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Hewlett Packard Enterprise signs MoU for smart agriculture center in India

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Agastya International Foundation to set up a Center of Excellence (CoE) for smart agriculture at the latter’s campus in Andhra Pradesh, India. The aim of the new facility is to train students in emerging...

Microsoft report reveals state of enterprise IoT adoption

Microsoft: "If not addressed, industry challenges may compromise benefits to IoT" Microsoft Corp.’s new research report IoT Signals is designed to provide a global overview of the IoT landscape. The vendor-neutral report surveyed over 3,000 IoT decision-makers in enterprise organizations in order to give the industry...

NTT Ltd. puts a new spin on cycling data — and global ICT

As riders in the Tour de France cycling competition climbed through the mountains of France and sprinted down the streets of Paris, each one of them carried a tiny, well-connected passenger: a 100-gram sensor, affixed beneath the saddles of their bikes. Those sensors, transmitting real-time...

Georgia Power unveils first smart neighborhood in Atlanta

Georgia Power, the largest electric subsidiary of Southern Company, and homebuilding company PulteGroup announced the opening of what it claims to be Atlanta’s first Smart Neighborhood.  Leaders from Georgia Power, PulteGroup, the Georgia Public Service Commission, U.S. Department of Energy, City of Atlanta and the project’s technology partners joined together to...

Three Wi-Fi 6 network trials: Cisco, Boingo and WBA

The WBA highlights the importance of savvy Wi-Fi 6 deployment Based on the IEEE 802.11ax standard, Wi-Fi 6, the next generation of Wi-Fi technology, was built in response to the ever-growing number of connected devices worldwide. Wi-Fi 6 was designed to improve speed, capacity, coverage and performance of connected devices, even...

The top industrial IoT platforms – and the only three worth considering?

Old familiars Hitachi, PTC, and Software AG ranked top again among industrial IoT (IIoT) platforms in Gartner’s latest ‘Magic Quadrant’ assessment of the sector. But Software AG swapped places with PTC at the summit, this time, and Hitachi followed behind this pair.These three ranked...

PSA, Envision partner to apply AI, IoT for smart port operations

Smart port project to streamline shipments through Singapore PSA Corporation, which operates the world’s largest container transshipment hub in Singapore, and Envision Digital International signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate in the fields of engineering, technology, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (AIoT)...

Anglo American approves $226m deal for ‘most advanced’ smart mine in Australia

British mining company Anglo American is to expand its coal operations in Australia with “one of the most technologically advanced underground mines in the world”, it has announced. The $226 million expansion of its underground hard coking coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin, near Middlemount,...

Walgreens to implement Theatro’s IoT platform nationwide

Walgreens, one of the largest drugstore chains in the U.S. has selected Theatro, a provider of voice-controlled mobile platform as a service for the hourly workforce. Under the terms of the contract, Walgreens is implementing Theatro’s enterprise-wide solution at all of its 9,560 stores, with the first...

What are dual-slice ‘campus networks’? Deutsche Telekom on LTE and 5G slicing for industry

Deutsche Telekom is offering industrialists so-called ‘campus networks’, which offer a kind of proto-slicing as a pre-cursor to slicing-proper with 5G networks. But its recent work in the Port of Hamburg with Nokia experimented with network-slicing proper, specifically for environmental monitoring, traffic control, and maintenance...

Mayors push US government for protection against smart-city cyber-attacks

US mayors have signed a new resolution on data protection to push the US government to bring greater protection against the risks of cyberattacks on edge sensors associated with the deployment of smart city technologies. Cyber-attacks on smart cities appear to have escalated, although...

Smart ports: seven practical challenges for port authorities and terminal operators

The Marseille Fos port in southern France is leading the new French Smart Port in Med initiative, with an ambition to “build the port of the future”. It has a focus on efficiency, innovation, and environmental sustainability The initiative has received funding from CMA CGM,...

Smart port perspectives | Marseille: 5G, blockchain, and a digital map for tight ships

The Port of Marseille Fos is amping up its smart port strategy with 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,...

UK water utility connects to Vodafone’s NB-IoT network to stop leakages

South East Water is connecting digital water meters, sensors and acoustic loggers on underground mains water pipes to Vodafone’s NB-IoT network in the UK. The arrangement is part of a year-long trial of the technology to monitor and fix water leakage, in line with...

Smart port perspectives | Hamburg: ‘5G slicing works; hurry up with 5G, already!’

Recent trials of industrial 5G at the Port of Hamburg have given the German port a lift, and clear designs about digital change. But it will count for nothing if the German telecoms industry cannot conjure rapid rollout of 5G networks, it said. “The main...

Industrial robotics firm Fetch raises $46 million in Series C funding round

Silicon Valley based industrial automation and robotics firm Fetch Robotics has raised $46 million in Series C funding. The new venture capital takes its total funding to $94 million to date. The money will go on international expansion, and new development, the company said. The...

UK releases masses of spectrum for private, shared usage; squeezes operators

Ofcom will open up a large tranche of the UK airwaves for enterprises to deploy private and shared networks, dedicating the 3.8-4.2 GHz band for local deployments, requiring national operators to relinquish unused licensed spectrum to enterprises, and making available the lower 26 GHz...

“NB-IoT is cheap in China – from as little as $3 per module,” says Huawei

Cellular IoT technologies are expected to take the lion's share of the low-power wide-area (LPWA) market, but it has been a bumpy start – outside of China, at least. Rival non-cellular technologies LoRaWAN and Sigfox have stolen a march in other territories. Here, we...

Ingenu’s second-coming: claims $2bn pipeline, contract wins, slates rivals

IoT provider Ingenu has relaunched with a ‘2.0’ message about the suitability of its low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology for sundry industrial sectors, with a platform-as-a-service offer and a number of contract wins in the Asia Pacific region. The San Diego based company has also...

Editorial Report: IoT Connectivity – Who’s Winning What?

For all the experience of LTE and excitement of 5G, the IoT market has been propped by low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies. The concept of smart-anything as the prerequisite for industrial change – in buildings, cities, manufacturing, logistics, agriculture – has gained credence, in large...

Editorial Report: IoT Connectivity – Who’s Winning What?

For all the experience of LTE and excitement of 5G, the IoT market has been propped by low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies. The concept of smart-anything as the prerequisite for industrial change – in buildings, cities, manufacturing, logistics, agriculture – has gained credence, in large...

Editorial Webinar: IoT Connectivity: Who is winning what?

For all the experience of LTE and excitement of 5G, the IoT market has been propped by low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies. The concept of smart-anything as the prerequisite for industrial change – in buildings, cities, manufacturing, logistics, agriculture – has gained credence, in large...

Money, money, money etc – five benefits of smart factories and industrial IoT

In the end, it comes down to customer satisfaction – which, in the end, comes down to money. However you spin it, smarter industrial operations make better products, more efficiently, which raise customer loyalty, which makes business. The theory is not new. The method,...

LoRaWAN has the edge on NB-IoT, and Sigfox has retreated, says Proximus

Device availability, network flexibility, and technical features give LoRaWAN the edge on NB-IoT today, reckons Proximus. But competition between the two IoT technologies will grow closer, it expects. Meanwhile, Sigfox is missing in action, having apparently retreated from the kinds of metering and smart-city...