NVIDIA has announced a combination of edge computing and 5G networking innovations around its graphics processing unit (GPU) technologies, to drive scale of artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), and 5G applications.
Its new NVIDIA EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform is geared for rapid-fire data...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to bring about a truly connected future, powering everything from smart homes to smart cities. Where we see a particular impact, however, is in the Industrial IoT (IIoT), where the exponential potential of connected sensors, machinery...
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Golf in Oslo, Norway has selected Orange Business Services to implement
Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to help make its golf course management
smarter, the latter said in a release.
The Orange IoT solution will support the transformation of costly, labor-intensive greenskeeping duties and ensure...
Cities are set to be able to run smart city applications in CBRS spectrum contained on street-lighting poles, after streetlight networking provider Ubicquia announced it is adding CBRS functionality to its Ubimetro-branded small cells.
The addition of support for IoT, LTE, and 5G networks...
California based Pensando Systems has received $145 million in Series C, led by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, to emerge from ‘stealth’ mode to launch its software-defined cloud-to-edge service stack.
The Series C round takes its total funding to $278...
Sierra Wireless has released its new Octave IoT platform, first announced in June as an integrated offer with Microsoft’s Azure IoT cloud solution. It claims the platform is "unique" as the only ‘full-stack’ IoT package on the market, combining hardware, connectivity, and management software...
The mining industry continues to recruit operators and vendors to deploy new industrial LTE and 5G networks on the promise of industrial change. Here is a summary of recently announced deployments.
1 | Minera Las Bambas, Peru
Minera Las Bambas in Peru, the ninth largest copper mine...
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Talk about 5G is everywhere. But usually the conversation is about the challenges of building the network. Or it’s about the faster speeds, lower latency, and better devices. But thinking about 5G as “just another access technology” is a mistake.
As...
Global cybersecurity specialist Kaspersky said that it has detected 105 million attacks on IoT devices coming from 276,000 unique IP addresses in the first six months of the year.
The company highlighted that this figure is seven times more than the number found in H1...
The cellular IoT ecosystem, the cellular community would have us believe, is growing fast. The GSMA counted 89 NB-IoT networks and 34 LTE-M launches as of October 2019, with several operators running both technologies in tandem, at doubling in 12 months.
The number of NB-IoT...
From monitoring patients in hospitals to manufacturing plants, many industries are transforming with IoT. By 2020, Ericsson predicts that there will be around 29 billion connected devices worldwide, of which the majority (18 billion) will be IoT-based. IoT is slowly becoming the Internet of...
The policy is the technology and the technology is the policy. That is the truth of city governance in the digital age, says Gartner. Any government services delivered at scale are underpinned by various technologies, it says. The challenge is to get these technologies...
Qualcomm Technologies announced
it is developing the first cellular chip optimized and certified for
Microsoft’s Azure Sphere Internet of Things (IoT) operating system.
The announcement was made at
Qualcomm’s 5G Summit taking place in Barcelona, Spain, this week,
Qualcomm Technologies’ new Azure
Sphere-certified chipset for IoT will include hardware-level security,...
Private networks and cellular IoT will be keys for operators to unlock $700 billion of new revenues from industrial 5G services community in the next decade, as industrial sectors look to drive digital change on cellular networking, reckons Ericsson. But operators must redefine their service...
The steady liberalisation of radio spectrum for private and shared usage in various markets, along with the growing realisation among traditional network operators that their licensed spectrum mat be better used for dedicated applications in under-covered locales, means the industrial set has a number...
1 | Anglo American, Capcoal coal mine, Queensland, Australia
British mining company Anglo American has just started work in Australia on what it envisions as “one of the most technologically advanced underground mines in the world”. It is pumping $226 million into the expansion of...
Vodafone, Huawei, China Mobile, ZPMC partner on smart port development
ZURICH--Port facilities serve as a crucial link in the global supply chain and, as an extension of that, global commerce. Given this key role, harnessing technology to develop smart port solutions is a major focus...
Tech Mahindra and Cisco have come up with a new digital factory blueprint that puts 5G at the heart industrial operations. Tech Mahindra said the solution sets a model for IT-OT integration and security.
The solution covers certain factory functions, including wireless networking on the...
ZTE and China Telecom assisted Australian firm Bluetron in commissioning what they claim is China's first 5G Standalone site, which put 5G slicing, edge computing and smart manufacturing into trial to help Bluetron build a new 5G smart factory.
In order to meet data requirements...
Fifteen smart city networks and tech governance groups, representing 200,000 public and private sector organisations in the smart cities space, have joined together to establish global policy standards for the use of connected devices in public spaces.
Their objective, they said, is to ensure cities...
BehrTech, the Toronto-based startup in charge of the MIOTY low-power wide-area (LPWA) technolgy, has signed with industrial software company MAJiK Systems, from Ontario, to connect legacy industrial equipment with analytics software.
BehrTech’s MYTHINGS-branded connectivity platform, for managing MIOTY-based sensors and connectivity, has been integrated...
Accenture recently entered into an agreement to acquire Nytec, a U.S.-based product innovation and engineering company.
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Nytec is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington and has a team of 250. After closing, Nytec will become part of Accenture Industry X.0,...
Toronto-based BehrTech, licensee of the new MIOTY low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology, has come out swinging, it says, both as it gathers business from incumbent LPWA rivals and as it sets itself for a full tilt at the IoT connectivity market in 2020.
The firm has...
ADLink demos how machine vision and edge compute drive efficiency and savings for palletization
Virtually any company that makes, sells or transports goods spends time and money putting boxes onto pallets. While this function is easy to overlook, it's currently a largely manual process that...
