AT&T, KPN, Orange and Swisscom have switched on LTE-M roaming across their respective IoT networks in North America and Europe. The deal means LTE-M modules activated with any of the carriers will be able to roam on AT&T’s networks in …
Deutsche Telekom has teamed up with logistics company Rhenus and the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (Fraunhofer IML) to develop an NB-IoT connected smart bins for disposing of sensitive documents. An NB-IoT sensor in the containers issues a …
The biggest fragmentation in smart agriculture is with base-line connectivity, which establishes the platform for the analytics and automation tools that will change farming. “Connectivity is a neccessary evil,” says Pete DeNagy, president and co-founder, Internet of Things America. “No …
The LoRa Alliance has expanded its LoRaWAN certification programme to simplify and reduce testing for device makers and network operators. A single certification process will cover conformance, interoperability, and radio-frequency testing, reducing time and expense for device manufacturers. Network operators …
Manufacturing has come full circle, from craft production in the first industrial age, through mass production in the global age, and a new compulsion towards hyper-customisation and the idea of a ‘lot-size of one’. This concept of ultra-bespoke production is …
Less than five per cent of data generated by manufacturing plants is used to bring insights and improve operations, according to a study by Frost & Sullivan. Sensors and other wireless devices in manufacturing plants do not produce sufficient data …
Swedish operator Telia is to build a university-based 5G network for research and testing of industrial uses of high-bandwidth low-latency cellular connectivity. The 5G network will be located at Mid Sweden University, a Swedish state university in the middle of …
Two million farms and 36 million cattle will be connected to the internet by low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, and other technologies, by 2024. This is the calculation from analyst house ABI Research, in a new report that considers the opportunity for internet-of-things …
The Zigbee Alliance is coordinating efforts from the likes of Amazon, Comcast, Landis+Gyr, NXP, Osram and Schneider Electric to make smart home and IoT products easier to develop, deploy, and sell across ecosystems. The new All Hubs Initiative, driven by …
Certain functions of smart farming will not work on low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, even while technologies like LoRaWAN and NB-IoT tend to support most smart agricultural technologies, as they exist today. LTE and even 5G networks are required to provide …
UK firm Telensa is to provide smart outdoor lighting, bringing remote control and energy savings, at the Port of Tyne, in the northeast of England. The Port of Tyne, one of the UK’s major deep-sea ports, is a trading centre …
Farming is hard. It always has been. There is a song called This Hard Land by Bruce Springsteen, rock’s great chronicler of every-day struggle in modern America, which captures something of the labour and luck of working the land. “Mister, …
The German government has swelled its 2019 funding for artficial intelligence (AI) to €500 million and promised a further €500 million in 2020. The country wants to ensure advanced analytics and automation tools are in the hands of it entire …
Network operator Three has rented out 50MHz of its 2.6 GHz frequency holding in Sweden in bid to boost local industry and stop regulator PTS carving-up the 3.5 GHz band for private usage. Three Sweden has struck a deal with …
The city of Philadelphia in the US is deploying lighting, sensors, and networking technologies from Cisco and CIMCON Lighting as it seeks to be “one of the leading smart cities in the United States”. The new NearSky lighting platform from …
IBM has released a set of analytics tools that combine weather data and farm data in its Watson machine-learning engine to give farmers insights about planning, plowing, planting, spraying and harvesting. IBM’s new smart farming solution, announced as an expansion …
People don’t get how sophisticated farmers are, says Lane Arthur, director of digital solutions at John Deere, the US maker of industrial equipment and machinery. “They don’t see the technology they are using,” he says. In January, John Deere showed …
Siemens will bring internet-of-things (IoT) technologies and solutions to the home stadium of the Jacksonville Jaguars, the American fooball team, based in Jakcsonville, Florida. The German firm has signed a deal with the Florida gridiron team to deploy its MindSphere …
Two million farms and 36 million cattle will be connected to the internet by low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, and other technologies, by 2024. This is the calculation from analyst house ABI Research, in a new report that considers the opportunity …
Vodafone’s approach to the digital transformation of industry prioritises certain ‘vertical’ markets. Agriculture is not among them. Instead, it sees greater opportunity at group level in the automotive, insurance, buildings, logistics, and healthcare sectors. These offer “relevance and consistency” across …
Three per cent of the world’s water is accessible freshwater. Of that, 70 per cent of the freshwater consumed is used in the agricultural industry – the largest consumer of water globally. Monitoring soil moisture allows farmers to make effective …
Arm has launched a work-space analytics tool, Space Analytics, to give property managers of coworking spaces, commercial offices and hotels a view of the utilisation and availability of offices and hospitality spaces. Space Analytics is part of its Pelion Smart …
With populations in the developing world continuing to grow, the need to find new ways to satisfy increased demand for access to food has never been greater. In order to do this, fish farming, or ‘aquaculture’, is quickly becoming a …
German logistics company DHL has launched its first drone delivery solution for last-mile deliveries in urban areas of China, starting with flights in Guangzhou, the port city northwest of Hong Kong on the Pearl River. DHL Express has signed a …
Two new announcements this week, by cities both sides of the the Atlantic, make clear, again, the case for smart street-lighting is undeniable. In the US, the city of Syracuse in New York State has teamed with the New York …
