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The hospitality industry is a broad category under the services industry spanning across multiple businesses and sectors driven by the ultimate focus of customer satisfaction. Hotels and restaurants form just one of the many sectors of this industry and constitute a major segment. Other prominent, overlapping, categories include the food and beverages sector and the travel and tourism industry. The smart hospitality market is shaped by a plethora of trends. While some are ephemeral, others leave a lasting impact for for several decades. The use of technology is understood to be a key enabler in offering personalized and tailor customer services in almost all facets of the industry, with its defining impact increasingly felt on hotels worldwide. In recent years, spending on technology has soared with the objective of transforming customer experiences, maximizing revenue, and increasing bottom-line. The spiraling investment in a host of technologies such as IoT, virtual reality, beacon technologies, interactive displays, smart control apps, robotics, new generation messaging technologies and streaming in-room entertainment have brought smart services into the realm of the hospitality industry.

The use of oil and gas analytics is gaining significance for automating processes and guiding decisions regarding various activities associated with exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas. With each passing day, the exploration and production of new hydrocarbon reserves is getting riskier, technologically as well as economically. This continuously generates large volumes of data associated with each aspect of manpower, materials, and machinery used in the entire process, starting with the survey of potential drilling sites in conventional and unconventional oil and gas reserves. The oil and gas industry is always seeking better and innovative ways to interpret, integrate, and exploit these analytics—especially gathered during exploration—to make accurate business decisions. The smarter use of ever-growing burgeoning data sets helps oil and gas companies to enhance recovery rates, minimize environmental and human safety concerns, and considerably reduce drilling expenses.

Hydraulic cylinders play a crucial role in motion control in a wide range of industrial applications such as in aerospace, wind turbines, industrial robotics, and military. They are used in making mobile industrial concrete pumps which have varied applications in the construction industry. The unidirectional force generated in the hydraulic fluids drives the power in piston rods, which helps in lifting, pushing, and pulling of machinery and earthmoving equipment. Over the past few years, constant improvements have been made in the metals used in hydraulic pumps. This has led to equipment being more tear- and corrosion-resistant resulting in better performance and efficiency in harsh environments. Ergonomic and design innovations in various parts used in hydraulic pumps make them more flexible and standardized, allowing for easy replaceability of parts irrespective of vendors or suppliers in the market. The use of carbon fiber composite materials reduces the weight of hydraulic cylinders considerably, thereby enhancing their performance.

A variety of factors or specific business needs influences the choice of specific encryption solutions among various end-use industries. Hardware encryption is gaining popularity for protecting sensitive data on portable devices such as laptops and USB flash drives. Its ease of use, consistent performance, and robust protection against numerous common and less sophisticated attacks offsets its high cost compared to software-based encryption. For instance, any brute-force attacks by hackers to gain access to hardware encrypted chips can be easily thwarted with the help of this. The mechanism of hardware encryption works on the device's on-board security, which performs the needed encryption and decryption. Unlike software-based encryption, it doesn't require drivers and has minimal configuration requirements. However, since it is tied to a particular device, hardware encryption methods may not prove so helpful. Nevertheless, the soaring use of mobile devices by several governmental agencies and the storage of confidential financial and healthcare data in mobile devices have propelled the demand for hardware encryption methods. In case the devices are stolen, the data cannot be compromised.

Gene editing or genome editing is the targeted insertion or modification of cells in living organism or cells and the method has come to occupy a crucial part of biomedical researches, constantly transforming various disciplines of life sciences. Over the past few years, continuous advancements in gene-editing technologies have led to the advent of several versatile methods, which have enabled investigators to introduce a number of sequence-specific changes into the genomes of a variety of cell types. This has facilitated the discovery of promising human gene therapies proving useful for treating various diseases. The use of targeted nucleases or engineered nucleases in laboratories has provided researchers potential tools to economically and rapidly manipulate almost any genomic sequence for a broad range of cell types.

Flexible batteries, as the name suggests, are flexible and conformal such that they can easily fix in a small area and angle. They can be either rechargeable or single-use. Their design provides significant benefits over their counterparts in terms of performance and form factor. These batteries find application in smart cards, consumer electronics, wearable devices, and medical devices. The global market for flexible batteries is at its nascent stage and is anticipated to expand at a healthy pace owing to the extensive research and development activities and growing investments from several blue chip players.

The global security and surveillance industry is expanding at a massive pace and is transforming from legacy CCTV surveillance systems to fully digital, advanced network-based video surveillance systems. Historical shipment data reveals that over 2 bn security camera are operating across the world at any given time and the numbers are constantly rising. With this exponentially rise in camera numbers, the practice of making use of video data for effective surveillance is also rising. However, owing to the manual, error-prone, and resource-intensive process of surveillance, security managers are increasingly looking into ways of automating security detection and make better use of video data gathered from surveillance cameras.

Despite the vast rise in the number of wound closure practices, suturing continue to remain one of the most preferred across ones across a number of surgical practices, with density being no exception. Dentists across the globe continue to use appropriate sutures to secure surgical flaps and close wounds to promote healing. As the global market for dentistry expands at a massive pace across the globe, the market for dental sutures is also expected to expand at a promising pace in the next few years.

The world of dentistry continued to move ahead at a massive pace and is witnessing an increasing influx of advanced technologies. From witnessing the use of electric handpieces as replacement for speed belt driven tools to using tiny yet high-precision digital cameras to capture dental impressions to employing laser instead of scalpels, conventional dental practice has moved miles ahead in the present day scenario. Digital technologies are rapidly making inroads in the field of dentistry and soon the 3D technology is projected to transform the field.

Cell proliferation regulation is a central part of the tissue morphogenesis process during the development of multicellular organisms. Moreover, the loss of control of cell proliferations is one of the underlying factors to consider in case of diseases such as cancer. As the patient base of a number of cancers continue to expand at an enormous pace across the globe, a great need is being felt for the investigation of cell proliferation and measure the proportion of sells in every phase of the cell cycle of the cell under observation.