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Inside the Minds of IoT.nxt Leaders: Exclusive Video Series
At IoT.nxt, innovation is more than just a buzzword, it’s the backbone of everything we do. And behind that innovation are the visionary leaders who drive us forward.
IoT.nxt Enterprise Development Donation
Driven by a passion for youth empowerment and the opportunities presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), Amanda Noholoza founded Amanda Project Management in 2018 and fully established the organisation in 2020.
CultureMy IoT.nxt Journey: Kobus Pienaar
Reflecting on my five-year journey with IoT.nxt, I’m reminded of how telephones have evolved over the last 50 years.
TelecomsAI & EdgeThe Future of Tower Infrastructure: Embracing IoT, Machine Learning, and Edge Computing
The telecommunications industry is undergoing remarkable transformation, heavily fuelled by the convergence of IoT, machine learning, and edge computing.
AI & EdgeThe Future of AI is at the Edge
The Internet of Things (IoT) is like a network of ever-replicating entities, generating an unprecedented and compounding amount of data.
EnergyThe Potential for IoT Technology in Managing the Energy Crisis in South Africa
Internet of Things, or IoT technology functions as a bridge between the physical and digital world. Across the globe increased adoption of 5G networks is driving the need for faster, decentralised, and real-time feedback, particularly for organisations promoting the digitalisation agenda.
StrategyImagining a World Without IoT: Unravelling the Consequences
In the age of hyper-connectivity and an always-on, connected world, the Internet of Things (IoT) has permeated almost every aspect of our living and working lives.
Digital TwinsUnlocking Business Value: The Power of Digital Twins at Scale
In the era of digital transformation, the concept of digital twins has gained significant traction, revolutionising industries across the globe.
AI & EdgeStrategyIoT is at the Fulcrum of the AI Evolution
Artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are two of the most disruptive technologies of our time in their ability to sense, detect, listen, predict, and ultimately, help people.
AI & EdgeStrategyBeyond Buzzwords: How IoT, Big Data, and Machine Learning are Transforming Businesses
The convergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, and Machine Learning is changing the way businesses operate.
AI & EdgeAI and IoT: Two Transformative Technologies
The 21st century has witnessed the rise of two transformative technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
StrategyIoT transformation: It’s only getting started
The Internet of Things (IoT) being the interconnectivity of physical apparatuses, vehicles, people, and various objects that are embedded with sensors, software, and network interconnectivity, enabling them to gather and exchange data.
StrategyGovernance: It’s all about the “G” in ESG
ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) is becoming an increasingly important consideration for companies in today’s business world.
StrategyConsequences of Not Including IoT in a Digitisation Strategy for 2023
Failure to modernize a business, means a constant struggle to keep up with competitors who use more advanced technologies and practices.
TelecomsThe Future of Cell Site Management is IoT
NDCell site management is the process of managing the network infrastructure and equipment at a cell site, which is a location where wireless communication equipment is installed.
StrategyAIoT Technology Can Boost Your Business in 2023
The Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) are two of the fastest-growing technologies in business today.
StrategyEnergyHow Smarter buildings help you gain a foothold on energy
What is a ‘Smart Building‘ The internet of things is a network of physical objects that are embedded with electronics and software, enabling them to collect and exchange data.
StrategyDigital Transformation & Data Orchestration
Building great experiences for customers. Implementing helpful applications for operational staff.
EnergyIoT: A differentiator to transform utilities management
Utilities like water, electricity, and gas are essential to everyday life, but their management needs improvement.
StrategyInfrastructure Theft: Is IoT the answer?
A nightmare that won’t end, infrastructure theft continues to rise in South Africa costing the economy an estimated R100+ billion/year.
Strategy10 Benefits of IoT-Enabled Remote Monitoring
Workplaces are embracing the Internet of Things (IoT). Gartner has stated that the number of connected devices will double over the next three years.
StrategyIoT and Futureproofing Your Mine
The mining industry presents a unique set of challenges. Mining is a high-risk, capital-intensive business that requires constant monitoring of assets, processes, and actors to ensure safety and operational efficiency.
StrategyChanged global health reality accelerates IoT
StrategyESG: If your business could speak
The shift from the triple bottom line has evolved to ESG. Loosely translated, Environmental, Social and Governance is a holistic measure of how an organisation positively or negatively impacts the environment in which it operates.
Digital TwinsStrategyDigital Twins and IoT- a step into the Metaverse
You have heard about the Metaverse, and likely Digital Twins, the digital representation of an organisation by location, its associated physical assets, actors and the relevant data these provide through their day-to-day running of a business.
