With online and mobile shopping becoming ever more popular, brick and mortar stores find themselves under increasing pressure to attract and retain customers. Whether a customer will return is often down to the shopping experience he has had. Not finding the products they are looking for, having to wait to be served by a shop […]
The explosive growth in urban population and commuter traffic forces many cities to rethink how they manage citizen security and their urban transport systems. This was certainly the case for the city of Vicente López just north of Buenos Aires. A large percentage of its population of around 300,000 commute daily to Buenos Aires – […]
With security becoming an ever more important consideration for many organizations, there is a growing trend for outsourcing security and guarding responsibilities to third party providers. This is not only true for large enterprises and critical infrastructure facilities; schools, smaller factories, offices and construction sites are all examples of customers who are increasingly enlisting the […]
If you are an online shopper, you will appreciate the magic of next day deliveries. But, have you ever thought about the logistics that make this possible? All the goods that have to be shipped from A to B to C, with tight deadlines and using different transport modes that stretch across multiple geographies – […]
With network video cameras continuing to replace analog installations, I have seen a growing trend for adding on valuable extra functionality. As the images captured have become more detailed, cameras are also becoming much, much smarter. Video analytics has come a long way since I started in this industry – with applications ranging from motion […]
One of the best things about working with small businesses is seeing the wide variety of scenarios where technology can be such a help to owners and managers, and then how a simple investment ends up having a myriad of other uses. One of my favorite examples is that from Elise Ogden and Amy Telzrow, […]
