The American company Amazon has made headlines several times for monitoring its workers in warehouses across Europe and beyond.1 What is new is that a national data protection authority has recently issued a substantial fine of €32 million to the e-commerce giant for breaching several provisions of the …

This chapter describes the growing influence of point-of-care diagnostics (POCD) on the daily lives of citizens, their immediate families, and healthcare providers. With a view to the future, the most important contemporary developments in this field are discussed, such as noninvasive sensor technology …

Several studies have suggested that precision livestock farming (PLF) is a useful tool foranimal welfare management and assessment. Location, posture and movement of an individual are key elements in identifying the animal and recording its behaviour. Currently, multiple technologies are available for …

Predictive maintenance is the promise of the future in infrastructure asset management. Predictive maintenance more and more uses sensor data. Sensors are relatively cheap, and their data mostly comes in huge quantities. Trends or flags may be observed in the data, sometimes with traditional statistical …

Solar Boat, the project was born in 2009 by a group of enthusiastic students of mixed educational backgrounds who wanted to fill their free composition course points in a special, more meaningful way. They came in contact with DTIW and established an agreement of what they could offer each other, eventually …

Royal Eijkelkamp is a company in the Netherlands that specializes in soil improvement, soil conditions, water preservation, and agricultural research. The company has started an innovation platform in partnership with Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences that is named InnoFields. The InnoFields …

The full potential of predictive maintenance has not yet been utilised. Current solutions focus on individual steps of the predictive maintenance cycle and only work for very specific settings. The overarching challenge of predictive maintenance is to leverage these individual building blocks to obtain …

In de melkveehouderij was in 2015 het kalversterftepercentage gemiddeld 13,3%. De afkalfstal is meestal de eerste ruimte waar het kalf wordt blootgesteld aan de buitenwereld en aan ziekteverwekkers. Hygiëne, klimaatomstandigheden en het management van de afkalfstal is erg belangrijk voor een goede start …

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De havens die Groningen Seaports (GSP) faciliteert, zijn relatief kleine havens waar het tij bepaalt welke schepen kunnen aanmeren. GSP wil de concurrentie met grotere havens aangaan door voorop te lopen met innovatie en zet hier bewust stappen in. Denk aan het faciliteren van zelf varende schepen en …