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4. In addition to the previous questions, any other comments? The fight against COVID-19 is being fought on several directions: – decreasing the probability of contagion, usually through social distancing and isolation of potential foci of infection. Technology can help through sensing distance (Bluetooth based apps), data analytics (tracing of …

We already have plenty of data that are captured at any time in many places. As shown in the picture, department stores are using analytics on images captured by video cameras to assess the average time customers spend in a specific location, like looking at products on shelves. Based on …

I got several reactions to the posts on the PDT and epidemics and several questions on the effectiveness of actually applying PDTs in this area. With this post I try to clarify some of the points I made in a more systematic way. In mathematical terms, an infection is characterised …

The disparity in the world healthcare among Countries is huge, as shown in the World Bank data, and, unfortunately, it is no April fools. Bet869ween the Gambia 20$ and the US 9869$ per person per year there is a factor of 493! Now, one might observe that the value of …

A crucial aspect in epidemic control is the capability to involve a whole community and obtain compliance to the set of rules defined by the Healthcare Institutions and imposed by the Government through a regulatory framework. The best way to achieve compliance is through awareness, If people understand what is …

Connected Healthcare The healthcare sector has been digitised (introduction of computers in equipment for analyses, monitoring, diagnoses, medication, genome sequencing …) and digitalised to a certain extent (exchange of data in various processes although privacy and standardisation issues are still limiting the exchange of several data, including the Electronic Healthcare …

Smart cities Cities are basically existing and organised through and around infrastructures. The more efficient these infrastructures the better off is the city, the business and the citizens quality of life. The digital transformation changes the way infrastructures operate and can be monitored but, most importantly the digital transformation create …

Artificial narrow intelligence The Digital Transformation is fuelled by digitalisation, i.e. data, and it results in huge data creation and availability. This is the fertile ground for Artificial Intelligence. In turns, artificial intelligence powers industry to leverage from data and monetise the benefit of the digital transformation. Narrow Artificial Intelligence …

Smart homes Homes are populated by a variety of systems  like power, communications, water (plumbing), waste, heating and air-conditioning, security networks. They are also populated with many devices, some fixed like fridge, oven, fan-coil, television, others wandering around like robotic vacuum cleaner and others moving in and out, like smartphones, …

Growth Drivers Demand generation The Digital Transformation, as already noted when discussing the evolution of business models, allows the flanking of services to products because products may partly be delivering their functionalities through data and applications residing in the cyberspace (or embedded but connected to the cyberspace). These partial presence …