StrategyWhat Smart Farming Really Looks Like
The agricultural space impacts the daily activities of people across the world, this will never change. What has changed is how we drive the operational efficiency within the agricultural industry.
StrategyHow to erase virtual meeting A.D.D for good
In our new work-from-home world, constant communication stimuli are thrown at us, from emails, and Teams calls to chats and text messages, making it easy to become distracted or worse, we get tempted to multitask (and think we’re nailing it!).
CultureStrategyIoT.nxt adds three awards in 2021
Internet of Things innovators IoT.nxt added three more awards this year, confirming its status as a leading global technology company.
StrategyFuture-proof your business in 2022
According to the all-knowing oracle, Google: future-proofing a business is anticipating the future and developing methods of minimizing the effects of shocks and stresses of future events.
StrategyEnergySmarter Cities with IoT.nxt
Essentially, smart cities use data and technology to create efficiencies, improve sustainability, create economic development, and enhance quality of life factors for people living and working in the city.
AI & EdgeStrategyWhen human and machine intelligence meet
All businesses need intelligence to improve revenue, reduce costs, find efficiencies, or accurately predict customers’ needs.
CultureHeritage Day 2021
One of the pillars of Greek culture is the concept of `filoxenia`, this word is almost impossible to translate directly into another language directly, but it is a moral code of being welcoming and warmly hosting any foreigner, in any context.
StrategyYou need a smarter asset tracking solution
Asset tracking is a sure way to lower administrative costs, improve your customer experience with predictable, guaranteed product delivery, and ultimately allow you to scale your business to a whole new level.
AI & EdgeReasons why funding into African AI startups remains poor despite a global boom
Even with low funding, activity in the sector like everywhere else in the world is slowly beginning to pick up.
TelecomsVodafone expands IoT coverage to 98% of the UK
Vodafone’s expansion supports its ongoing investments in IoT platforms and services. This is to help the growing number of businesses implementing IoT technology to increase operational efficiency and grow new revenues.
StrategyThe IoT customer journey, a story of value
Customer experience, or CX, is an important measure of a company’s success. Ideally, it needs to be good, but better if it’s excellent.
StrategyThe Internet of Things and the security behind it.
Every day connectivity pushes technology to a new level, self-driving cars, remote monitoring of patients, drone deliveries and remote-controlled underground equipment, to name a few.
TelecomsCultureVodafone teams with IoT.nxt to take enterprise IoT to new levels
“We are thrilled to power the new era of Vodafone UK’s IoT strategy," said IoT.nxt CEO Nico Steyn. “IoT is perceived by many businesses to be complex and bespoke, but it doesn’t have to be.
StrategyTelecomsVodafone UK opens up new markets for IoT growth to extend lead at the top
Vodafone UK is launching a new range of IoT services that will remove barriers to IoT adoption for UK businesses.
TelecomsIoT.nxt signs partnership deal with Vodafone UK
IoT.nxt has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Vodafone’s UK subsidiary that will see the two companies collaborating in delivering IoT solutions to the mobile operator’s enterprise customer base.
StrategyInsurance risk to R3bn worth of assets reduced using IoT technology
IoT hardware and software provider IoT.nxt with partner Gilela Business Innovations developed a fire control panel monitoring solution, now live at 25 sites across South Africa, that improves the protection of R3bn worth of insured assets.
StrategyHow IoT and digital buildings will reshape the world post COVID-19
Over the last two decades, the world has seen the outbreak of highly infectious diseases like SARS, Zika virus, Ebola and now COVID-19.
StrategyPreparing organisations for digital transformation
Organisations could be slow to react to digital transformation due to traditional methodologies, the nature of the organisation or individual resistance to change.
StrategyCultureThe agile will lead the world of business, post Covid-19
Leading commentators, visionaries, consultants, business and political leaders have said that the world will be changed forever by COVID-19 and cautioned that any individual or company that expects life and business to return to what was before will be facing an uncertain future in unchartered waters.
Digital TwinsStrategyA living, breathing infographic? The digital twin as an infinite representative of the physical
Digital twins are digital replicas (digitalised duplicates) or representations of devices, machines, connected products, processes, or (and this is where it becomes most useful) complex business eco-systems.
EnergyStrategyCan your business really afford to not save on energy?
In an industrial setting, energy isn’t taken for granted. One power outage can send devastating ripple effects across organisations ceasing operations and pausing the vital flow of information between parts of the value chain.
StrategyIoT.nxt Security: Protecting What You Cannot See
Pick up any newspaper, click over to a news website, and you’re bound to see a headline about the misappropriation of personal data by a corporation.
