Surveilling aging infrastructure using fiber-optics

Somni Solutions, a small startup from The Hague, provided fiber-optic tilt sensors for the new Genoa bridge, which recently reopened, two years after the tragic collapse. CTO Remco Nieuwland explains how his company acquired this prestigious assignment and why we should start monitoring our own aging infrastructure.

System Architecting Conference: keynote by Jon Holt

On 24 September, we’re happy to organize the System Architecting Conference again, with a corona-proof event concept in Eindhoven. The closing keynote speech will be delivered by Jon Holt (Incose UK). Check out the full conference program here and make sure you register in time, as seating capacity is limited.

Headlines

Kendrion locks up 3T acquisition

Quantum computing unicorn considers European HQ near Imec

Semiconductor boom might turn to glut in 2023, says IDC

The Netherlands joins European chip collaboration

$12M seed round brings Dutch stealth startup Axelera AI to light

Loop Robots cleans up with a $2M seed investment

TU Delft and NFI investigate next-gen forensic photography

Pharrowtech field-tests mm-wave-based fixed wireless access

Funding for large-scale research infrastructure “insufficient”

Dutch TUs stumble further in 2022 THE rankings

Holst Centre betting big on the foil battery

Can billions of micropillars make for a better battery than we currently have? Yes, Holst Centre believes, after the final piece of the puzzle fell into place in the lab recently. Now, the institute is looking to scale up and commercialize the technology.

In other news

Inventor of the pixel Russell Kirsch dies at 91 (Gizmodo)

Thermo Fisher will be fine without Qiagen (Seeking Alpha)

Signify to close Kansas facility, moving production outside of the US (Evertiq)

Planning for business agility

The world has moved from planned and offline to real-time and online. The risk is that we lose track of the long term in favor of an overly strong sprint focus.

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