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Jo Morrison,
In its bid to improve customer experiences in the railway sector, the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) held the Rail Innovation Exhibition on 21 January. The expo showcased the latest cutting-edge innovations in the industry, many of which were funded by the Department for Transport (DfT) through Innovate UK, including Calvium’s…
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Jo Morrison,
Sustainability is recognised as a vital issue for people, businesses and governments, globally. To secure the planet for all of our futures, digital technology can provide support and solutions to some of the challenges we face; ranging from city-scale infrastructure to apps that help individuals find greener ways of living and sharing within…
Aerospace & Engineering Mobile Technology
Jo Reid,
Digital twins have taken hold across a range of sectors. Whether as a vision for place and property management or as an operational feature of aerospace manufacturing, digital twins are part of the mix. So much so that Microsoft has recently introduced ‘Digital Twins’ to its Azure cloud computing service – helping you to create digital models of physical environments. As a company deeply involved in all things place, aerospace and Azure we thought it timely to provide a quick dip into some of the opportunities that digital twins afford business.
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Jo Morrison,
The Barbican’s ‘More than Human’ exhibition explores creative and scientific developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and aims to demonstrate its potential to revolutionise our lives in many ways. Having visited it last week and come away overwhelmed by the kaleidoscope of concepts, sounds, information and objects combining to explore our relationships with technology, I thought it would be useful to focus this article on the basics of the AI revolution.
So, what is AI?
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Alumni: Charlie Harman,
Calvium is pleased to have won Innovate UK funding to develop a mobile wayfinding application to enable people with less visible impairments to navigate railway stations independently and with confidence. In partnership with Transport for London (TfL), Open Inclusion and Transport Systems Catapult we shall deliver a digital wayfinding solution…
Aerospace & Engineering Mobile Technology
Jo Reid,
Apps have a reputation problem. Mention the word ‘app’ to most people, and they’ll immediately think of Angry Birds, Instagram and Citymapper. What they won’t imagine are major engineering projects and complex machinery speaking to operators via the Internet of Things. Yet this is exactly where many of the most…
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Alumni: Charlie Harman,
The fourth Industrial Revolution is here. AI, AR, Machine learning, the IIoT – each, in its own way, promises to change the way businesses of all stripes work. The companies of 10 years’ time will be unrecognisable from those of today. Alongside these precursors to a utopic ‘smart’ future, however,…
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Tom Melamed,
Most practical apps are a gateway to the Internet, connecting users to social, media or informational sites. Most apps work best when they have a good Internet or WiFi connection. But when the app has a large directory of information – a supermarket shopping app, for example – poor connectivity…
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Tom Melamed,
Why do most app developers run a mile from offline app development? Here’s a hint: it’s hard. Two of our recent projects for Enquos and Yachting Pages have been ‘offline-first’ apps, developed to work equally well offline as online. Yachting Pages had a 23,000 strong inventory of products. They wanted…
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Tom Melamed,
By 2020, the average household will contain 50 devices connected via the Internet of Things (IoT). That’s not just smartphones and laptops: it’s lightbulbs, clothes, even jewellery. For creative technologists like ourselves who work with practical apps like offline directories or manufacturing apps, and experiences for the heritage or regeneration…
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Alumni: Charlie Harman,
Here’s the thing about designing an app experience: it could end up a perfect little pudding or a saggy old Christmas jumper. And while no two experiences are exactly the same, there are some common UX and design factors that can help or hinder visitors to a heritage site. What…
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Jo Morrison,
A 2016 report by the UN forecast that by 2030, 60 per cent of people globally will be housed in urban areas. One in every three people will live in cities with at least half a million inhabitants. With the increasing strain on infrastructure that this mass urban migration will…