A worker checks the radiation level inside the control room of reactor No 4, where the Chornobyl disaster happened in 1986. A worker checks the radiation level inside the control room of reactor No 4, where the Chornobyl disaster happened in 1986. In February 2025, a cheap Russian drone tore through Chornobyl's confinement shelter. Workers warn the site of the world's worst nuclear accident is not safe yet The dosimeter clipped to your chest ticks faster the moment you step off the designated path inside the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. Step back, and it slows again - an invisible line between clean ground and contamination.

Abstract--This paper presents the V esselEdge system, which leverages federated learning and bandwidth-constrained trajectory compression to enhance maritime situational awareness by extending AIS coverage. V esselEdge transforms vessels into mobile sensors, enabling real-time anomaly detection and efficient data transmission over low-bandwidth connections. The system integrates the M fed model for federated learning and the BWC-DR-A algorithm for trajectory compression, prioritizing anomalous data. Preliminary results demonstrate the effectiveness of V esselEdge in improving AIS coverage and situational awareness using historical data. The Automatic Identification System (AIS) is a tracking system that uses transceivers on ships to monitor marine traffic.

The delivery drivers of the future may not leave a package at your door. Instead, they'll be sitting several miles or even time zones away in a control room overseeing a fleet of delivery robots or drones. A look at how innovation and technology are transforming the way we live, work and play. Companies are plowing billions of dollars into autonomous technologies they hope will improve efficiency and solve worker shortages. But executives in these industries say true autonomy is many years away–and may never come.

Shield, the world's leading communication compliance platform, launched impressive surveillance capabilities that enable banks and finance firms to bring communication compliance into the control room and protect against data leaks. InfoBarriers, the company's newest AI-model, is included in the latest version of Shield (3.2), which introduces additional new and substantial capabilities unmatched by existing legacy vendors and emerging startups. Also included in Shield 3.2 are enhanced search analytics, case workspaces for more visibility and traceability into eDiscovery, and further refinements to user interface (UI). Shield's data scientists, with deep expertise in trade and securities compliance, have developed InfoBarriers to detect information barrier leaks hiding throughout electronic communication channels. Through control room protocols, InfoBarriers enables organizations to secure material non-public information (MNPI) behind deal and research lists.

Athens, Greece – "Let's go see something that looks really nice," says Anastasios Salis, head of information and communications technology at the Greek Migration and Asylum Ministry in Athens, before entering an airtight room sealed behind two interlocking doors, accessible only with an ID card and fingerprint scan. Beyond these doors is the ministry's newly-installed centralised surveillance room. The front wall is covered by a vast screen. More than a dozen rectangles and squares display footage from three refugee camps already connected to the system. Another screen shows the playground and another the inside of one of the containers where people socialise.

Accidents in inland waterways in developing countries are a regular phenomenon throughout the year causing deaths, injuries, monetary loss, and a significant amount of missing people. In consequence, a lot of families are losing their dear ones leading to much misery. The above context demands an intelligent, safe, and reliable water transport system for the developing countries. The concept of Intelligent Transport System (ITS) can be applied to develop such system; however, there are issues with ITS and Internet of Things (IoT) unlocks a new way of developing it. This paper proposes a model to transform the water transport system into an intelligent system based on IoT. IPv6 based machine-to-machine (M2M) protocol, 3G telecommunication technology, and IEEE 802.15.4 network standard play a significant role in this proposed IoT based system.

Technology for MSMEs: MSME Ministry on Wednesday integrated artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to its online grievance resolution portal Champions to get "social media insights relating to MSME", "know the pulse of entire MSME sector without stakeholders going to the portal", "know emotions of people involved with or dependent on MSMEs in real-time" and more, according to a ministry's statement. Launched in June, Champions portal acts as a single-window portal for issues related to MSMEs around finance, raw materials, labour, regulatory permissions etc. particularly due to the Covid impact faced by small businesses. The ministry had tied up with technology company Intel over the past five months to help it implement AI and ML. MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari said that the entire concept and scope analysis and design have been done in-house in the Ministry with the help of NIC and under the guidance of the local team of Intel. The ministry added that "AI has started giving the MSME Ministry social media insights relating to MSMEs for its policy action through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Blogs, Forums and online news which were not available to us on a holistic basis."

As AI enters the workplace, we need to reflect upon the criteria by which human work is evaluated and human subjectivity depicted. Control panels are the obvious place to run operations centrally. The control rooms of Star Trek's fantastical Enterprise (and the hub of the actual Project Cybersyn under Chile's radical president Salvador Allende) in the 1960s and 70s were however operated by humans with relatively primitive technologies. Today, much of the work of the people we imagined in these rooms--the bouffanted women in silver A-line dresses and men in blue boiler suits pushing buttons to operate the manoeuvres of galactical imperialism--is done by computers. But what will happen when the proverbial windows looking out to the galaxies only display a cadre of robots and the control panels' blinking lights are the only reflective glimmer?

ABOUT A CENTURY ago, engineers created a new sort of space: the control room. Before then, things that needed control were controlled by people on the spot. But as district heating systems, railway networks, electric grids and the like grew more complex, it began to make sense to put the controls all in one place. Dials and light bulbs brought the way the world was working into the room. Levers, stopcocks, switches and buttons sent decisions back out. By the 1960s control rooms had become a powerful icon of the modern. At Mission Control in Houston, young men in horn rimmed glasses and crewcuts sent commands to spacecraft heading for the Moon. In the space seen through television sets, travellers exploring strange new worlds did so within an iconic control room of their own: the bridge of Star Trek's USS Enterprise. A hexagonal room built in Santiago de Chile a decade later fitted right into the same philosophy--and aesthetic. It had an array of screens full of numbers and arrows. It was linked to a powerful computer. It had futuristic swivel chairs, complete with geometric buttons in the armrests to control the displays. Unlike the Johnson Space Centre and the Enterprise, it even had a small bar where occupants could serve themselves drinks after a hard day's controlling.

Knowledge Lens, a relatively new company, participated as a Silver Sponsor at ARC's India Forum, Driving Digital Transformation in Industry and Cities. As a first-time participant, the Forum provided an ideal opportunity for the company to showcase its offerings. Started in Bangalore five years ago with no external funding, the company's vision is to build information technology products indigenously and provide gainful employment. Today, it has offices in the US and over 1,500 customers globally. The company's focus is on accelerating actionable insights from enterprise data using artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data analytics, cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain technologies.