Biomimicry, digital and telecoms: nature inspires
digital transformation!
In 2021, there were 5.3 billion smartphone users worldwide, or 67% of the world's population, and this number continues to rise. With this progressive global connection of the populatio, forms of telecommunications are profoundly transforming our societies. The challenges to be met are numerous and of capital importance for the development of future generations, in order to guarantee them sober and effective communication .
DIAGNOSTIC
Today, data circulates at very high speed, in large quantities and in a wide variety of forms. This is what forms Big Data, which is at the heart of the news. This reality requires significant network and flow management capabilities which become more complex with the increasing number of users.
Regulation, sobriety and efficiency are major challenges in the management of telecoms and digital data flows, with the consequences of the competitiveness of services going hand in hand with the need to reduce the environmental footprint of the solutions implemented.
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At the same time, an important challenge is that of confidentiality and data protection. And for this challenge as well as for the previous ones, living things can surprisingly come to our aid.
Biomimicry and digital data:
Specialist in biomimicry, Bioxegy shows you how biomimicry is a very relevant approach to solving the problems of the digital sector
Life is the result of more than 3.8 billion years of research and development through evolution and natural selection. Depending on their environment and over time, living beings have developed particularly adapted properties, mechanisms and functions.
However, the environments colonised by living organisms are very different, as are the underlying issues: signal detection, friction reduction, energy management, mechanical properties, communication, flow management, etc. It is therefore relevant to draw inspiration from life to respond to the challenges of the telecoms and digital industry, many of which are very similar to what we can study in nature.
Drawing inspiration from living beings is possible in several ways: by observing organisms, but also behaviors and entire ecosystems!
Thus, community life and the communication methods of species are, for example, important sources of inspiration to consider for innovation in telecommunications and digital technology.
Below, a set of areas linked to the digital and telecoms sector, for which biomimicry is perfectly relevant:
Detection and optics
Environment
Energy saving and production
Thermo-regulation
Management and flows & networks optimization
Data processing
