AI Coding is the end of pretending your engineering process is mature. The pitch versus the reality Every vendor demo…
Category: Digital Twin
The Timeline Paradox: Decoupling Industrial IoT Data from Physical Assets
How modular data architecture and open standards put asset owners back in control There is a structural issue in the…
When Siemens Energy Must Choose: Your AI Data Center or the Grid That Powers It
The energy transition has a bottleneck that rarely makes headlines. Not a shortage of wind turbines or solar panels. Not…
The Power Grid Does Not Know What You Know
The Dutch electricity grid is congested. That diagnosis is no longer controversial. What remains poorly understood is why the flexibility…
How AI Makes Ignorance Sound Intelligent (And How to Spot It)
There is a Latin-derived word for the habit of giving opinions beyond your competence: ultracrepidarianism. It refers to the shoemaker…
TenneT, The Backbone of the Economy Under Strain, But Cannot Be Allowed to Break
What TenneT’s 2025 Annual Report Tells Us About the Dutch High-Voltage Grid: the Backbone on Which Our Digital Economy Rests.…
Your Innovation Pilots Are a Graveyard.
Time to Stop, Bury them with a distinct Ceremony. Most innovation pilots in large organisations are not experiments. They are…
EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework, definitely not a Sleeping Pill
Let’s be honest: most EU policy documents read as if they were written by a committee of lawyers who drank…
5 IoT Trends Confirming Its Maturity in 2024
In my experience, the world of IoT is shifting towards a more mature and mainstream technology. Almost every new physical…
Taming the IoT Spaghetti: Unraveling the Complexity of IoT Architecture with Pasta Metaphors
With the ever-expanding realm of the Internet of Things (IoT), organizations are increasingly embracing interconnected devices to gather and exchange…
Do you have a digital twin or an imaginary friend?
n the realm of interconnected devices and the Internet of Things (IoT), the term “digital twin” often finds its way…
PowerWeb Lecture: Building IOT Capabilities for energy transition and digital twin at scale
Abstract: The energy transition in the Netherlands will effectively migrate energy towards less reliable sources like wind and solar. Next…
I busted 12 Myths about IoT
Internet of Things (IoT) is for many technology enthusiasts the single most important thing that has ever happened. The impact…
Legacy IT and Technical Debt: What Should We Do With Our Cauliflower Automation?
If, like me, you have been working in IT for a while, you may recognise this: An organisation has a…
Data Platforms and Data Lakes: Data Mesh puts Business Back in the Lead
The current method of providing data services using data lakes often leads to highly specialized, siloed teams of data engineers…
Data is the new Uranium
Inspired by the tweet of Filippo Valsorda I want to debate the analogy “Data is the new oil”. I think this analogy…
Internet of Things Strategy: How IoT Creates Business Value using IoT and Digital Twin
The Internet of Things (IoT) is all about getting in-depth insight into your customers. It is the inter-networking of physical…
Who is responsible when Artificial Intelligence fails?
I am a heavy user of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. I often do not realize I am using them and,…