The idea of digital transformation has taken center stage over the last few years and has thrown open many opportunities for organizations to fundamentally change the way they do business. In particular, as telecom operators have expanded into new and emerging markets, they are...
The U.K-based telecom group recently announced plans to double the size of its NB-IoT footprint in Europe by end-2019
Vodafone Spain said that its national narrowband internet of things network has been expanded to cover all localities with more than 25,000 inhabitants.
The telco also said...
Artificial intelligence is a technology that presupposes the advents before it and builds upon them to create an invention of endless applications and limitless possibilities. AI is, in no uncertain terms, a revolutionary technology with implications well beyond its surface.
Research continues to further our...
The European Commission (EC) will make usage of the 900MHz band for short-range devices consistent across all member states. The move will make the 874-876 and 915-921 MHz bands a default frequency for applications related to smart cities, smart homes, smart farming, transport, logistics...
Nearly 20,000 customers will trial smart-home technologies including thermostats and water heaters
Portland General Electric has announced plans to file a proposal to carry out a smart grid test bed during 2019.
PGE is currently building and testing three smart grids within its service area that...
Manufacturing, transportation, retail—that's the supply chain
Blockchain is largely associated with the mysterious world of cryptocurrency, but AT&T sees significant value in applying the generalized ledger that supports blockchain to other use cases, particularly supply chain management. During the AT&T Business Summit in Dallas, Texas,...
Sigfox nabs ex-Nokia man to head up US sales
Sigfox has appointed former Nokia man Murray Kawchuk as vice president of sales for its US business. Kawchuk will lead the company’s sales, engineering and IoT teams, develop partnerships with device makers, system integrators, and other...
Italian industrial internet-of-things (IoT) solutions provider Eurotech has introduced a new open, modular, multi-cloud IoT architecture. The solutions was developed with US software companies Cloudera and Red Hat. Separately, it has brought data analytics track-side with Belgian manufacturer Gillet, maker of the Vertigo race...
A new Industry 4.0 design and policy centre has been opened in India by the World Economic Forum, in conjunction with the Indian government and the major industrial states of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. Its first projects will focus on artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain,...
Automotive manufacturer Volvo and chip maker NVIDIA have teamed up to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to self-driving Volvo cars.
The pair will develop an AI-enabled core computer for new models from as early as 2020, bringing about advanced driver support systems, energy management technology, and...
Civic operational intelligence is not the preserve of the world’s mega-cities, said Dutch lighting company Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, as it continued deployment of 5G street-lighting poles with American Tower in Huntington Beach, in California.
“Small and medium cities should not underestimate the opportunities they...
Huawei said it has integrated its mobile data center platform into the Audi Q7
Huawei and Audi announced plans to strengthen their cooperation in the field of intelligent connected vehicles.
During the Huawei Connect event taking place this week in Shanghai, China, the two partners carried...
“The kaleidoscope has been shaken; the pieces are in flux.” It is a phrase written for the political age, almost two decades ago. But as an analogy for ground-shaking change, it suits the mad-paced technology market’s face-off with industry particularly well.
For the technology market...
Two hours from Warsaw, the town of Kazimierz Dolny has hardly changed since the Renaissance, when it thrived as centre for the grain trade. T-Mobile Poland has just announced plans to make it the country’s “first multifaceted smart city”.
Deutsche Telekom, parent of T-Mobile Poland,...
IoT antenna specialist Taoglas discusses MWCA product launches
As the M2M has evolved into the internet of things, the rapidly growing market is driving transformation and creating value in virtually every segment of the consumer, enterprise and industrial markets. Previously static objects are being connected...
Cisco is making the business case for mobile operators to install 5G masts in rural regions based on connecting livestock, rather than people.
The company, leading a network of 29 organisations in the UK, is confident its project will produce a ‘hard’ ROI for service...
Huawei’s new offering in the AI segment includes a new series of chips
Chinese vendor Huawei has unveiled the company’s new artificial intelligence strategy as well as its AI portfolio.
The announcement was made by Huawei’s rotating Chairman Eric Xu during the Huawei Connect event, which...
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 webinar discusses how tech vendors have developed new business models around certain...
The availability of LTE network coverage in a customer location is not a true indication of a fully operational NB-IoT or LTE-M service. IoT devices are typically installed in remote locations such as basements and garages where the network signals are weak. Failure events...
Cameras as a sensor drives multiple smart city use cases
Adoption of smart city solutions is moving from limited pilot projects to larger scale implementation and, with 5G networks going live in the U.S. through the end of 2018, new types of high-bandwidth, latency-sensitive applications...
What are some of the challenges faced by local governments who want to find ways to make their cities smarter?
The barriers that stand in the way of smart city initiatives were a hot topic at the recent Smart Cities Week D.C. conference. Finding appropriate...
The smart home space has been a busy one over the last few years. If anything, the pace of innovation is accelerating. Research consultancy Market Insights predicts the market's total value will reach $55 billion by 2022, from $38 billion in 2017. But the...
EU co-funded ENSEMBLE project aims to introduce multi-brand platooning on European roads by 2021
German company ZF said it is currently working with truck manufacturers as part of the European Union's co-funded ENSEMBLE project to test programs with the goal of introducing multi-brand platooning on...
US carrier Verizon discovered the secret to smart-city building in Sacramento, in California, it says. “We tried it there first, and we’re now replicating it with a lot of cities,” explains Lani Ingram, the company’s vice president for smart communities.
The revelation for Verizon, as...
