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Securing the Future of Connected Health on a Global Scale

On the dark web, health records are worth literally forty to fifty times more than credit card data. While you may be able to change your social security or fiscal identity number with significant amounts of effort or cancel your credit cards, you cannot change the genetic data, health conditions, biometric data that’s stored in your health record. Your genetic and health data is immutable. Once compromised or breached, you bear lifelong consequences.

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Connectivity & Telecom

IEEE SA Working Groups27 April 2021

Four IEEE Standards to Guide the Future of Online Gaming and Esports

Why Are Gaming and Esports Industry Standards Needed? Online gaming is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing industries, with 2.7 billion global participants in 2020 (up from 2.2 billion two years earlier), and an estimated $180 billion in revenues in 2020 expected to nearly double by 2026. This growth…
Healthcare & Life Sciences

Maria Palombini20 April 2021

How to Build Trust in the Internet of Medical Things and Wearables?

In today’s healthcare ecosystem, there are millions of connected wireless medical devices powered by the Internet of Things (IoT) and biosensors that monitor and deliver life-saving treatment for patients. Found in, on, or around the patient and running autonomously in real-time, these connected devices collect critical data to help the…
Power & Energy

Guest Contributor12 April 2021

How Can We Use ICT Standards For Sustainable Development?

What is Sustainable Development? Why is it Important? Sustainable development is a development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. When considering and discussing sustainability, people often first think of the environment – saving energy, reducing carbon footprints,…
IEEE SA News

Guest Contributor5 April 2021

Building Customer Confidence in Artificial Intelligence Systems for the Financial Industry

The Importance of Applied Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Human data, the fundamental building block for artificial intelligent systems, is currently being accessed and shared in multiple ways across the world without unified policy, technology, or cultural guidelines. For industries like financial services — which is second only to the technology…
Technology

Guest Contributor24 March 2021

How Standards Help Make Smart Cities a Reality

Smart Cities in India India is expected to witness an increase in urban population from 377 million in 2011 to 600 million in 2031 — roughly twice the current population of the United States, according to a UN-backed report published in 2014. Given the growth, the country is expected to…
Connectivity & Telecom

IEEE SA Working Groups3 March 2021

Expanding Singlemode Fiber Capabilities in Ethernet Applications

The lifecycles of technology innovation and standards refinement are tightly entwined in a space as huge and long-lasting as Ethernet. For example, the new IEEE 802.3cu™, IEEE Draft Standard for Ethernet Amendment: Physical Layers and Management Parameters for 100 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s Operation over Single-Mode Fiber at 100 Gb/s…
Healthcare & Life Sciences

Maria Palombini23 February 2021

Securing the Future of Connected Health on a Global Scale

On the dark web, health records are worth literally forty to fifty times more than credit card data. While you may be able to change your social security or fiscal identity number with significant amounts of effort or cancel your credit cards, you cannot change the genetic data, health conditions,…
Power & Energy

Guest Contributor9 February 2021

Raising Safety Standards in Energy and Engineering

This post is an adaptation of the article by the University of Washington Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. For those of us who have ever watched TV, talked on a cellphone, enjoyed listening to AM/FM radio broadcasts, or received an MRI scan, we can confidently do so with the…
Technology

Guest Contributor5 February 2021

Bringing New Voices to Nanotechnology Standards Development

When the renowned physicist Richard Feynman gave a talk titled There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom at a meeting of the American Physical Society in 1959, little did anyone know that his presentation would come to be seen as the world’s seminal talk on nanotechnology. In fact, the word…
Healthcare & Life Sciences

Guest Contributor3 February 2021

Driving Responsible Innovation of AI, Life Sciences and Next Generation Biotech

“We are making God obsolete,” declared the rockstar-like professor of synthetic biology in the recent Netflix hit show Biohackers. What happens when humans become creators of new forms of DNA, including our own? Who gets to decide? Who owns our genomic data? Who is it shared with? Who is accountable?…