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IoTFriday E42 | Smart building compatibility. One app for all?

December 28, 2018

Combining all smart building appliances to create one seamless smart building. Whether it be for smart homes or larger scale solutions a lot of applications controlling lights, presence detectors, temperature sensors, heating, smart locks, etc. need to be integrated. Is the “one-app”  approach the best solution? We look at the options of delivering API’s from...

4 Key Focus Areas for a Smarter QA Strategy

September 13, 2018

4 Key Focus Areas The combination of Digital Transformation and customers’ zero tolerance to defects has put QA center-stage. Rapidly changing technology; mixed Big Data; complex Regulations; and Agile, DevOps and Cloud success in a complex IT and supplier landscape, require a smarter approach to development and testing.  It’s essential to more closely align the...

IoTFriday E42 | Smart building compatibility. One app for all?

December 28, 2018

Combining all smart building appliances to create one seamless smart building. Whether it be for smart homes or larger scale solutions a lot of applications controlling lights, presence detectors, temperature sensors, heating, smart locks, etc. need to be integrated. Is the “one-app”  approach the best solution? We look at the options of delivering API’s from...

Open your eyes: follow the journey of quality improvement by using your data!

December 31, 2018

How do we make decisions regarding testing and quality assurance in our day-to-day profession as quality engineers? This is a key question in order to understand the importance of data. With no data, there is no information to make decisions with more criteria than intuition. This is why Data-Driven Decision Management is a popular and...

When AI “goes bad”

January 16, 2019

The benefits of the wider use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are clear to the businesses that are rushing to make use of it. We see chatbots that are replacing humans in customer service roles, reducing costs of operation for the businesses that employ them. We see personalized selections on social media, entertainment channels, and e-commerce...

Santa DevOps

December 24, 2018

Santa DevOps Introduction For many of us, Christmas is a time when projects can slow down a little, when we can focus a little on the finer things of life, or at least catch up on the boxsets on Netflix. Not everyone has it easy at this time of the year! For some it’s the...

IoTFriday E39 | To gateway or not to gateway

October 26, 2018

Today we look at a mothership concept for IoT solutions that is not another gateway concept. Inspired by the book “Wired for War” by P.W. Singer (interesting read on robotics, drones and everything related) the mothership concept challenges our IoT architecture with less gateways. A mothership for drones serves as a higher hierarchy of drones...

#IoTFriday E33 | In code we trust

June 15, 2018

Trust We visited the conference #VINT2018 “In code we trust”. Inspiration and great discussions on a hot topic at the moment: trust. Trust in products around us, trust in the governances using digital solutions for us, trust in data.In todays #IoTFriday we discus the day and talk to our VINT colleague Pepijn Pepping on the...

Accelerating Utility Transformation through Blockchain

January 9, 2019

In today’s world, utilities face the key challenges of fluctuating demand for energy, demand for improved and personalized customer service, increasing operating costs, cybersecurity issues, and meeting regulatory compliance requirements. Utilities across the globe, therefore, seek to change and leave behind their traditional way of running the business and operations. To do so, they are...