Interfaces
Machine interfaces: why two machines on one floor cannot talk
Two controllers in the same building, two data models, and a companion specification written to bridge them.
Emerging Tech
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Registers
Licence registers: how to read an entry properly
Every regulator publishes who holds a licence. The register answers fewer questions than people assume, and different ones.
Digital Markets
Account rights
IBAN discrimination: the rule most companies still break
Refusing a foreign euro account is unlawful in the single euro payments area. The rule is one article long and widely ignored.
Payments & Fintech
Procedure
How a European law is made, and where it is decided
The treaty sets out three readings. Most files are settled in meetings the treaty does not mention.
Policy & Politics
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Data rights
Machine data ownership when the machine is on lease
The equipment is financed, the telemetry goes to the supplier, and the contract rarely says who may read it. A documents-first reading.
Emerging Tech
Materials
Metal powder certificates: reading the numbers that matter
A powder certificate is a short document with a long shadow. What each figure on it constrains, and which figure is usually absent.
Emerging Tech
Qualification
Printed spare parts are not legally the same part
Geometry is the easy half. What makes a replacement acceptable is a paper trail the printer does not produce.
Emerging Tech
Machine learning
Predictive maintenance fails on a shortage of failures
The data problem in industrial machine learning is not volume. It is that the events worth predicting almost never happened.
Emerging Tech
Fabrication
Events
Diginova events - open to the public Network Event: presentation of Diginova key findings, February 26+27, 2014 @ RapidPro 2014, Veldhofen, NLSeminar…
Digital Fabrication
Fabrication
Innovation for Digital Fabrication
The front page the project kept on this domain, preserved as an archive: its own introduction to digital fabrication and the notes it carried.
Digital Fabrication
Filings
Net gaming revenue: what the number in the accounts means
The headline revenue figure in a gambling operator’s report is a defined term, defined by the operator. Where to find the definition.
Digital Markets
Contract terms
Five clauses that decide whether a withdrawal happens
The terms are long, and only a few paragraphs ever matter. Which ones, and where in the document they live.
Digital Markets
Ownership
Who owns the operator, and how to find out in an hour
Brands are not companies and companies are not groups. Three public sources connect a website to the people behind it.
Digital Markets
Two rights
Direct debit refunds and chargebacks are different rights
One comes from a directive, the other from a private rulebook. Confusing them is how a valid claim gets filed in the wrong place.
Payments & Fintech
Clearing
Why a card refund is slower than the purchase was
The payment reserved money in seconds. The refund is a new transaction travelling the full route, and nobody is in a hurry.
Payments & Fintech
Authentication
Strong customer authentication: when the rules let it go
Why some payments ask for a code and some do not. The exemptions are in four articles, and the thresholds are smaller than people assume.
Payments & Fintech
Instant transfers
Verification of payee: the warning you can ignore
Instant transfers are irreversible, so European law added a name check before you send. What it checks, and what it leaves with you.
Payments & Fintech
Lobbying
The Transparency Register: what it shows and what it misses
Lobby registration in Brussels is conditional rather than compulsory. The distinction decides what the data can prove.
Policy & Politics
Courts
Reading a court judgment instead of the press release
A ruling is a structured document with an operative part at the end. Four conventions make it readable without legal training.
Policy & Politics
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Energy
Machine-level energy metering: what submetering buys you
A meter per machine is cheap and the data is often unused. What a submeter can settle, and what it cannot.
Emerging Tech
Fabrication
Initiatives
There are several initiatives all across Europe and also worldwide that are related to the activities addressed within Diginova.
Digital Fabrication
Advertising
Affiliate advertising: the licensee carries the liability
Marketing published by a third party is still the operator’s responsibility. That design decision explains the whole affiliate economy.
Digital Markets
Tokens
Stablecoin redemption: what the holder is actually owed
A euro token is a claim on an issuer, not a euro. European law now says what that claim must be worth and when.
Payments & Fintech
Consultations
Public consultations: what happens to a response
Responses are published, counted and summarised. Whether they change anything depends on which stage you reply to.
Policy & Politics
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