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MulteFire Alliance announces new specifications optimized for IoT

  The Release 1.1 specification adds support for eMTC-U and NB-IoT-U, as well as support for additional spectrum bands   The MulteFire Alliance announced the completion of its Release 1.1 specification that is optimized for the internet of things. Adding support for eMTC-U for moderate data-rate applications in...

Sigfox targets China, India and Russia, as global connections sail past six million

Sigfox is looking to add a half a dozen territories to its global footprint by the end of this year, and pass the 70-mark by the end of next. Its top priority in 2019 is to open operations in China, India, and Russia, as...

The IoT interview (pt2): “We’re a one-stop IoT shop – for every enterprise,” says AT&T

Note, this is the second part of a wide-ranging interview with AT&T President of IoT Solutions Chris Penrose; for the first instalment go here. In all, AT&T has connected 48 million devices around the world. It counts 2,000 different “types of deployment” down the years....

Orange Business Services connects cargo ships on Northern Sea Route

Orange Business Services, the enterprise division of French carrier Orange, has won a contract to connect cargo ships along the Arctic shipping route, making them “offices at sea” with virtual networks, electronic mapping, and weather and safety updates. The Arctic Shipping Company has selected Orange’s...

Five stops on the federal road map toward botnet resilience

Cybersecurity road map aims to support more secure and resilient IoT development for consumer, enterprise and government users If there is a path to a digital world that is more secure and resistant to botnet attacks, what would that path look like? A newly published U.S....

The IoT interview (pt1): “We have to focus on what scales and repeats,” says AT&T

The greatest challenge for Chris Penrose, president of IoT solutions at AT&T, is just to order and manage the multiplying opportunities afforded by the advancement of machine connectivity and intelligence. For Penrose, the key is that business is repeatable, and his resources within the business...

Verizon launches new development toolkit for IoT

  The new offering uses Verizon’s ThingSpace platform and is powered by Amazon FreeRTOS   Verizon has launched a new internet of things development toolkit using the carrier’s ThingSpace platform and Amazon FreeRTOS, an operating system for microcontrollers. Verizon’s ThingSpace platform allows developers, OEM manufacturers, and system integrator...

IIC shows how to optimise assets in smart buildings, machines in smart factories

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has announced results from a pair of testbeds investigating, alternatively, artificial intelligence (AI) for smart buildings management and ways to connect up old factories to new smart manufacturing tools. In the first case, Dell EMC and Toshiba have developed an...

Driverless cars on UK roads in five years, reckons two thirds of business leaders

Driverless cars will be on UK roads within five years. So says two thirds (65 per cent) of senior industry leaders in the UK, working at the crossover of technology and transport. Future transport collective, the Smart Mobility Living Lab: London (SMLL), polled 250 senior...

Ericsson ‘fingerprints’ radio network to enhance NB-IoT, LTE-M positioning

Swedish vendor Ericsson is looking at ways to employ artificial intelligence to enable advanced “fingerprinting” of mobile radio networks to enhance the positioning resolution of LTE-M and NB-IoT devices. The initiative will have implications for both the consumer and enterprise space, it said. However, the...

Itron secures two IoT contracts in Latin America

  The U.S. firm will deploy its solutions for a Brazilian utility and four Costa Rican electricity cooperatives   U.S. firm Itron said Brazilian utility Elektro will deploy its Gen5 network to enable energy efficiency in three cities in the state of Sao Paulo. The Brazilian utility will...

Smart cities Q&A: “A consumer model with city license could work,” says Digi

Minnesota based Digi supplies routers, gateways and IoT modules for machine connectivity in a variety of applications in the smart city space, including in transit systems, street lights, smart waste bins, smart metering and waste-water systems. As part of an investigation into the funding models...

Telstra inks IoT deal with Arduino

  Under the agreement, Telstra will soon launch Arduino’s new IoT developer board in the Australian market   Telstra has signed a partnership with open source hardware and software ecosystem company Arduino aimed at boosting internet of things growth in Australia. Under the terms of the agreement, Telstra...

OSIsoft brings PI System to AWS with ‘quick start’ and ‘integration’ tools

OSIsoft's PI System is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company has launched a suite of products to enable industrial players to more easily run and manage its data management platform, which unites data from operational and information environments, on AWS. These...

Volvo picks Ericsson’s car cloud to deliver info, maps and 5G driving tools

Car makerVolvo has selected Ericsson’s cloud platform to deliver fleet management, telematics, navigation, and infotainment services. The deal will expand to cover delivery of analytics and automation solutions with the arrival of 5G. The five-year deal covers 120 markets. It is the largest to date...

Amazon Web Services launches new IoT offering

AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that collects, structures, and searches IoT data from industrial facility devices   Amazon Web Services has announced four new services and capabilities to strengthen internet of things applications. AWS IoT SiteWise is a new managed service that collects, structures, and...

IoT and 5G in 2019: The hype and the hope (Reader Forum)

Don’t believe the hype: 5G still likely won’t happen in 2019. Many of the 5G announcements that are getting buzz are just marketing talk. There has actually been only a few tiny deployments of 5G, and those are pre-standard. There are still too many moving...

Four “truly smart” smart cities – by SAP’s reckoning

What is a ‘smart city’, exactly? Is it a city with a neat collection of smart solutions, or is it one where everything works together to create new innovations? As it stands, the term is attached to practically any urban centre with a network of...

Vodafone simultaneously launches NB-IoT and LTE-M networks in New Zealand

The carrier said it already operates 1.6 million IoT connections in New Zealand Vodafone New Zealand has launched its NB-IoT and LTE-M networks in the country, which will allow users to have access to a new range of IoT applications, the carrier said in a...

Six steps to build a custom IoT chip – as directed by Arm (Pt 2)

The sense to design and build a custom system-on-chip (SoC) is plain, we understand from an earlier companion piece. As we also understand, from the first part of this post, the process of IoT chip design is logical, much like constructing a printed circuit...

Industrial IoT product round-up, featuring u-blox, Analog Devices, Altair, Eurotech

In a flurry of activity, the makers of modules, chips and embedded systems have announced a number of product and service initiatives to extend, simplify and secure industrial IoT systems; u-blox, Analog Devices, Altair Semiconductor, and Eurotech appear. IoT maker u-blox unveils multi-band NB-IoT module,...

Siemens bolsters digital factory proposition with new AI and edge tools

Siemens has bundled a number of edge devices running artificial intelligence (AI) applications into its digital enterprise portfolio, and bolstered its partner activity and support around its MindSphere platform alongside. Siemens has booked out an entire hall at the SPS IPC Drives 2018 event in...

How intent-based networking provides business value (Reality Check)

The new network is different than the old network. And the way it’s managed is different, too. Until now, management has been on a device-by-device basis, but volume and complexity have made that method unsustainable. Automation and orchestration drive network management today, bringing greater...

Canada completes first truck platooning trial

The platooning trial included two trucks and was carried out in Quebec FPInnovations’ transportation division, PIT Group, along with Transport Canada, Auburn University and Minimax Express Transportation recently collaborated to perform what it claimed to be Canada’s truck platooning trial. The platooning tests took place...