While the Internet of Things (IoT) has been a hot topic in the tech world for some time now, people are only now beginning to talk seriously about the concept’s impact on the everyday lives of normal people. It’s a commonly quoted stat in blogs across the internet, but it definitely bears repeating: Gartner expects
It’s impossible to count the many ways in which the digital revolution has impacted modern life. Technologies like mobile and the cloud are being embraced everywhere from office space meeting rooms to the average consumer’s home – and t hey’re drastically changing how we go about our lives. It could easily be argued that Wi-Fi
Machine-to-machine (M2M) is an umbrella term used to describe the exchange of information between networked devices with little or no intervention from humans. There has been much talk in recent months of the Internet of Things (IoT) and it is M2M that is the underlying technology behind the concept. Gartner recently predicted that by 2020
Mobile phones have been a common feature of many people’s lives since the mid-1990s, but for much of the time since, they’ve been banished from the world of air travel. It’s almost become second nature to just switch devices off when entering an aircraft – that was until handset manufacturers began loading their products with
For the longest time, the primary challenge for mobile network operators (MNOs) was to increase their footprint, achieving coverage across the widest possible area. However, the challenge has now evolved; the demand for wireless data has exploded in recent years, leaving existing networks straining to keep up. MNOs now need to increase cell density where
It’s been little more than two decades since the accessibility of mobile phones started to rise across the industrialised world. In the mid-1990s, manufacturers such as Nokia and Motorola found ways to make their devices small and affordable enough to appeal to the masses – essentially, they began eradicating an exclusivity that had seen mobile
Smartphone and tablet use is booming and mobile data is growing at exponential rates. Cisco recently published its Visual Networking Index (VNI), which found that mobile data traffic grew by 81 per cent in 2013 alone. The same report predicted that mobile data traffic will increase a further 11-fold between now and 2018, with more
In 1983, Gerald S. Hawkins published a book called ‘Mindsteps to the Cosmos’ in which he postulated that throughout history, humankind took dramatic technological steps forward. He described these irreversible paradigm shifts as ‘mindsteps’ and identified five distinct innovations in history which created entirely new world views; these were invention of imagery, writing, mathematics, printing,
The public Wi-Fi ecosystem is on the precipice of monumental change. The explosion in mobile data traffic has been staggering and is only set to continue. Research suggests that data traffic will increase a further 12 times between 2013-2018 and mobile data traffic will reach 11.7 exabytes per month in the same time frame. It
