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Hydrogel Power Technology Advances Intelligent Infrastructure Design
Hydrogel Power Technology Advances Intelligent Infrastructure Design Across modern engineering, from robotic inspection tools to implantable medical sensors, power supply has quietly become one of the biggest bottlenecks in innovation. Electronics are shrinking, software intelligence is advancing ra...
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HexaDream Enables Consistent AI Generated Assets for BIM Workflows
HexaDream Enables Consistent AI Generated Assets for BIM Workflows Artificial intelligence is steadily reshaping how the built environment is designed, simulated and communicated. From digital twins of bridges to automated clash detection in Building Information Modelling workflows, the industry inc...
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Motive Beacon Strengthens Asset Visibility Across Construction and Logistics
Motive Beacon Strengthens Asset Visibility Across Construction and Logistics Across construction sites, logistics hubs and infrastructure projects worldwide, a quiet drain on productivity continues to erode margins. It is not always catastrophic plant failure or supply chain disruption that derails...
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Clean Steel Comes of Age in Spain
Clean Steel Comes of Age in Spain Spain rarely makes global headlines for heavy industry, yet a recent grid decision could quietly reshape Europe’s materials supply chain. Hydnum Steel has secured 500 MW of electrical capacity at the Brazatortas node in Ciudad Real, a level of access typically reser...
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Designing Metals That Refuse to Fail
Designing Metals That Refuse to Fail Across construction, transport and energy systems, catastrophic failure rarely comes from a single overload. Bridges don’t collapse because of one truck, aircraft don’t fracture because of one flight, and wind turbine towers don’t crack after one storm. Instead,...
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Certifiable Hybrid Electric Propulsion Moves Closer To Commercial VTOL Flight
Certifiable Hybrid Electric Propulsion Moves Closer To Commercial VTOL Flight In advanced aviation circles, the conversation has quietly shifted. It is no longer primarily about aerodynamics, autonomy or even airframe design. Instead, propulsion integration has emerged as the decisive hurdle separat...
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Securing Infrastructure Drones Through Intelligent Airborne Networks
Securing Infrastructure Drones Through Intelligent Airborne Networks Unmanned aerial systems have quietly become part of the daily workflow across construction, transport and infrastructure management. Inspectors now survey bridges from the air, engineers monitor rail corridors without closing track...
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Samsara Compact Asset Tag Targets Hidden Costs of Missing Equipment
Samsara Compact Asset Tag Targets Hidden Costs of Missing Equipment Across construction, utilities, logistics and municipal services, the biggest operational disruption often isn’t a collapsed structure or mechanical breakdown. It’s the quiet disappearance of tools, attachments and mobile equipment....
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AI Intelligence Moves Traffic Management From Reaction To Prevention
AI Intelligence Moves Traffic Management From Reaction To Prevention For decades, road authorities have measured success by how quickly they reacted to congestion and incidents. The model was simple. Sensors detected a problem, operators confirmed it, and engineers responded. The limitation was equa...
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Industrial Projects Do Not Fail in the Field, They Fail in the Gaps Between Teams
Industrial Projects Do Not Fail in the Field, They Fail in the Gaps Between Teams Industrial projects rarely collapse because crews lack skill. They unravel because coordination breaks down between engineering, logistics, safety, and execution. In high-value environments such as manufacturing plants...
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Who Owns the Intelligence in the Age of Digital Infrastructure
Who Owns the Intelligence in the Age of Digital Infrastructure Across global construction and infrastructure, digital transformation is no longer about adopting tools. It is about redistributing power. For most of the industry’s history, ownership was tangible. Clients owned assets. Contractors deli...
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Krank Inspeq Connects Field Inspections To Real Time Operational Control
Krank Inspeq Connects Field Inspections To Real Time Operational Control Across construction, mining, energy and heavy industry, companies have spent the past two decades investing heavily in enterprise software. Asset management platforms, ERP suites and maintenance systems now track everything fro...
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Trimble Invests in Future Engineers Through Global Design Challenge
Trimble Invests in Future Engineers Through Global Design Challenge Across the world, governments are pouring billions into transport upgrades, energy transition programmes and urban regeneration schemes. Yet while funding announcements dominate headlines, industry leaders increasingly recognise a d...
