More and more enterprises are deciding to embed sensors, connectivity, and compute capabilities into valuable assets and equipment. But deciding to invest in an IoT solution is just the first step. There are several other critical decisions to be made; below we highlight three...
U.S. V2V network firm Nexar signed a collaboration agreement with the Nevada Center for Advanced Mobility
The Nevada Center for Advanced Mobility (Nevada CAM) and Nexar, a technology company providing vehicle-to-vehicle network technologies for preventing road collisions and enabling autonomous mobility, have announced a strategic...
The utilities offer smart grid services in the Colorado, Kansas and Washington
Honeywell said it will provide three power providers in the U.S. with managed smart grid services as a way to more simply manage very technical smart grid networks, and enable improved electricity service and...
Wi-Fi routers have the potential to become smart home hubs, but they will need to manage more than just Wi-Fi. Next generation routers that use Qualcomm silicon and software will be able to respond to voice commands and will manage devices that connect via...
The cloud and the fog both have important roles to play in the internet of things, and the difference is becoming clearer. According to Microsoft, the cloud is the place to manage IoT devices, and to collect and analyze the data they generate. The...
Red Bull has extended its partnership with AT&T and will connect up to 1 million coolers to the AT&T network. Each time a customer opens and closes the door of a connected cooler, an embedded monitor will collect the data, which will be sent...
Red Bull has extended its partnership with AT&T and will connect up to 1 million coolers to the AT&T network. Each time a customer opens and closes the door of a connected cooler, an embedded monitor will collect the data, which will be sent...
Japanese firm Toshiba and Huawei to collaborate on the integration of NB-IoT for the development of smart factory solutions
A cooperation agreement between Toshiba and Huawei will accelerate the commercial availability of NB-IoT solutions in a diverse range of vertical industries.
Under the terms of a...
China Telecom said it continued to expand coverage of its NB-IoT network across the country in the first quarter of the year.
The company said that this technology allows a wide range of applications including smart parking and smart manufacturing, among others.
The Chinese telco also...
When outdoor lighting giant Schréder decided to launch a smart lighting division, the company didn't choose a low-power wide area network technology. Instead, Schréder's Owlet Nightshift went with Zigbee, a protocol typically used for smart home applications. Zigbee is a shorter range technology, but...
Australian telecommunications firm Telstra and the City of Joondalup in Western Australia have reached an agreement to carry out a trial of smart city applications using Internet of Things (IoT) solutions.
The telco said that the smart city trial includes IoT-enabled environmental sensors, smart bins...
Nearly 70% of Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives stall a the Proof of Concept (PoC) stage, according to a recent study by Cisco.
The study also revealed that only 26% of companies have had an IoT initiative that they considered a complete success, while a...
New business models and lower costs per gigabit are goals for wireless carriers as the industry charges toward the next generation of wireless technology. But the carriers don't all see 5G the same way, and they don't all have the same priorities.
As...
The internet of things is distributing intelligence to the network edge, and that means test and measurement solutions must also migrate to the edge. National Instruments is working to solve the synchronization and systems management challenges created by the distributed nature of IoT compute...
The internet of things is distributing intelligence to the network edge, and that means test and measurement solutions must also migrate to the edge. National Instruments is working to solve the synchronization and systems management challenges created by the distributed nature of IoT compute...
The trial will use China Mobile’s 2G/4G multimode network and Mobike’s smart lock, which is supported by the Qualcomm Technologies’ modem for IoT apps
Qualcomm’s subsidiary Qualcomm Technologies announced plans to start the first eMTC/NB-IoT/GSM (LTE Cat M1/NB1 and E-GPRS) multimode field trials in China.
The...
The vendor will deploy its Zero Site pole solution to offer 4G, 5G and IoT use cases into industrial grid management
Real estate and infrastructure firm Landmark Dividend has selected Swedish vendor Ericsson to provide its Zero Site communications platform and communications infrastructure at sites...
VMware and Samsung Electronics have announced a collaboration agreement in the Internet of Things (IoT) space.
Under the terms of the agreement, both firms said they will collaborate to expand end-to-end IoT solutions for industrial and enterprise customers.
The new solution combines Samsung Artik Smart IoT platform with VMware’s Pulse IoT center
VMware and Samsung Electronics have announced a collaboration agreement in the Internet of Things (IoT) space.
Under the terms of the agreement, both firms said they will collaborate to expand end-to-end IoT...
Street lights are playing a key role in the development of today’s smart cities. With digital networks and embedded sensors, smart street lights can collect and transmit information that helps authorities to monitor and respond to different circumstances, from traffic and air quality to...
The IoT agreement targets verticals including transportation, oil and gas, maritime, mining and government
Global provider of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions Orbcomm has signed a strategic distribution agreement with machinestalk, a provider of IoT solutions based in Saudi Arabia, to provide Orbcomm’s...
5G is not yet standardized, but wireless carriers know that if they wait to invest they will fall behind. AT&T is already building the systems it will use to test its future 5G networks. Meanwhile, engineers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have...
National Instruments has launched LabVIEW NXG, a new version of its 30-year-old LabVIEW software. At the same time, the company has introduced LabVIEW 2017 and says it will continue to invest in both product lines.
"As we go forward we are going to be merging...
