Mankind needs change and fast. The best-case scenarios from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) require aggressive mitigation of global carbon emissions, calling for them to fall to levels from 40 to 70% lower than their 2010 levels.
As the climate crisis...
There is an increasing requirement for sensing and monitoring technologies to support a more sustainable world. With resources in increasingly short supply, monitoring the use of those resources becomes even more important, whether they’re water, electricity, minerals or crops, to enable the most efficient...
US private cellular provider Geoverse has partnered with Houston-based enterprise tech provider WCI Technologies to deliver its private LTE and 5G core networking solution to the energy, healthcare, and education sectors. The pair will deliver shared and licensed LTE and 5G infrastructure in the...
Nokia and Telia have combined to deploy a private 5G network for Canada-based Agnico Eagle Mines in Finland. The new 5G standalone (SA) setup will support above and below ground mining operations at the firm’s Kittilä mine in the Lapland province of Finland, billed...
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is testing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) on a widening network of high-definition (HD) cameras in order to detect wildfires across 70,000 square miles of northern and central California. It claims to have “eyes in the...
Smart building specialist Johnson Controls announced it is collaborating with Canada's Department of National Defense (DND) to achieve decarbonization and infrastructure improvements.
The firm said that the multi-phase project will be completed at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Halifax and other Defense facilities in the region...
Schneider Electric announced the company had joined buildingSMART International?s Strategic Advisory Council (SAC)
Schneider Electric said that there is a growing need for standards, processes, and digitization of energy management at the design, construction, operational and maintenance phases of building operations.
The strategic partnership will also...
Siemens Energy will utilize the Nvidia Omniverse platform to create digital twins tasked with supporting predictive maintenance of its power plants.
“Nvidia’s open platforms along with physics-infused neural networks bring great value to Siemens Energy,” said Stefan Lichtenberger, technical portfolio manager at Siemens Energy. “Nvidia’s...
From IoT for internal efficiency to external productivity
A new report by analyst house Transforma Insights for IT hardware and services provider Oracle says enterprise internet of things adoption has turned a corner, and gained some newfound maturity. It is a decent read, which draws...
The city of Portland in Maine, in the US, has migrated its smart street lights onto a cloud management platform (CMS) from California-headquartered Dhyan Networks and Technologies, and away from smart lighting company Echelon. It is the same switchover carried out by the town...
Industrial 5G and IoT – or at least, the digital pyrotechnics sprung from 5G and IoT networks – can help the planet reduce carbon emissions, reckons the tech and telecoms market. Telecoms vendor Ericsson, chorusing the message from telecoms operator Vodafone a couple of...
Red Hat and Intel have extended their Industry 4.0 partnership to combine their open source software and industrial edge hardware to spur the smart manufacturing and smart energy sectors. The pair are looking to sell integrated hardware and software to provide the ‘smarts’ in...
Canadian firm Kontrol Technologies, a provider of smart building technologies, has been selected to provide its SmartSuite energy management technology in three buildings spanning more than 330,000 square feet of real-estate.
Kontrol specializes in real-time monitoring, asset optimization, data analytics, and enhanced facility management.
"We have...
ABB has announced an investment in Montreal-based startup BrainBox AI as part of the firm?s strategy to make buildings smarter while improving energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions.
Launched in 2019, BrainBox AI uses artificial intelligence to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions from Heating,...
Note, this article has been updated from the 27/10/21 version, which suggested 57% of electric meters in Europe will be connected to NB-IoT and LTE-M. This is wrong, the stated figure of 57% refers to electric meters connected via all wireless technologies.
Wireless technologies of...
Steel giant Severstal has appointed Russian mobile operator MTS, working with Swedish network vendor Ericsson, to build a private LTE network at the Karelskiy Okatysh iron ore mining and processing plant. The site, in the Republic of Karelia, is one of the largest iron...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $61 million in funding for 10 pilot projects that will deploy new technology to transform thousands of homes and workplaces into energy-efficient buildings.
The DOE said that these connected communities can interact with the electrical grid to optimize...
Nokia has released a new range of industrial 5G devices to go with its twin DAC and MPW private wireless products, and its newly bundled MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) edge portfolio. New ruggedized 5G SA devices include a smartphone, field routers, and a 5G...
Busy Dutch industrial IoT scale-up Hiber has announced it will use Inmarsat’s new ELERA satellite IoT network to expand its own low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT network, which goes under the name Hiberband. The deal allows Hiber, founded in 2016, to “gain years in satellite...
U.S. glass-manufacturing company View announced its smart windows have been installed at Memphis International Airport as part of the Concourse B modernization program to improve the passenger experience and energy-efficiency.
Memphis International Airport is implementing a multi-phase capital improvement plan that includes the consolidation of...
Semtech Corporation has teamed with Singapore-based IoT metering company Sindcon to deploy around 1,000 (“plus”) LoRaWAN energy and water metering devices at the Singapore Zoo. Sindcon worked with local utility Electrique Energie & Metering on the project, also. The target is to save 10...
Siemens has bought French startup Wattsense, a hardware and software company offering a plug-and-play IoT management system for small and mid-size buildings, including schools, offices, warehouses and retail. Meanwhile, it has announced a deal with US cloud security company Zscaler to secure IT/OT crossover...
IoT connectivity company Ingenu has announced a plan to launch 72 satellites into space to support low-power machine communications for the smart energy, manufacturing, agriculture, cities, logistics, oil and gas, and mining sectors. The San Diego firm has struck a deal with Arizona-based Phantom...
Semiconductor maker Semtech has announced a new LoRa-based solution, combining a power-efficient microcontroller and an edge tracker module, that harvests ambient energy from the environment to preclude the need for a battery completely. The California-based firm called the solution “maintenance free” and “zero carbon”,...
