The food chain relies on honeybees as crucial pollinators. Disease, pollution and global warming are threats to bee populations, but steps are being taken to…
Virtual Reality in the Time of COVID-19
With the social restrictions of COVID-19 came the societal need to virtually connect or escape the world. Through virtual reality (VR), a person can sit…
ROS 2 for Industrial Applications
Started in 2007, the Robotic Operating System (ROS) is an open-source, collaborative framework of software libraries and tools that assist in building robot applications. ROS…
Accelerating Computer Vision with VPUs
Sight is a sense humans often take for granted. We can identify faces and objects in a photograph with little thought. Teaching a machine to…
The What and Why of RFID
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is a technology that uses radio waves to read data encoded on RFID tags or smart labels. This works similarly to barcode…
SOSA for Defense Sensors & Communication
Sensor communications systems are growing in complexity. For the defense industry, these systems are costly in terms of physical space, power usage and updates that…
IoT Explained Part II: The Four Stages of Data Collection, Conversion and Transfer
In our last article, we discussed what IoT is, its history and how it became the spearhead of Industry 4.0. But how does IoT work?…
IoT Explained Part I: What is Internet of Things?
Today, there are billions of electronic devices connected to the internet. These devices collect and share data. This makes up the Internet of Things –…
The Role of IoT in Global Disease Prevention
The outbreak of COVID-19 caught the world by surprise. In the future, IoT can help governments and health organizations stay one step ahead of disease…