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WattIQ Achieves SOC 2 Type II Certification

WattIQ is excited to announce that it has successfully attained its SOC 2 Type 2 compliance certification for the latest WattIQ enterprise software through an audit performed by an independent CPA firm. We understand how important data security and compliance are to our clients (customers) and we are proud of our team’s efforts to meet […]
Mark Madsen
Technology

‘Vampire Energy’ Is Sucking the Life out of Our Planet

https://www.wired.com/story/vampire-energy-climate-environment-earth-day/ This Earth Day, it’s time to tackle a sneaky source of waste that drains wallets and accelerates climate change. UNTIL RECENTLY, I thought vampires—creatures of the night that suck the life from their victims—existed only in the fictional realms of literature and TV. That’s until I learned about a real-life scenario draining both our wallets and the planet: vampire […]
Priya Vijayakumar
Technology

Strategic Role For Procurement in the Path to Net Zero

https://www.sdcexec.com/sourcing-procurement/article/22158852/wattiq-strategic-role-for-procurement-in-the-path-to-net-zero   While the efforts to minimize emissions are bigger than one person, procurement leaders have a unique opportunity to influence the impact of their organizations on the environment on a large scale. The pressure to limit our carbon footprint has become a competitive differentiator for modern organizations. Sustainability, no longer is a “nice-to-have,” as […]
Priya Vijayakumar
Technology

The Next Frontier in Lab Asset Performance Management

https://medhealthoutlook.com/the-next-frontier-in-lab-asset-performance-management/   Large or small, diagnostics or research, health care or life sciences –today’s labs balance responsibilities that straddle support for patient outcomes, speed of research, operational efficiency, cost control – and increasingly, environmental impacts. Early attempts at modernizing these functions implemented software solutions to manage the procurement and maintenance of assets, followed by asset […]
Priya Vijayakumar
Technology

The Power of Data

Transitioning from a linear economy to a circular economy is going to require us to tackle the problems of over consumption and waste. With so much waste, we should be able to reduce consumption without adversely affecting productivity. Unfortunately, many organizations struggle to find the data needed to move from a want to a needs based consumption.
Priya Vijayakumar
NewsTechnology

Make Your IoT Launch A Success With These 16 Steps

Ensure that the business impact can be clearly demonstrated in the pilot phase, which has to be simple to deploy in itself. Far too many IoT projects fail from the sheer complexity of the solution.
Q
Technology

Back to work

As the life sciences world begins facing new challenges of getting people back to work while adjusting to shifting stop gap measures to align with social distancing and lock-downs, the one size fits all approach just has not worked.
Eoin O'Halloran
Technology

Deploying power monitoring for asset utilization in a lab

Labs have many different environments that can affect deployment; Clean Rooms, Freezer Farms, Bench top clusters, and so on, all with varying levels of RF interference and accessibility to power that can impact the performance and maintenance of your IoT deployment.
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Technology

Invisible energy consumption and sustainability

Even with the best intentions and sustainability guidelines in place, corporate, educational, medical, and industrial initiatives can lose steam without clear measurements of success. The answer is simply having data to make informed decisions – decisions that highlight sustainability results and help deliver on a range of organizational goals.
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Technology

Asset intelligence in a touchless world

One of the things that makes WattIQ’s asset intelligence solution a perfect option for our current times is how simple it is to set up, during the pilot, little or even no involvement from IT is needed as we don’t need to get on the internal network and the equipment to be monitored is simply plugged into the smart plug.
Eoin O'Halloran