StrategyAI & EdgeHarvesting Smart Seeds: The Role of Data and Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
In agriculture, it’s the things you can’t predict that are the most terrifying. While struggling to be ever more productive, doing more with diminishing resources and battling mother nature and market shifts, staying on top of every element within your agricultural ecosystem is vital.
StrategyAI & EdgeLet’s Get Practical: The base station of the future, today
There is a lack of visibility across all systems in base stations due to multiple legacy systems being outdated, siloed and proprietary.
StrategyAvert Avoidable Disaster: The Partnership Taking on the Challenges of the Tailings Dam Industry
The goal for many mining professionals is to implement a real-time disaster management prevention plan that safeguards the environment, human life, and massively reduces risk.
AI & EdgeStrategyLeveraging the intelligent edge
It’s the big new buzzword in IoT, but how mature is the ‘intelligent edge’? Brainstorm convened a special roundtable to find out.
StrategyAre IoT Healthcare Solutions The Future Of The Healthcare Industry?
The Internet of Things is taking the world by storm as it is slowly woven into our everyday lives. With about 328 million devices being connected to the internet each month, Industry 4.0 is growing at an astronomical rate.
StrategySmart Cities: How IoT Is Putting Africa On The Map
Africa, along with the rest of the world, is currently charging through the fourth industrial revolution. Society is beginning to be reshaped by the smart use of information and technology.
StrategyMultiple role-players needed within intelligent mine
Mining companies need to establish ecosystems of suppliers and partners to establish, operate, manage and integrate an intelligent mine, says Internet of Things (IoT) solution developer IoT.nxt mining partnerships director Eric Croeser.
StrategyCultureInside the MTN IoT Awards
The third annual MTN Internet of Things Awards celebrated the best of South Africa’s market-ready IoT solutions, applications and developers on Tuesday, July 31 at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit.
StrategyIoT And SCADA: Is One Going To Replace The Other?
Industrial IoT and the connected factory concept are red-hot topics. Yet often, there is confusion among professionals in both on and offline discussions around the role of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications.
StrategyXLink Partners With IoT.nxt To Strengthen Its Digital Capability
XLink is pleased to announce that it has clinched a strategic partnership with IoT innovator IoT.nxt, with the aim of enabling businesses to rapidly digitalise their operations and take advantage of the Internet of Things.
StrategyHits and near-misses: Will you be the early Bird?
It’s no secret that large organisations are faced with numerous threats to their people, assets and operations.
StrategyAI & EdgeBringing decisions to the factory floor
Isn’t it time decisions were made in real-time, rather than waiting for the weekly management meeting or for your superior to gather, analyse and disclose data findings?
StrategySmart farming and technology: Moving beyond marrying mobile with mud
Worrying about being able to embed delicate technology into a rugged environment, or whether a data network will be able to handle the load placed on it by an interconnected, industrial ecosystem are the least of your worries.
StrategyIoT.nxt concludes partnership with Conclusion as Dutch presence grows
Dutch company Conclusion announced a strategic partnership with South African IoT innovator IoT.nxt. to act on the rising demand for Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
StrategyCultureAn IoT platform unlike anything else out there
Recognising the radical changes in the way businesses interact with both clients and each other, Britehouse Automotive Group Executive, Callie Human, was driven to look for a way the Dimension Data division could ensure that they didn’t place unnecessary risk on their own shoulders by refusing to adapt.
StrategyCompanies need to understand megatrends to serve customers in the future
Internet of Things technology will be one of the key catalysts to how we shape our future world, especially in the automotive industry.
StrategyA shift is unfolding in the mining industry
Mining companies are now ready for disruption and looking to introduce new technologies to drive efficiencies and revive the industry.
StrategyThe sky’s the limit: How Enaleni solves customer problems with IoT.nxt
The claim has been made time and again: Internet of Things (IoT) solutions will change the world. But for Enaleni Holdings, an engineering firm that specialises in project management and physical asset management, this is a truth they see in action every day.
Culture2017: A pivotal year in the IoT.nxt story.
It’s hard to believe that the end of 2017 is upon us. Weren’t we all just sitting around a table, bright eyed and imagining what this year would have in store for us?
StrategyAI & EdgeIoT & Ice Cream: The Future of Inventory Management Solutions
Ice cream is temperamental. One negligent moment of leaving a fridge open can spoil a lot of stock, leading to a double down of losses, goods and reputational damage.
StrategyYesterday’s solutions will not solve today’s problems
Businesses face rapidly increasing challenges as advances in technology demand changes to future strategies. Too many are looking at outdated solutions to face the challenges.
StrategyImagination is the only limit
Working with computers has been seen as something cool since the very first machine made its way into consumer homes.
Digital TwinsWhat is an effective digital twin?
