The costs of time synchronisation is reducing significantly to open up the application to IoT, 5G, RPA, edge and cloud computing, autonomous cars, and the metaverse.

The CRESCENT acronym spells out the eight main reasons why accuracy is important in the computing world.

Eminent scientists and physicists, experts from the National Timing Centre and RISE Sweden and author David Rooney, among others, discuss issues from atomic time to sustainability and reveal how financial markets and railways drove our need for accurate timing.