Comcast is offering free home automation services to some 15 million subscribers
While it's traditionally regarded as a cable company, Philadelphia-based Comcast provides quad-play services with its pay television, home internet, landline telephony and Xfinity Mobile services. Given this converged network footprint and existing subscriber...
Nvidia announces partnership with Volkswagen
Las Vegas, Nev. -- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled an autonomous machine processor called Xavier during a press conference at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2018 alongside a new partnership with Volkswagen.
“In the future, every car will be self-driving. There will...
Digitization. It’s a game-changing tool that many leading manufacturers have already invested in. In late 2015, Adidas opened Speedfactory in Germany, a highly automated manufacturing facility that pairs a small workforce with digital technologies, such as 3D printing and robotics. Last year, Toronto-based Scotiabank...
LoRaWAN radio technology offers powerful and flexible capabilities making it attractive for many IoT applications. The long-range communications, flexible hardware, open source software, and other LoRaWAN features must be thoroughly characterized.
Ensure robust transmission and reception of your LoRaWAN IoT device using optimal test solutions.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is fueled by the abundance of reduced cost infrastructure of compute, storage and networking, with a myriad of service integrations from device management to data analytics. As the cost of entry for IoT continues to fall, coupled with competing...
New AT&T solution remotely monitors road and rail infrastructure
According to the American Society of Civil Engineers 2017 Infrastructure Report Card, nearly half of bridges in the United States are more than 50 years old. Revitalization of civil infrastructure at scale is a common objective...
Las Vegas is also working with networking firm Cisco in a wider smart city initiative
Siemens, along with Brandmotion and Commsignia, is working with the City of Las Vegas to provide a turnkey vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) solution. Siemens said the solution will be...
In the long-term move towards autonomous vehicles divorced from the typical design paradigm of front-facing seats, steering wheels, pedals, etc...vehicles are becoming increasingly connected. Passengers and drivers can use network-based services to support a range of use cases including vehicular telemetry, personalized infotainment and...
LoRa, or long-range radio, is moving to a new level just as mobile network operators are rolling out their own low-power networks to compete with LoRa-based wide area networks. Semtech, the chipmaker that developed LoRa, is increasing both the link budget and the battery...
IoT spans from consumer apps such as smart homes, connected cars and wearables, to industrial apps covering energy systems, agriculture, mining, transportation, healthcare and more. This complimentary poster maps the various wireless protocols being used and evaluated to build out the IoT infrastructure.
For commercial buildings in 2018, four trends define the evolution of networking technology that will drive buildings from just being intelligent to being smart: mobility, cybersecurity, low voltage power and workplace efficiency. These trends continue to influence the types of network infrastructure and devices...
Smart traffic system allows dynamic control of traffic lights, school flashers, signage
The city of Dallas, Texas, has tapped Ericsson's Connected Urban Transport suite to help add automation and responsiveness to the city's traffic management system, as well as providing data analysis, monitoring and management...
Mercedez-Benz is currently focusing on the digitalization of the entire value chain
Mercedes-Benz is in the process of networking the entire automotive value chain including the design, production, sales and service areas. The German manufacturer said this implementation if setting the stage for a completely...
The German firm has opened a new smart factory in Thailand and plans to add smart manufacturing capabilities to an existing plant in Vietnam
German company Bosch said it has invested 80 million euros ($96.2 million) to open a smart factory in Thailand to meet...
Study finds China Mobile accounted for 32% of total cellular IoT connections at the end of Q3 2017
Mobile operators in China had more than 46% of global IoT cellular connections at the end of the third quarter of 2017, according to a recent study...
AT&T launched LTE-M technology in the U.S. market in May 2017
AT&T has completed the necessary network software upgrades to support the deployment of its LTE-M network in Mexico.
This new launch follows commercial LTE-M trials in the Mexican cities of Tijuana and Puebla in...
IoT devices aimed at the enterprise space serve a wide variety of purposes and must be designed, tested and deployed in ways that address the unique needs of businesses. Unlike large-scale, consumer-oriented IoT offerings, enterprise IoT devices must be differentiated to serve specific industry...
The Japanese telco will collaborate with Israeli firm Vayyar to focus on several IoT use cases
Japanese telecommunications operator SoftBank has partnered with Israeli firm Vayyar Imaging to collaborate in the internet of things (IoT) field. The companies also agreed that SoftBank will be the...
Smart manufacturing is a process that uses internet-connected machinery to monitor the overall production process of a factory. The main goal of smart manufacturing is to identify opportunities for automating manufacturing operations and use data analytics to improve the overall performance of the manufacturing...
It’s a fast-paced world. This is especially true in the world of manufacturing. To keep pace and stay competitive, manufacturers must adopt a strategic, targeted approach to production — and that means going digital. However, today’s definition of digital implies more than software downloads...
The two companies have implemented a visualization system at Intel’s factory in Penang, Malaysia
Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company Fujitsu is working with chipmaker Intel to improve the visualization system in Intel’s semiconductor factory in Penang, Malaysia, the firm's largest factory outside the...
Internet of things 'essential' part of digital transformation strategy
Cargotec Corporation is a Finnish company that makes cargo-handling machinery for ships, ports, terminals and local distribution. The firm has been implementing a digital transformation process over recent years in a move to improve operation efficiency...
Cellular network efficiency increases significantly with each generation, especially as the value chain discovers new technologies to improve spectrum use. The following chart illustrates how 3G, 4G, and 5G started and what their peak achievements have been. The top speed for 5G will likely...
Local telco Proximus has selected Kerlink for the deployment of 800 stations
French firm Kerlink has obtained a contract to provide Belgian telecommunications company Proximus with 800 additional stations for the latter’s LoRaWAN IoT network in Belgium.
This new contract follows Proximus’s deployment of a LoRaWAN...
