US IoT company Senet has expanded its LoRaWAN capabilities to over 80 markets. It has also introduced a raft of server enhancements for its LoRaWAN platform, to simplify the deployment, management and monetisation of LoRaWAN-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks and applications.
Senet claimed it now...
The demo, carried out during MWC Shanghai, used vehicles provided by Chinese manufacturer SAIC
China Mobile, together with Huawei and Chinese state-owned automotive manufacturing company SAIC, have jointly demonstrated the application of intelligent and connected vehicles using a low-latency network enabled by "5G Era LTE"...
The carrier is currently testing its Mobi self-driving robot using its LTE network in New York
Sprint, working with Adaptive Motion Group (AMG), is starting to deploy its "Mobi" self-driving robot -- designed to charge electric buses, cars and industrial vehicles in New York City.
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Where is the edge of the data network, where compute power increasingly resides? This is the question industrial operatives are asking, as they look to combine advanced connectivity technologies and analytics techniques to bring new intelligence to their systems and processes. It is the...
IoT America aims to provide turnkey IoT offering for rural use cases
A new, Texas-based startup has launched managed internet of things services aimed at rural America, with its first project in Alabama.
Internet of Things America says that it will be partnering with rural wireless and...
To understand visual fog computing, it is important to first understand fog computing.
Let’s take a look at how the physical world connects to the cloud. Think of the physical world at the bottom of a pyramid, and the cloud as the top. At the...
The global market for smart city information and communications technologies will grow by 15.8 per cent per year on average over the next five years, reaching $994.6 million by 2023. A new report by BCC Research claims cities in North America will dominate, notably...
UK tech incubator Digital Catapult has meshed its Things Connected LoRaWAN network in with the UK footprint of Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN project The Things Network (TTN). The result is the UK’s largest free-to-use low-power wide-area (LPWA) network deployment and innovation community, according to its architects.
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Platform includes maintenance reminders, preventive notifications and roadside assistance
Sprint has partnered with NXM Labs to launch a 5G-ready connected car platform.
The carrier said the platform will offer high-speed, on-demand passenger Wi-Fi with advanced vehicle health monitoring and safety. The connectivity service will be offered...
Cisco has said its so-called ‘platform-of-platforms’ has been proven as “procurable and replicable,” as Manchester’s ground-breaking CityVerve smart city pilot in the UK gets set to wind up after two years. Cisco will develop a commercial proposition for cities out of the final ashes...
US carrier AT&T has confirmed it will launch a narrowband ‘internet-of-things’ (NB-IoT) network in the US early next year, and in Mexico by the end of next year. Its support for NB-IoT will run in parallel with its existing LTE-M network.
AT&T said the...
Munich-based test equipment supplier Rohde & Schwarz has updated its CMW500 radio tester and SMBV100A GNSS simulator to support cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) device certification. It is the first test equipment vendor to offer a “comprehensive” C-V2X test suite for the car industry, it said.
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“If you are not investing in these technologies to drive your own product gains, know that your competitors are already doing so. If you haven’t started, you need to; the industrial IoT (IIoT) race has already begun.” This was the view from GE Digital...
Huawei expects its OceanConnect IoV platform to enable the digital transformation of automobile manufacturers
Huawei announced the release of the OceanConnect "internet of vehicles" (IoV) platform, which will enable intelligent and connected vehicles, as well as a new version of its smart airport solution.
Huawei highlighted...
Cellular ‘internet-of-thing’ (IoT) connections will reach 3.5 billion by 2023, from around 0.6 billion million today, with compound annual growth of 30 per cent per year, according to Ericsson, with most take-up in the industrial and automotive markets.
In total, Ericsson predicts 19.8 billion...
The new IoT-based solution combines Comcast’s IoT service machine with Neptune LoRa-enabled water meters
Comcast’s internet of things service, machineQ, and U.S water technology company, Neptune Technology Group, have announced a collaboration on an IoT solution designed to accelerate smart city projects focused on advanced...
London has set out a five-point digital strategy to make it the smartest city in the world.
Among more than 20 initiatives, bucketed into five ‘mission’ themes, the plan details a new Civic Innovation Challenge to match startups with enterprises, a new London Office for...
US carrier Verizon wants to make it easier for enterprises to launch IoT services on its LTE-M network. Its new ThingSpace Ready programme is designed to help developers and enterprises build, certify and manage IoT devices more easily and cheaply. Enterprise IoT Insights chats...
The rate of growth of licensed low-power, wide-area (LPWA) network connections will outpace their unlicensed equivalents as the LPWA market swells by 53 per cent per year over the next five years. By 2023, NB-IoT and LTE-M will capture more than 55 per cent...
Today’s IT landscape is all about moving towards the microdata centers, as the demand for edge computing pushes through the need for quick and instant access to data. Edge computing is localized computing for systems that operate away from the primary data center. Typically,...
Vodafone's IoT connectivity would allow mills to provide fortified flour to millions of people in African countries
U.K.-based telecom group Vodafone is currently working with Sanku (Project Healthy Children) to equip small flour mills across Africa with internet of things (IoT) services to provide fortified...
The Chinese vendor said the new product doubles the cell capacity of previous terminals
Huawei has launched what it claims to be the world's first 3GPP Release 14-based commercial NB-IoT solution in eRAN13.1.
Huawei said that this new NB-IoT solution increases data rates by a factor...
The European Commission (EC) has proposed a total budget of €51.5 billion for new technologies and network infrastructure under its next funding cycle, from 2021 to 2027, to drive industrial transformation and technological leadership across the region.
As part of two separate proposals, it has...
Sigfox has struck a deal with mapping company HERE to create a global internet-of-things (IoT) location service for the supply chain and logistics industry.
The deal will see Sigfox’s low-power wide-area (LPWA) network and geolocation engine supplemented Wi-Fi hotspot coverage from Dutch firm HERE, owned...
