Fujitsu's new sensor-based sewer system flood detection solution promises both higher efficiency and lower deployment costs.
Amid high levels of urbanization and repetitive torrential downpours, Japanese ICT company Fujitsu announced it will start selling in Japan a sewer system flood detection solution, which aims to minimize...
Straight to millimeter wave? Not so fast
It is becoming increasingly accepted that millimeter wave spectrum, the frequencies between 30 GHz and 300 GHz, will define "5G" networks. But there are still problems to be solved with mm wave before it is ready for prime...
'Extremely high frequency' means extremely fast 5G speeds
Millimeter wave spectrum is the band of spectrum between 30 GHz and 300 GHz. Wedged between microwave and infrared waves, this spectrum can be used for high-speed wireless communications as seen with the latest 802.11ad Wi-Fi standard (operating at...
Straight to mmWave? Not so fast
It is becoming increasingly accepted that mmWave (extremely high frequency), the frequencies in the spectrum between 30 Ghz and 300 Ghz, will define 5G networks. But there are still problems to be solved with mmWave before it is ready...
5 things to know today...
1. Nokia moved one step closer to relaunching its smartphone brand with news that Pekka Rantala will become CMO at the company that has licensed the Nokia brand. Rantala is a Nokia veteran who has also served as CEO of...
Wireless Infrastructure Association president discussed the role of infra in keynote at Wireless Connect conference
Jonathan Adelstein, president of the Wireless Infrastructure Association, discussed the role of infrastructure in delivering 5G and internet of things during a keynote speech at the Wireless Connect conference in...
"Extremely high frequency" means extremely fast 5G speeds
Millimeter wave (mmWave), also known as extremely high frequency (EHF), is the band of spectrum between 30 gigahertz (GHz) and 300 GHz. Wedged between microwave and infrared waves, this spectrum can be used for high-speed wireless communications as...
Drone flys using 5G connection
Ericsson and China Mobile announced the successful trial for the first ever 5G-enabled drone prototype.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KTdMypaopo
The trial was held in Wuxi in China’s Jiangsu province, where a drone was flown using the operator’s cellular network with 5G-enabled technologies and handovers across multiple sites...
Verizon and SK Telecom announced they will collaborate on co-developing 5G specifications, thereby strengthening their existing 5G collaboration.
South Korean operator SK Telecom and U.S. operator Verizon have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at SK Telecom’s headquarters in Seoul to co-develop 5G specifications and conduct...
Challenges and considerations of IoT testing
Internet of things (IoT) vulnerabilities and their potentially catastrophic results make it imperative that IoT devices go through rigorous testing before seeing the light of day. But testing the security, performance, connectivity, and a number of things for millions of...
5G network testing
There are several major players in the push to make 5G a reality: standards bodies, telecom operators and other organizations and enterprises are all testing aspects of the next-generation network in preparation for its 2020 standardization. Here are several examples of the network testing...
A new development kit launched by LoRa Alliance members Libelium and Loriot promises faster LoRa-based IoT app prototyping and testing.
Semtech announced the availability of a new development kit delivered by LoRa Alliance members Libelium and Loriot, which will enable faster LoRa-based IoT app prototyping...
Understanding the internet of things and what it means for enterprises and industries
Mobile operators globally are already paving the way to a massive adoption of the internet of things (IoT) in the coming years and some of them are already deploying network infrastructure to...
Energy management use cases
Our current energy management systems are inadequate. Atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are estimated to reach almost 685 parts per million (ppm) by 2050, well above the concentration level of 450 ppm required to have at least a 50% chance of...
Background on water management
By 2050 the world’s population will reach 9.7 billion and 11.2 billion by 2100, according to the United Nations. Unfortunately, only 3% of the world’s water is fresh and two-thirds of that small percentage is not accessible. With increased use of water pollutants...
Funding and identifying the right business case are the top challenges to IIoT adoption. IIoT understanding is however growing fast.
Awareness of industrial IoT (IIoT) has been improving fast, with 19 percent of companies saying they did not know or understand the IIoT in 2016,...
What is lights out manufacturing?
"Lights out" manufacturing is the term used for a manufacturing process where factories run fully autonomously, without any human intervention. The term is quite literal, with production occurring free of human necessities like lighting or heating, ventilation and air conditioning...
The partnership will extend HTC's VR app store to Alibaba Cloud platform
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud-computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, has signed a strategic partnership with HTC Corporation to explore scalable and price-competitive virtual reality (VR) solutions for customers worldwide.
Under the terms...
What is lights out manufacturing?
"Lights out" manufacturing is the term used for a manufacturing process where factories run fully autonomously, without any human intervention. The term is quite literal, with production occurring free of human necessities like lighting or heating, ventilation and air conditioning...
The internet of things network currently covers 360 cities
China’s second largest mobile operator China Unicom ended the first half of 2016 with more than 20 million internet of things connection, after a net addition 10.5 million connections during the period, local press reported.
The Chinese operator...
Telecom workforce adjustments needed for devops
Just as workforce adjustments will be needed for telecom’s move to software-defined networks, changes will also need to take place in order for devops to be fully realized. In our article How telecom operators should approach devops we talked...
Global IoT platform revenues are expected to continue to grow fast and reach $3.3 billion by 2021. We discuss IoT platform trends with Berg Insight.
Berg Insight expects global IoT platform revenues to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.8 percent between 2015...
The Federal Communications Commission is eliminating requirements for historic preservation review for small cells that do not adversely impact historic sites. The agency said “physically small deployments like DAS and small cells” will be exempt from the Section 106 review process. Section 106 of...
According to a Speedtest Market Report, mobile internet has seen performance gains, improving by more than 30% since last year with an average download speed of 19.27 Mbps in the first six months of 2016. The four major U.S. mobile carriers—Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile U.S....
