Accurate Wind Simulation to Facilitate Grid Connection
With efforts to increase renewable energy output and percentage in nationwide supply, unforeseen problems are uncovered simultaneously.
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Remote Control: New Steps in Mining
Over the past few years, remote wiring companies have been trying to develop a crawler tractor that would fit mining purposes, but also be remotely controllable.
Dashboard featured in the BBC front page articles
On Monday, September 19th Dashboard was linked by an article visible on the BBC front page. The article, written under the category of technology, is headed “Tech Talent: Map of the UK’s digital clusters”.
Machine Learning
When two new and exciting technological innovations are paired together, the results can be ground breaking: the marriage between phones and copy machines brought us fax machines and satellites’ union with portable screens gave us GPS.
UAVs in Oil and Gas – steps in commercial use
UAVs – unmanned aerial vehicles, or more commonly, drones – have been the big thing in non commercial usage for over a century. The military, in particular, have taken full advantage of UAVs and their cost-saving, and continue to be the largest user to date.
The Holy Trinity of IoT, The Cloud, and Big Data
IoT, The Cloud and Big Data are all enormous, state-of-the-art concepts, undergoing constant development and growth. While The Cloud and Big Data are well known among the masses, IoT is a tad more obscure.
The IoT gap between the industry and consumers
As digital industry professionals plough on with developing IoT gadgets, connectivity and batteries, the value of IoT as a concept keeps skyrocketing. Its walls are constantly stretched and edges reshaped to adjust to the latest innovations and breakthroughs.
Lithium batteries enabling wireless IoT
While Internet of Things(IoT) is said to be the greatest innovation since the World Wide Web, it is also undisputable that it faces many problems. One of these is how smaller devices would function for hours on end without a wire to connect it to a power source. IoT devices would most likely consume an enormous amount of energy in small time periods, and so far the options to solve this problem are limited.
Dashboard’s commentary on “Unlock the value of the Internet of Things with the 2016 Vodafone IoT Barometer”
Vodafone’s Internet of Things department has once again conducted their big annual IoT Barometer, this year round with over 1000 respondents of senior management level. The focus for this issue is keys to IoT’s business value.
IoT in Mining – A South African Perspective
As IoT has developed rapidly in the recent years, many industries have benefitted from the added speed, efficiency and connectivity it has brought along. One of these industries is mining, which could be subject to many an improvement, yet can at times be slow to incorporate new technology.