Internet of Things (IoT)

CommScope is latest vendor to join council as a lead partner The market for smart city solutions will soon be worth more than $1 trillion, according to Frost & Sullivan, and the wireless industry will be ready. Companies from almost …

AUSTIN, Texas – We all want to live in smart cities, but are we willing to pay higher taxes to build them? City planners charged with moving municipalities into the digital age say there are several sources of funding available, …

Mississauga, Ontario, has been adopting a number of smart city initiatives and fostered the reputation as one of Canada’s safest cities. The municipal government improved services with a private fiber network and a citywide wireless network using Cisco solutions. The …

IoT firm Freestyle Technology will deploy smart water meters in Gochang municipality under a five-year deal. Australian internet of things firm Freestyle Technology signed a $4.4 million contract to roll out an IoT water management solution for a municipal government …

  IoT applications span from consumer usage such as smart homes, connected cars and wearable devices, to industrial applications covering energy systems, agriculture, mining, transportation, healthcare and more. Keysight’s IoT poster maps out the various wireless protocols being used and …

Learn how JMA Wireless is hiding equipment in plain site to speed up adoption of smart city and IoT solutions In 2015, 54% of the global population lived in cities, but, according to projections from the United Nations, that figure …

As the internet of things continues to drive digital transformation in numerous industrial and enterprise vertical markets, leading IT vendors are continuously adapting product lines to better serve new use cases. For example, Dell recently introduced three variants of its …

Austin, Texas is the first of the five winners of the Smart Cities Council’s challenge grant winners to host a readiness workshop and begin working actively with the Smart Cities Council. Stuart Cowan, chief scientist of the Smart Cities Council …

Silver Spring Networks said NRTC will offer its Gen5 platform to the 1,500 electric utilities it represents. Roughly 50 million Americans get power or telephone service from a rural utility represented by NRTC, and the company claims to have deployed …

Mars Drinks, part of global manufacturer and distributer of food and beverage products Mars Incorporated, is using internet of things technologies to improve the performance of its vending machines. The company initiated a pilot project in Germany with its KLIX …

The European aircraft manufacturer will work with IoT firm Sensolus on geolocation and asset tracking services. Airbus selected the Stickntrack geolocation and asset tracking services from Belgian startup Sensolus to optimize its supply chain. The move is set to allow …

IoT testing takes center stage as China Telecom looks to deploy a nationwide IoT network. U.S. firm Keysight Technologies announced its cellular-based internet of things testing solution was selected by China Telecom to help accelerate its narrowband IoT chipset and …

California drivers are already sharing the road with autonomous cars developed by Tesla and Alphabet, and now they can add Apple to the list of companies putting self-driving cars onto their roads. The California Department of Motor Vehicles has granted …

Are you ready to cede control of your commute to an autonomous vehicle, or buckle your loved ones in and send them off without a driver? Several technologies need to become mainstream before most people will be ready, and one …

German firm Locate Solutions uses different sensors and relies on Vodafone for connectivity. German location solutions provider Locate Solutions is working with Vodafone to provide a service targeting Europe’s aging population. “Autonomous and independent living will be a key area of …

The new membership is set to allow Mobiliya to focus on offering IoT solutions for a growing number of verticals. Dallas-based software engineering company Mobiliya recently joined the Samsung Artik partner program, which focuses on creating an ecosystem for internet …

The smart irrigation system uses IoT controllers to monitor water flow and usage in near real time. AT&T Alliance Channel announced the addition of a smart irrigation solution to its portfolio. The product is said to use internet of things controllers …

Neville Meijers, Qualcomm VP of Business Development, explains that private LTE networks can use licensed or unlicensed spectrum. These networks give enterprises a way to securely connect devices that require variable rates of data transmission, ranging from gigabits per second …

The Continental Automated Buiding Association defines a smart building as “an intelligent space that will transform efficiency, comfort and safety for people and assets.” Implicit in this definition is the assumption that smart buildings also make a change in the …

The U.S. government says one out of every ten Americans has diabetes, and the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 3 Americans could have the disease by 2050. Those are the numbers Apple is looking …

The network is based on French company Sigfox’s technology New Zealand business-focused service provider Kordia, together with its partner Thinxtra, announced that their dedicated Internet of Things (IoT) network has reached 88% coverage of the country’s population. The companies said …

Trails are also being carried out in Hangzhou, Shanghai and Fuzhou provinces Chinese vendors ZTE and China Mobile have announced they have completed the operators’ first narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) field test in Guangzhou. The vendors said that the trial involved …

Innovations in 5G, virtualization and cloud technologies will make new applications and services possible in both personal and industrial IoT in the next several years. The evolution of the RAN and the packet core in 5G will benefit from pervasive …

Innovations in 5G, virtualization and cloud technologies will make new applications and services possible in both personal and industrial IoT in the next several years. The evolution of the RAN and the packet core in 5G will benefit from pervasive …

The agreement stipulates the deployment of 400 smart poles in Bhopal. Ericsson signed an agreement with Indian telecommunications infrastructure firm Bharti Infratel to deploy a smart city project in the city of Bhopal, Indian press reported. The contract was awarded …