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On the 11th of May 1997 Chess enthusiasts watched World Chess champion Garry Kasparov lose the sixth and final match of a novel but symbolic series. Kasparov lost this deciding match in just 19 moves against the IBM’s Deep Blue computer in New York. For many is was the first sign that computers would one […]

Asia has long led the global manufacturing race. Populous nations like China have relied on an abundance of cheap labor to drive growth in their manufacturing sector. However, with the rise of the industrial internet of things (IIoT) an opportunity has arisen for Europe’s factories to gain a competitive advantage over their Asian cousins. It […]

On the 28th February 2017 the cloud went down. Or at least a large section of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) went down, taking a lot of things down with it. The list of affected sites is long but the outage points to a much bigger problem; what does an outage […]

“Work done addressing Smart Grid has been central to the last decade’s most significant technology developments; from Internet of Things to Web services and Building Automation to Big Data Energy Analytics,” said John “Jack” McGowan, CEM Principal at The McGowan Group. In an article for Automated Buildings, McGowan points out that too much of the […]

“I think the internet of things (IoT) means many different things to many people. Much of the time it’s no different to what we used to call machine-to-machine; it’s largely rebranding for something that never quite achieved its potential,” claims technology evangelist, serial entrepreneur and developer, Nick Hunn. Hunn is Chief Technology Officer at, wireless […]

“Energising a new house has become increasingly complex. Gone are the days of simply installing a phone line, running a handful of main cables, fixing a TV aerial and wiring up the doorbell,” says Tanuja Randery, Zone President UK & Ireland at Schneider Electric. Now, she says, there is an increasing demand for smart technology […]

Here is the Audio Stream from our 3rd Free Webinar in the 2017 Smart Buildings Series, sponsored by Project Haystack. Forget The Internet Of Things… Let’s Consider The Internet Of Voice! This was an in-depth discussion with Nick Hunn, CTO at WiFore about how Voice Recognition may take the Internet of Things in a different […]

** Recording of this Webinar can be Found HERE ** Please Join us on Monday 6th March 16:00 GMT for our 3rd FREE Webinar in the 2017 Smart Buildings Series, Kindly Sponsored by Project Haystack. Forget the Internet of Things… Let’s Consider the Internet of Voice! A Q&A Webinar Nick Hunn, Technology evangelist, serial entrepreneur […]