Using AI to track blood pressure

by Wouter Hendrickx | Jul 14, 2020 | Life Sciences, Perspectives, Product innovation

Hypertension, hypotension or irregular blood flow are linked with various diseases like coronary heart disease and ischemic as a hemorrhagic stroke. The WHO reported that around 13% of all deaths are caused by high blood pressure values. The overall prevalence of...

Integrating IoT in FMCG

by Frederik Aldelhof | Jul 6, 2020 | Digital innovation, FMCG & consumer, Perspectives

Leveraging the declining costs of technology and the growing power of Artificial Intelligence, we observe that FMCG companies are increasingly developing IoT devices to create differentiated offerings that increase customer loyalty. Several announcements and...

Transient conjugate heat transfer simulation of a cooling solution

by Wouter Vleugels | Jun 19, 2020 | FMCG & consumer, Perspectives, Product innovation

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) used to be a tool to develop highly expensive and complex products such as aircraft, rockets, ships, turbo machinery, etc. The tools were cumbersome, old fashioned and expensive. Models took a long time to develop and their usage was...

Federated learning: embedding privacy in the learning algorithm

by Niels Verleysen | Jun 9, 2020 | Perspectives, Product innovation

The future of global data protection regulations continues to be a subject of debate, however it can be expected that more tight regulations will face it with the uptake of AI and big data systems that has recently advanced faster than everybody thought due to the...

Facing the aftermath of Covid-19 with AI & physical distancing

by Joris De Lamper | May 15, 2020 | Industry & chemistry, Perspectives, Product innovation

It seems that after all, we’re leaving the worst from Covid-19 behind us. The curve is flattening, governments are softening the lockdown measurements, and the world is starting to ask what’s next. We’re all wondering what it’ll be like to...

5 ways for your IR&D team to deal with the Corona crisis

by Stijn Smet | Apr 24, 2020 | Industry & chemistry, Perspectives, Strategic innovation

During Corona-times, optimists would say that ‘every crisis is a birth’, and for some aspects this is truly the case. Organizations discover that their team can actually work from home, so colleagues adopt a new sense of work-life balance and many elderly are more...