The Department of Water and Sewage (DAE) of Americana in São Paulo, Brazil, will deploy smart meters and management solutions from Itron to stem water losses from 80,000 water and sewage connections. It is also seeking to gain closer insight of the performance of...
5G is emerging. Industrial IoT is growing. Everyone has heard the phrase, it’s the next ‘big thing’. It’s faster internet, but what does it really mean for you? Check out this series of blogs to help you understand exactly what 5G means.
We are going...
Silicon companies Arm, Bosch, NVIDIA, and NXP Semiconductors have joined with car makers General Motors and Toyota and automotive suppliers Continental and DENSO in a new alliance geared towards ‘making fully self-driving vehicles a reality’.
The new Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC) was announced at...
In a trio of announcements at Arm TechCon 2019 in San Jose yesterday (October 8), chip design company Arm walked the line on increasing flexibility and reducing fragmentation in the IoT space, as the rise of 5G and AI place ever-higher demand on compute...
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 sector. Schneider Electric will leverage ThoughtWire’s digital twin solution to offer facilities managers in the...
Sumitomo's smart city ambitions extend throughout Asia
Japanese company Sumitomo and Vietnamese developer BRG Group have established a real estate development company through a JV scheme, with the main goal of building a smart city in the Dong Anh district in northern Hanoi, Vietnam,...
Verizon and NEC claim existing fibre networks, rather than purpose-built fibre networks, can be used for optical sensing, to collect data on city traffic conditions and environmental measures.
They suggest existing fibre infrastructure, such as Verizon and other carriers make available in urban locales,...
Note, this is the third part in a three-part series about manufacturer Sandvik Cormorant, which has been ranked as the smartest factory in Sweden. Go here to read the previous instalment ('Smash-proof guitars and ‘insane’ amounts of data'). Go here to read the first...
Nowadays, security and privacy are on everybody’s mind. Hardly a day goes by without the news of security breaches at major institutions. Most of the time, the reporting is focused on the cloud or network infrastructure, hardly ever on devices. However, when it comes...
Ford also testing in Miami and Washington D.C.
Ford Motor Co. said it will add
Austin, Texas, to the list of cities where it plans to launch a commercial
transportation service using automated vehicles in 2021.
The U.S. automaker previously conformed it would begin transporting people and...
Package delivery company UPS has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate a fleet of aerial delivery drones. The certification puts no limits on the size or scope of operations, and enables drones to operate ‘beyond visual line of sight’ (BVLOS)....
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 coverage, and drive industrial transformation.
The deal signals a race for spectrum innovation, according to...
German telecom
operator Deutsche Telekom has signed a 5G-focused memorandum of understanding
(MoU) with Audi and the city of Ingolstadt.
The goal of this partnership is
to use 5G technology to make urban mobility safer, more digital and more
sustainable.
The partners said that this MoU is the basis...
Note, this is continued from a previous article, called: ‘Greta dislikes you, but we like Greta’ – Sandvik on industrial revolution and the smartest little tool-house in Sweden. Go here to read the first instalment.
The smartest factory in Sweden is a couple of...
BT has
launched a smart cycling trial with 200 volunteers from its Adastral Park
R&D campus and surrounding area in Suffolk, UK, with the aim of testing
smart IoT-enabled bike lights to improve the cycling experience, the company
said in a blog post.
“This innovative use of connected technology...
Ohio-based tool distributor Jergens Industrial Supply (JIS) has developed an industrial spin-off of Amazon’s Dash IoT button for retail customers of its products. The Wi-Fi-enabled solution, which simplifies and automates stock replenishment, uses software from Austin-based Epicor.
JIS says it has improved productivity by...
Rockwell Automation has acquired India-based systems integrator MESTECH Services for an undisclosed fee. It said the deal will enhance its digital-change offer, spur business in India, and provide a new channel for PTC solutions.
Rockwell Automation took a $1 billion stake in PTC last year,...
An NHS trust in Manchester, in the UK, has agreed a £25 million deal with Hitachi Consulting to use advanced data analytics and IoT tools to digitise its processes and optimise its staff resources, in what is billed as the “UK’s first fully integrated...
The Port of Marseille Fos, in France, has new discussions with Orange about 5G, a developing relationship with IBM on blockchain, and a host of collaborations with local industry around port innovation, geared towards container handling, traffic management, cyber-security, and renewable energy.
Stéphane Reiche, general...
Dense Air, a subsidiary of network infrastructure vendor Airspan, has signed a deal with the city of Cascais in Portugal, a municipality in the Lisbon district, to build a 5G smart-city test network that makes use of its local 3.6GHz spectrum holding, to support...
In my previous articles here, and here, I explained the rationale for increased focus on device security and its challenges. The threats are more acute, especially from unknown foreign vendors offering predatory pricing. After reading the articles, a few people questioned me about the...
Toronto based LPWA challenger BehrTech has released a new wireless smart sensor for environmental monitoring in industrial IoT setups under its MYTHINGS brand.
As with all its MYTHINGS family, the new sensor uses telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB) technology for low-power wide-area (LPWA) connectivity in industrial IoT...
No city in the world is ready for the disruption that artificial intelligence (AI) will bring. This is the conclusion of a new review by management consultancy Oliver Wyman, which considers the readiness of 105 cities to cope with AI-inspired digital change, and finds...
Digital transformation, set in motion by industrial IoT, is an abstract exercise. It is not an off-the-shelf kind of a sale. It requires all parties to collaborate to affect change and reinvention, capturing business culture and business practice.
Importantly, it also needs to consider...
