Electric vehicles—trucks, cars, buses, and even scooters—are getting a lot of publicity lately. The recent laws, state and federal, aimed at mitigating the country’s emissions problems all focus on getting more EVs (electric vehicles) on the road, replacing internal combustion and diesel engine vehicles. Many construction firms are publishing both medium-term and long-term targets to […]
Azure Payment HSM achieves PCI PIN certification offering customers secure digital payments solutions in the cloud
This blog post has been co-authored by Darius Ryals, General Manager of Partner Promises and Azure Chief Information Security Officer. Today we’re announcing Azure Payment HSM has achieved Payment Card Industry Personal Identification Number (PCI PIN) making Azure the first hyperscale cloud service provider to obtain this certification. Financial technology has rapidly disrupted the payments industry […]
Smart Homes: Bridging the AI Gap
Smart homes can start from the planning stage of a new build or they can be renovations of existing homes. Add a few controls, use a voice app, and Bingo, you have a basic Smart Home. But true integration and interoperability of IoT (Internet of Things) components requires more thought and planning than many realize. […]
Making Mortgages Quicker
Technology to the rescue? As interest rates for mortgages fluctuate at a rapid rate, borrowers are frustrated by the hoops they often must have to jump through to even get data for their applications. In England, lenders are seeking workarounds using the cloud and technology. The Mansfield Building Society, for example, has launched and open […]
Decoding the Code
Standards make the world go around—safely. While not every “standard” is binding, safety versions are more likely to be adhered to than others. No one wants to jeopardize their safety by ignoring best practices. As industries change and evolve, so too must standards and the organizations that create and update standards take that into consideration. […]
The Air Is Filled with the Sound of –IoT?
Smart cities, smart houses, smart facilities, smart everything depend on the strength of the available communications networks. The IoT (Internet of Things) requires direct and indirect communications, device to device, device to central hub, device to monitoring equipment. The increasing deployment of cellular IoT modules in smart city infrastructure and building automation verticals is expected […]
Measuring Safety
The old adage that you can’t improve what you can’t measure has been used to explain why human behavior is often the hardest thing to change. Mechanical operations can be measured and ways to improve them found but how do you measure people’s activities? Perhaps there are ways. By converting actions into data streams and […]
Azure private MEC—A thriving partner ecosystem
In June of 2021, Microsoft introduced Azure private multi-access edge compute (MEC), a solution that enables operators and system integrators (SI’s) to deliver high performance, low latency connectivity, together with IoT applications at the edge, helping to deliver the next wave of digital transformation. This is made possible because Azure private MEC combines network functions, […]
Azure private MEC—A thriving partner ecosystem
In June of 2021, Microsoft introduced Azure private multi-access edge compute (MEC), a solution that enables operators and system integrators (SI’s) to deliver high performance, low latency connectivity, together with IoT applications at the edge, helping to deliver the next wave of digital transformation. This is made possible because Azure private MEC combines network functions, […]
Collaboration: Near, Far, and Future, Part I
Collaboration has many synonyms—association, combination, teamwork, alliance, joint effort, among others—but strangely, communications isn’t one of them. Strange because the main element of collaboration is indeed communication among individuals both near and far. Especially far, even in these dwindling days of COVID-19’s remote work and distancing, as remote work is giving way to hybrid work […]
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