Area outside of Toronto targeted for a holistic smart city build
Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google-parent company Alphabet, is planning to build a smart city from the ground up in an area of Toronto southeast of downtown called Quayside. In many smart city projects,...
Expansion of LoRa IoT network, partnership with HPE mark expansion plans
Indian communications service provider Tata Communications is betting big on the expansion of internet of things (IoT) network and solutions with a planned $100 million investment in the space in the coming years, according...
The funds will be used to expand the firm’s ecosystem of partners and providers
Ayla Networks, a provider of internet of things (IoT) platform-as-a-service (PaaS), has raised $60 million in Series D financing led by Hong Kong-based Run Liang Tai Fund (RLT) and Chinese firm...
Under the 'Thinx’ program, the Spanish telco plans to open IoT labs in Europe and Latin America
Spanish telecom operator Telefonica has launched what it calls "The Thinx," an initiative to promote an open ecosystem for the development of internet of things (IoT) through experimentation...
AT&T moves 186 petabytes of data across its networks each day, and 53% of that is video traffic. Most of it is downstream video - content that subscribers download or stream to their devices. Within the next 3-5 years, the carrier expects video to...
The utility firm is working with Landis+Gyr to implement a nationwide deployment of smart meters
Global provider of energy management solutions Landis+Gyr said it is working with British Gas to deploy new smart meters in the U.K. The company said that the first of the...
Leveraging Industry 4.0 for a zero failure strategy
Bosch Rexroth manufactures products and systems associated with the control and motion of industrial and mobile equipment. The company’s facility at Homburg, in the Saarland region of Germany, manufactures hydraulic valves for mobile machinery, such as tractors...
Vodacom said its network was adding nearly 55,000 new IoT connections per month
South African telecom group Vodacom confirmed its narrowband internet of things network is now operational in Gauteng. The telco said the commercial rollout of NB-IoT is expected to accelerate internet of things...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Mike Krell, head of IoT strategy for James Brehm and Associates, kicked off a panel at Fog World Congress saying, "No one wakes up in the morning and says, 'I wanna go buy me some IoT. I wanna go buy me some...
The Swedish firm will make its IoT platform available for Telenor Pakistan’s enterprise customers
Telenor Pakistan has selected Telenor Connexion as its partner for the development of IoT services in the local market. Under the terms of the agreement, Telenor Connexion’s IoT platform will now...
The telco will offer IoT, M2M services to enterprise customers in Asia and the Middle East
China Telecom signed an IoT business partnership agreement with Bridge Alliance, which would enable the Chinese telco to provide IoT and M2M services to multinational enterprise customers across Bridge...
The trial will focus on automotive safety, automated driving and traffic efficiency
AT&T, Ford, Nokia, and Qualcomm Technologies have announced what it claims to be the first cellular-V2X (C-V2X) trials in the U.S.
The involved companies said that testing is expected to take place in the...
As the enterprise relentlessly moves to wireless as the default communication modality in all locations, the role of wireless connectivity changes and performance requirements grow. Wi-Fi continues to be the fundamental technology for indoor data traffic, but cellular and other technologies play an increasingly...
The adoption of the enterprise internet of things (IoT) solutions continues to grow and a number of use cases prove the benefits companies can obtain through the deployment of internet of things tools. By leveraging the internet of things, enterprises gain operational efficiencies and reduce...
The AI project, dubbed Acumos, is led by the Linux Foundation
AT&T and Indian firm Tech Mahindra are working in a project led by the Linux Foundation, which has the aim to make artificial intelligence (AI) widely available by providing a common framework and platform...
Depends on who you ask
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--“I think edge is to fog as to what apple is to fruit," Helder Antunes, chairman of the OpenFog Consortium told RCR Wireless News during Fog World Congress.
He continued: "We look at fog computing as an end-to-end...
451 Research: When it comes to fog solutions, ‘OT guys are buying outcomes’
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Fog computing is poised to unlock new levels of efficiency and data insight for a wide range of verticals, but, as the nascent technology set gains mindshare, a new level...
As the Industry 4.0 movement spreads from Germany across Europe and the rest of the world, telecommunications operators are looking to develop portfolios that combine their network expertise with industrial-facing product portfolios, managed services and other solution sets. Case in point, Turk Telekom, which...
The U.S. firm said the solution will contribute to smart city initiatives across the region
U.S. utility technology provider Sensus has announced the launch of its utility-grade IoT communications network, FlexNet, in Middle East markets.
The firm said that FlexNet, which operates in dedicated and licenses...
Vodafone said it will test NB-IoT applications with a number of partners
U.K.-based telecoms group Vodafone has confirmed it is working with Dublin City Council (DCC) to test narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) sensors in the Docklands Smart District as part of the wider Smart...
Fostering long-term innovation is key to Barcelona's smart city ambitions
Barcelona has been very active in terms of the deployment of smart city initiatives over the last few years.
One key element of the Spanish city’s smart city plan is the so-called ‘Smart City Campus’ which...
German car manufacturer Daimler AG carried out a demonstration of the application of automated snow removal operations at airports based on a specific customer requirement.
The demo was carried out on the site of the former Pferdsfeld airbase, in Germany.
"We are not just talking about...
The smart traffic initiative stipulates the deployment of smart signals on 14 corridors across the state
Maryland’s Governor Larry Hogan announced the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) is investing $50.3 million to deploy smart traffic signals that will improve traffic operation and ease congestion for...
Huawei is using NB-IoT and LPWA to improve water metering and improve piping management
Huawei Japan and Japanese firm Aichi Tokei Denki confirmed they will expand their efforts in verifying NB-IoT technologies for smart water metering.
The two companies will utilize NB-IoT and LPWA to realize...
