urban challenges, cities worldwide are turning to innovative solutions to enhance operational efficiencies and improve the well-being of their residents. As a premier ICT distributor in the Philippines and proud partner of Robustel, we delve into the transformative impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) on emergency management in smart cities.

The surge in population has put tremendous pressure on city infrastructures, resulting in challenges like increased commute times and traffic congestion. Smart cities are the answer, utilizing IoT to not only address these issues but also elevate public safety through advanced emergency alert systems. While IoT can’t prevent emergencies, it plays a pivotal role in early detection, rapid response, and effective recovery.

The Technology Behind Smart Cities' Safety

At the heart of the smart city ecosystem lies a seamlessly connected network of devices and technologies. This dynamic network operates in real-time, enabling cities to make informed decisions that prioritize safety and well-being. Here’s a glimpse into the technologies shaping the future of smart city emergency management:

Streetlights

Surveillance capabilities through sensors, cameras, and audio recorders provide comprehensive coverage. Additionally, smart lighting systems can autonomously adjust brightness, enhancing visibility as needed.

Traffic Lights

Smart traffic lights analyze traffic patterns and congestion, dynamically adjusting timings to optimize traffic flow. In emergencies, these lights can swiftly clear a path for first responders, ensuring a rapid and efficient response.

Emergency Vehicles

Gathering real-time data from the field, emergency vehicles offer a live view of the situation to aid other responders. This data also serves as valuable insights for training purposes, enhancing overall emergency preparedness.

Smart Buildings

Smart building networks employ automation to monitor access and internal conditions, contributing to a safer urban environment.

Sensors

Deploying sensors at scale, smart cities constantly monitor air quality, fire risks, and weather conditions. This extensive sensor network serves as a proactive measure against potential threats.

How Smart Cities Respond to an Emergency

Smart cities are using these technologies in innovative ways to create smart, connected urban hubs that help keep their citizens safe. Let’s look at some of the ways these technologies are being used in case of an emergency.

Risk Management

Smart cities employ security systems equipped with sensors and CCTV to swiftly detect potential threats or hazards. This real-time response is crucial in bustling urban centers, where countless individuals navigate the city daily. By recording subtle changes in buildings, the environment, or public spaces, smart city technology transmits data to a centralized dashboard. Authorities receive instant alerts, enabling them to prepare proactive responses and implement risk management strategies.

Smarter Emergency Response

In emergencies ranging from rapid-spreading fires to escalating crimes, response time is pivotal. Smart city infrastructure, interwoven and interconnected, enhances efficiency throughout the emergency response process. Sensors and video surveillance optimize traffic routes for emergency vehicles, adjusting traffic lights and identifying less congested paths. Smart city sensors continue their invaluable role on-site, providing real-time information to first responders and offering a comprehensive view of the unfolding emergency. Autonomous drones and vehicles further aid in reaching challenging terrains swiftly, contributing to quicker and more effective interventions.

Smart Healthcare

IoT in smart cities extends its impact beyond the emergency zone to healthcare facilities, fostering improved remote treatments, faster diagnostics, and global collaboration among specialists. In public health, IoT helps respond to major disease outbreaks. For instance, IoT devices monitor environmental factors to trace the source of water-borne viruses. Drones equipped with IoT technologies identify risks such as standing pools of water or infected insects, contributing to proactive disease prevention.

Public Safety

Preventing emergencies before they escalate is a key focus for smart cities, and IoT plays a pivotal role in managing crowds, environmental conditions, and road safety. Smart digital signage informs drivers about risky road conditions, while sensors and video surveillance monitor crowd levels, providing real-time alerts as early warnings. This proactive approach enables emergency response teams to act swiftly, averting potential threats before they spread.

Empower Your IoT Connectivity

A reliable connection is at the core of ensuring urban safety. Embracing IoT devices allows city managers to seamlessly monitor real-time data, enhancing responsiveness, regardless of where an event unfolds. Robustel’s resilient outdoor routers offer an ideal solution deployed in diverse environments, from challenging terrains to intricate public transport networks.

