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'Five years from now we'll be active in areas we haven't yet dreamed of'

1. [verwijderd] 11 mei 2015 16:48

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   Fikkie: was dat niet dat snoezige robot hondje van Sony ;-)
   

   Leuk geintje,
   
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2. [verwijderd] 11 mei 2015 17:24

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   emerging technologies of 2015
   
   Next-generation robotics
   
   Rolling away from the production line
   The popular imagination has long foreseen a world where robots take over all manner of everyday tasks.
   
   This robotic future has stubbornly refused to materialize, however, with robots still limited to factory assembly lines and other controlled tasks. Although heavily used (in the automotive industry, for instance) these robots are large and dangerous to human co-workers; they have to be separated by safety cages.
   
   Advances in robotics technology are making human-machine collaboration an everyday reality. Better and cheaper sensors make a robot more able to understand and respond to its environment. Robot bodies are becoming more adaptive and flexible, with designers taking inspiration from the extraordinary flexibility and dexterity of complex biological structures, such as the human hand. And robots are becoming more connected, benefiting from the cloud-computing revolution by being able to access instructions and information remotely, rather than having to be programmed as a fully autonomous unit.
   The new age of robotics takes these machines away from the big manufacturing assembly lines, and into a wide variety of tasks. Using GPS technology, just like smartphones, robots are beginning to be used in precision agriculture for weed control and harvesting. In Japan, robots are being trialled in nursing roles: they help patients out of bed and support stroke victims in regaining control of their limbs. Smaller and more dextrous robots, such as Dexter Bot, Baxter and LBR iiwa, are designed to be easily programmable and to handle manufacturing tasks that are laborious or uncomfortable for human workers.
   
   Indeed, robots are ideal for tasks that are too repetitive or dangerous for humans to undertake, and can work 24 hours a day at a lower cost than human workers. In reality, new-generation robotic machines are likely to collaborate with humans rather than replace them. Even considering advances in design and artificial intelligence, human involvement and oversight will remain essential.
   
   There remains the risk that robots may displace human workers from jobs, although previous generations of automation have tended to lead to higher productivity and growth with benefits throughout the economy. Decades-old fears of networked robots running out of control may become more salient with next generation robotics linked into the web – but more likely familiarisation as people employ domestic robots to do household chores will reduce fears rather than fan them. And new research into social robots – that know how to collaborate and build working alliances with humans – means that a future where robots and humans work together, each to do what it does best – is a strong likelihood. Nevertheless, however, the next generation of robotics poses novel questions for fields from philosophy to anthropology about the human relationship to machines.
   
   "Using GPS technology, just like smartphones" mooi he like using high precisions maps only....(giga markt)
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   Firefox OS debuteert op smart tv's van Panasonic
   
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   TomTom Launches Online Maps and Navigation In HTML5 Through Partnership with Mozilla and Telefónica
   
   
   April 23, 2015 01:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time
   
   AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TomTom (TOM2) today announces a partnership with Mozilla and Telefónica to bring its Maps Online and Nav Online apps to HTML5 powered Firefox OS smartphone devices.
   
   Smart-TV's...
4. [verwijderd] 1 juni 2015 09:39

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   Healthcare
   
   No more guessing: Health systems tap sophisticated data tools to pick expansion sites
   
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   Dr. Este Geraghty, chief medical officer for Redlands, Calif.-based Esri, a mapping technology company, said health organizations generally have similar data needs to those of retailers, including population demographics, population density and market potential.
   ...Some Esri clients using its ArcGIS mapping platform include Kaiser Permanente and Children's National Medical Center in Washington.
   
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5. OVI 1 juni 2015 10:54

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   er op 15 juni in Eindhoven een lezing is van Carlo vd Weijer, VP van TomTom over "Disruptive Mobility"
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   Join us at the open lecture by TU/e dr. ir. Carlo van de Weijer at High Tech Campus Eindhoven: "Disruptive Mobility" on 15 June from 15.45. ICT and the Internet have reached mobility arena. Vehicles have become computers on wheels and start sharing their information to further improve traffic. As a consequence, the changes within and around the vehicle will happen exponentially.
   
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6. [verwijderd] 12 juni 2015 10:39

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   maintenance (onderhoud)
   
   En ook hier gaat het weer over standaardisering v/h "protocol"
   
   Feature – Raising the standard
   
   “A lot of the products now have a telematics function on board, and the customer can turn on everything or nothing. But they are operating several hundred datapoints and it can lead to information overload.
   
