Teresa Meek

Many enterprises are eager to adopt the latest technologies, which can help them supercharge efficiency and light the way to better products and services. Innovative solutions are emerging rapidly, offering early adopters an attractive competitive edge. Yet deploying fully integrated solutions is so complicated and time-consuming that many organizations give up after initial trials.
Working with an experienced technology partner like a solutions aggregator can ease frustrations of technology ...

Cities across the globe grapple with challenges brought on by rapid population growth. This surge has led to social and economic imbalances, resource depletion, and strained public services. Citizens increasingly are burdened by inefficient healthcare, ineffective public safety, inadequate energy and water management, and poorly managed public transport systems.
Outdated and disjointed technology exacerbates these issues, making it difficult for urban administrators to maintain effective oper...

Doctors have long relied on diagnostic radiology to identify and pinpoint patient disorders before treatment. Modern interventional radiology (IR) equipment allows them to obtain real-time medical images in the operating room as a procedure unfolds, informing their work and speeding progress.
Hospitals are eager to expand the use of IR, which can lower costs, reduce risks, improve patient outcomes, and shorten hospital stays. However, the equipment makers of these systems find it tough to mee...

Manufacturers, energy companies, and other enterprises dependent on heavy equipment do everything they can to keep their expensive machines up and running. Many would like to use IoT and predictive AI analytics to ward off trouble before it leads to more serious problems.
But applying AI analytics to industrial equipment is not easy to do. Large businesses have thousands of sensors in machines operating in plants across the globe, all of them rapidly generating performance data in a dozen dif...

Self-checkout seemed like such a great idea: Let grocery and convenience store customers skip the lines, scan and pay for their own merchandise, and be out the door—freeing employees for other duties. But reality doesn’t always measure up to the vision. Lines for self-checkout often exceed those for staffed lanes. Customers take longer to check items than experienced cashiers, and may become confused or make mistakes, requiring them to wait for assistance. And for retailers, shrinkage is a ma...

Whether the goal is to speed office tasks or impress customers with chatbots, today’s businesses are increasingly eager to deploy AI applications.
Once launched, AI applications can be a boon to productivity. But creating them can be a time sink, especially for generative AI solutions, which are powered by large language models and image recognition systems that require extensive fine-tuning and testing.
Now there’s a better way to bring AI solutions to fruition. Using a low-code platform, bu...

In today’s factories and warehouses, robots are no longer fenced off from humans. The two often work side by side, with robots taking over arduous tasks like transporting heavy objects—or tedious ones, like spray-painting or palletizing goods.
These collaborative robots, or “cobots,” increase efficiency and reduce the risk that workers will develop muscle strain or injuries. But ensuring that they interact with people safely is not an easy accomplishment. Robot developers can spend years buil...

It’s not your imagination: From airports and city streets to shopping centers, arenas, and museums, CCTV cameras are ubiquitous. To maintain safety and security, municipalities and businesses are investing more on video equipment every year.
But some organizations are starting to question how much those extra dollars are doing for them. Certainly, the cameras are invaluable for capturing information—whether it’s a highway traffic jam or a jar of spaghetti sauce spilling across a grocery floor...

Today’s shoppers, accustomed to fast, hassle-free ecommerce checkouts, have come to expect a similar experience in physical stores. To improve speed and convenience, grocers and other retailers have long provided self-checkout kiosks, but instructions weren’t always clear, and some items were difficult or impossible to scan. To get help, shoppers had to abandon their merchandise and try to flag down a busy associate.
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, a market leader in retail store technolog...

Today’s retail customers increasingly expect personalization and self-service options, adding new layers of complexity to store technology. To stay ahead of the competition, retailers need sophisticated systems like voice recognition, computer vision, and AI-based scanners. And these systems must communicate seamlessly with one another and with existing machines and merchandise.
Systems integrators (SIs) work with retailers to orchestrate the latest technology, but they must spend countless h...

In the healthcare industry, there are companies that build medical equipment and providers that use these machines and devices. While the business models of these two groups are completely different, they are guided by the same challenges and opportunities. Both are eager to deploy the latest technologies but are faced with strict regulatory requirements and short product life cycles.
A traditional medical device is designed with data residing locally on the device. With the increasing demand...