Elevate your IoT connectivity with our solutions. Contact us today to bring safety and efficiency to your networks.

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CommScope Explains What IoT, 5G, and Smart Cities All Have In Common

MEC Digital — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 07:10:32 +0000

CommScope’s Morne Erasmus explains what IoT, 5G and smart cities all have in common.

Read any tech news story today and chances are high that you’ll see something concerning IoT, 5G or smart cities. These are all hot topics, but did you know all of them have CommScope in common?

To make things “smart” and improve overall efficiency, we connect IoT devices through a network to the cloud (and each other).

Thus, anything “smart” requires connectivity, both wired and wireless, at least in most cases. The 5G networks of the future can bring refined connectivity to these edge IoT devices with higher speeds, more machine-to-machine connections, and extremely low latencies – enabling a brand new generation of applications and use cases that we haven’t yet thought of.

Once we connect all the eyes and ears (IoT sensors) of the world to the data center brain, we can begin generating intelligent information to drive new analytics and services. As well, more processing power is shifting to the edge, with the deployment of MEC (Mobile Edge Computing) moving closer to the particular endpoints and users to enable lower-latency applications.

All of these IoT edge devices and MECs need a home near to the users, that is why we are seeing city streetlights morphing into smart poles.

Streetlights are uniquely spaced throughout the city; they provide power and altitude and are prepared for remodeling with LED replacements. Today, cities are eyeing 2 kinds of smart poles for replacing legacy streetlights:

IoT streetlight pole – A streetlight pole can support public Wi-Fi deployments, environmental sensors, gunfire detection and LED lighting control upgrades. Adding IoT edge devices transforms humble streetlight poles into smart IoT poles.
Telco pole – These are the typical small cell poles deployed by carriers or neutral hosts to support cellular connectivity in dense areas. These poles are designed for connectivity and will play a crucial role in 5G mmWave deployments. By adding IoT devices, simple telco poles become smart telco poles. With telco poles, the connectivity backbone delivering a path between the edge and also the cloud is already established, thereby enabling quicker deployments. Thanks to the larger type factor of small cell equipment, physical constraints should be an early and primary guideline for aesthetic concealment in cities.

It should be noted that smart poles are a part of a smart ecosystem and no single company can go at this alone. We are constantly asked if CommScope has any plans to create IoT sensors, software, apps or services for smart poles and our answer is “no, we need an ecosystem.” put simply, these interconnected products and services require multiple players to work harmonical to offer complex services.

This is why the industry must support an open ecosystem that enables customers to decide on their own edge devices, software, and cloud providers. This is notably important because of the long lifecycle (decades) of public projects compared to typical enterprise (years) engagements. Additionally, regulatory guidelines should also be considered.

At CommScope, we offer the physical layer for smart poles and do that exceptionally well. This starts with the fiber and copper solutions connecting all the racks inside a data center. From there, we offer outside fiber solutions to connect these data centers to the central offices (head ends) for the carriers and to the business/home or macro/metro cell tower. At these endpoints, we usually see the conversion from wireline to licensed or unlicensed spectrum wireless.

These wireless networks also are experiencing constant changes where licensed (4G/5G) and unlicensed (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LoRa, etc.) are commencing to converge. For instance, smart buildings are expected to produce reliable cellular coverage within the building along with ubiquitous Wi-Fi and support for IoT wireless networks. Add the upcoming CBRS private networking play and we shortly realize we are building multiple networks under one roof – all delivering ones and zeros to endpoints. How can all these networks converge in the future?

By providing the connectivity piece in this advanced puzzle, CommScope adds tremendous value to the client. we will still build out our ecosystem so we can provide complete solutions with our partners. So, the next time you read something regarding IoT, 5G or smart city projects, know that we at CommScope are providing the wired and wireless connectivity to make the world even smarter with our #smartcityconnectivity

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ICT Trends in the Philippines that will Dominate 2019 and Beyond

MEC Digital — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 06:44:43 +0000

ICT Trends in the Philippines

ICT in the PH in the past few years witnessed the emergence and eventual maturity of advanced technological trends. As we celebrate the National ICT Month in the Philippines, let us assess how we are faring in the Information and Communications Technology industry.

