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5G Challenges in Smart Grid Electrical Distribution Networks
The world and Europe are currently experiencing a context of climate emergency, energy scarcity and electrification of energy consumption. In this environment, electricity distribution networks face a challenge of continuous improvement with a focus on more efficient management of energy demand, generation, and distribution through increasingly complex power grids....
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OT cybersecurity in critical infrastructures
Now that mass and social media are booming, it is normal for marketing to take over and for technological terms to become more trivialized and popular. We are all familiar with cloud computing, now linked to edge computing, blockchain, the metaverse, AI, etc. However,...
Zero Trust Approach and Unified Cloud Security
Introduction In the new paradigm of the connected world, where everything and everyone has access to the Internet, having a totally secure network is difficult to imagine. Today we see how digitization is advancing rapidly, within education, health and government,...
The role of communications in the automation and remote control of distribution networks
Electric distribution companies have tens of thousands of transformation centers that perform the function of distributing electric power, taking meter readings from supply points, and that are responsible for maintaining and ensuring all the elements involved operate...
VoIP and the benefits it can bring
The term VoIP is an acronym for Voice over Internet Protocol, which means voice over the Internet. It is the technology used to deliver voice and multimedia sessions (such as video) via an Internet Protocol (IP). VoIP phones are therefore physical devices or computer/mobile software designed to transmit voice over the Internet. This allows audio signals from a standard telephone to be converted..
Cyber security in the Railways Industry
Cybersecurity has become a real trendy world in everybody’s live either used as a fancy term, to generate confidence associated to high technology topics, or to create panic and generate that sense of fear and urge for protection. We can find this uncomfortable…
Why the cybersecurity threat to banks has so significantly increased
Bank ATM cashpoint machines have always been prime targets for both physical and cyber threats for obvious reasons; they contain large amounts of cash and sensitive customer information. Yet, as the growth in hybrid working and migration to cloud applications has…
MTBF and hardware reliability
This year’s University Entrance Exam (EVAU) for physics in Madrid included a question on atomic decay..
The difficulty could lie not so much in physical concepts as in statistics, and with an equation as simple and seemingly innocent as the exponential: This equation
Ensuring cybersecurity for healthcare research data
In the wake of the pandemic, nations worldwide are seeking a return to good public health and economic recovery. Any such return can be critically aided by an adequate supply of vaccines which can be administered to millions of people without a hitch.However, the...
The main advantages of OpenStack and its deployment methods
Due to the growing demand for resources driven mainly by the increasing number of devices with Internet access, it’s hard to find organizations or companies today that aren’t benefitting from the advantages of cloud computing. Acquiring and maintaining expensive...
Digitalizing SASE to enhance network protection in the cloud age
SASE – Secure Access Service Edge – is increasingly important as flexible working becomes a standard aspect of corporate IT. Managing cyberthreats is steadily more difficult as the traditional network perimeter disappears. With employees working remotely and new...
Transformers: BERT
It is no secret that in the near future, Artificial Intelligence will be implemented in most technological devices. This is because Artificial Intelligence algorithms allow to predict and make decisions with a human-like reasoning for very specific tasks, reducing...
How the latest vehicle connectivity technologies can create new competitive advantages for bus fleet operators
For many years, bus fleet operators have been able to offer basic internet services to their passengers, based on 3G or 4G communications and, probably, Wi-Fi 5 (IEEE 802.11 ac) which was released in 2014.By now, offering such services is not enough to make a fleet...