


Insurance risk to R3bn worth of assets reduced using IoT technology
IoT hardware and software provider IoT.nxt with partner Gilela Business Innovations developed a fire control panel monitoring solution, now live at 25 sites across South Africa, that improves the protection of R3bn worth of insured assets. “The risk of a fire breaking...
How IoT and digital buildings will reshape the world post COVID-19
Over the last two decades, the world has seen the outbreak of highly infectious diseases like SARS, Zika virus, Ebola and now COVID-19. Pandemics are a rising threat and epidemics, almost a given. Studies say this is likely due to increased global travel and...
A living, breathing infographic? The digital twin as an infinite representative of the physical
What is a Digital Twin? Digital twins are digital replicas (digitalised duplicates) or representations of devices, machines, connected products, processes, or (and this is where it becomes most useful) complex business eco-systems. “It really is what I refer to...
RFID & IIoT: How do the technologies work together?
One component driving the growth of IoT systems in industrial settings across the globe has been the evolution of RFID and other sensor technologies. Although Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been around for decades, it has found new form in recent...