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Trackunit IrisX Enables Real Time AI Equipment Intelligence
Trackunit IrisX Enables Real Time AI Equipment Intelligence For more than a decade, construction has invested heavily in telematics, sensors and connected machines. The sector now generates extraordinary volumes of operational data, yet much of it still sits idle. The problem has never been collecti...
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Smart Steel Revives Ageing Bridges With Heat Activated Reinforcement
Smart Steel Revives Ageing Bridges With Heat Activated Reinforcement Across Europe, North America and parts of Asia, infrastructure owners are confronting a difficult reality. Much of the bridge network built during the mid twentieth century is now reaching the end of its original design life. In th...
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Connected Intersections Move From Reactive Repairs To Predictive Operations
Connected Intersections Move From Reactive Repairs To Predictive Operations Across developed and emerging economies alike, intersections remain one of the most critical points in any transport network. A motorway closure attracts headlines, yet a single faulty signal controller in an urban corridor...
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Engineering Metals That Refuse to Crack
Engineering Metals That Refuse to Crack Across transport networks, power systems, aircraft fleets and industrial machinery, most structural failures do not occur in dramatic overload events. Instead, they develop quietly over time. Small repeated stresses gradually reorganise the internal structure...
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Predictive Vision For Safer Streets
Predictive Vision For Safer Streets Across the developed world, road safety strategies have steadily reduced fatalities from vehicle occupants. Yet pedestrians remain disproportionately exposed. According to international transport safety research, intersections account for a large share of urban co...
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Topcon CR S1 Brings Everyday Reality Capture to Infrastructure Workflows
Topcon CR S1 Brings Everyday Reality Capture to Infrastructure Workflows For years, high-resolution reality capture sat at the edge of construction workflows. Laser scanners were accurate but slow, mobile mapping systems were fast but complex, and data processing required specialist skills. The resu...
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From Trenches to Digital Twins as Field Reality Capture Enters the Enterprise GIS
From Trenches to Digital Twins as Field Reality Capture Enters the Enterprise GIS Across the global infrastructure sector, the most expensive problems are often the ones nobody can see. Utilities, highways agencies and contractors consistently face delays, redesigns and safety incidents caused by in...
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Evolving Infrastructure Through Intelligent Modernisation
Evolving Infrastructure Through Intelligent Modernisation Across the global infrastructure sector, digital transformation has quietly crossed a threshold. It is no longer viewed as a disruptive project delivered in phases and completed once systems are replaced. Instead, it has become a permanent en...
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Topcon Partners With Fixposition To Solve GNSS Blind Spots
Topcon Partners With Fixposition To Solve GNSS Blind Spots For decades, construction productivity has depended on one quiet assumption. Machines, rovers and layout crews can always see the sky. From open highways to farmland, satellite positioning works beautifully. Yet modern infrastructure isn’t b...
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Hyperspectral Imaging Is Transforming How Cities Understand Infrastructure
Hyperspectral Imaging Is Transforming How Cities Understand Infrastructure Across the developed world, transport authorities face a familiar dilemma. Roads are deteriorating faster than maintenance budgets can keep pace, yet inspection methods remain largely unchanged. The United States alone faces...
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XenomatiX Brings High Precision Profiling Down to Earth
XenomatiX Brings High Precision Profiling Down to Earth Across the world, road agencies face a familiar dilemma. Networks are ageing, budgets are tightening, and the cost of deferred maintenance continues to climb. According to research from the World Bank and OECD transport studies, preventative ma...
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Leading Infrastructure Into The Predictive Era
Leading Infrastructure Into The Predictive Era For most of the past century, infrastructure has been managed on the assumption that stability was normal and disruption was exceptional. Roads were designed for forecast traffic, bridges inspected periodically, and maintenance budgets organised around...
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Helion Advances Commercial Fusion With Record Temperatures
Helion Advances Commercial Fusion With Record Temperatures For decades, nuclear fusion has hovered just beyond reach, long hailed as the ultimate clean energy source yet persistently constrained by physics, engineering and economics. Now, the landscape is shifting. Helion, a Washington State based f...
