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The role of IoT in shaping smart cities

CIO

Cities are embracing smart city initiatives to address these challenges, leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) as the cornerstone for data-driven decision making and optimized urban operations. According to IDC, the IoT market in the Middle East and Africa is set to surpass $30.2 Popular examples include NB-IoT and LoRaWAN.

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Daily grabs another $40M so developers can add video, audio features to any product

TechCrunch

We’ve all embraced video calls, whether it is with our work colleague or our physician, but for developers, it remains a challenge to build both real-time audio and video features into products. The most interesting trend we’re seeing is that new use cases for video and audio are showing up every week,” Hultman Kramer said.

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Why “café-like branches” are the latest buzz among CIOs

CIO

To answer this, we need to look at the major shifts reshaping the workplace and the network architectures that support it. Its like putting users on a guest network. VPNs inherently expose more of the network than necessary and struggle to scale effectively for remote access. But SD-WAN created a new problem: security.

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Spot AI emerges from stealth with $22M for a platform to draw out more intelligence from organizations’ basic security videos

TechCrunch

Now, a startup is coming out of stealth with funding for tech designed to make the video produced by those cameras more useful. The issue is that many of these cameras are very old, analogue set-ups; and whether they are older or newer hardware, the video that is produced on them is of a very basic nature.

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Iceland’s Controlant, with $50M backing, emerges as key player in Cold Chain for COVID-19 vaccine

TechCrunch

Controlant — which has a unique real-time supply chain monitoring technology based on GSM networks and is specifically geared to areas like pharmaceuticals and life sciences — has confirmed it is providing its monitoring services to Pfizer as it delivers the mRNA-based Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine globally.

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IoT Architecture: the Pathway from Physical Signals to Business Decisions

Altexsoft

IoT solutions have become a regular part of our lives. This article describes IoT through its architecture, layer to layer. Major IoT building blocks and layers. Before we go any further, it’s worth pointing out that there is no single, agreed-upon IoT architecture. The skeleton of an IoT system.

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Governments Must Promote Network-Level IoT Security at Scale

Palo Alto Networks

Many governments globally are concerned about IoT security, particularly as more IoT devices are rolling out across critical sectors of their economies and as cyberattacks that leverage IoT devices make headlines. In response, many officials are exploring regulations or codes of practice aimed at improving IoT security.

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