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SoftBank invests in IoT platform for energy sector

SoftBank said the company will provide its IoT platforms based on big data analysis and predictive technologies Japanese telecoms group SoftBank has entered into a definitive agreement of investment in Encored, a provider of energy IoT platforms. The Japanese firm said that following the investment the...

Samsung inks agreement with America Movil to develop IoT, 4.5G

The new agreement will cover initiatives in Mexico as well as other Latin American markets Korean company Samsung Electronics and Latin American mobile telephony giant America Movil have signed a letter of intent to develop a series of projects across Latin America including initiatives in...

GE Digital CEO talks smart manufacturing at HEB summit

GE Digital discusses how smart technologies can improve food processing AUSTIN, Texas--Stephan Reimelt, president and CEO of GE Germany and Austria, gave a presentation titled “From Automation to Smart Manufacturing” at this year’s HEB Vendors Summit. HEB is an American supermarket chain based in San Antonio,...

Arrow Electronics partners with IBM to grow IoT business in APAC

The firm has integrated IBM's Watson IoT platform and IBM Cloud services into its service offering Arrow Electronics has integrated IBM's Watson internet of things (IoT) platform and IBM Cloud services into Arrow's ideation-to-production services. With this new offering, Arrow's customers in Asia Pacific will...

SoftBank invests in IoT platform for energy sector

 SoftBank said the company will provide its IoT platforms based on big data analysis and predictive technologies Japanese telecoms group SoftBank has entered into a definitive agreement of investment in Encored, a provider of energy IoT platforms. The Japanese firm said that following the investment the...

HEB, GE Digital discuss digital transformation of food industry

HEB and GE Digital embrace digital transformation in effort to build best in class food plants AUSTIN, Texas--Greg Flickinger, vice president of manufacturing operations at HEB, discussed how a partnership between HEB and GE Digital is driving digital transformation in a presentation at this year’s...

Comcast to launch enterprise IoT service in 12 U.S. markets

Comcast's enterprise IoT service was initially launched in October 2016 in Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Area Comcast announced plans to expand its enterprise internet of things (IoT) service, dubbed machineQ, to 12 major U.S. markets. MachineQ is an enterprise IoT network service and...

Google targets the enterprise segment with new Glass offering

Google said a limited number of companies have been testing the new product over the last two years Google has unveiled the new version of its Google Glass product called Google Glass Enterprise Edition. The new glasses have seen improvements to the design and hardware...

Dell highlights customer wins as it look to the future of the IoT

Dell dedicated IoT unit claims 'industry's broadest" internet of things solution portfolio Armed with results from several sweeping internet of things (IoT) projects, Dell Technologies, in a new report, sees a future totally reshaped by the combination of software, big data, compute power and smart,...

Peoples Electric Company launches smart building solutions

The smart building offering includes smart lighting and building automation solutions U.S. company Peoples Electric Company, an electrical and building controls contractor, has launched its Unity Connected Building Intelligence smart lighting and smart building automation solution. The company said the new solution offers a single...

Comcast to launch enterprise IoT service in 12 U.S. markets

Comcast's enterprise IoT service was initially launched in October 2016 in Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Area Comcast announced plans to expand its enterprise internet of things (IoT) service, dubbed machineQ, to 12 major U.S. markets. MachineQ is an enterprise IoT network service and...

NB-IoT vs. U-LPWA

For the past two years, we have been studying the internet of things market, waiting forIoT good NB-IoT products to emerge so that we can make hard-nosed comparisons. It’s time. China Telecom is moving very quickly with NB-IoT, and they are tracking millions of bicycles on...

MulteFire Webinar: MulteFire for Industrial IoT applications

Join the MulteFire Alliance and Harbor Research as we provide insight into how MulteFire technology delivers wireless connectivity that meets the requirements of Industrial IoT for coverage, capacity, reliability, low-latency and mobility. MulteFire, based on 3GPP Release 13 and 14, is an LTE-based technology that...

MulteFire webinar: MulteFire for Industrial IoT applications

Join the MulteFire Alliance and Harbor Research as we provide insight into how MulteFire technology delivers wireless connectivity that meets the requirements of Industrial IoT for coverage, capacity, reliability, low-latency and mobility. MulteFire, based on 3GPP Release 13 and 14, is an LTE-based technology that...

Edge solutions to power IoT video apps (Reality Check)

Realizing the full promise of the internet of things (IoT) means creating an environment where tens of billions of devices can communicate in real-time, transforming industries. It’s been a long time coming, but application developers, enterprises and vertical industries are taking steps to make...

Actility bringing new vehicle tracking solution to the U.S.

The new offering combines Abeeway tracker hardware with Actility IoT platform and Cisco gateways Actility, a French company which specializes in low power wide area networks (LPWAN) and location solutions, has launched a vehicle tracking solution for the U.S. market. The offering combines Abeeway Master Tracker...

SK Telecom targets Chinese IoT market with smart metering deal

The telco expects to launch a remote smart metering system in partnership with Chinese companies Korean telecom operator SK Telecom is planning to enter the Chinese internet of things (IoT) market with the launch of a remote smart metering system for a gas utility, Korean...

Huawei partners to expand NB-IoT testing to Brazil

The initial NB-IoT testing kicked off earlier this year with focus on smart metering and tracking applications Swiss firm u‑blox, which specializes in wireless and positioning modules and chips, has announced a partnering with Chinese vendor Huawei, Brazilian mobile operator Vivo, and other firms including...

Top five virtualization trends of 2017

July marks the second half of the year, making it an ideal time to reflect upon what the journey through 2017 has been like and where it is going. With respect to virtualization, developers have played an increasingly important role in how companies deal...

AT&T: Edge computing key to 5G self-driving car, AR/VR use cases

SDN and mobile edge computing 'go hand-in-hand' In addition to increased capacity and lowered latency--as compared to what's offered by LTE and its variants--5G use cases, particularly latency-sensitive applications like self-driving vehicles and augmented and virtual reality, will require dense, distributed network infrastructure. Data center-based...

Industrial IoT vs. consumer IoT: four key differences (Reality Check)

Although most ink dedicated to discussing the Internet of Things (IoT) has gone towards discussing the concept’s consumer variant, the industrial internet of things (IIoT) is beginning to capture significant attention for its role in helping manufacturers and industrial companies optimize processes and implement...

Who will be the network operators for IoT – telcos, cable, or new market entrants? (Reality Check)

The inside-out deployment model could be the key to unlocking the benefits of IoT In the race to own the emerging internet of things (IoT) market, IoT networks, and IoT applications, it is widely accepted that new low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs) are required for many...

Edge solutions to power IoT video apps (Reality Check)

Realizing the full promise of the internet of things (IoT) means creating an environment where tens of billions of devices can communicate in real-time, transforming industries. It’s been a long time coming, but application developers, enterprises and vertical industries are taking steps to make...

Ericsson to deploy NB-IoT system for Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan

The NB-IoT deployment will support trials of IoT devices and apps in the operator's lab Swedish network infrastructure vendor Ericsson will build a narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) system for Taiwanese telecommunications operator Chunghwa Telecom. Ericsson reps said Chunghwa Telecom will use the NB-IoT system to...