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How an app is helping to improve a city’s municipal services

The city of Marsberg in Germany has replaced paper with an app that allows municipal employees to report data, a...

Devising new resilience for the electricity grid

Electricity grids, disrupted by the advent of renewable energies, incipient self-consumption, and the decline of conventional power stations, must devise...

Non-destructive testing, for safer nuclear power plants

Added to the new systems put in place after the Fukushima disaster and the 20-year lifecycle extension programme for power...

Geolocation supporting better building management

How can geopositioning, geoguidance, geofencing and similar applications be used to provide customised services for building users and visitors? Easy:...

Post-match: getting safely from the stadium to the underground

Tested successfully during the Euro 2008 championship in Vienna, the system regulating the flow of passengers towards underground trains on...

State-of-the-art technologies improve power grid maintenance

In the Balearic Islands, Omexom has acquired a mobile laboratory that combines state-of-the-art technologies to locate faults in underground power...

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Redundant power for trains to ensure service continuity

In Switzerland, the ETAVIS company installed a redundant uninterrupted power supply system to secure train traffic and ensure continuity of...

Buildings can tap into more than just one network to benefit from the Internet of Things

Solutions based on the Internet of Things and innovative networks like LoRa and PoE are increasingly being used in buildings...