For machining tool manufacturer, predictive analytics provides broad set of efficiencies
Swedish firm Sandvik Coromant is part of the Sandvik Group, a global engineering organization that produces machining tools and tooling systems for the manufacturing industry. Last year, the company teamed up with Microsoft to...
Wind River portfolio enables addresses use cases for aerospace, defense, industrial, medical and transport verticals
IoT specialist Telit announced it is collaborating with Wind River, an Intel company, to accelerate industrial internet of things (IIoT) adoption. Through this collaboration agreement, the two firms are reducing...
If anything, the idea of a smart city in the conventional sense – where everyday infrastructure is connected up and joined together to bring new intelligence and innovation to city operations – has been made real by low-power wide area (LPWA) technologies.
It is these...
By degrees, digital technology is finding its way into city operations, and making cities more efficient and more sustainable. Statistics bear this out. IDC calculates nearly a half of European cities are in some phase of digital transformation into a smart city, and U.S....
Smart city projects cover public safety, traffic management, sustainability
The city of San Jose, in California, has been taking rapid steps towards the implementation of a city-wide smart city program.
In January 2017, San Jose’s smart cities and service improvements committee was approved by the City...
Intel launches Secure Device Onboard service during IoT Solution World Congress
Regardless of where you get your projections, they all agree that the internet of things (IoT) will quickly grow to comprise multiple billions of devices, everything from smart home lighting and AI assistants to...
The telco said this technology will boost the development of IoT solutions across its network footprint
Orange Business Services has accelerated its LTE-M strategy to support the development of internet of things (IoT) solutions for the enterprise market in Europe. In February 2017, the French...
The NB-IoT project is a joint initiative between Nordic telco Telia Norway and Datek Light Control
Nordic telecom group Telia Company and Datek Light Control have developed a prototype for smart street lighting in Norway using narrowband-internet of things (NB-IoT) technology.
Telia said the new prototype...
SÃO PAULO--TIM Brazil, a subsidiary of Telecom Italia, is engaging with startups to speed up the adoption of internet of things solutions. The carrier will have a startup internally and will create a co-working space to invite external startups to team up. In a...
At Smart Cities Week D.C., experts discuss connectivity -- and beyond
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Cities are expected to see enormous growth in the coming decades, and local, state and federal officials are hoping that technology can help mitigate some of the issues that will come along with...
Pair of studies focus on where and how smart city tech can make the biggest difference
In many ways the digital transformation from a city to a smart city is the ultimate application of the internet of things--the umbrella term covers a wide array of...
The internet of things may someday deliver a world of robots and intelligent machines that control all manner of devices, but for now, most connected devices are ultimately controlled by humans. Humans need information - we demand data, and then we want data about...
End-to-end IoT offering targets use cases, including supply chain, smart inventory management and predictive maintenance
Orange Business Services and Microsoft announced they are collaborating to deliver end-to-end internet of things solutions to boost the digital processes of companies in the manufacturing sector.
Through this collaboration, enterprises...
NB-IoT trial follows a previous MoU with Zain to collaborate on 5G and IoT
Nokia and Middle East telecommunications operator Zain have announced the completion of a trial of NB-IoT technology at a live site in the Mina area of Makkah province, in Saudi Arabia.
In...
GM for Sprint's IoT business sees AI as a game-changer for connectivity
Ask Mohamad Nasser what he sees in his internet of things crystal ball, and he brings up the recent debut of Pepper, a humanoid robot being used in Softbank stores in Japan to...
The Swiss firm and local operator CRA had carried out a PoC of a LoRaWAN network in 2015
Swiss company Loriot, a provider of LPWAN and IoT infrastructure software, has been selected by Czech operator Ceske Radiokomunikace (CRA) for the deployment of a LoRaWAN network...
The telco said the new offering will allow customers to manage IoT devices
U.S Cellular has launched a new self-service portal which will allow customers to manage connectivity of their IoT devices.
The new offering, dubbed "ConnectHQ," was launched with the cooperation of Finnish vendor Nokia.
"Whether...
The Velenje coal mine selected IBM for the provision of analytics, asset and facilities management as well as the IBM Maximo Asset Management
Operating within the Salek Valley, in Slovenia, the Velenje coal mine is one of the largest and most modern deep coal mining...
Rolls-Royce, together with Singapore agencies and companies, will invest $44 million in the initiative
Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), British power systems technology company Rolls-Royce, and Singapore Aero Engine Services Private Limited (SAESL), announced they will invest up to $44 million to...
Yokogawa Electric will work with compatriot firm Iwaki to implement industrial IoT architecture for this PoC in Japan
Japanese company Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced it will work with compatriot firm Iwaki Corp. on a proof-of-concept (PoC) test for a remote pump monitoring service. Yokogawa reps...
Alba Iulia, Romania
Orange has funded and developed the first and biggest integrated smart cities project in Romania, in the city of Alba Iulia, capital of Alba County in Transylvania. The French network operator has worked with the city since late 2016 to expand and...
The Internet of Life and the ShadowView Foundation leveraging LoRaWAN to protect endangered species
The Internet of Life and the ShadowView Foundation announced they have implanted LoRaWAN -equipped sensors directly into the horns of critically endangered black rhinos.
The two entities said the sensors give park...
Qualcomm’s platform includes Wi-Fi SON features as well as an IoT connectivity suite
Indian company Smartron has announced plans to introduce the newly launched Qualcomm mesh networking platform for internet of things (IoT) connected devices in the Indian market.
With this association, Smartron and Qualcomm Technologies...
Cisco has beaten IBM for the first time to the top spot in Navigant Research’s poll of the top smart city suppliers. IBM, which has ranked in first position in each of the consultancy group’s previous assessments of suppliers in the smart city market,...