What does trusty old Wikipedia say a digital twin is? “Digital twin refers to a digital replica of physical assets, processes and systems that can be used for various purposes.
StrategyHow tech and IoT will unlock human potential: the augmented employee
The debate between which is more important, experience or qualifications, has been a debate for decades in the heavy asset-driven industries such as mining, oil and gas and manufacturing.
StrategyThought Leadership: weighing in on digital transformation in Africa
As South Africa approaches Heritage Day on Sunday, 24 September, it is perhaps fitting that IoT.nxt’s Director of Partnerships: Mining, Eric Croeser, speaks at the Hogan Lovells: Africa Forum on the topic of digital transformation in Africa.
StrategyIoT platform market set to soar to $1,6-billion by 2020
According to Verizon’s report, State of the Market: Internet of things 2017, the global internet of things (IoT) platform market is set to explode by 35% per year, reaching an impressive $1,6-billion by 2020.
StrategyIoT.nxt approved as IBM Business Partner for Channel Value Rewards
IoT.nxt is proud to announce that it has been approved as an IBM Business Partner for Channel Rewards.
StrategyDigital transformation: IoT is the key
In the not-so-distant past conferences were all abuzz with the fourth industrial revolution, and how the next revolution would build on the rise of digital.
StrategyBlockchain and the IIoT: Part I
The machine to machine economy is being, and will continue to be, enabled by the broad adoption of industrial internet of things (IIoT).
StrategyReigning in the Internet of Things
Just a few days ago, US senators unveiled the Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017.
StrategyRiding the digital storm | Brainstorm Magazine
It’s time to put on your wellies. The digital disruption storm is past the horizon and in the business backyard.
AI & EdgeStrategyIntelligent Industrial Machinery: Moving beyond predictive maintenance
How a holistic view of your business can help you reproduce optimal conditions for continued peak performance.
StrategyBusiness 3.0
Johannesburg local with a world-class skill set, Gareth Rees joins IoT.nxt as our Head of Global Partnerships.
CultureStrategyBorn and bred in Africa, challenging the globe.
It was by chance that our founders fell into the IoT business, but sheer industriousness, and a dogged determination to create a system that worked, no matter what, that have kept us here.
AI & EdgeStrategyBig Data, and then what?
Automation, digitisation and integration, they all result in pools of data from which companies envisage doing great things.
StrategyHuman relevance in an age of automation
Following a series of talks from prominent industry players at the African Automation Fair, panel moderator Martin Sanne, Executive Director of CSIR, noted that two patterns had emerged.
StrategyAfrica’s 4th Industrial Revolution: Answering the big questions
First we were liberated from animal power, then came mass production and then digital availability. Now, we’re in the age of interconnectivity, the fusing together of all worlds to create connected ecosystems.
StrategyEnergyPut your farm in your pocket
If we could narrow the list of things keeping farmers up at night down to just two things, it would probably be the weather and productivity.
StrategyWannaCry Malware Attack | Guard your loins
IoT.nxt sees the key to true data security lying in our Raptor technology, which doesn’t run on an operating system.
AI & EdgeIs the edge eating the cloud?
Nico Steyn, CEO IoT.nxt thinks so. “I believe that the current IoT model is constrained by the network and will not work because it’s not sustainable.
Strategy5 Tech Trends to Watch
It’s been around since 1984, but only now are people starting to pay attention to 3D printing, particularly as it pertains to healthcare, and we’re not just talking dental.
CultureExploring New Frontiers
Not content to lead the charge locally when it comes to the development and implementation of IoT technology, the IoT.nxt team have embarked on a journey of discovery to explore new frontiers in the global market.
CultureCollision Conference, New Orleans | We’re with the leading minds in tech
Collision, America’s fastest growing tech conference, is in full swing in the creative melting pot that is New Orleans.
StrategyEnergyIoT Platform Creates Single Interface for South African Meat Company
Cavalier Group, a vertically integrated provider of red meat to South African retailers, operates cattle and lamb livestock farms, feedlots, livestock trading houses, slaughterhouses and meat packing plants across the country.
StrategyIoT.nxt plots Internet of Things “revolution” from SA
The Internet of Things (IoT) is being called the fourth industrial revolution due to the scale of impact it can have on various industries, with McKinsey saying interoperability will unlock 60 per cent of the estimated US$4 trillion to US$11 trillion of economic value that will be generated by the IoT by 2025.
AI & EdgeStrategyIoT.nxt introduces sub-system integration technology
After three years of conceptualising a device that aims to integrate various sub- systems within an organisation’s network, IoT.nxt, in partnership with AxizWorkgroup, recently unveiled its cloud-based Internet of things (IOT) solution called the Raptor.
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