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Ambi Robotics Opens Its Physical AI Platform to Industrial Partners
Ambi Robotics Opens Its Physical AI Platform to Industrial Partners In the race to industrialise artificial intelligence, software alone is no longer enough. The real frontier lies in what many now call Physical AI, systems that can perceive, reason and act reliably in the messy, unpredictable world...
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Rewiring Earth Observation AI for Scalable Land Intelligence
Rewiring Earth Observation AI for Scalable Land Intelligence Earth Observation has quietly become one of the most strategically important data sources in the global economy. From precision agriculture and climate risk modelling to supply chain visibility and infrastructure monitoring, satellite cons...
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Topcon Partners With Xona To Strengthen Resilient GNSS Infrastructure
Topcon Partners With Xona To Strengthen Resilient GNSS Infrastructure The race to secure resilient, high precision positioning infrastructure has entered a new phase. Topcon Positioning Systems has signed a commercial agreement with Xona to gain early adopter access to Pulsar, Xona’s emerging low Ea...
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Microfluidic Breakthrough Could Transform On Site Environmental Testing
Microfluidic Breakthrough Could Transform On Site Environmental Testing Environmental monitoring has long wrestled with an inconvenient truth. The samples that matter most, river sediments after heavy rain, industrial discharge mixed with soil, wastewater carrying food residues, are rarely pristine....
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AI Powered Geoscience Accelerates Development at Konkola Copper Mines
AI Powered Geoscience Accelerates Development at Konkola Copper Mines The global race for copper has intensified. From electrified transport and grid expansion to data centres and renewable power, copper sits at the heart of the energy transition. According to the International Energy Agency, demand...
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Samsung Accelerates AI Infrastructure With Early HBM4 Mass Production
Samsung Accelerates AI Infrastructure With Early HBM4 Mass Production The global race to build ever more powerful AI infrastructure has reached another inflection point. Samsung Electronics has confirmed it has begun mass production of its High Bandwidth Memory 4, or HBM4, and has already shipped co...
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Scaling On-site Energy for the AI Data Centre Boom
Scaling On-site Energy for the AI Data Centre Boom The race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure is no longer just about semiconductors and software. It is increasingly about energy, and now INNIO Group has secured a 1.5 gigawatt order from VoltaGrid, marking one of the largest announced...
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Deep Learning Transforms Vehicle Tracking for Critical Infrastructure
Deep Learning Transforms Vehicle Tracking for Critical Infrastructure Safeguarding nuclear materials has always demanded vigilance, precision and a fair bit of patience. Now, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are reshaping how that vigilance works in practice. By combining drone imagery,...
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AI Skills Platforms Are Redefining Industrial Robotics at Scale
AI Skills Platforms Are Redefining Industrial Robotics at Scale The race to make industrial robots more flexible, intelligent and commercially viable has taken a decisive turn. As manufacturers across Europe and North America grapple with labour shortages, volatile supply chains and the relentless p...
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Risk-Based Approaches to NERC CIP Cybersecurity
Risk-Based Approaches to NERC CIP Cybersecurity Let’s be honest, protecting the Bulk Electric System has never been about ticking off compliance checkboxes. It’s about stopping failures that could plunge millions into darkness. NERC CIP cybersecurity standards exist precisely because sub...
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Gather AI Raises $40m to Embed Physical AI Across Logistics Infrastructure
Gather AI Raises $40m to Embed Physical AI Across Logistics Infrastructure The global logistics sector is at a turning point. After decades of digitisation, automation and enterprise software investment, one stubborn gap continues to undermine performance across warehouses, factories and yards: the...
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Ouster Expands Its Physical AI Platform with the Acquisition of StereoLabs
Ouster Expands Its Physical AI Platform with the Acquisition of StereoLabs The global construction, infrastructure and industrial automation sectors are entering a phase where autonomy is no longer a laboratory concept but a commercial and operational requirement. From automated plant and machinery...
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The Growing Role of Additive Manufacturing in Modern Industry
The Growing Role of Additive Manufacturing in Modern Industry Additive manufacturing, often called 3D printing, is no longer just a tool for making quick models. Today, it plays a major role in how products are designed, tested, and produced across many industries. From healthcare and automotive to...
