How Imperial College London is accelerating dementia research with a modern data platform
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Imperial College London unified IoT, clinical, and research data on a modern data platform, accelerating dementia research and model development. This new architecture leverages Unity Catalog for governed data access and reduced IoT integration timelines from six months to one.
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