Some medical queries are too complex for relational databases and data warehouses. A graph database is the right tool for mapping data coded to different libraries and canonical models. Take as a query: "Find every patient with a diabetes subtype who is on an ACE inhibitor and has stage 3 or worse kidney disease, where… Continue reading Graph Databases for Primary Care handling complex ontologies with SNOMED on Neo4J
When you're operating at the scale of NHS England, the question of which tools you use to understand and protect your digital estate isn't academic. It's existential! The Scale Problem NHS England is not one organisation. It has 7,900+ unique procuring organisations including acute trusts, integrated care boards, mental health providers, community services, GP federations,… Continue reading When Do You Actually Need a Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management Product
Do you know your Zeno of Citium from your Camus and are you more of a Stoic than an Absurdist?
It was a pleasure to be invited to speak again at Google's Geo for Good event in Mountain View in October 2023. My talk covered Nature Metrics actionable nature intelligence for the future and the large scale machine learning work we are doing for Species Distribution Modelling. https://youtu.be/E3V6ePXRT-w?list=PLLW-qoCMKQsx_YHs95aOHguU7XpKl75Fk&t=2439
I try and fit components together logically so that they can make the most of what the technology offers. I work predominantly in the OSS world on new access technologies like 5G and implementations like the Internet of Things. I want to achieve not just the deployment of these capabilities but to also to let… Continue reading Bringing IT (OSS) all together
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a key piece of the 5G architecture (or 5G type claims on a 4G RAN). MEC can already make a huge difference in video latency and quality for video streaming multiple feeds within a sporting environment. For example Intel, Nokia and China Mobile video streams of the Grand Prix at… Continue reading 5G, Iaas and Mobile Edge Computing
The Internet of Things requires multiple Reference Architectures which can map capabilities to specific technology domains. This is a challenge because there is no single unifying industry definition for the Internet of Things. For the purpose of this presentation it is assumed that: “Things” have semantic representation in the Internet “Things” can be acted upon in a… Continue reading A Reference Architecture for the Internet of Things
There are many different usable protocols for communication with M2M devices for the Internet of Things. Specific protocols are more appropriate for different devices (e.g. memory & power profiles) and specific protocols are more appropriate for different communication needs (e.g. State Transfer Model & Event Based Model)
The GSM Association (GSMA) put the M2M market size at $1.2tn revenue with 12 billion connected mobile devices by 2020. These numbers alone are enough to excite the most conservative of operators and wobble the subscriber-centric business models that currently prevail. The existing model adopted by MNOs that the more subscribers it has, the more successful and… Continue reading M2M ARPU Requires A Reference Architecture