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Access control and authentication refers to the various measures, either physical or electronic, designed for monitoring of people and objects, and controlling access to and preventing intrusion of any property and information. It is primarily concerned with the restriction of physical access to unauthorized people in controlled facilities. Access control and authentication systems are powerful tools used to investigate or prevent crimes that may occur in public places such as shopping malls, multiplexes, airports, banks, casinos, and ATMs. Security also incurs costs and is never completely perfect in entirely eliminating the risks.

Self-checkout machines provide an automated mechanism for processing the purchases made by buyers in the retail stores. The retail automation (self-checkout) system ensures that consumers enjoy shopping in retail stores, on account of provision of hassle-free transactions and shorter lines owing to faster throughput. The system is sold as an integrated software, hardware, and service package. The system holds the ability to process thousands of transactions in the most demanding retail environments, while continuously feeding data to back-end office for real-time, precise business analytics and inventory management.

Energy trading, transaction and risk management (ETRM) software includes applications, architecture and tools applied in business processes related to trading of energy commodities. The ETRM system enables information exchanges within the credit, operations, contract, trade floor and accounting functions with the help of an integrated system. The processes that are integrated into it are event and trade data, risk strategies, risk policies, scheduling of the task and settlement execution. The systems offer monitoring, transparency, control of the access and compliance issues.

Mobile Learning (also popular as M-learning) refers to the learning process through social and content communication, using electronic equipment. It is a form of distance learning, where mobile users can easily access educational content on their handheld device. Emergence of mobile learning has helped learners involve in voluntary as well as active learning. Furthermore, the flexibility in mobile learning also engages learning through multimedia tools on smartphones. Besides this, other benefits offered by mobile learning are collaborative learning, high retention rate and multi -device support.

IoT Fleet management system allows enterprises to track deliveries in real-time and control vehicle's connectivity to help businesses collect information about their fleet of vehicles including their speed and location. Global IoT Fleet Management is expected to grow at a CAGR of +21%, in value terms, during the forecast period, on the back of increasing demand for real-time fleet monitoring, high operational efficiencies, upcoming regulations on fleet security and safety. Moreover, increasing focus of companies to reduce operational cost, monitoring driver's behaviour and fuel efficiency is expected to drive the demand of IoT Fleet Management during the forecast period.

Software-defined storage is a powerful platform that is rapidly gaining widespread acceptance. The numerous benefits offered by the technology in storage administration are responsible for the widespread adoption of the technology. In simple terms, SDS makes it easier, affordable and highly efficient storage platform for professionals and IT organizations. The platform can be seamlessly integrated to cope up with the dramatic growth in storage requirements without adding to the cost and complexity.

Organic growth of composites industry, high demand for automation and faster production process, and increasing demand for simulation software from design to production are the major growth drivers of the market. Simulation software helps composite stakeholders in the designing, development, and production of composite parts more efficiently. It stimulates digitally and minimizes the risk of the expensive proposition of producing the physical parts. Over the past few years, there's been a big push to add or expand composite-focused simulation tools to existing software suites.

A smart city can be defined in numerous ways, but in its most basic sense, it leverages available technologies and innovations to enhance the living conditions of its residents. It necessarily focuses on integrating infrastructure, social and human capital, and disruptive technologies to build a sustainable economy and participatory governance.

The adoption of IoT in the transportation industry has led to the incorporation of various tools & services that facilitate better transport management through traffic congestion control system, automotive telematics, reservation, toll & ticketing systems, security and surveillance system, remote monitoring & others. Furthermore, the major tools used in the global industry include omnichannel commerce solutions, sales, inventory & operations planning, manufacturing & supply chain optimization, quality monitoring, system software development & integration, big data & edge data analytics, and fleet reliability analysis.

Retail cloud refers to cloud technology designed for retailers to enable them with cost effective streamlined operations, flexibility of scaling up and down the production process, real time data reporting for interactive customer experience, and quicker speed to market the offerings. Retail cloud allows the enterprises to expand their retail footprints while ensuring streamlined operations, ease of use of latest cloud technology and an agility for an efficient response to the changing market dynamics.