Digital Determination

PH organizations are moving towards digital determination by employing a unified strategy of continuous enterprise-wide digital innovation to transform markets, business models, as well as, products and services.

IDC, in its recent CIO Summit, presented a study that 37% of Philippine enterprises are considered digitally determined.

Prioritization of Cybersecurity

The ICT PH shift to Digital Transformation made a fundamental impact on Cybersecurity. Vulnerability is greatly increased with evolving threats as more and more sensitive data are stored in the cloud, and are accessed remotely via mobile devices.

The Shift of Focus to Digital Analytics

Big Data analytics is seen as one of the major drivers of the evolution of ICT in the PH making it easier for companies to make data-driven decisions. With abundant data available, machine-learning application and artificial intelligence can be used to interpret and obtain meaningful insights for businesses.

Upscaling the Workforce & Workplace

The advantages of ICT innovations are realized with the help of the right people with the right skills. Thus, continuous bridging of skill gap among the workforce is vital in ensuring the effective integration of acquired digital technologies in the ICT PH landscape.

Sustaining Power Supply

The greater requirement of ICT systems for energy quality calls for power systems that are robust and able to endure any disruptions to the main power systems. An increasing number of organizations then are starting to invest in reliable and alternative electrical backup systems.

State of ICT in the Philippines

More than a decade of celebrating the National ICT Month, the government recognizes the need for strengthening efforts to widen the reach of ICT in the Philippines. In partnership with various sectors of society, they are extending the benefits of digitalization to a wider scope of beneficiaries.

The Future of Payments

The rise of online shopping positively contributes to the adoption of e-wallet in the country. Although cash is still the primary mode of payment, Filipinos are slowly immersing themselves to online payments. According to BSP, online transactions are to reach 20% of total payments in 2020– foreshadowing changes in ICT in the PH.

How Often Filipinos Access The Internet For Personal Reasons

Everyday

Atleast Once Per Week

Atleast Once A Month

Less Than Once Per Month

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NEC’s New Vision for the Smart Enterprise

MEC Networks Corporation — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 09:39:03 +0000

As the enterprise surroundings change, it’s up to technology partners to produce tools and keep pliable to assist support those businesses. NEC features a wide breadth of core UC and IT products and everyone stands on its own to assist solve common technology dilemmas. Our NEC good Enterprise encapsulates those multiple solutions into one powerful enterprise approach to satisfy the stress and sophisticated desires of today’s finish users and IT executives.

With Paul Kievit expanding his role to SVP of Enterprise and a new Frost & Sullivan report, we’re building out a new vision for NEC’s Smart Enterprise. In a trial to reply to market forces and remodel Enterprise operations across each land and EMEA, NEC is happy to announce that Mr. Paul Kievit, Head of EMEA Enterprise Solutions, can assume the extra role of Senior vice chairman of Enterprise for inflammatory disease Corporation of America.

Under Paul’s leadership and fervor, his team helped develop the inflammatory disease good Enterprise go-to-market message and approach, that has been adopted by inflammatory disease businesses globally. Paul’s vision for inflammatory disease good Enterprise is to still develop and sell solutions around the client experience:

Addressing unmet customer needs
Implementing best practices
Creating excellence in the customer purchase experience
Building brand equity and adopting NEC solutions to customer demands

NEC Smart Enterprise Explained

Built on four key objectives, NEC Smart Enterprise helps executives face the complex needs of enterprise users head-on:

Architecture flexibility
Software-defined anything
Business continuity
Internet of things

These elements allow businesses to improve how their employees communicate and collaborate, as well as improve the security of the information that is shared throughout the organization.

Moving to the Cloud

As IT executives adopt cloud-based IT and communications services, they hope to solve the challenges of data storage and scalability, maintenance requirements, and multi-vendor platform integration. Decision-makers, concerned with quality control, security risks, reliability, and installation challenges, need to work with a provider and cloud model that addresses their unique needs. Hybrid cloud architecture can combine the best of a public and private cloud, allowing the organization to control where they need it and outsourcing other components. Customizing the cloud environment strategically adds architecture flexibility and prepares for future business needs while improving business continuity and compliance.

