The current smart home market—largely enabled by the Internet of Everything (IoE)—evokes the spirit of the “Wild West.” That’s largely due to the multitude of companies promoting different automation standards and aggressively competing for marketshare. Ultimately, the key to unlocking the smart home market may hinge on how devices interconnect and the standards agreed to by the various companies and vendors. What may be even more promising is that consumers will help to resolve the standardization issue by the choices they make with their wallets.   …half of the world’s…

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When data sources from a wide range of Internet of things devices are combined and analyzed, a broader and deeper understanding of the world, and humans, ensues.  One of the inescapable realities of today’s technology is that what seems like science fiction one month or year is suddenly mainstream IT a few years later. Travel on the Wayback Machine to 2005 and it’s clear that smartphones were mostly dumbphones, clouds were still relegated to the sky and big data was anything more than what a DVD holds. Moreover, the pace…

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Going to the office used to be exciting, there was a fast internet connection, that brand new laptop you couldn’t afford to have at home, and it didn’t take a exuberant amount of time to load the next webpage. The consumerisation of IT has been caused by the wide availability as well as the increasing affordability of high performance technology, in the form of smart phones, tablet and laptops, and connectivity in the form of 3G or 4G as well as broadband. It has not only had an impact on…

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Seventh conference on information security was held on Metropoliten University in Belgrade   Metropoliten University is the organizer of traditional conference dedicated to information security, and Saga took part as a sponsor. Conference was opened by Dr. Dragan Domazet, University Rector, while the main invited speaker was Branislav Vujovic, President of New Frontier Group. In his presentation he pointed out how digital economy has changed the world we live in and how quickly everything changes. That is why it is necessary that the companies find a way to use the…

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Better risk assessment benefits insurancers and policyholders The future of insurance Smart devices bring great opportunity to the insurance business. By collecting real-time data from millions of points around the world, insuranc​e companies will be able to better access the risk of any given policy as well as customize their products to fit the needs of each single customer. Here is a list of smart devices that can be disrupt the way we insurance ourselves and our belongings: Smart fridges General Electric and Samsung both unveiled smart fridges during the…

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