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Top Tips for Maximizing Energy Savings with Your Thermostat

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Thermostats control the heating and cooling systems that keep our homes comfortable, but they also have a major influence over residential energy usage and electricity bills. Newer programmable and smart thermostats are designed to optimize temperature control for both efficiency and convenience.

Brands like Ecobee and Siemens offer smart thermostats with scheduling features, remote sensors and connectivity that provide more precise regulation, resulting in energy savings of up to 10 percent per year.

For the average household, a smart thermostat can reduce annual utility costs by hundreds of dollars. They are also integrated with home automation for an improved experience. [Read more…] about Top Tips for Maximizing Energy Savings with Your Thermostat

Automation for Marketing Agencies: What Can be Automated?

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Many online platforms, particularly social media ones, have made it much easier to introduce a brand, engage with a target audience, and implement all sorts of marketing strategies. Automation for marketing agencies is taking the efficiency of operating an agency to another level.

It has become dramatically easier to consistently hit all target metrics with fewer human resources and, consequently, fewer issues like human error.

If you’re wondering what tasks and operations marketing agencies are able to effectively automate, keep reading to learn how automation can benefit your business in the long run. [Read more…] about Automation for Marketing Agencies: What Can be Automated?

How to automate pre-employment checks at your workplace

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The Human Resources department is one of the busiest in any company. They don’t generate profit in a direct way – they’re not the one manufacturing or selling goods, they don’t interact with the clients, but their job is even more important than that.

They keep the whole place running and this is a high responsibility. Fortunately, HR managers in Australia can use digital technology to automate many of their routine jobs, so the personnel can focus on economic forecasts and streamlining the company’s activity.

Here are a few ideas to automate pre-employment checks in your company. [Read more…] about How to automate pre-employment checks at your workplace

Locomation completes autonomous truck test involving three states

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Locomation, a startup company providing autonomous trucking technology, has completed an on-road test that involved three different states in America.

The pilot program is intended to showcase autonomous trucking technology for the SmartBelt Coalition (SBC), a collaboration of five transportation agencies and seven research and academic institutions, located throughout Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

Over the course of one week, two Locomation trucks performed three separate interstate routes under close observation from representatives of all involved organizations. [Read more…] about Locomation completes autonomous truck test involving three states

US military selects Parrot as new supplier of drones

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Parrot, a drone manufacturer, has been selected to take part in the Blue Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) programme by the US Army and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU).

The DIU is a Department of Defense organisation that accelerates commercial technology for national defense.

The Blue sUAS programme is a spin-off of the Short-Range Reconnaissance (SRR) programme launched by the Army and DIU in April 2019. [Read more…] about US military selects Parrot as new supplier of drones