AI of Things A closer look at the GRAMMY Awards 2018 Now that January is here, it is time to look forward to one of the year’s standout events, the GRAMMYs 2018. This year, the prestigious event will be held...
AI of Things Quito becomes the first Smart City in Latin America How many people use the metro on a daily basis? What stop do they get off at? How long is their journey? We can now answer all of the...
Salmerón Uribes Marina The importance of labeling: spotlabel In an increasingly digitized world, technological innovation is a fundamental value. The adoption of new technologies and the possibilities of connectivity offered by Internet of Things can give a...
Beatriz Sanz Baños Safer and controlled waters with smart buoys Internet of Things is not limited to dry land. We already saw how they it inserted itself in the sea to improve the experience of bathers and ensure more...
ElevenPaths #CyberSecurityPulse: The eternal dispute: backdoors and national security A bipartisan group of legislators from the house of representatives has introduced a piece of legistation which will prevent the federal government of the United States from demanding companies...
Gabriel Álvarez Corrada Approaching Cybersecurity in Industry 4.0: The Age of Connected Machines Don’t run away yet! This era is not about machines enslaving humanity (at least, not yet…) but about the introduction of elements (IOT devices, cloud environments, IA, Big Data, SIEM,...
Movistar Home, the reinvention of the home thanks to Artificial IntelligenceÓscar Mancebo 31 May, 2019 At the 2018 edition of MWC, we announced that we were working on Movistar Home, a device aimed at reinventing the home incorporating Aura, Telefónica’s artificial intelligence, for its launch at the end of last year. This launch formed part of a company strategy based on bringing Telefónica’s artificial intelligence to users’ homes, using Movistar Home as a launching pad and converting the ecosystem of Telefónica’s home-installed devices into a “super computer”, which we have named Home as a Computer (HaaC). Chema Alonso at MWC 2018 introducing Movistar Home At first, we focused on Telefónica’s core home services, Wi-Fi connectivity, television and communications, although we also anticipated the direction we were going to take with this project, incorporating areas such as family games and smart homes. From the beginning, we were clear that the device would have to have two essential features: a touch screen and the incorporation of natural language in its interaction with our users. This would allow us to develop a key device when it comes to enhancing access to digital services from the home. Light control is one of the new functionalities of the device Services and capabilities of Movistar Home As well as the enhancement of these services, the hardware and software capacities of the device also enable us to provide our homes with: – Second Screen: A second screen that enhances the user experience when enjoying content played on the main television screen, from supplementing what’s being viewed with information to creating interactive and smart advertising models which connect us to what is known as TV-Commerce. – Hyper-Edge Computing: From the beginning, Movistar Home was designed with the ability to integrate micro-services. This would complement Telefónica’s Edge Computing strategy with a device that could help us to improve the implementation of services which require a minimum latency, such as gaming. – Access to services from a third-party ecosystem: The device was created with the aim of enabling the opening up of the home ecosystem to services from third parties, which would provide other companies the opportunity to enhance access to their services from the home, as we have done with Telefónica’s services. Its location in the living room, the heart of family life, facilitates interaction with Movistar+ content on the television and with calls and video calls. This is why Movistar Home has these elements built-in from the very beginning. A family enjoying Movistar Home Among the technical characteristics we wanted the device to have, the most important is privacy, thanks to the ability to cover the webcam and a button to turn off the microphone at a hardware level, and the “always on” feature, which allows the device to be constantly on in order to encourage the user to use it and in order to not worry about whether or not it has battery life when they need to use it. The Champions is also IoTThe birth of Aura and its presentation in Microsoft
Kassandra Block How Artificial Intelligence is helping companies to improve their customer relationship: Vivo’s success story in Brazil During the pandemic, the need for companies to use digital channels in order to provide a quality customer service has become evident. An example of this digitalisation in its...
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Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón Nobody on The Internet Knows You Are A Dog, Even If You Use TLS Certificates You may have noticed that most websites have a little padlock on them. If you click on it, a window will pop up stating that “the connection is secure”....
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Beatriz Sanz Baños Road safety and IoT Mobility is one of the key factors to consider in order to make cities more efficient, a necessity taking into account the millions of citizens travel to work or study centers in their vehicles. Taking...
Pablo Alarcón Padellano Move to the cloud with confidence supported by ElevenPaths and Check Point The goal of ElevenPaths Public Cloud Managed Security Services is to help you to secure any cloud workload and to mitigate cloud risks.