   “When that happens, how do you prioritise? The industry is extremely clerical and administrative as it is. Adding more doesn’t necessarily make it more efficient. ”
   
   On the upside, Mr Hellström said: “The rental industry has been very quick to pick up on GPS technology”.
   
   “There has been a rapid uptake on this type of equipment, whereas previously it had been quite a slow adaptor in some areas. It’s easier to illustrate a business case for telematics and show a return on investment.
   
   "You can show operating hours or idling hours on capital equipment fleets, which gives rental companies the chance to change their service models and become more competitive.
   
   “What we are also seeing is a big advantage in maintenance. The industry has moved from fixing equipment when it breaks to preventative maintenance and now to being able to read diagnostic information. They can work with predictive maintenance and decrease overall costs, and use the data to determine the product mix and investment decisions.”
   
   For Infor, the benchmark in terms of a telematics contract remains its strong business relationship with Caterpillar, where it has collaborated to produce dealer-specific solutions and also set up the Infor Caterpillar Dealer Advisory Council.
   
   “What Cat has done is always be very close with distributors and dealers around the globe,” commented Mr Hellström.
   
   “It has always had an insight directly into the data. When you’re a customer you don’t realise you’re in a dealership, it’s like being in Cat. And that close relationship rings through here as well. Rather than an individual dealership or rental company, you get Cat as a central point in the data. We have similar relationships with other brands, but they haven’t necessarily come as far yet.”
   
   As for the future: “We’re trying to take enterprise business systems into the consumer experience, such as smart phones. That’s the next big step we all have to work on, because the next generation of users aren’t going to have the patience that we had. They are not going to bother with courses or training manuals.”
   
   Standards
   
   What kind of a future will pan out for those users will be influenced by the efforts that have taken place to establish a telematics standard so users can see all their fleet information across common datapoints on a single website.
   
   Both the German trade association the VDBUM and the American bodies the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and Association of Equipment Manufacturing Professionals (AEMP) have been working in this area - in September 2014 they produced a draft standard after a summer of high-profile meetings with OEMs including Liebherr, Wirtgen-Vögele, Caterpillar and Bauer.
   
   The standardisation of telematics has also attracted the attention of the European Rental Association (ERA), where it will be the subject of a roundtable at this year’s Convention in June, with the VDBUM’s Udo Kiesewalter confirmed as a speaker.
   
   By then it is expected that the standard will have been fully integrated following submission to the International Organization for Standardization.
   
   So what are a typical customer’s requirements of a telematics system now? Giles Margerison, sales director UK and Ireland of Tom Tom Telematics, which deals with commercial vehicle and rental fleets ranging from one vehicle to several thousand, has identified six key areas.
   
   Requirements
   
   These are to improve efficiency; reduce cost; comply with legislation; mitigate and reduce risk; improve general customer service; and demonstrate corporate social responsibility.
   
   Mr Margerison said the significance of each area varies from company to company, but his own company’s technology is present in all six.
   
   This includes an internet-based platform called Webfleet that reports the position of a vehicle every
   
   10 seconds from a “black box” fitted behind the dashboard and hardwired to the vehicle.
   
   Elsewhere, the company’s OBD2 on-board diagnostic tool gives real time information relating to items such as fuel consumption, engine revs, idling and CO2 emissions.
   
   A further option is a driver terminal that can update work flows, job status and estimated times of arrival and communicate this to the customer. It can also give feedback direct to the driver of the vehicle.
   
   “It’s all about the driver,” said Mr Margerison.
   
   “A large element of the total cost of ownership is vehicles, so we help the customer make the driver’s life as easy as possible while also influencing their behaviour.”
   
   Mr Margerison admits that the pace of change in the industry is such that Tom Tom Telematics can’t do everything on its own. However, its website lists nearly 350 partner organisations it is working with to bring the products of the future to market. “The market is definitely changing from push to pull. Integration wasn’t even a discussion three years ago, but it is a huge subject just now, because people historically bought technology in silos and operated a manual system to link it all up.
   
   “And because we can integrate, we can make the tachograph work for the customer. It was only ever there to aid enforcement, and it never did anything for the customer at all. Now we can help make the customers’ lives better.”
   
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