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China Mobile, Huawei demo technologies driving 5G

Huawei said the 5G demo lays the foundation for future development of connected vehicles China Mobile, the world’s largest telecommunications company, together with Chinese companies SAIC Motor and Huawei Technologies have completed a demonstration of what it claims to be the world's first 5G remote...

Silver Spring Networks to deploy smart meters in Washington

Under the contract, the company will connect nearly 47,000 customers with smart meters Silver Spring Networks announced a contract with Grant County Public Utility District (Grant PUD) for the deployment of smart meters. Grant PUD is a public power corporation that generates and sells electricity...

Volkswagen to launch vehicles with V2V, V2I technology in 2019

The German car maker said it is working with authorities and industry partners to accelerate the spread of the V2V technology German car manufacturer Volskwagen announced that it expects to start fitting its first models with pWLAN to allow vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications...

Huawei partners with Canadian IoT firm on smart city projects

Under the partnership, Huawei and BeWhere plan to develop M-IoT LPWA, NB-IoT and LTE-M applications Chinese vendor Huawei recently entered a partnership with Canadian industrial internet of things (IoT) solutions provider BeWhere, to develop M-IoT LPWA, NB-IoT and LTE-M applications to enable the deployment of...

How to power battery-operated sensors for the IoT

SAN JOSE, Calif.--Mariusz Malkowski, technical services and businesses development director at Sigma Designs, delivered a presentation titled “Overcoming Battery Life: The Next Generation of Sensors” at the 2017 Sensors Expo and Conference, highlighting the future of battery life for sensors serving the internet of...

Hong Kong citywide IoT network will use LoRa technology

More than 300 skyscrapers line the streets of Hong Kong, and many of them are lit, heated and cooled by connected infrastructure that enables remote monitoring and management of in-building systems. Hong Kong's Pixel Networks, one of the companies providing connectivity services for smart...

Investing in IoT: three facts behind the hype

By now, we've all read and heard about the internet of things. Cars that drive themselves will carry us to buildings that recognize us when we enter, and unless our jobs have been taken over by robots we will be able to do them...

Verizon prepares to add voice to IoT network

Qualcomm and Ericsson assist with VoLTE on LTE Cat M1 network Verizon Wireless said it has shown that voice-over-LTE works on its LTE Cat M1 network, meaning that internet of things applications have new opportunities to use voice commands to activate devices. LTE Cat M1...

Verizon prepares to add voice to IoT network

Qualcomm and Ericsson assist with VoLTE on LTE Cat M1 network Verizon Wireless said it has shown that voice-over-LTE works on its LTE Cat M1 network, meaning that internet of things applications have new opportunities to use voice commands to activate devices. LTE Cat M1...

The IoT opportunity: breaking it down

Which industries will be transformed the most by the internet of things? Not computing, communication, or even consumer devices, according to the analysts at IHS Markit. Manufacturing and heavy industry will see more connected devices than any other part of the economy, according to...

LTE IoT is starting to connect the massive IoT today, thanks to eMTC and NB-IoT

We are at the dawn of 5G, a unified network envisioned to connect virtually everything around us. And to get there sooner, we are accelerating 5G NR (New Radio) — the global 5G standard — to usher in next-generation mobile broadband experiences for smartphones...

Chicago smart lighting project to connect 250,000 street lights

 Under the smart lighting contract, Ameresco will use IoT technology provided by Silver Spring Networks U.S. company Ameresco announced it has been contracted by the city of Chicago as part of a municipal smart lighting project meant to modernize city infrastructure. Ameresco said it will...

Telefonica sees smart city, e-health as drivers for IoT growth

Telefonica CTO talks NB-IoT, LTE-M, smart city deployments, and notes, "5G will be triggered by IoT SHANGHAI--Spanish telecoms group Telefonica is seeing growing opportunities in a number of specific IoT uses cases in the domestic market including smart cities and e-health, among others, the operator’s...

Volvo sets timeline for autonomous car sales

Volvo and Nvidia seem to be feeling pretty good about their tests of Nvidia's Drive PX2 hardware for self-driving cars. Volvo said this week that by 2021 it will be selling autonomous cars that don't require driver intervention. As an automaker that has built its...

Smart Cities Connect: Dallas to share smart city data with developers

As the world headquarters for AT&T, Dallas was an obvious choice for the telecom giant when it selected eight locations to test its smart city technologies. The company partnered with the Dallas Innovation Alliance to launch a a multi-phased smart cities project which already...

Dubai: Inside one of the world’s smartest smart cities

From automated lighting systems that serve as platforms for environmental and traffic sensors to internet-connected trash bins that measure waste levels to optimize the collection process while further providing concealment for wireless infrastructure, internet of things technologies are helping shape smart cities around the...

China Mobile in IoT deal with Cubic Telecom, Valid

The new partnership will allow Chinese customers to have access to eSIM technology Global connectivity solutions provider Cubic Telecom, China Mobile and eSIM solution provider Valid have announced a partnership to deliver LTE connectivity enablement to global internet of things (IoT) customers in China. Under this...

How to build organizational IoT competence

SAN JOSE, Calif.-- Mark Benson, CTO of Exosite, gave a keynote address titled “The Organizational Psychology of the Internet of Things: How to Use Technology to Drive Behavioral Change” at the 2017 Sensors Expo and Conference this week. His presentation centered on how smart, connected...

How augmented reality can benefit humanity

SAN JOSE, Calif.--Ori Inbar, co-founder and CEO of augmentedreality.org, gave a keynote address titled “Superpowers to Change the Word: How Augmented Reality Helps Advance Humanity” at the 2017 Sensors Expo and Conference this week. Augmented reality vs. virtual reality AR and virtual reality (VR) are two...

China set to become largest 5G market by 2025

A GSMA study forecast the nation will reach 428 million 5G subscribers by that time China is expected to represent 39% of global 5G connections by 2025, according to a new study by GSMA Intelligence and the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT)....

China Mobile and NTT DoCoMo integrate eSIM systems for IoT

China and Japan exchange more than $200 billion worth of goods each year, and more and more of those products are shipping with embedded SIM cards to enable connections to cellular networks. Now China Mobile and NTT DoCoMo have integrated their embedded SIM platforms...

Smart Cities Connect: Dallas to share smart city data with developers

As the world headquarters for AT&T, Dallas was an obvious choice for the telecom giant when it selected eight locations to test its smart city technologies. The company partnered with the Dallas Innovation Alliance to launch a a multi-phased smart cities project which already...

Orange expands enterprise IoT partnership with China Telecom

The new deal will allow the two companies to serve enterprise IoT customers in Asia, Europe and Africa SHANGHAI--China Telecom and Orange Business Services announced they have expanded their strategic partnership in the enterprise IoT space. Under the terms of the new cooperation agreement, which...

Mobike partners with Gemalto

Ride sharing may seem to be the future of transportation but on a global scale vehicle sharing may be even more promising. In the most populous parts of the world, cars are out of reach for many people, but not bicycles. Mobike has capitalized...