According to research conducted by telecommunications company Vodafone, 71% of firms have made at least one new technology investment in direct response to the pandemic.
When done right, working remotely is effective if you can also restructure the organisational processes for how communication and coordination happens. That said, there has been redoubled interest in hybrid cloud architectures to ensure resilience, something which edge computing also has a role to support.
With a simple digital customer interface and interpretation of real-time data, IoT platforms offer the perfect opportunity for organisations to incorporate thermal cameras and other emerging technologies into their buildings to manage the health of their customers and staff. AI and machine learning provide businesses with the capabilities to gain insights from the data they gather.