Electronic waste or “e-waste” generates about 50 million tons waste every year, or the equivalent of throwing away 1000 laptops every second. Part of the waste is due to electronic lifecycle decreasing over the past decade and many companies discontinuing their products and device compatibility after a few years.
The german Energy Collective Act stipulates that companies exempt from the EEG levy are required to delimit third quantities by the end of 2020. But what is it all about?
Smart services such as car sharing, or package tracking form a central foundation for future digital business models. Companies that know how to innovatively exploit the potential of data open up completely new business opportunities.
Smart products such as fitness trainers, connected cars or intelligent houses are changing the expectations of customers – and are ploughing over entire industries and branches of industry. In the light of this development, companies should therefore rethink their product […]
Maybe the Internet of Things is not spreading as fast as predicted by some, but in the long run it will change our world significantly. As more IoT devices enter the market, security will become increasingly important.
The Internet of Things, with all its players in the market, faces the same problem that the Internet faced before the days of the World Wide Web: A wide range of platforms with non-interoperable networking technologies, data silos and therefore limited interoperability, and thus, market potential. Perhaps if parallels can be drawn, maybe learnings can be too?
When you hear about the “Internet of Things” you could be forgiven for thinking it is a recent buzzword describing a change in the world of Information Technology over the last year or two, revolutionizing whole industries in the process. The idea of IoT however is fact much older than that. In fact it has been around for at least 25 years. It just wasn’t called IoT up until recently.
The Internet of Things, short “IoT”, will revolutionise the way we live and work. The Internet of Things will assist us in our everyday tasks. The Internet of Things can help protect the environment. The Internet of Things will help us to predict the future. The Internet of Things seems to be everywhere these days. But what IS this Internet of Things? What are we talking about, when we talk about IoT?
