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IET Smart Cities

Urban development with dynamic digital twins in Helsinki city

Shazam for bats: Internet of Things for continuous real-time biodiversity monitoring

A smart city application: A waste collection system with long-range wide area network for providing green environment and cost-effective and low power consumption solutions

IET Smart Grid

A novel communication-free charge controller for electric vehicles using machine learning

IET Collaborative Intelligent Manufacturing

Integration of digital twin and deep learning in cyber-physical systems: towards smart manufacturing

Healthcare Technology Letters

A remote healthcare monitoring framework for diabetes prediction using machine learning

IET Nanobiotechnology

Promising opportunities and potential risk of nanoparticle on the society

IET Networks

Mobile Cloud Computing and Wireless Sensor Networks: A review, integration architecture, and future directions

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Discover key patterns and trends from Inspec Analytics

Digital technology has the potential to enhance economies, societies, and the environment. Inspec helps researchers stay up to date on the latest advancements and innovations of digital technology through its wide coverage of digital future related research areas such as: the practical uses of extended realities, the capabilities of artificial intelligence and the latest advancements of cybersecurity. Inspec Analytics shows that research relating to these topics has grown rapidly since 2013.

Virtual reality (C6130V)

Within the Virtual Reality subject classification more than 30,000 articles have been published and indexed by Inspec since 2013. This area of research has seen an >130% increase in article output, with over 19,000 citations and 5,000 organisations publishing in this subject area.

Data handling techniques (C6130)

The Data handling techniques subject classification has seen over 500,000 articles published and indexed between 2013-2020. Article output in this research area has seen a >108% increase during this time with the articles having been cited over 510,000 times, an average of 1.02 citations per article. Over 14,000 organisations have published content within the research area during the time span.

Computer network security

During 2013-2020, over 20,000 published articles have been indexed by Inspec that relate to the controlled term Computer network security, the article output during this period increased >140%. The articles within this research area have been cited over 17,700 times with over 4,200 organisations publishing content during the time span.

Learning (artificial intelligence)

From 2013-2020, more than 274,900 published articles have been indexed that relate to the controlled term learning (artificial intelligence), the article output during this time increased >626%. The articles in the subject area have been cited 305,200 times, with an average of 1.11 citations per article. Over 10,800 organisations have published content within this subject classification.

5G mobile communication

The controlled term 5G mobile communication has seen more than 19,800 articles published and indexed by Inspec since 2013. This area of research has seen an >222,500% increase in article output during this time span. Over 3,000 organisations have published research in this area, with these articles receiving over 8,800 citations.

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