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The Internet of Things in the Cognitive Era: Realizing the future and full potential of connected devices

Mobile Application Developemnt

A recent study of global banking and finance executives found that despite stretched IT resources, 98% report a need for new mobile apps or app features. It is time to evaluate new opportunities and technologies that address the increasing needs of your consumers.

Web Developement

The Web has evolved into a global environment for delivering all kinds of applications, ranging from small-scale and short-lived services to large-scale, enterprise workflow systems distributed over many servers.

Business Intelligence

When it comes to Business Intelligence, the importance of gaining early internal consensus within your organization is paramount to its success. We provide you step-by-step through the process of ensuring your team gives you the knowledge you need to choose the right BI solution and get everyone on board after implementation.

MEAN Stack Developement

We build software, whether it’s commercial software for sale by vendors, enterprise software used by large corporations to drive revenue and improve operations, or branded mobile and cloud software to help companies distinguish themselves in their marketplace.

Artifical Intelligence

We are living in the midst of a surge of interest and research into Artificial Intelligence.It can seem like every week there is a new breakthrough in the field and a new record set in some task previously done by humans. Not too long ago, A.I. seemed a distant dream for especially interested researchers. Today it is all around us.

Food Industry

Technology is Changing the Food Industry

In the past, brands could get away with misleading customers with erroneous labels and clever copywriting, but in today's connected world, that is becoming harder and harder for companies to do. Social media and smartphones have connected consumers to information about the harmful effects of certain ingredients, the source of products, and how things are made. This interconnectedness is demanding accountability from the food giants like they have never seen before.

Research Is Changing The Conversation

Technology is enabling researchers to make new discoveries that are changing our understanding of nutrition. Big data in particular is revealing the consequences of certain foods that scientists did not previously understand. The FDA in recent years has been forced to issue updates on what we think is actually healthy. One of the biggest changes that Naha sees is the escalating war on sugar. "We are just now beginning to understand how horrible sugar is for our bodies. As we begin to understand these effects and the public starts paying attention, consumers will increasingly look for products that don't contain sugar."

Food Waste

According to reports, Americans throw away over 40% of the food they purchase. As awareness around these issues continue to grow, innovative entrepreneurs need to identify solutions. Ng is one company that is working to innovate food production and mitigate food waste. Consumers pay more for their food because companies reject huge volumes of viable produce. Ng has created a product that utilizes food that would normally be wasted.

How Technology is Changing, Challenging the Food Industry

Globalization, safety, regulation, efficiency, and refrigerants are now leading variables in the complex food-delivery equation. What the food delivery system will be in a decade will depend largely on industry creativity. Innovation across a wide range agenda will be required.

Retailers now reach around the world to optimize costs, as well as for wider varieties and substitutes for foods scarce on local shores. But globalization has large implications for food safety, not least because exporting countries vary in safety standards. For example, global food supply chains now dominate the seafood marketplace for Americans. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 91 percent of the seafood consumed in the U.S. is imported

2011 study by Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future notes that only 2 percent of imported seafood is tested for contamination. So, while profit margin pressures have driven globalization of the food chain, globalization has also imported a vast breach in the U.S. food safety regime, which carries risks for brands and of financial liability.

Food safety has long been a keystone in food-delivery strategy. But improvements in food delivery have created new vulnerabilities in safety, even as earlier risks are better addressed. Changes in warehousing strategy, for example, mean refrigeration needs change as well—both within buildings and during transportation. More processed food means less spoilage of whole foods, but also more and varying points of contamination risk—during processing and in moving from the processing plant to the grocery store.

More fundamental safety challenges, however, may now arise from technology. Technology makes modern food possible. It also gives rise to a delivery chain that is steadily more complex, agile, dynamic, and multi-dimensional. Each link in the chain involves discreet and quickly evolving possibilities and needs—in the field (whether domestic or overseas), perhaps at more than one location, in multiple transportation avenues, and in new storage and display facilities. The safety challenges resulting from such changes in food delivery are essentially the result of the broad trend toward faster, deeper technological innovation. They will be as complex and ever changing as the technologies that create them.