A smart TV with content recognition on samples what is on screen for advertising, over HDMI as well as on live channels. Put one in a reception showing a patient list, a production dashboard or a welcome message and two questions follow: who in the room can read it, and what the television reports home. This post answers both and ends with a checklist.
The TV in Your Reception Is a Data Protection Question Read Post »
ISO is writing a safety standard for industrial robots that have to balance: on two legs, four legs or wheels. It is not published. This post sets out what ISO and BSI show about it in public today, and nothing more, because nobody outside the committee can tell you what it will require.
A Safety Standard for Humanoid Robots Is Being Written: What UK Sites Can Do Now Read Post »
If you manufacture in the UK and you’ve recently won work in an American defence supply chain, there’s a good chance a customer has sent you a document with “CMMC” on the front and asked how you intend to comply. Most of what that document covers (encryption, system boundaries, incident response, assessment scoring) belongs to […]
Every week, contractors walk onto small industrial and facility sites to do work the in-house team can’t: welding a bracket, servicing a boiler, cutting into pipework, working at height in a plant room. Most of the time it goes fine. But if it doesn’t. If someone gets hurt, the first question an HSE inspector asks
Permit to Work for Small Businesses: A Plain-English Guide for Site Managers Read Post »
Mini PCs are awesome. With a Linux OS, you can configure them as powerful servers for a wide range of software and services—from running AI-powered security cameras to hosting internal company sites or even OpenClaw. Repurposing Mini PCs as small servers is a great, inexpensive way to power your services locally. But if you’ve ever
How to Fix Headless Linux Server Crashes (No Dummy Plug Required) Read Post »