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Building Proof Into Intelligence as AI Moves Into Critical Infrastructure
Building Proof Into Intelligence as AI Moves Into Critical Infrastructure Midas has entered the public arena at a moment when artificial intelligence is no longer confined to experimental labs or consumer-facing software. AI systems are now being embedded deep inside infrastructure that underpins mo...
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Building the Construction Control Tower
Building the Construction Control Tower Across construction, transport, mining and energy, the phrase “control tower” has quietly changed meaning. It no longer refers to a room full of screens or a sophisticated reporting dashboard. Increasingly, it describes an operating model: a way of running com...
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Operational Realities for Trucking at the NMFTA Cybersecurity Conference
Operational Realities for Trucking at the NMFTA Cybersecurity Conference Cybersecurity has quietly shifted from a back-office IT concern to a board-level operational risk across global transport and logistics. As fleets, ports, terminals and supply chains become more digitised, interconnected and da...
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Analog Intelligence Sets a New Course for Software Defined Vehicles
Analog Intelligence Sets a New Course for Software Defined Vehicles As vehicles evolve into fully software defined platforms, the limiting factor is no longer mechanical capability but compute efficiency. Advanced driver assistance systems, automated driving stacks and increasingly sophisticated in...
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Blyncsy Helps Alabama Link Highway Asset Data to Budget Decisions
Blyncsy Helps Alabama Link Highway Asset Data to Budget Decisions Across the global highways sector, the pressure on road authorities is intensifying. Ageing assets, constrained budgets, rising safety expectations and political scrutiny are all converging on one uncomfortable truth: maintenance deci...
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Physics First Autonomy Reshaping the Economics of Mining Haulage
Physics First Autonomy Reshaping the Economics of Mining Haulage Autonomous haulage has spent more than a decade promising step changes in productivity, safety and cost control for the global mining industry. Yet progress has been uneven. Solutions that work well in controlled, shallow quarry enviro...
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Unlocking Digital Interoperability for Modern Infrastructure Software
Unlocking Digital Interoperability for Modern Infrastructure Software Across the global construction and infrastructure sector, the ability to move complex design data cleanly between platforms has become a strategic capability rather than a technical convenience. Major road, rail, utilities and bui...
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Lithium Metal Anodes Are Back at the Centre of the Energy Transition
Lithium Metal Anodes Are Back at the Centre of the Energy Transition The global push for higher-capacity, safer and longer-lasting batteries has reached a critical inflection point. Electric vehicles are scaling faster than anticipated, grid-scale energy storage is becoming a strategic asset rather...
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Embodied AI & Robotics Moving From Concept to Reality
Embodied AI & Robotics Moving From Concept to Reality The global construction, infrastructure and industrial technology sectors are watching embodied artificial intelligence move out of laboratories and pilot programmes and into commercial reality. Labour shortages, rising safety requirements, i...
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Connected Trailers Move to Centre Stage in Europe’s Digital Freight Economy
Connected Trailers Move to Centre Stage in Europe’s Digital Freight Economy Europe’s freight and logistics sector is in the middle of a structural shift, driven less by new vehicles and more by the data that flows through them. As regulatory pressure tightens, margins remain thin and supply chains g...
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Materials Research Powering Industrial Resilience
Materials Research Powering Industrial Resilience For the global construction, infrastructure and industrial technology sectors, materials performance is rarely a background issue. It dictates asset lifespans, operating efficiency, maintenance cycles and, ultimately, commercial competitiveness. In e...
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Manganese Redefines the Economics of Acidic Water Electrolysis
Manganese Redefines the Economics of Acidic Water Electrolysis The race to scale green hydrogen has moved well beyond ambition and into the realm of hard engineering constraints. Proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis sits at the centre of that challenge. Its ability to operate at high cu...
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Digitising the Last Major Bottleneck in Geotechnical Investigation
Digitising the Last Major Bottleneck in Geotechnical Investigation Across the global construction and infrastructure sector, ground investigation remains one of the most risk-laden phases of project delivery. Despite advances in digital engineering, laboratory testing workflows have often lagged beh...
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Agentic AI Moves Into the Enterprise Core as Airrived Emerges from Stealth
Agentic AI Moves Into the Enterprise Core as Airrived Emerges from Stealth Enterprise technology has spent the past decade chasing automation, yet most organisations still rely on human glue to stitch together cybersecurity tools, IT workflows and operational platforms. That contradiction sits at th...
