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The World Economic Forum has named 18 new factories, mostly from Asia (and mostly in China), as part of its ‘global lighthouse network’ of advanced manufacturers. They join the existing …

Walmart has put automated pick-and-pack robots to work at a so-called ‘supercenter’ in Salem, New Hampshire. The new system, called Alphabot, is live in a 20,000-square-foot warehouse-style extension at its …

  Industrial IoT firm Seeq raises $24 million from equity sale Seattle-based industrial analytics company Seeq has raised $24 million from investors, according to a report in Computer Reseller News. …

  European private equity firm IK Investment Partners announced that the IK VIII Fund has reached an agreement to acquire a majority stake in German building automation company MDT Technologies, …

Industrial Controls announced the launch of a new business unit, ICD Building Automation, which is focused on helping commercial building owners and managers improve day-to-day operations and IoT applications, the …

French IoT firm Kerlink and Dutch systems integrator MCS have deployed a private LoRaWAN network at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. The network offers coverage in all public areas, including arrival …

Sven Hamann, Senior Vice President, Bosch Connected Industry: “Only the floor, the walls, and the ceiling are fixed; everything else is flexible and mobile, and adapts to customers’ orders in …

  Siemens Smart Infrastructure has updated its Desigo CC integrated building management platform, the firm said in a release. The new version of the platform is suitable for use across …

  Private equity firm?Huron Capital?announced that its building automation and energy services platform,?Albireo Energy, has acquired?Quality Building Controls?(QBC), a provider of building automation systems and related repair and maintenance services. …

  Embedded device security company Red Balloon Security has partnered with Siemens Smart Infrastructure (SI) to deliver enhanced cybersecurity for the latter?s building automation systems. Red Ballon Security said that …

Japan’s Softbank will plough artificial intelligence (AI) and internet-of-things (IoT) technologies into a burgeoning smart city project in Indonesia, after striking a deal with Jakarta-based conglomerate Lippo Group. The deal, …

GDI Integrated Facility Services announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Ainsworth ?have entered into an agreement to acquire ESC Automation along with its U.S. subsidiaries Delta Connects Inc. and New Patriot …

Siemens has followed country-mate Bosch to apply for spectrum licences in the 3.7-3.8 GHz band in Germany. The firm will seek to manage its own LTE and 5G networks in …

Stephen Mellor picks up where he left off, and where we left him: the challenge with industrial IoT to gain widespread adoption is as much to do with interpretation as …

Bosch and Qualcomm have set up shop at the Smart Production Solutions (SPS) trade fair in Nuremberg, Germany, this week to show industrial devices using time-sensitive networking (TSN) over a …

    Johnson Controls, a global provider of solutions for smart buildings, announced that it closed an agreement to purchase the?EasyIO Building and Energy Management System?(BEMS) product line, the U.S. …

Nextivity, Spry Fox Networks to facilitate in-building 4G coverage for organizations across the U.K. In preparation for new Emergency Services Network (ESN) in the U.K., Nextivity and Spry Fox Networks …

Tearing down departmental data silos in cities remains the dream for smart cities, and yet it is still out of reach. German industrial giant Siemens told Smart City Expo World …

  Infrastructure and in-building coverage specialist SOLiD recently introduced Fiber2Antenna, a new class of wireless solutions aimed at solving the “middleprise” in-building coverage challenge, the firm said in a release. …

According to?Himanshu Khurana, CTO of Honeywell Building Solutions, while the term ?smart building? might be used by some verticals and not others, various industries and environments, including hospitality, airports and …

  Johnson Controls and CBRE Group, a commercial real estate services and investment firm headquartered in Los Angeles, have developed an integrated digital solution for the Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) …

    The?Open Connectivity Foundation?(OCF), an internet of things standards body, announced that it will continue the work of the Fairhair Alliance, which was aimed at IoT for commercial buildings, …

  Geoverse has signed a contract with the 7 Cedars Casino for the provision of a private LTE solution for the casino, the company said in a statement. The solution …

Schneider Electric and ThoughtWire combine digital twins for hospitals French firm Schneider Electric is partnering with Canadian IoT platform provider ThoughtWire on data integration and digital twins for the healthcare …

Vodafone is the first network operator in the UK to sub-license unused LTE / 4G spectrum under UK regulator Ofcom’s new spectrum policy, which seeks to bolster rural and indoor …