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Ahead of his session at Sensors & IoT Virtual World Week, where he’ll be discussing Sensing Modalities & Actionable Data for Automated Driving, Pierre Olivier outlines LiDAR and perception’s role in self-driving cars

A new system that allows fibre-optic sensors to send data up to 100 times faster along conventional optical fibres has been developed by researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

Projects that use sensor-packed drones and sustainable electric aviation to carry out remote inspections, fight fires, protect the environment, and battle the coronavirus are among the first to receive a share of £33.5 million in government funding.

Chris Middleton hears how the government is calling for investor partners to help make manufacturing more sustainable. Sensors are at the core of a new UK government investment drive to back greater sustainability in foundation industries.

Forty-four percent of UK IT leaders say they are using edge technologies, with a further 21 percent planning to do so in the next year – a combined total of nearly two-thirds of organisations.

The predicted boom will come from physical industries and the IoT, reports Chris Middleton. But is the report all that it appears to be?