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NTT bundles in FogHorn’s edge AI software to round out industrial IoT offer

Japanese telecoms giant NTT is working with California-based industrial IoT software developer Foghorn to deliver edge-based machine intelligence to industrial clients. NTT-subsidiary NTT Data, offering systems-integration and IoT consultancy services, has selected Foghorn’s Lightning software for its on-premise analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, which...

Editorial Report: How to bring 5G in-building

5G, the next generation of wireless technology, is poised to have a significant impact on the commercial real estate industry--if stakeholders can coalesce on a straightforward strategy to bring 5G indoors. As 5G ’s enhanced IoT capabilities enable more of the built environment to...

Japan Airlines and Accenture to trial AI-based service for passengers

The new service will be initially implamented at Narita and Haneda airports in Tokyo Japan Airlines is working with Accenture on a new service that uses artificial intelligence to answer passenger requests at the airline’s check-in counters. The service assesses what check-in counter agents are saying...

Sequans adapts LTE chips for satellite

Sequans works with aerospace and defense contractor Lockheed Martin to adapt LTE chips to communicate with satellite systems Sequans is modifying its LTE chipsets to be able to directly communicate with satellite systems, in a partnership with Lockheed Martin. Lockheed developed an LTE-to-satellite specification, and Sequans...

Industrial companies are building private networks because they have to, says Nokia

Industrial companies will invest in their own private LTE and 5G networks because the business case for digital change is irresistible, and because they want control of their own infrastructure. This leaves operators, betting on new revenue from enabling industrial transformation, in the cold,...

The Journey to 5G: Living in a Multi-Cloud World

  The combination of 5G, IoT and edge requires a multi-cloud strategy With device support and scaling networks, 2019 will be a big year for the commercialization of 5G but is still very much in the early days. Enhanced mobile broadband that brings higher data speeds...

“There are 1,500 IoT platforms; few know what they’re doing” – Software AG talks IoT tactics

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled 'Software AG cites deals with AT&T, AWS, Dell in pursuit of €24bn IoT opportunity'. Click here to go to the previous article.  New Software AG chief Sanjay Brahmawar has been seven months in the...

BT deploys 1,000 IoT-based smart lockers across the UK

  The smart lockers allow firms with large field engineering teams to gain more efficiency   BT’s supply chain business, Final Mile, said that it has deployed 1,000 smart delivery lockers across the UK. Following a number of customer contract wins, the U.K. carrier said that the business...

Network and chipset advances will see NB-IoT shoulder the IoT workload, says Huawei

NB-IoT connections will comprise the vast majority of cellular IoT by 2021, at up to 75 per cent and around one billion devices, according to Huawei. The number will climb from around 30 million in 2018 to 200 million in 2019, it reckons. Huawei outlined...

Software AG cites deals with AT&T, AWS, Dell in pursuit of €24bn IoT opportunity

Germany-based Software AG has reorganised its channel strategy to prioritise IoT platform deals with the likes of AT&T, ‘hyper-scale’ cloud deals with the likes of AWS, edge hardware deals with the likes of Dell, and IT and IoT reseller deals with the likes of...

Nokia inks deals with Zain to expand IoT footprint in Saudi Arabia

  One of the agreements stipulated the implementation of Nokia’s WING platform for the delivery of IoT solutions for enterprises   Nokia and Zain Saudi Arabia have signed two memorandums of understanding that will enable the Arab carrier to launch IoT services and applications and provide end-to-end...

San Francisco selects Iteris for intelligent transportation system upgrade

Under the three-year agreement, Iteris will provide connected vehicle applications in Los Gatos, Emeryville, Walnut Creek, Concord and Dublin Iteris, a specialist in applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, announced that it has been selected by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to enhance and upgrade...

Vodafone joins consortium to test 4G and 5G drones, ready UK skies for robot deliveries

Vodafone has joined a UK drone-testing consortium as network provider to develop tools and processes to enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to fly safely in the same airspace as manned aircraft. Vodafone will provide 4G and 5G connectivity to the National Beyond Visual Line of...

Private networks, guaranteed service, total control – “We are proving 5G for Industry 4.0,” says Vodafone

Vodafone will use a range of private networking options to serve industrial verticals, it has said, as it develops its advanced LTE and emerging 5G proposition for enterprises. These options include spot usage of unlicensed LTE, localised usage of public LTE, and dedicated slices...

Kerlink, IoT America target rural areas in the US with new IoT partnership

IoT America designs solutions for precision agriculture, livestock management and infrastructure monitoring French internet of things (IoT) specialist Kerlink and Internet of Things America (IoT America), a U.S. company dedicated to deploying IoT solutions across rural America, have recently teamed up to enable the deployment of IoT...

Port of Rotterdam extends private LTE setup to drive automation and intelligence

Dutch industrial tech provider Koning & Hartman and Irish private-network provider Druid Software have extended their work to bring automation and intelligence to operations at the Port of Rotterdam. The pair have established a private LTE network at the port, using spectrum licensed by...

Google intros new AI edge hardware for predictive maintenance, machine vision, robotics

Google has released new hardware for machine learning at the edge in the form of a single-board computer running its edge-based Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) processor. Alongside the new system-on-module (SOM), available under its Coral brand, Google has unveiled a USB-connected accessory that brings...

Cubic Telecom inks connected car deal with Škoda

  Škoda drivers will have access to a wide range of connected cars services across Europe Cubic Telecom has signed a contract with Czech automobile manufacturer Škoda Auto to enable connectivity for Škoda drivers across Europe. The new IoT solution will be available first in the new...

IBM intros industrial AI and IoT suite to help manage asset downtime and maintenance

IBM has introduced a new suite of industrial internet of things (IoT) solutions for preventative and predictive downtime and maintenance that leverage artificial intelligence and advanced analytics. The solution will reduce the risk of failure of physical assets including vehicles, manufacturing robots, turbines, mining...

Boston appoints first CISO to protect city and citizen data

Boston has appointed its first chief information security officer (CISO) to lead its fight to secure the data of its city operations and its citizens, and to modernise its technology architecture alongside.  Gregory McCarthy, with the city since 2010, will lead its cybersecurity team within...

SAP intros Leonardo IoT, tightens integration with Azure IoT Hub

German software company SAP has launched a new internet of things (IoT) suite for its Leonardo platform, as well as closer cloud integration with Microsoft’s Azure IoT Hub. SAP Leonardo IoT enables customers to combine business process data with IoT data garnered from machines...

Singtel inks IoT agreement with China Mobile

  The aim of the IoT deal is to foster the adoption of enterprise IoT services in Singapore and China   Singapore telecom operator Singtel and China Mobile International, a subsidiary of China Mobile, have signed an agreement to collaborate on accelerating enterprise adoption of the internet...

Ericsson, China Unicom develop smart harbor in key Chinese port

Both partners have already carried out 5G verification at the Port of Qingdao BARCELONA-Ericsson and China Unicom said they are currently developing a 5G-enabled smart harbor at the Port of Qingdao in China. Ericsson said that the announcement follows a technical solution verification at Qingdao and...

Microsoft mixes gaming and industry to make HoloLens 2 the king of MWC gadgets

Mobile World Congress (MWC) is an operator show, run by the GSMA operator group, that has always looked and sounded like a handsets show, dominated by device makers. On Sunday night at MWC 2019, as Samsung and Huawei gathered the blogger world in cavernous...