Cegeka has a broad and deep understanding of the agri and food ecosystem and the opportunities it creates. That makes us a valuable partner for ambitious companies that want to increase their profitability, efficiency, transparancy and sustainability.

Everyone’s waiting for the arrival of smart electricity grids that will allow us to take care of our own energy management – solar panel production and consumption – via dashboards and simple interfaces. That's the end-user side of things. Through the development of smart grids, the energy sector – and by extension, the utilities sectors – are facing a multiplication of data to be managed. In short, it’s a huge IT challenge.

The number of devices connected via the Internet of Things (IoT) is growing by more than 10 billion annually. The omnipresent internet, plus smaller sensors and cloud computing have made this impressive growth possible, with fantastic opportunities for the manufacturing industry.

The service sector is going through several shifts, driven by automation and digitization. Communication – which is essential to services – and cooperation between different parties can be done more quickly, more efficiently and can also be mobile when it is digital. Digital offices are available from anywhere, without technical barriers, because the necessary infrastructure is hosted in the cloud.

Forward-thinking banks and insurance companies are currently taking major steps towards cloud computing to increase their effectiveness through the use of the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, blockchain and big data.

Let’s say you want to buy a sofa. Now imagine you can project a life-like version into your living room and view it from different angles. It’s obvious this will change the customer experience significantly. Augmented and virtual reality bridge the gap between physical and digital experiences. An omni-channel approach must have a consistent and very recognizable blueprint across all possible channels.

A package that sends out a signal when it's being thrown through the air? RFID tags on products that monitor temperature and humidity? These trends are no longer science fiction. They are well established in today’s distribution industry.

Self-driving cars? A minor surgical procedure performed remotely? Attending a class in cell biology via your phone? All this data passes through telcos, and 5G, with its higher speed and greater bandwidth, is absolutely essential for this. The same is true for fulfilling expectations around AR and VR technology, and bringing them to consumers.