Meeting the Workforce Where They Are

Business agility helps a mobile workforce respond to customer and business challenges on the go. The legacy focus on hardware has given way to a more flexible architecture of software services. Users and applications expect to work together in an ecosystem that should be available everywhere at any time. Virtualizing networks, through software-defined-anything, relieves the burden of time, real estate, and manned resources and therefore decreases the cost to the enterprise. The benefits of software-defined environments are simplified management, security, ability to scale, and less staff requirements with business continuity built-in.

Preparing for the Worst

While IT departments can “pray for the best” during their primary activities of rolling out new technology or resolving end-user quandaries, business continuity is not just an option anymore. Traditional business continuity solutions involved red tape and budgetary challenges to pay for the expensive hardware requirements. We have finally reached an era of business continuity/ high availability (BCHA) affordability through nearly always-up service level agreements, and users are demanding nothing less. Today’s enterprise technology partners must provide reliable data access through a variety of elements such as virtualization, load-balancing server software, fault-tolerant servers, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), scalability, security, and threat management.

Improving Security

The internet of things (IoT), while adding a layer of security through connected devices and biometrics, can also build business value through the analysis of the captured data. Law enforcement, higher education, and enterprise organizations leverage video monitoring and multi-factor authentication to prevent theft, monitor crowds and create more secure areas and access control. Retail, hospitality, and healthcare also rely on video and biometric recognition to increase customer loyalty, improve record accuracy and reduce operational costs. Executives want to invest in IoT technology and need a partner who can maximize the benefits while easily accessing the data through reliable servers with nearly unlimited storage capacity.

The NEC Approach

The Frost & Sullivan vision of a technology partnership that solves enterprise challenges is reflected in NEC’s capabilities and product solutions. Our fault-tolerant servers, the full line of general-purpose storage products–including our high-end HYDRAStor product which scales to almost unlimited data, work together with NEC’s SDN and UC solutions to build a quality Smart Enterprise solution for the enterprise marketplace. By condensing the amount of data center space required to run critical applications, and including biometrics into the mix, the new vision for NEC Smart Enterprise reduces costs for organizations and continues to add value, even to existing infrastructure.

NEC offers hybrid cloud solutions customized to best fit the need of the enterprise, even those with regulatory and compliance challenges.
An industry leader in the SDN space, NEC’s open architecture enables a flexible and simpler approach to network design and provides business agility to the workforce.
Disruptions to business, planned or unplanned, can be damaging to any size business in today’s climate. NEC’s secure fault-tolerant servers–as well as Active-Active communications with multiple software instances balancing the load in real-time for high availability, provide true business continuity, even in hybrid environments.
NEC’s facial recognition, biometrics, and behavioral analytics solutions create the ability to gain business intelligence and maximize IoT solutions, creating a forward-thinking smart enterprise.

With new focused guidance and leadership, our NEC solutions for Smart Enterprise and passion for improving the customer experience helps to meet and exceed the needs of technology leaders, preparing them for the future.

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Ubiquiti: When Will We Hit The Limits of Gigabit Ethernet with Wi-Fi?

MEC Networks Corporation — Fri, 03 May 2019 02:41:53 +0000

Since the coming of the Internet, various mechanical enhancements were important to encourage the speeds that clients have generally expected. From dial-up to DSL, from 802.11b to 802.11ac, to give some examples these progressions have improved Internet experience and availability. Thus Wi-Fi brought much-included accommodation over wired connections yet decreased speeds. To moderate these constraints, Wi-Fi innovation has advanced to build speeds, as have wired benchmarks (for instance, from 10/100 to Gigabit Ethernet).

Lately, Wi-Fi has moved toward the speed of Gigabit Ethernet. This is the standard utilized by most wired connections to send and get information. In this blog section, we’ll look at the speed of current wireless gadgets and how they contrast with Gigabit Ethernet.

