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Thematic Analysis
Tech and Media Trends 2018 – Global Thematic Research
The mega-themes that will drive earnings in the global tech and media sectors over the next 12 to 24 months are: artificial intelligence, the Cloud, internet of things, digital media, fintech, advanced manufacturing, macroeconomic issues and regulation. This Global Tech and Media Trends Report 2018 attempts to give readers a comprehensive outlook for the top 600 companies in the space over the next two years. Inside this report, we look at the key trends that will impact the technology and...
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Thematic Analysis
A.I. (Vol. III): Machine Learning – Global Thematic Research
Machine learning is an artificial intelligence (AI) technology which allows machines to learn by using algorithms to interpret data from connected ‘things’ to predict outcomes and learn from successes and failures. There are many other AI technologies – from image recognition to natural language processing, gesture control, context awareness and predictive APIs – but machine learning is where most of the investment community’s funding has flowed in recent years. It is also the technology most likely to allow machines to...
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Thematic Analysis
Internet of Things in Utilities – Thematic Research
IoT is changing the face of the utilities industry. Utilities are facing significant challenges to their established business model, due to the increasing need to support distributed generation like wind and solar, storage, and electric vehicle charging, while keeping costs down. This is on top of the challenges of rising customer expectations, increasingly uncertain and complex regulation, and the need to replace assets that are reaching the end of their life. One of the key ways that utilities are exploring...
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Thematic Analysis
Internet of Things in Oil & Gas – Thematic Research
Imagine a world where an airplane can detect a fault in one of its engines in mid-flight and radio ahead to order spare parts without any pilot intervention. Or where your fridge can detect you are running out of milk and order it while you are asleep. Or where your home thermostat automatically lowers the temperature when you leave the house and raises it the moment you return. The “Internet of Things” (IoT) refers to a world where various devices...
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Thematic Analysis
Internet of Things in Tourism – Thematic Research
Imagine a world where an airplane can detect a fault in one of its engines in mid-flight and radio ahead to order spare parts without any pilot intervention. Or where your fridge can detect you are running out of milk and order it while you are asleep. Or where your home thermostat automatically lowers the temperature when you leave the house and raises it the moment you return. The “Internet of Things” (IoT) refers to a world where various devices...
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Thematic Analysis
Internet of Things – Thematic Research
The IoT encompasses a rich, and complex ecosystem of technologies and technology companies – from the manufacturers of the sensors and microchips that go inside the connected devices to the telecom operators and wireless radio manufacturers that connect these devices to the internet, to the software services organizations that help clients stitch everything together. While topics like wearable tech, connected cars and the smart home enjoy the limelight, other subsets of the IoT which reside in much less glamorous environments...
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Thematic Analysis
TMT Predictions 2018 (Part II of III) – Global Thematic Research
In Part I of “TMT Predictions 2018" report, we looked at the following themes: machine learning, voice, data centers, cybersecurity, virtual & augmented reality, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, internet TV, cloud computing and the Splinternet. In Part II of this report, we look at the Internet of Things (including the automated home, autonomous vehicles, the industrial internet, ambient commerce and the medical internet of things), genomics, silicon photonics, 5G and regulation. We will also look at the big tech themes for 2018,...
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Thematic Analysis
Leaders and laggards in Global TMT – Global Thematic Research
After 20 years of torpor, key parts of Japan’s technology industry have been woken up by the rise of China, competition from Asian emerging markets, an ageing population and sagging productivity. Under Shinzō Abe’s leadership, Japanese business is starting to develop a ‘risk-on’, technologically innovative culture. Key industries of the future for Japan could be robotics, precision components, smart electric vehicles , high performance computing, consumer electronics, video games, ecommerce and social media. Japan’s leading companies in many of these...
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Thematic Analysis
Industrial Internet presentation 24 Feb 2017 – Global Thematic Research
The Internet of Things can only take off once all connected devices speak the same language. This has kicked off an intense battle for domination of the communications protocol that will govern the IoT. This communications protocol is likely to have two components: a single interconnection standard: must be low cost, low power, reasonable range and wireless a common language: must be able to interpret different operating systems on different cloud platforms In this report we look into...
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Thematic Analysis
Machine Learning in Utilities – Thematic Research
For six decades’ machine learning (ML) was poised to take off because members of the ‘artificial intelligentsia’ had already come up with the theoretical models that could make it work. The problem was that they were waiting for rich data sets and affordable ‘accelerated computing’ technology to ignite it. These arrived in 2010. Now, amid a swirl of hype, machine learning – software that becomes smarter as it trains itself on large amounts of data – is going mainstream, and...