Industrial Internet associations boost Barcelona Industry 4.0 Week and IOTSWC 2017
Barcelona’s Industry Week 2017 goes fully Industry 4.0 and sees Industrial Internet and Industrie 4.0 associations boost one of its many events, IoT Solutions World Congress 2017. The momentum is there – is the value of Industry 4.0 and IIoT too? Taking into account the various industry partnerships which are continuously taking place, specialized vendors, […]
Compliance reality check: do we really know where sensitive data sits?
Knowing where data sits. It’s probably the biggest challenge of all businesses. In order to fully leverage the business asset which data is, you need to know where it sits. If you want your knowledge workers to waste less time looking for information, it’s important that they know where the data and information which they […]
Supervisory authorities: consistency and Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) under GDPR
The meaning and role of the supervisory authority, data protection authority (DPA), lead supervisory authority (LSA), concerned supervisory authority and the consistency mechanism under the General Data Protection Regulation – with examples. In order to ‘work’ and be consistently applied, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) needs the collaboration of all stakeholders, including the data […]
GDPR encryption: what you should know and what you do not know
The debates on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and encryption are not over yet. Although encryption only gets a few lines in the GDPR, is recommended and offers benefits in particular cases (if you follow the text that is) there is also the reality of GDPR compliance and encryption in a broader perspective and context that […]
GDPR readiness and compliance in the US, UK and Belgium
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) represents a massive change in personal data protection and privacy. In combination with the ePrivacy Regulation it is changing the EU privacy and security landscape completely. While the GDPR text has been published, the ePrivacy Regulation isn’t final yet. However, achieving GDPR compliance in a strategic way is a massive […]
Global IBM Watson Internet of Things center opens with new collaboratories
In a previous entry we mentioned that BMW will have a team at IBM’s brand new Germany-based (city of Munich) global Watson Internet of Things center. The BMW team will, among others, look at ways to enhance the driving experience and develop intelligent assistant functions for future cars, using the IoT, an area where IBM […]
Microsoft: our enterprise cloud services will be GDPR-compliant in time
Since end of 2016, early 2017, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) fever is clearly going up. However, a quite amazing number of companies is not even close to GDPR compliance. It’s not just GDPR readiness research telling us that. If you are in the ‘business’ of GDPR (meaning: you have a solution that helps […]
Are consumers, including younger ones, preparing to fight for their privacy?
What if everything you believed about privacy concerns is wrong? Trust in institutions is at an all-time low as the Edelman Trust Barometer 2017 indicated. We’ve covered some possible implications and findings previously. Another question to ponder is that of privacy and personal data. If distrust is high, also regarding businesses, does this have an […]
The LoRaWAN pioneers at new IoT firm TrackNet raise $7 million
TrackNet is a fairly new developer of end-to-end solutions for Internet of Things applications, using LoRa and LoRaWAN. However, its founders played an important role in the industry. The company, with offices in Switzerland and California and founded by former IBM and Semtech employees, secured a Series A investment to develop and deploy IoT solutions […]
The new technologies marketers intend to use
The people at marketing automation software vendor Marketo conducted research to look at ‘newer’ technologies and what their effect will be for marketers. As the infographic below indicates there are significant differences between the US and the rest of the world, both with regards to expected consumer adoption and the plans to include the different […]
The time to rethink influence, thought leadership and trust is now
Trust in major institutions, media, business, CEOs, government and social (to name a few) has sunk to an all-time low since Edelman started publishing its annual Trust Barometer in 2012. People now see media as the elite and find others, like you and me, as credible about a company as company representatives and even more […]
Power availability, reliability, quality and manageability in critical power buildings
Power availability, power reliability and power quality are essential for critical power environments, including critical power buildings such as hospitals, power plants and data centers. As Kevin Morin explains in our interview on IoT in critical power buildings, power availability is one type of key critical power applications. Another example is energy accounting, which has everything […]
