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Welcome to Smart Industry - The IoT Business Magazine

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Smart Industry is the IoT business magazine from Avnet Silica, featuring case studies, interviews and articles on innovative ventures from pioneers in IoT and Artificial Intelligence technology.

With insights and strategies for IoT transformation, our featured articles offer real-world perspectives into what's happening now and what is likely to happen in the future, as more and more companies prepare to integrate IoT into their business models.

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The Age of the Digital Human: The Man Machine

Psychokinesis, or mind over matter, is a popular dream of sci-fi and horror story writers. In the digital world, dreams often come true and there are signs that soon we may be able to complete tasks without moving off our sofas. Remote control is changing to cerebral control – if you think it, you can do it.
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Silent Speech – Close, But Not Close enough (Yet)

Housed in its top-secret Skunkworks tucked away in Building 8 on Meta’s campus in Menlo Park, Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) worked on a project to build a headset or headband to allow people to send text messages by thinking – tapping them out at 100 words per minute.optical BCI.
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The Internet of Bodes

Brain interfaces may be a future goal but, here and now, WiFi devices are increasingly becoming integral to the delivery of quality healthcare.
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Editorial: Creating the Future

Smart Industry Magazine's Editor Tim Cole, gives his take on how IoT is creating the future.

Smart homes and factories, smart clothing (socalled “wearables”), autonomous cars, trucks and drones and other stuff from the world of science fiction have become everyday phenomena that introduced the world to IoT technology and its giant potential. Let’s take a closer look at some of them.
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Smart Business

In our Smart Business Category, you'll find inspiring articles featuring experiences and case studies of companies that integrated the Internet of Things into their business models. What´s your next IoT project?

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Welcome to the Metaverse

Online communities have existed since at least the mid-1980s, but the metaverse could represent a whole new dimension. Imagine it as an online virtual world which incorporates augmented reality, virtual reality, 3D holographic avatars, video and other means of communication.

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The Future of IoT

The Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to disrupt and transform many industries. While IoT is still in its infancy, businesses are already experiencing improved operational efficiencies, productivity growth, cost reductions and new revenue generation opportunities.

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Making Things Easier

The world of IoT is changing fast and the number of vendors and solutions are legion. Finding the right supplier can be tricky, says Lou Lutostanski, vice president for the Internet of Things at Avnet.

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Smart Communication

With Smart Communication, you will be able to explore areas in which data and IoT helps to improve communication and offers solutions to upcoming challenges.

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Trucking & IoT: Delivering a revolution

Artificial intelligence, advanced robotics and the Internet of Things are poised to spark a revolution in the automobile industry.

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Taking security to the edge

The ongoing digitisation of the workplace and the rise of the distributed workforce is forcing companies to redefine the security of their IT infrastructure.

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EV Charging: Current trends

The electric vehicle industry is on its way to market maturity but there are still twists in the road for stakeholders and customers. From accessibility and standardization issues to a lack of convenient and secure payment methods at charging stations, unresolved issues could still throw a spoke in the wheel of electric vehicles, leaving full adoption out of reach.

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Smart Lifestyle

In the Smart Lifestyle category, you'll find articles on how IoT solutions influence our day-to-day life by making it more secure, or tasks easier to do.

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Fighting forest fires

Being able to discover forest fires early is an increasingly urgent issue. According to Cal Fire, California’s firefighting agency, nine of California’s 20 largest fires to date have occurred since 2020.

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Taking 5g to the max

Smart cities, self-driving vehicles and advanced robotics are just the tip of the iceberg: there’s no doubt that 5G will radically change the world.

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The World is shrinking

Computer chips are more powerful and versatile than ever and they’re getting smaller every day. A company making this happen is Xilinx. We've interviewed Chetan Khona, Director, Industrial, Vision, Healthcare & Sciences at AMD Xilinx, about FPGA technology.

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