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Liz Goldsmith

Why smart businesses minimize risk with smart detectors

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Smart buildings use IoT devices that monitor building performance to bring benefits from staff productivity to sustainability through sensors and automated applications, as well as improving the experience of staff and visitors. This is particularly poignant at a time when hygiene and well-being comes under scrutiny in public buildings. IoT solutions are capable of helping businesses adhere to regulations, while also protecting the business from damage. Proximity sensors used for non-contact detection of objects are being used in car parks to indicate parking availability and can be used to manage people numbers in confined areas – especially relevant in social distancing measures. While pressure sensors are capable of detecting fluctuations or drops in pressure in water systems, used in conjunction with water quality sensors they can provide an important role in monitoring water quality.

White Paper | The Technology of the Future Is Here, but the Education Is Far behind

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Mission Critical and Panduit commissioned Clear Seas Research to conduct a survey measuring industry awareness and usage of edge computing solutions. 100 experts were asked how they would explain edge computing to someone new in the industry. Responses ranged from vague — “It’s modern and tech savvy,” to precise — “Putting the data near the user,” to eye-opening — “Not 100% sure myself.” Read the full report for more insight regarding the perceived challenges and benefits associated with edge computing as well as who should be involved in the decision-making process when it comes to deploying edge infrastructure and selecting the right vendor.

The Power in the Data Center is There — Use It

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For many in the data center sector, one of the most pressing concerns is that much of the world’s data center infrastructure operates in a manner that is financially suboptimal and environmentally unsustainable. If a data center is only using a fraction of the available power, then the capital investment that is tied up in inflexible power infrastructure is impotent. The question is, who is paying for that stranded capacity and unused space?

Cabling for smart buildings – making smart choices

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Smart Building networks have a number of extremely specific requirements, including the need for flexibility, the ability to scale up (or down) easily, PoE (Power over Ethernet) or PODL (Power over Data Lines) capacity and support for Internet of Things and Cloud applications. Picking the right cabling can make or break a smart building. The introduction of wireless access points combined with fixed access as well as PoE has made designing, configuring, and reconfiguring networks much easier and more suitable to Smart Buildings. 

3 options to use Kubernetes and containers for edge computing

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As organizations pursue the idea of running containers in edge computing environments, they’ll look to extend their Kubernetes deployments outside the data center. Many enterprises have different views of edge computing, but few rule out the possibility they’ll deploy application components to the edge in the future, particularly for IoT and other low-latency applications and Kubernetes as the ideal mechanism to run containers in edge computing environments — particularly those who have already adopted the container orchestration system for their cloud and data center needs.

Webinar: A New Generation of Pluggable, 100 – 400G Coherent Optical Modules: Implementation and Testing

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Evolving network requirements are driving an expansion of use cases that can benefit from coherent optical technology. This is ushering in a new era of pluggable coherent optical technology with 100 – 400Gb/s capacity, support for various interoperable transport standards and a wide variety of client payloads. At the same time, the options for pluggable client optical transceivers are also broadening with respect to form factor, client rates and types. At the nexus of these trends are transport and router platforms utilizing both client pluggable optics and coherent pluggable optics to support a range of different applications. These systems will leverage the capabilities of this new generation of multi-rate coherent pluggables to enable features like modularity, pay-as-you-grow, interoperability and flexibility.

Ohio municipality, Cincinnati Bell form smart city partnership to provide free public WiFi

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Wyoming, Ohio is the first small city in Hamilton County to implement a smart city solution. Partnering with Cincinnati Bell to realize a “smart city” vision and ignite economic growth, and bring free public WiFi to the municipality as part of a broader effort to ignite economic growth. The municipality installed a smart city solution with WiFi coverage in the central business district, the village green, and the municipality’s Crescent Park. The community may log on through a splash page at “Wyoming Free WiFi.”

UC Berkeley, NTT partner on smart campus pilot project

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UC Berkeley and NTT  announced a connected campus pilot project that will leverage technology to “smartly” transform the UC Berkeley Parking and Transportation Department by analyzing use patterns, easing traffic congestion, and increasing pedestrian safety in the Bancroft Way area of campus. The pilot will incorporate NTT’s Accelerate Smart data platform and Dell Technologies’ modular data center infrastructure for edge deployments of high-definition optical sensors and IoT devices that monitor traffic-related issues.