Vodafone, Ericsson, and BMW have warned the European Commission (EC) its current stance on vehicular communications, which precludes 5G technologies in favour of a single purpose Wi-Fi variant, will throw the region way off track in terms of digital infrastructure and economic development.
In a...
The City of San Diego has extended its smart street lighting network with another 1,000 sensor nodes, and new applications for parking, traffic and public safety.
San Diego has worked with Current, the GE-owned lighting firm, on the project. AT&T is providing the LTE connectivity...
Mastercard has confirmed 16 ‘cities’, or rather urban centres, as founding members of its City Possible programme, convened to foster public-private collaboration in the smart cities space.
The ‘cities’, varying in profile, joining the City Possible initiative are: Athens, Aurora (Illinois), Baltimore, Dubai, Dublin,...
Huawei has launched a digital platform for smart cities, claiming at the same time it is already working with 160 cities in over 40 countries on smart city solutions.
Huawei called it the first “full-stack digital platform”, bringing together cloud, connectivity, and device technologies. The...
Chinese giant Alibaba told a packed-out room at Electronica 2018 in Munich, in Germany, yesterday that Europe is well placed in the emerging tech arms race against China and the US, specifically for development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
UK universities and German corporations,...
The City of Delft, in the Netherlands, has appointed Dell EMC and Nokia as the leading parties in a public-private partnership to introduce semi-autonomous barges on the city’s underused canals to reduce traffic on its congested streets. The pair will provide compute, storage, data...
Cities should focus on what works, and hurry up, if they are to bring intelligence to their operations, Liberty Lake IoT provider Itron told Enterprise IoT Insights.
The company has just kicked off a smart city challenge in the UK, focused on the cities of...
Focus 5G use cases include AR/VR and robotics
An international consortium of interests from the European Union and Taiwan are working to explore end-to-end 5G use cases and recently completed a trial in Taiwan that examined network services that rely on both cloud compute and...
The automotive market is driving massive growth in the semiconductor industry, with the value and complexity of semiconductors in vehicles set to jump in the next years as higher-level automation, electrification, and 5G technologies are introduced on roads, NXP Semiconductor told Electronica 2018 in...
Once a successful proof-of-concept has been established, what’s next? The day after creating a proof-of-concept of your custom IC, you might ask “Now what do we do?” It is time to make your idea real and start developing a system prototype.
This white paper covers...
Once a successful proof-of-concept has been established, what’s next? The day after creating a proof-of-concept of your custom IC, you might ask “Now what do we do?” It is time to make your idea real and start developing a system prototype.
This white paper covers...
We are entering a new intelligent era. Under the development of new technologies like AI, cloud computing, big data, 5G and Internet of Things, we will truly realize the Intelligent Connection of Everything.
In previous industrial revolutions, people have liberated their physical strength. In the...
The French carrier expects to launch LTE-M in Spain and Romania by end-2019
French telecom operator Orange has announced the commercial launch of its LTE-M network in France. Orange already launched its LTE-M network in Belgium in May 2018. The carrier also confirmed plans to launch LTE-M networks in Spain and Romania by the end...
URLLC key to autonomous 5G applications
A new report from industry organization 5G Americas highlights how some of the longer-term goals of 5G--supporting widespread automation in verticals like manufacturing and transportation--hinge on the maturation of ultra-reliable, low-latency communications, or URLLC.
“With the wide range of unique 5G services,...
Siemens said sales were about square for the year, at €83 billion for the 12 months ended September 30, as a stonking performance for its ‘digital factory’ IoT and automation business, among certain others, offset a decline at its ailing power and gas division.
Profit...
WNDUK, in partnership with French IoT specialist Sigfox, aims to reach 2,000 base stations in the coming months
U.K. firm WNDUK has installed 1,000 base station for the provision of its IoT service in partnership with French IoT provider Sigfox.
The U.K firm said that this...
Nokia has unveiled a new architectural framework and enterprise IoT division under the ‘Future X for Industries’ banner to help accelerate the digital transformation of industrial sectors like manufacturing, logistics, transportation and energy, as well as for governments and cities.
The Finnish company is looking...
Waymo said it will begin testing in Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Sunnyvale
California’s Department of Motor Vehicles has issued a permit to Waymo authorizing the company to test driverless vehicles on public roads, including freeways, highways and streets in...
The telco is expected to end this year with a market share of 53% in this segment
AT&T is forecasted to reach 48% of total cellular IoT connections in the U.S. market by 2025, according to a recent study by Counterpoint Research.
The telco is also...
Will blockchain help to democratise power generation and power consumption? It is a tangential, and tech-minded, question, which came out of the central narrative at European Utility Week 2018 in Vienna this week about the decentralisation, decarbonisation, and digitisation of the energy market.
The theory is...
The Gemalto IoT Connectivity Smart Saver platform provides a fast and easy way for OEMs and IoT service providers to tightly monitor IoT data rate plans while improving efficiency.
Benefits & features:
SaaS (Software as a Service) platform with zero touch integration
Automatic real-time data...
The planet’s appetite for energy is growing; demand for electricity shows no signs of slowing. German technology company Siemens told European Utility Week 2018 in Vienna the only way the planet will hit latest sustainability targets is through comprehensive electrification and digitisation of the energy...
Over the past few decades, the liberalization of trade has allowed small and mid-sized enterprises to expand into global markets, while information communications technology (ICT) has become a key driver of global competitiveness, both for individual companies and for countries seeking to grow their...
The problem with smart cities is no one wants to buy them. Because no one knows how to sell them. The technology is proven, but the commercial models are only just emerging.
This report discusses how tech vendors have developed new business models around certain...
