By 2050, seven out of ten people are expected to live in a city. The smart city concept offers the promise of a healthier, safer, and greener lifestyle than that enjoyed by today's urban population.

Sophisticated technology is now on hand to track goods in transit, not only instruct where a parcel is on its journey but also to log and report what conditions and events it has been subjected to.

Kia Israel was sure there was a better way than the traditional manual system of vehicle tracking. They found it in ViLOG, a product from Israeli software services firm, Sogo Services.

Mesh networking with Bluetooth has a bright future. By taking advantage of existing lighting systems you open the door to huge added value possibilities, both for your business and its customers.

Every year billions of dollars of assets go missing. They are sometimes lost, frequently stolen, often just completely forgotten about because a company’s asset tracking systems are based on outmoded paper-based systems prone to human error.

According to research by analyst Aberdeen, the average cost of unplanned equipment downtime is $260,000 per hour. With the average outage lasting four hours and costing in excess of a million dollars, it is little wonder nearly three of every four organizations consider zero unplanned downtime their top priority.

Nearables are helping to prevent the loss of valuable items, but what happens when you move out of range? Crowd tracking is an interesting possibility.