Author: Connected World

An overview of IoT at the year’s halfway point, plus a spotlight on verticals—energy, automotive, buildings, and retail—shows both challenges and opportunities. Just as industries were coming out of the COVID-19 haze, boom—more trouble. 2022 has brought global unrest, war in Eastern Europe, economic uncertainty, supply chain unpredictability, soaring energy prices, inflation, a massive chip shortage, and, sadly, the list doesn’t end there. The continuing fallout from COVID-related shifts in industries and the global economy weren’t over before a new, intense wave of challenges hit hard. How have the events and realities of the first half of 2022 affected the…

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In his keynote address at this year’s Microsoft Inspire, Microsoft’s annual partner-focused event that wrapped up last week, company CEO Satya Nadella described digital transformation as a “deflationary force in an inflationary economy.” Nadella insisted that tech is the only way to navigate “the headwinds we’re facing today,” and he laid out five digital imperatives for every organization to do more with less—migrate to the cloud, empower fusion teams, unify data and apply AI (artificial intelligence) models, pursue collaborative business processes, and prioritize security. Here is a roundup of some announcements Microsoft made at its event. The company announced it…

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The V2X (vehicle-to-everything) market could reach $144.38 billion by 2030, according to Verified Market Research, and that’s up from $47.53 billion in 2022. The research firm says, in general, there’s a growing demand for realtime traffic alerts and the ability to better manage traffic. Additionally, consumers, businesses, and governments are all becoming increasingly concerned about the environment and looking for ways to combat climate change by leveraging technology. The Alliance for Automotive Innovation defines V2X as the technology that allows vehicles to communicate wirelessly with the transportation infrastructure, other vehicles, and other drivers by sharing realtime information about the driving…

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