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Case study: GE uses PowerUp platform to optimize wind farm

Background In 2013, General Electric (GE) Renewable Energy launched the PowerUp Platform to help wind developers get more power from their existing wind energy equipment. According to the company, PowerUp is a customized suite of software and hardware-enabled technologies created to increase a wind farm’s...

How industrial IoT is transforming public safety

How the internet of things is improving public safety A blend of industrial "internet of things; sensors and consumer devices are being used to enhance public safety and give critical visibility to law enforcement. Here are some public safety use cases for internet of things innovations. The cloud offers predictive...

Case study: Drones give data, visibility to French farming cooperative

Drones used in precision agriculture OCEALIA Group is a French farming cooperative with 7,200 members and nearly 900 employees. Since 2015, five drone operators have been flying the group's two AIRINOV multiSPEC 4C sensor-equipped SenseFly eBee Ag drones in order to gain valuable fertilization data. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du7wJX6hEP4 “The drone data is complementary to satellite...

Use cases: The many IoT applications of drones

Drones are a capitivating IoT example According to a report from retail research firm NPD Group, sales of drones have more than tripled over the last year, reaching around $200 million. The increasing interest in using these aerial devices is one of the best illustrations of how...

Allot: Major sports events increase enterprise network risks

Large sporting events such as the recently-wrapped 2016 Rio Olympics don't just strain network resources, according to Allot Communications. User behavior changes in ways that increase enterprise network risks, the company found. Allot has been looking at security from the user behavior point of view, rather...

Telcos are failing at customer experience management (content provided by IBM and RCR)

IBM Analytics expert discusses how proactive analytics improve cost, revenue and customer satisfaction It used to be enough for telecom operators to monitor and manage network quality. Now, as the wireless operator space continuously hits new heights of competitiveness and customer churn can make or...

Intel acquisition portends importance of artificial intelligence

Cloud computing and big data analytics will usher in artificial intelligence era This week Intel announced a "definitive agreement" to buy San Diego-based Nervana Systems, which specializes in deep learning, an artificial intelligence technique meant to create machine learning that mirrors human thought. This is the...

Rio Olympics: Sensors, big data to be the next revolution

Technology developments play a big role in transforming the Rio Olympics, whether improving result accuracy or increasing athletes’ performances. The next transformation and even greater impact are expected to come from the massive use of sensors combined with big data analytics. Almost 20% of the...

Ericsson and Maersk create floating network

An essential task Dozens of companies from around the world navigate our oceans to deliver more than 90% of the world’s cargo, according to Ericsson. And Maersk Line, a shipping company based in Denmark, claims to have the biggest fleet of them all. With more than...

Case Study: Shell, Rockwell make oil and gas production smart

The need for an oil and gas solution Oil and gas producers are doing everything they can to grind through a period of historically low per barrel oil prices. The period has stretched on for more than a year now, with per barrel prices getting...

IIoT use cases in the oil and gas industry

An industry in 'turmOil' The oil and gas industry is riding out a violent wave that crashed crude oil prices per barrel to less than $40, down more than 60% from the high of summer 2014. The result is a favorable receipt at the gas...

Pokémon Go shakes up mobile, AR

If you've seen people walking around staring even more intently at their smartphones than usual lately, there's a good chance that it's because of Pokémon Go. https://twitter.com/landonsperry/status/753436664412803073 The massively popular augmented reality game transposes virtual creatures into real-world environments and lets users capture them via mobile devices....

CenturyLink, Cisco team up for Wi-Fi location analytics

CenturyLink launched a new offering at Cisco Live that leverages Wi-Fi location analytics for the enterprise in combination with Cisco access points. The new Wi-Fi analytics service was announced at Cisco Live in Las Vegas. CenturyLink described the solution as a fully managed offering that relies on Cisco...

Report: Companies moving toward real-time data analysis

Companies across a wide range of verticals are moving toward real-time data analysis of information generated by both people and machines, according to a new report by OpsClarity. A recent survey by the company found 92% of respondents in tech/telecom, retail, health care, government and...

IBM Webinar: Proactive Analytics in era of virtualized networks and cloud

The journey to virtualized networks and cloud services that are chained together in real time will further increase the demand for new tools that can provide highly accurate and automated proactive analytics. Customer experience and network analytics go hand-in-hand for communications service providers (CSPs)...

Brocade, Viavi partner on new subscriber data analytics solution

Brocade and Viavi have produced a joint solution designed to enable mobile operators to capture subscriber data analytics for thousands of users in near real-time to resolve quality of experience issues. The product partnership was developed at the request of a tier-one mobile operator in the U.S., according to...

Big data will drive connected car services

As the automotive ecosystem pushes forward with evermore-connected vehicles, new solutions – from over-the-air software updates to connected car services – are emerging from vendors to manage the vast amounts of data that accompany that connectivity. Airbiquity recently announced a software and data management solution specifically...

'Mobile reliant' shoppers and the in-store experience

Successfully leveraging mobile as part of an in-store experience is a challenge for retailers, but a new survey from DMI sheds light on some of the features that shoppers want to access via smartphone -- and highlights a highly desirable segment of engaged mobile...

Former AT&T exec turns up at big data analytics firm

Mohan Gyani, who served as president at AT&T Wireless Services, joins board at Argyle Data, which focuses on Hadoop-powered big data analytics solutions Another former wireless carrier executive has popped up in a new location, as former AT&T executive Mohan Gyani has joined the board...

Global big data and business analytics market to reach $187B in 2019

The US market set to represent more than 52% of overall revenue Worldwide revenue for big data and business analytics is set to grow from nearly $122 billion in 2015, to more than $187 billion in 2019, an increase of more than 50% over the...

Customer experience assurance highlighted at TM Forum Live

NICE, France – The days of just monitoring network performance metrics to gauge overall performance have given way to much more consumer-facing indicators designed to go beyond service assurance and into gauging customer experience. This trend toward evaluating how the end-user experiences network services...

Amdocs helping service providers with digital transformation

Data Hub solution is part of Amdocs’ CES 10 product portfolio ORLANDO--Amdocs is currently helping service providers deal with certain challenges and preparing them to compete in the digital era with its Data Empowerment strategy, Amdocs’ marketing director for Big Data and Strategic Innovations Matt...

‘Third wave’ of connected cars to leverage OTA, new services

With more vehicles supporting wireless connectivity, the opportunity for wireless services beyond basic smartphone integration and infotainment hold the potential for a new value proposition in the ecosystem of connected cars. “It’s a very interesting time in connected car,” said Scott Frank, VP of marketing for...

Dell selling IT service unit to NTT Data for $3.1 billion

Dell is selling its IT services subsidiary, Perot Systems, to NTT Data of Japan for $3.1 billion, according to reports. The Dell holding provides IT services to the medical, government and other vertical markets. The deal was disclosed in an NTT filing with the Tokyo...