Comparing Gigabit Ethernet to Wi-Fi

It’s important we look at Ethernet in the same way we do Wi-Fi to help us compare speeds. If Ethernet were marketed as a Wi-Fi device, it would advertise the following speeds:

Note from these results that Gigabit Ethernet is actually a 2-Gigabit aggregate and 10/100 Ethernet is a 200-Megabit aggregate.

How Wireless Measures Up

Now let’s look at how wireless compares. Here is some data from the fastest enterprise 4×4 MU-MIMO APs currently on the market under different client loads:

4×4 80 MHz 802.11ac MU-MIMO AP (nearly ideal conditions):

Note that with all wireless speeds cited – with little changed in the environment – these numbers will often be 50% of the advertised speeds.

Chipset manufacturers, Wi-Fi firmware engineers, etc. are proud of these numbers, as they are the real-world doubling of throughput from 3×3 802.11ac SU-MIMO:

3×3 80 MHz 11ac AP (nearly ideal conditions):

50 clients: ~100 Mbps

As you can see, 4×4 MU-MIMO doubles performance, from ~100 Mbps to 200 Mbps aggregate TCP throughput.

Let’s summarize:

When Do Gigabit Ethernet Start Limiting Wireless Speeds?

While there have been a number of quicker alternatives to Gigabit Ethernet for many years (for example, 10-Gigabit, 25-Gigabit, etc.), these technologies have not yet been adopted on a wide scale. Understanding the data shown above leads us to consider the question, when will alternative multi-Gigabit Ethernet technologies really matter for the enterprise network?

Let’s look at some data:

So the answer to our question is:

Somewhere around two to three 4×4 MU-MIMO 80 MHz radios (plus a 2.4 GHz radio), depending on the ratio of downstream/upstream traffic.

So as you can see, Gigabit Ethernet does not limit the speeds of enterprise deployment APs that have a single 4×4 802.11ac MU-MIMO radio and a single 4×4 2.4 GHz radio.

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Ruckus: Shaping the Future of Tomorrow’s Networks

MEC Networks Corporation — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 13:55:20 +0000

On April 4, 2019, CommScope took the bold step of creating an end-to-end networking innovator. From smart homes to intelligent cities – and everywhere in between – CommScope now has today’s most important technology and the inside track on tomorrow’s most meaningful innovations.

Ruckus sat down with CommScope CEO Eddie Edwards and COO Bruce McClelland to talk about what drove the combination with ARRIS International, the most important challenges the industry will tackle in 2019, and what to expect as an even stronger CommScope shapes the networks of the future.

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The Evolution of Enterprise in Light of Industry 4.0

MEC Digital — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 07:37:11 +0000

The Evolution of Enterprise in Light of Industry 4.0

As Industry 4.0 continues to drive digital transformation, the need for enterprises to adapt early is imperative. These organizations must review their business model and technology infrastructure to maximize all the benefits that Industry 4.0 brings.

A Changing Business Landscape

The exponential growth in innovation and technology poses both positive and potentially negative impacts on the traditional business models – the interdependent system an organization creates value for customers. The playing field has changed, so must the players.

In a review of major companies around the globe, only 10% of companies business models are economically viable in the age of digitalization.

10%

70% of the worlds most valuable companies operate a digital platform business model.

70%

Customer Expectations

Customers today, attuned to digital technology, are looking for instant gratifications. As consumers, they expect to get customized answers to their needs instantly and conveniently. Enterprises need to shift to creating a deeper connection with customers through their products and services.

Product Enhancement

The proliferation of technologies such as Cloud Computing and Internet-of-Things has created endless possibilities for existing products to innovate. Organizations are compelled to evaluate the design of their products and services to cater to more discerning customers.

Business Processes

Digitalization influences the way integrated workflows are outlined and sets new standards on how organizations operate. This drives new and existing enterprises to divert to flexible and process-driven approaches to optimize their resources.

Security

As the number of connected devices increases, potential vulnerabilities and attacks on unsecured networks are also growing exponentially. Governments are now reconsidering legislations on protecting individual privacy in light of personalized experiences.

