Blockchain drives Industry 4.0: the future business model

Industry 4.0 brings us an ecosystem fully connected up to a digital world in which innovation is one of the mainstays. This new paradigm is based on a totally digitalized environment that we now need to take onboard as a…

By GMV | May 10, 2018 | ICT | No Comments | Total Views 2,291

orbitSIM – An Advanced 3D Visualization and Training Tool

Once Upon a Time It all started with a very old fashioned 3D visualization tool called SatViz, which showed the International Space Station and European Laboratory “Columbus” orbiting the Earth. Although it was a feature-rich tool it was lacking in…

By GMV | April 17, 2018 | Space | No Comments | Total Views 4,742

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the key to industry’s “new” digital era

Technological advances have taken off exponentially in the last few decades. This has spawned an unbroken succession of revolutions that have completely overhauled our industries. Only 40 years ago computer use was restricted to certain processes; nowadays computers underpin completely…

By GMV | April 10, 2018 | ICT | No Comments | Total Views 6,528

What’s it like to be inside a space suit?

One of my most vivid memories I have from analog astronaut training is my first “donning” (putting on the suit), and in particular, the closure of the helmet. It is the moment at which you become detached from your surroundings.…

By GMV | March 14, 2018 | Space | No Comments | Total Views 9,546

Ten years of Columbus and the ATV program

It now takes less than six hours to reach the International Space Station, a huge engineering achievement on which 14 countries have worked jointly, involving the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Russian Space Agency (FKA), the Japanese Aerospace…

By GMV | March 8, 2018 | Space | No Comments | Total Views 10,172

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