According to Gartner’s top 10 strategic technology predictions for 2020, we’re likely to see developments across everything from the Internet of Things (IoT) to automation. This year’s forecast also includes practical applications for blockchain – a technology which players in the food and agriculture sector...
In the early hours of the morning on November 5 late last year, a BHP remote control centre was forced to deliberately derail a runaway 268-car train fully-laden with 30,000 tonnes of iron ore as it hurtled uncontrollably towards the town of Port Hedland reaching...
Whilst firearm incidents in Australia sit below global averages, research by the Australia Institute found there are more guns in Australia today than before gun control laws were tightened in 1996. However, what is of most concern to unions, industry bodies, security forces, and law...
If you think crowdsourcing is just for small projects then think again. It turns out NASA has been active in coordinating collaborative innovation projects to tap into the dispersed knowledge of individuals around the world – aka ‘the crowd’ – to solve RFID inventory management...
The ability to be remote from an asset and still be able to monitor, maintain and manage it is not a new concept, however the necessary foundation to enable this – enterprise-wide asset intelligence – is often missing. Despite significant investment in business information systems...
