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A new virus pandemic is not something most of us regularly think about preparing for. With COVID-19, few businesses or people were ready to face such a problem.

Where automation truly excels is in accomplishing repetitive and simple tasks. Companies are automating such work to keep expenses low and prevent mistakes. The important question to ask is: Where should we draw the line? Which jobs should be automated, and which are better left to human beings?

All major cities face a waste problem. A growing population means a growing amount of trash, including the kind that ends up in street bins. That creates a need for cities to find new ways to deal with waste and optimize existing procedures. Waste management is one more field where implementing IoT can help. Let’s see how municipal governments are using technology to keep cities clean.

Internet of Things technology generates a lot of data that makes it easier for the user to understand processes and events. The term is extremely broad, encompassing technologies and devices gathering all kinds of unsorted data. To gain the most value from these technologies, it’s useful to categorize this data according to factors such as temperature, speed, location, humidity, and the like. Today, let’s talk about the Location of Things — and how we can use geopositioning to our benefit.

You have a device in your pocket that can answer lots of questions. Want weather info? Need a ride downtown? Can’t remember the exact rate at which glaciers melt? A search takes just a moment. But can it really answer any question? How about: “What’s that castle in front of me?” Or: “Can you translate the whole restaurant menu?” So, today we are tackling the subject of Computer Vision.

The industrial Internet of Things makes it possible to gather various data that businesses can use to their benefit. What if we told you that such data can be used to study and improve a product even before it is launched? How about extracting value from a product and testing all kinds of “what-if” scenarios without physical interaction? That’s exactly what Digital Twins are designed to do.

The software helps manage whole factories and large retail stores using smartphones and computers. Apart from such hefty tasks, the software allows us to do more trivial things with ease — for instance, calling a cab or ordering a pizza. The process of developing software may differ greatly as to complexity, specifications, time and budget constraints, the composition of the development team and its members’ skills, as well as the client’s needs. Different development methodologies may be needed, depending on all of those factors. Let’s review several common models.

Wikitude is a powerful AR Software Development Kit for iOS and Android platforms.

The IoT, or Internet of Things, is a progressive technology that allows for building networks of any scale that allow different types of devices to collect, process, and share data among one another and the Internet. Tracking and tagging are among the most important features the IoT provides.

The pace at which IoT systems are being adopted is impressive: as Gartner predicts, by 2020 there will be 20.6 billion connected devices, compared with just 8.4 billion in 2017. That’s all thanks to various new technologies that are contributing to connected infrastructure. Let’s review the tech that boosted the expansion and development of the Internet of Things projects in 2019.