The Changing Shape of the Smart Border How overlapping technology cycles are reshaping border control Walk around a major border technology exhibition and you can see several generations of the solutions on show side by side. One stand may be demonstrating remote identity verification or a digital travel credential. Another may be showing how a…
After a busy couple of days of meetings and running from one end of the conference to the other (I didn’t quite expect there to be 24 exhibition halls!), it was interesting to see several of the trends we highlighted in our Future of Connectivity in Rail – 2025 research becoming increasingly visible across the…
Improving safety continues to be a focal point for vendors throughout the mining industry with haulage taking centre stage. Today, humans continue to work closely alongside huge pieces of machinery, often in difficult underground conditions or across large open-pit sites where poor visibility, fatigue, bad weather and challenging terrain can all increase the risk of…
ABC eGates will remain the most valuable automated equipment category, but biometric enrolment pods and totems are forecast to grow fastest as border agencies adopt a wider mix of automated and assisted processing. September 23rd 2026, 15:00 British Summer Time (BST) London. Border modernisation over the next decade will extend well beyond the installation of additional eGates,…
Can greater integration preserve an open airport eGate ecosystem? ASSA ABLOY’s proposed acquisition of Gunnebo Entrance Control is more significant for airports than a conventional expansion of its entrance control portfolio. Gunnebo gives the group an established global eGate platform, a substantial airport footprint and long-standing relationships with operators, authorities and systems integrators. Alongside HID,…
Introduction The idea of electric propulsion for ships stretches back nearly 200 years to a Prussian electrical engineer and physicist, Moritz Hermann von Jacobi, who deduced the maximum power theory and, later, built a 28-foot paddle boat for Tsar Nicholas I. This ferry, in 1838, was powered by lead zinc batteries and was able to…
Introduction After releasing an article into the world, most authors experience a brief mixture of anxiety, excitement and trepidation. Will our readers like it? Will they find it useful? Will people think I am a plonker? More importantly, will my mother still love me? Usually, yes to all of the above. Although she occasionally has…
Six major non US satellite markets are building sovereign systems for connectivity navigation Earth observation and defence Introduction There are now many thousands of active satellites circling Earth, accompanied by spent rocket stages, defunct spacecraft and fragments of debris. The precise total depends on whether one counts active payloads, inactive objects or everything tracked in…
This week, I’m joining countless others heading to Berlin for InnoTrans 2026! Over the last few months, my focus has been on expanding Valour’s land mobility portfolio, with The Future of Connectivity in Mining – 2026 due to publish very soon. But I’m looking forward to stepping back into the rail domain, catching up with…
SMM 2026 was, as ever, vast, busy and rather hard on the feet. Travelling from Hall B6 to A4, via a conference room in B4, felt less like attending an exhibition and more like joining the annual migration of the wildebeest. More than 50,000 visitors and 2,300 exhibitors descended on Hamburg to discuss everything from…
London, UK – Valour Consultancy forecasts Amazon Leo will connect more than 5,000 commercial and business aviation aircraft by 2035, but warns that the company must move quickly to challenge Starlink’s ever-growing first-mover advantage. According to the market intelligence provider’s latest report, Amazon Leo is entering the In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) market at a pivotal moment,…
Last year, six months before the start of the on-off war in Iran that sent the price of Jet-A surging and made long-haul family travel ever more expensive, I was lucky enough to journey to Lima, Peru, spending the kids’ school holidays working from the culinary capital of the world. In addition to sampling lots…
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