Tag: digital twins

  • COVID-IoT Day

    COVID-IoT Day

    We’ve been celebrating #IoTDay since 2013, and this year is certainly the most particular, as we and our fellow global citizens all find ourselves impacted by COVID-19, declared a pandemic four weeks ago. Social distancing and stay-at-home measures mean that many people experience a sense of physical isolation, while the Internet of Things (IoT), which…

  • Data is Human

    Data is Human

    “It’s up to smart humans to stop being stupid about AI.” That was the title of what we’d argue was the most impactful talk at Collision 2019 in Toronto. A single slide of three words eloquently summarises the challenge and opportunity of our era: Data is Human. The presenter, Christian Beedgen, went on to connect…

  • RFID Journal Live 2019

    RFID Journal Live 2019

    Oh the irony of human-entered data at an RFID conference. Ten years ago, Kevin Ashton, who coined the term “Internet of Things”, explained in RFID Journal: We need to empower computers with their own means of gathering information […] without the limitations of human-entered data. Case in point, the badge: the surname and given name…