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Enabling smart cities with smart wireless infrastructure

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 will dramatically increase--up to 70%...

Dell targets industrial, energy and transportation verticals with IoT gateway

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 Dell Edge Gateway 3000 Series...

Austin hosts first smart city readiness workshop

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 kicked off Austin's workshop...

Silver Spring partners with NRTC

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 almost 3.5 million endpoints....

IoT case study: Microsoft increases vending machine efficiency

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 vending machines. Initially, the primary...

Airbus embraces IoT for asset tracking and geolocation

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 the European aircraft...

China Telecom selects Keysight for IoT testing

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 module certification process. Based...

Apple set to test autonomous cars

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 Apple a permit to test...

Seeing the light: Luminar reimagines lidar with new materials

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 of them is advanced...

Vodafone targets autonomous and independent living for elderly

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 growth for us,” said...

Samsung IoT developer program gets new partner in Dallas-based Mobiliya

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 of things developers....

AT&T adds smart irrigation solution to its IoT portfolio

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 to track water...

Qualcomm interview about private LTE networks for IoT

https://youtu.be/eTZwwL_nKiM 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 all the way down...

Getting smart about intelligent buildings

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 profit picture for...

Apple reportedly developing secret sensors for diabetes patients

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 at as it reportedly...

Kordia, Thinxtra increase coverage of IoT network in New Zealand

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 that the goal of the IoT...

ZTE, China Mobile complete NB-IoT field test in Guangzhou

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 the validation of core network, service,...

Analyst Webinar: Advances in IIoT Made Possible by Innovations in 5G, Virtualization and the Cloud

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 use of cloud and...

Analyst Webinar: Advances in IIoT Made Possible by Innovations in 5G, Virtualization and the Cloud

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 use of cloud and...

Ericsson, Bharti Infratel sign smart city deal in India

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 by the Bhopal Smart City...

Semtech and ZTE to develop LoRa-based IoT solutions with geolocation functionality

ZTE has been deploying IoT applications based on LoRaWAN protocol since 2016. U.S.-based Semtech, which is a supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, announced a deal with ZTE to develop low-power, wide area network gateways using Semtech's LoRa devices and wireless RF...

Smart city challenge winners get down to business

Austin, Indianapolis, Miami, Orlando, and Philadelphia are the five winners of a challenge grant presented by the Smart Cities Council. Representatives from AT&T, Qualcomm, Telit and a number of other companies will help these cities design and implement smart city initiatives in the months...

Smart buildings: getting in on the ground floor

Systems integrators and infrastructure vendors are learning that the best time to propose a smart building solution to property owners is often before the first lease is even signed. They say building owners who wire their buildings for connectivity and bandwidth will save money...

Editorial Report: FTTx: C-RAN, Fronthaul and Remote Radio Heads

Fiber will enable next-generation networks, smart cities and the internet of things. Fiber to the tower has already separated radio heads and antennas from base station equipment, and now that same architecture is being leveraged for centralized radio access networks, or C-RAN. When radios...