Ian Turner
1. Introduction
Daily life for both citizens and businesses is at a point of transition in the early part of the 21st Century. We have all become used to the great changes bought by the Internet, but now this is developing to new levels with the influence of cloud technologies and the “internet of things” and the increasing focus on “big data” It appears to be almost a daily occurrence that new technologies and products are bought onto the market that will affect us all in yet undiscovered ways.
Weighing and measuring technologies are just one aspect of these developments, perhaps most obviously being seen in the development of smart utility meters, but affect all type of weighing and measuring equipment. This essay expounds the view of CECIP, the European Association of Manufacturers and Suppliers of weighing instruments. It looks to consider these potential changes in technology and how they could be addressed in the context of European Legal metrology.