Impact Digital Twins are becoming an integral part of the Digital Transformation and basically any area that can be affected by the Digital Transformation may see the application of Digital Twins. On the one hand, Digital Twins derive from the digitalization of specification, design and manufacturing processes and they are …
Read More »Digital Twins: where we are where we go – II
There are starting to be so many components, processes and products having a digital twin that there is the interest and need in connecting them in networks (watch the SAP clip). The digital transformation makes possible to operate in the cyberspace, decreasing processing and transaction cost. Digital Twins create a …
Read More »A world that is becoming responsive is a world where boundaries are becoming fuzzier
Now Alexa and the likes are making talking to the ambient we live in normal. More than that, actually: they are leading us to expect that it is normal that the ambient answers our questions, execute what we are demanding of it. This is brought forward by advances in speech …
Read More »A few insights on Symbiotic Autonomous Systems – II
Digital Twins are spreading with more and more companies adopting them in a growing number of market sectors. Design and Manufacturing today are leading the way (watch the clip by T-Systems International). As this happens we are seeing Digital Twins becoming a bridge that connects the physical and the virtual …
Read More »Digital Transformation vs Continuous Education II
Over the centuries humankind has managed to increase the global knowledge and found ways to pass this growing knowledge from a generation to the next one. Knowledge, for most part of human history, was generated locally by very few people and used locally. It took centuries for knowledge to move …
Read More »My smartphone, my (future) digital twin?
As of May 2018 there were some 250,000 fitness apps(!) available and more are coming as more and more everyday objects are generating data that provide hints on our wellbeing: smart belts smart shoes smart watches fitness bands smart slippers (there are even self parking slippers...) smart mirrors smart cars …
Read More »An avalanche of best wishes
This is the time of the year when I get flooded by well wishing messages. My birthday is on January second and through the many connections I have on social networks many people are aware of that and, kindly, send me a message. I got 3,000+ connections on LinkedIn, 1,500 …
Read More »2019 Tech Trends III
Following on the previous posts on 2019 top tech trends let’s look at the 3 technologies that are expected to continue having a growing impact in 2019 but whose massive uptake is expected in the next decade: Digital Twins -These are software representations of assets and processes to understand, predict, and …
Read More »My camera and its lenses will get a digital twin pretty soon
I wrote a post some time ago on the shift towards computational photography. Now I stumbled onto an article pointing out what computational photography might bring in the coming decade (we are just a year away!). Computational photography is the way to make use of data collected by the camera …
Read More »Education challenges up North are not unique
I was part in the last two days of the IEEE presence at ArticNet, the major annual event looking at different facets of life and environment in artic regions (of Canada, although the issues are common to all artic regions). The artic region of Canada is a vast spread of …
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