Emerging Technologies Archives - Esri

$An artist\'s rendering of the industrial metaverse, with a worker in VR goggles reaching for a manufacturing tool$

May 7, 2024 | Chris Nickola | Emerging Technologies

The Industrial Metaverse: A Roadmap Emerges

At the dawn of the industrial metaverse, mature and emerging technologies combine to drive safety, efficiency, and scenario planning.

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A package with a 2D barcode and UPC being scanned

April 23, 2024 | Nikki Paripovich Stifle | Emerging Technologies

The Barcode Turns 50—Retiring the UPC and Ushering in a New Era

Generative AI, or GenAI, is connecting people across enterprises, symbolized by this connected cityscape.

April 16, 2024 | Jay Theodore | Emerging Technologies

NextTech: Generative AI Enhances GIS across the Enterprise

A road sign with an EV charger icon symbolizes EV infrastructure

March 12, 2024 | Frits van der Schaaf | Emerging Technologies

New Grants Aim to Tame Range Anxiety for EV Owners

$Gammon\'s construction site digital twin shows the design for an apartment building$

March 5, 2024 | Kathleen Kewley | Emerging Technologies

On-Site with a Construction Industry Digital Twin

Insurers must price risks like this wind event, which is buffetting palm trees

February 13, 2024 | Alexander Martonik | Emerging Technologies

Climate Risk Analytics: The Key to Sustainable Insurance

Business travel is on the rise, as exemplified by this airplane interior

December 5, 2023 | Gary Sankary | Emerging Technologies

Meet the New Business Traveler

Retail crime represented by a security camera at a store

November 20, 2023 | Multiple Authors | Emerging Technologies

Fast Four: Addressing Retail Crime

A 3D model of a wellpad in the oil and gas industry

October 24, 2023 | Chris Chiappinelli | Emerging Technologies

Fast Four: New Questions for Oil and Gas Companies

Densely packed city buildings hint at the need to monitor subterranean infrastructure

September 5, 2023 | Kathleen Kewley | Emerging Technologies

New Research Spotlights Need to Monitor Heat-Induced Changes Below Buildings

Streaming cars represent traffic noise

July 18, 2023 | John Lenahan | Emerging Technologies

Working through the Noise—At a Cost to Productivity

Could empty office space like this spur the trend of competitive socializing?

June 27, 2023 | Gary Sankary | Emerging Technologies

Community Trends Hold the Key to Repurposing Empty Office Space

A map of a logistics and transportation route with various routes, stops

June 13, 2023 | Chris Chiappinelli | Emerging Technologies

Fast Four—Moving Logistics Beyond Route Optimization

Two office towers stretching toward the sky

April 18, 2023 | Chris Chiappinelli | Emerging Technologies

WhereNext Confidential: What’s All This Talk about the Enterprise?

A 3D rendering represents a retail digital twin for store planning

March 28, 2023 | Gary Sankary | Emerging Technologies

Digital Twins and the Store of the Future

A pallet of shipping boxes signifies supply chain agility

March 7, 2023 | Greg Milner | Emerging Technologies

Experts Call for New Form of Supply Chain Agility

A blue recycling bin symbolizes new life for product returns

February 7, 2023 | Multiple Authors | Emerging Technologies

The Hazards of Easy Product Returns

A warehouse with high bays represents automation in action

January 31, 2023 | Frits van der Schaaf | Emerging Technologies

As Manufacturing Automation Increases, Indoor Awareness Gains Attention

An empty apartment signifies millennials moving out of cities

December 20, 2022 | Chris Chiappinelli | Emerging Technologies

Why Are Millennials Leaving Big Cities?

A weathervane signifies movement of the population center

November 21, 2022 | Greg Milner | Emerging Technologies

A Shifting Population Center Puts Analytics in the Spotlight

Twelve wind turbines generate renewable energy in a hilly area

November 15, 2022 | Multiple Authors | Emerging Technologies

Fast Four: Renewing the Energy Outlook

Office towers under construction could benefit from AEC digitization

October 11, 2022 | Marc Goldman | Emerging Technologies

Are AEC Firms Ready to Build Tomorrow's Infrastructure?

A collection of blue dots forms a digital human silhouette

September 27, 2022 | Chris Nickola | Emerging Technologies

Finding Our Way in the Metaverse

A line of shopping carts signifies the retail industry, where in-store technology is booming

September 6, 2022 | Gary Sankary | Emerging Technologies

Innovating How We Shop—City by City

An EV charger represents varying EV costs by state

August 30, 2022 | Multiple Authors | Emerging Technologies

Are EVs Cheaper Than Gas-Powered Cars in Your State?