Transformations in the Workforce

More than the products and processes, the Fourth Industrial Revolution greatly affects the workplace. Artificial Intelligence and intensified automation is resulting in many types of jobs to disappear and entirely new categories to emerge.

Percent

76% of recruiters and hiring managers think that the 4th Industrial Revolution will have a significant impact on the recruitment industry.

Out of 10

6 out of 10 current occupations have more than 30% of activities that are technically automatable.

Million

Up to 37M workers globally may need to transition to new occupational categories by 2030.

Recruitment and Retention

Recruitment managers foresee a tech-driven workforce transformation. Organizations are keen to ensure that they keep a diverse mix of skills to adapt to the changing technology.

Flexibility

Improved connectivity and unified communication are providing employees more freedom in the manner, time, and place of work while big data and artificial intelligence allow them to do away with repetitive tasks and focus on critical and important ones.

Education and Training

As roles and responsibilities in the workplace are changing, more students are keener to take skill-based, and shorter training required in today’s work landscape. New jobs will require more creativity, critical thinking and emotional intelligence.

Trends to Impact Enterprise Growth

Like the previous revolutions, Industry 4.0 ushers in massive economic and societal changes set to render some practices and technologies obsolete. However, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will also fuel innovation and opportunities for leaders and the workforce to improve work productivity.

Trends to positively impact business growth up to 2022

Increasing adoption of New Technology
Increasing availability of Big Data
Advances in Mobile Internet
Advances in Artificial Intelligence

Trends to negatively impact business growth up to 2022

Increasing Protectionism
Increase of Cyber Threats
Shifts in Government Policy
Increasingly Aging Society

What does the Future Hold?

Everything has changed and it is unstoppable. Unprecedented technological advances are continuously affecting every facet of human lives. Moving forward, enterprises and the workforces must ensure that these disruptions are harnessed to increase human and work capacity.

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How Industry 4.0 is Driving Digital Transformation

MEC Digital — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 05:44:48 +0000

WHAT IS INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION?

An industrial revolution is a turning-point in human history characterized by the emergence of new technologies resulting to a profound change in the way people live, work, and interact with one another.

Before 4.0

The recent advancement in technology all points out to the conclusion that we are on the brink of the fourth industrial revolution. To understand where we are heading, let us look at the first three revolutions that dramatically altered our economic and social structures.

Industry 1.0 – Steam Power and Mechanization

The First Industrial Revolution utilized steam power to mechanize production. This transformed the farmlands to highly industrialized urban societies. The revolution was propelled by the development of railroads leading to accelerated economic exchanges.

Industry 2.0 -Electricity and Mass Production

The Second Industrial Revolution harnessed electricity to power development and communication. During this period, methods of production were reviewed and assembly lines were formed to improve work productivity.

Industry 3.0 – Automation

Also known as the digital revolution, the Third Industrial Revolution capitalized on electronics and computing machines to automate production. The rapid advances in digital and communication technologies led to new and better ways of generating, processing, and sharing of information.

Industry 4.0 – Cyber-physical Systems

Industry 4.0 is building on the technologies of its predecessors but on an exponential rate. Innovations in machine intelligence blur the divide between cyber and physical world leading to an integrated and holistic approach to business processes.

The Driving Forces Behind Industry 4.0

Four widely practiced data-centric digital trends led to the emergence of the Industry 4.0. These complementing trends enabled interconnected machines to communicate and make informed decisions with minimal to zero human intervention.

Big Data

Big Data is a huge amount of unstructured data received from different sources with varying speeds. These chunks of data will be analyzed, categorized, and stored as information. Once interpreted, patterns, trends, and other valuable business insights can then be derived.

Internet-of-Things

Imagine a web of interconnected smart devices a person uses every day and you now have an image of the Internet-of-Things. These devices, once connected to the Internet, can exchange information with other devices or with humans, anywhere and anytime— enabling a more mobile way of doing business.

Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing is a service that enables the migration of data to virtual storage in the Cloud. Hosted online, software and applications are now more accessible to a wider range of devices from anywhere in the globe, whenever needed.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence or AI is the ability of any type of machine, big or small, to learn and replicate the way humans think and act through its integration with data-driven algorithms. Through AI, machines are now empowered to make real-time logical decisions lessening the probability of human error.

Digital Transformation Trends in Industry 4.0

As the need for digital transformation becomes more apparent in Industry 4.0, there are four major trends we need to focus on in order to stay relevant in the future.

Connected Consumers, Customized Experiences

Personalized experience is the new standard for customer satisfaction today. With the consumers getting involved in every step of value creation, businesses are combining mass customization with responsive and unique products.

Empowered Employees

New communication and collaboration tools make it easier for employees to collect and share information anytime and anywhere. Enhancements in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) empowers organizations to make data-driven decisions.

Optimized Production

Real-time information from machines and sensors enables timely and dynamic interventions to various stages of production. This gets even better with machine learning which allows systems to predict and respond to outcomes based on live data inputs.

Transformed Products

Innovations in products and services are built on enhancing existing technologies to be more accessible and efficient. Driven by a continuous influx of performance information, production becomes less expensive and time-consuming.

Infrastructure Enabling Technologies

With digital transformation expected to be in full swing during the Industry 4.0, preparing a resilient and solid technology infrastructure is necessary to maximize its economic, industrial, and manufacturing benefits.

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Video: The Internet of Things presents – #LikeABosch

MEC Networks Corporation — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 13:49:46 +0000

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IoT – MEC Networks Corporation

How Smart Cities Use IoT to Enhance Emergency Systems

The Technology Behind Smart Cities' Safety

Streetlights

Traffic Lights

Emergency Vehicles

Smart Buildings

Sensors

How Smart Cities Respond to an Emergency

Risk Management

Smarter Emergency Response

Smart Healthcare

Public Safety

Empower Your IoT Connectivity

CommScope Explains What IoT, 5G, and Smart Cities All Have In Common

CommScope’s Morne Erasmus explains what IoT, 5G and smart cities all have in common.

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ICT Trends in the Philippines that will Dominate 2019 and Beyond

ICT Trends in the Philippines

Digital Determination

Prioritization of Cybersecurity

The Shift of Focus to Digital Analytics

Upscaling the Workforce & Workplace

Sustaining Power Supply

State of ICT in the Philippines

The Future of Payments

How Often Filipinos Access The Internet For Personal Reasons

Ready to Get Started?

Ready to Get Started?

NEC’s New Vision for the Smart Enterprise

NEC Smart Enterprise Explained

Moving to the Cloud

Meeting the Workforce Where They Are

Preparing for the Worst

Improving Security

The NEC Approach

Ubiquiti: When Will We Hit The Limits of Gigabit Ethernet with Wi-Fi?

Comparing Gigabit Ethernet to Wi-Fi

How Wireless Measures Up

When Do Gigabit Ethernet Start Limiting Wireless Speeds?

Ruckus: Shaping the Future of Tomorrow’s Networks

The Evolution of Enterprise in Light of Industry 4.0

The Evolution of Enterprise in Light of Industry 4.0

A Changing Business Landscape

Customer Expectations

Product Enhancement

Business Processes

Security

Transformations in the Workforce

Recruitment and Retention

Flexibility

Education and Training

Trends to Impact Enterprise Growth

What does the Future Hold?

Ready to Get Started?

Ready to Get Started?

How Industry 4.0 is Driving Digital Transformation

WHAT IS INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION?

Before 4.0

Industry 1.0 – Steam Power and Mechanization

Industry 2.0 -Electricity and Mass Production

Industry 3.0 – Automation

Industry 4.0 – Cyber-physical Systems

The Driving Forces Behind Industry 4.0

Big Data

Internet-of-Things

Cloud Computing

Artificial Intelligence

Digital Transformation Trends in Industry 4.0

Connected Consumers, Customized Experiences

Empowered Employees

Optimized Production

Transformed Products

Infrastructure Enabling Technologies

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Video: The Internet of Things presents – #LikeABosch

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