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Texas Doubles Down on Traffic Intelligence With Expanded INRIX Partnership
Texas Doubles Down on Traffic Intelligence With Expanded INRIX Partnership The Texas Department of Transportation has spent years building a reputation as one of the most data-driven transport agencies in North America. Now, its expanded partnership with INRIX signals a deeper commitment to analytic...
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Building a Trustworthy Industrial AI Stack for the Physical World
Building a Trustworthy Industrial AI Stack for the Physical World Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA have moved well beyond a conventional technology tie up. Their newly announced long term strategic partnership sets out to define a shared industrial architecture for mission critical artificial intelligen...
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Infrastructure Resilience in an Age of Compounding Risk
Infrastructure Resilience in an Age of Compounding Risk Across the global construction and infrastructure sector, resilience has shifted from a specialist concern to a defining strategic priority. Extreme weather events, systemic climate pressures, cyber vulnerabilities, and ageing assets are no lon...
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China’s Smart Brain TBM’s Create a New Era for Underground Infrastructure
China’s Smart Brain TBM’s Create a New Era for Underground Infrastructure Tunnel construction has always been one of the most complex and risk-laden activities in global infrastructure delivery. Whether driving road tunnels beneath dense cities, rail links through mountain ranges, or utility c...
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Strategic Capital Meets Construction as Topcon Reinforces Its U.S. Retail Network
Strategic Capital Meets Construction as Topcon Reinforces Its U.S. Retail Network The decision by Topcon Positioning Systems to make a significant strategic investment in its U.S. retail arm, Topcon Solutions Stores, lands at a moment when the American construction sector is under intense structural...
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Large Plant Models and the Future of Autonomous Agriculture
Large Plant Models and the Future of Autonomous Agriculture Artificial intelligence has been edging into agriculture for years, yet most breakthroughs have arrived incrementally. Carbon Robotics’ latest announcement marks a different moment, one that carries implications well beyond a single product...
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Construction Intelligence is Reshaping Global Infrastructure
Construction Intelligence is Reshaping Global Infrastructure Construction has always been a data-heavy industry. Long before the language of artificial intelligence entered boardrooms, projects were built on quantities, schedules, cost plans, risk registers and inspection records. Yet for decades, t...
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Autodesk Deepens Construction Data Strategy With £2m Investment in Qflow
Autodesk Deepens Construction Data Strategy With £2m Investment in Qflow The global construction sector is under mounting pressure to deliver projects that are not only on time and on budget, but demonstrably cleaner, leaner and more accountable. Autodesk is helping to address this with a £2 million...
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Control Tower Thinking Comes to Mining Equipment Inspections at Indaba
Control Tower Thinking Comes to Mining Equipment Inspections at Indaba Across the global mining industry, the conversation has shifted. Productivity, safety, compliance and cost control are no longer treated as separate ambitions but as interdependent outcomes of better information, better visibilit...
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Harvesting Energy From Industrial Compressed Air Systems
Harvesting Energy From Industrial Compressed Air Systems The quiet inefficiency of compressed air is one of industry’s best-kept open secrets. Across factories, processing plants, logistics hubs and infrastructure facilities, compressed air is generated in vast quantities, much of it vented, throttl...
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Electrically Tuneable Flexible Photodetectors for Smart Infrastructure
Electrically Tuneable Flexible Photodetectors for Smart Infrastructure Flexible photodetectors are quietly becoming indispensable across modern infrastructure systems. From structural health monitoring embedded in transport networks to wearable safety systems on construction sites, the need for sens...
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Terahertz Breakthrough a Turning Point for 6G Infrastructure
Terahertz Breakthrough a Turning Point for 6G Infrastructure The global race to define the architecture of 6G networks has entered a decisive phase, and a significant portion of that momentum is gathering in South Australia. At Adelaide’s Terahertz Engineering Laboratory, researchers are translating...
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Turning Data into Decisions with a Security Operations Control Centre
Turning Data into Decisions with a Security Operations Control Centre Across global infrastructure networks, the definition of security has shifted well beyond perimeter fences and controlled access points. Today’s critical environments rely on a steady flow of data from travel movements, operationa...
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