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23Nov

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South Africa News

Mitigating IoT Hurdles Can Unlock Billions for SA

With a projected annual growth rate of 13.28%, the South African IoT market is set to reach a staggering US$11.32 billion by 2028. This rise is largely credited to the commercial, mining, agriculture, and manufacturing sectors which are already harnessing intelligent water and energy management solutions. Dr Andrew Dickson, Engineering Executive at CBI-electric: low voltage, says that while IoT is a catalyst for the country's development across various sectors, more needs to be done to propel South Africa into the digital future. “IoT, short for the Internet of Things, represents a profound technological shift that links physical objects and devices to the internet, enabling them to collect, exchange, and share real-time data,” he explains. “At its core, it fuses the tangible world wi...

20Jul

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Tech

Understanding the Role of Identity and Access Management Services in Authentication

By Janice Thompson Identity and access management (IAM) systems are evolving rapidly. They address the challenge of authenticating parties needing access to critical resources—people, IoT devices, or applications. To do this, they validate identities using multiple methods, such as multi-factor or adaptive authentication. They also use the principle of least privilege to ensure users have only the permissions necessary for their tasks. Authentication Verifying a user's digital identity is the first stage in the identity and access management (IAM) process. The IAM system checks the login credentials supplied by the user against information kept in an internal database whenever someone tries to access a system. The IAM system allows users to access the network if the credentials match...

20Apr

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Tech

oneM2M launches new initiative to promote sustainability via IoT technologies and open-standard systems

The industrial Internet of Things (IoT) can add $14 trillion of economic value to the global economy by 2030 according to the World Economic Forum’s “Guidelines for Sustainability”. However, while technology driven change can be a tremendous driver for value creation, some of its side effects, including wasteful usage patterns and throwaway technology, can undermine total gains. This highlights why organizations need to factor first- and second-order sustainability principles in their technology and design choices. Since 2012, oneM2M has been leading a multi-national, open, and collaborative approach to create an extensible standard for IoT systems. From the outset, oneM2M participants recognized the importance of defining a general-purpose architecture applicable to a wide range of appli...

Zebra Study: Record Number of Enterprises Becoming “Intelligent” with Growing IoT Investments

5Dec

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Tech

Zebra Study: Record Number of Enterprises Becoming “Intelligent” with Growing IoT Investments

Security remains a top priority as more enterprises start to scale IoT solutions company-wide Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA), an innovator at the edge of the enterprise with solutions and partners that enable businesses to gain a performance edge, announced in October the results of its third annual “Intelligent Enterprise Index” which indicates a record 61 percent of enterprises worldwide are on the path to becoming “intelligent,” compared to only 49 percent in 2018. This global survey analyzes the extent to which companies connect the physical and digital worlds to drive innovation through real-time guidance, data-powered environments and collaborative mobile workflows. Their “Intelligent Enterprise” Index scores are calculated using 11 criteria that include Internet of T...

How new sensor technology opens up for smarter presence detection

15Apr

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Tech

How new sensor technology opens up for smarter presence detection

By Anders Jansson CTO, JonDeTech New sensor technology can bring about new and more efficient presence detection in, for example, the construction and real estate sector. The solution is a small, inexpensive, battery-powered and IoT-caged sensor that will also be able to be connected very quickly with the help of the upcoming 5G networks. Anders Jansson, CTO at the Swedish IR sensor company JonDeTech, explains how. A rapid technological development within what is known as the Internet of Things (IoT) means that more and more things in our everyday life will be connected. The connection is made with the help of a gateway or a hub, which can collect data from a large number of sensors, which it then sends to the cloud via, for example, 5G. IoT and sensors will be each other's preconditions i...

9Aug

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Tech

Unearthing the IoT in Agriculture

Real-time monitoring of airborne pathogen spores for M2M disease forecasting IoT M2M connectivity specialist Eseye has partnered with Burkard, designers and builders of air samplers for agricultural research since 1953, to harness the power of the IoT. Burkard has developed a piece of real-time pathogen monitoring equipment to predict and provide an early warning system of crop disease risk. The collaboration with Eseye and its AnyNet Secure™ SIM and technology, delivers highly secure and reliable global cellular network data through its AnyNet Secure™ SIM, and provides automatic routing onto up to 440 cellular operators in 190 countries and links seamlessly to the AWS Cloud. Increasing the world’s food supply is a major issue, crop diseases can have a devastating humanitarian and econom...