#digital enablement

As cited by the World Economic Forum, $100 trillion will be added to the world economy through digital transformation by 2025. To get onto this massive economic wave, companies across the world are looking towards digital transformations, with Gartner suggesting that 91% of businesses are already engaged in some form of digital initiative, while 87% of senior business leaders are looking at digitalization as a priority.

Digital Enablement is often used interchangeably with Digital Transformation. However, they’re as different to each other as a support pillar is to the bridge itself. It takes a lot for a business to undergo a successful digital transformation, and that’s where Digital Enablement comes in.

How does digital enablement help an organization have a successful digital transformation, and how do you choose the right vendor for a successful digital transformation?

Technology enablement has been our backbone since inception. At Digile, we are grateful for the opportunity to work with some of the leading technologies in the industry and help our clients realize their business objectives.

Teknologi Robust dan Up to Date, bank bjb Gandeng AWS dan DCI, Ciptakan IT ‘Digital Enablement’

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WHO knew? Those ‘lazy’ teenagers wasting their days playing video games have actually been perfecting the skills required for the next generation of construction worker.

The workers at a Kaikohe based construction contractor could soon be using a device similar to a modern video game controller to operate equipment and machinery from the safety of a remote vantage point.

The new controller being developed by a local robotics startup company has an uncanny resemblance to the sleek and ergonomic controllers used to operate modern console gaming devices such as the Nintendo Wii and the Playstation.  With its stubby thumb-operated joysticks and array of conveniently-placed buttons, the device would look perfectly at home on the floor of an teenager’s rumpus room.

Instead of using the device to race control digital characters on a television or computer screen, the robotics firm hopes it will enable construction workers to control construction equipment with heightened precision and ease from the safety of a remote vantage point.

“The controller has been made to operate just like a modern gaming controller so that it will be more familiar and usable for a younger generation of construction professionals, who have been weaned on video games from an early age” says its inventor.

This makes the device far easier to use than most other control options currently available on the market, which often possess bewildering control configurations that can take novices a while to grapple with.

The young people that have been testing the prototype agree.  "I’ve been playing games such Grand Theft Auto and Halo for years” says one apprentice.  “The equipment I am learning to use has the same controls as my Xbox, so it’s feels like I have been using it for years.”

RIVER mussels wearing tiny sensor backpacks could help monitor the Mangonui Harbour for dangerous pollutants.

The plan is for the mussels to measure the flow of nitrogen-rich fertiliser that courses down the river and empties into the Bay of Islands. An excess of the nutrient there can cause dead zones that suffocate marine life.

Researchers have attached wireless sensor packages to mussels for measuring their “gape” – how much their shells are open.  They are also working on monitoring the animals’ heart rate, how much water they filter and when they burrow.  Each behaviour changes according to the water conditions.

In a previous experiment the mussels’ backpacks successfully transmitted signals to a receiver on the riverbed that relayed the signals to a lab on shore via a wired connection. The researchers are now testing their system on a group of mussels living in a tank, so that they can measure how the mussel shells gape in response to varying nitrogen levels.

The advantage of using mussels as a sensing mechanism is that they stay clean, unlike the electronic sensors that are normally used to monitor nitrogen content.   “Everything flocks to it and all kinds of muck starts to grow on the device,” he says. “But if you put a mussel out, they clean themselves and live for years and years.”

Local aquaculture farmers say the creatures could also be useful as hazardous waste or spill indicators.  “They’d be the canary in the coal mine” they say. They could also help researchers understand how mussels feed on nitrogen from rivers.

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IT SEEMS so obvious, it’s surprising that it wasn’t done ages ago.

That was the first thought of the Dargaville based engineer that has just signed up a multi-million dollar supply contract to some of the biggest councils in Australasia.  The idea was a simple one - use the flow of water through the council’s water reticulation system to generate electricity.

While the idea was simple, it’s execution was not.  The tricky part was coming up with a turbine that did not restrict the flow of water through the lines.  “I’d come up with a couple of attempts that worked okay for charging a cell phone, but not much else.”  It wasn’t until he was mixing up a batch of waffles with his kids that he had an idea.  The system works like a kitchen mixer in reverse.

But this technology is not just about generating electricity - it is what the electricity is used for that sets this invention apart from others.  Each turbine also contains sensors that measure water pressure and quality, which is then transmitted via the internet to the city headquarters.  Rather than having to run routine manual testing, this self powered system keeps track of the city’s critical water supply system.

It’s not just cities that have noticed this technology.  The Dargaville workshop has also been receiving inquiries from rural water users who see that the technology could help them monitor irrigation systems remotely.  “For our Avocado plantation in the Far North, this technology would enable us to get electricity and computing technology to parts of our property that would otherwise be uneconomic” says one horticulturalist.  

Due to the level of interest from industries outside of the target sector, the team has been investing in further research to develop the technology for application in other markets and developing economies.

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