Amazon’s ambitions will push delivery drones’ battery lives to the limit and maybe beyond
Last week, Amazon announced a partnership with the U.K. government to explore how to enable the delivery of parcels by small drones. Crucially, the U.K. has agreed to let Amazon test “beyond...
Amazon’s ambitions will push delivery drones’ battery lives to the limit and maybe beyond
Last week, Amazon announced a partnership with the UK Government to explore how to enable the delivery of parcels by small drones. Crucially, the UK has agreed to let Amazon test “beyond...
What do you think of when you hear “Internet of Things” (IoT)? Controlling your thermostat remotely with your cellphone? Getting a break on your auto premium using a monitoring dongle in your car? There are plenty of gee-whiz IoT applications out there, but there...
A growing problem with a win-win solution
Society is far from reaching its greenhouse gas emissions goals. And, as part of the effort to reshape how energy is produced and used, big data can help prevent a potentially disastrous environmental forecast.
Atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases...
The projected status of the world's water supply and quality in the next decade looks bleak: widespread shortages, difficulties growing food for a booming global population and billions exposed to diseases caused by poor sanitation. These anticipated outcomes result from the combination of wasted freshwater...
Open systems will be key to unlocking value from different verticals and applications in future smart cities. Provided we can agree on what openness is.
Standards are a great way of ensuring interoperability in a mature and stable industry environment. In the case of smart cities however,...
5 things to know today
1. The connected car is much more than a consumer market for Verizon. Today the company announced a major investment in a maker of vehicle fleet management software.
Just one week after announcing a $4.8 billion deal to buy Yahoo's internet...
Peter Cochrane also doesn't think 5G will supplant Wi-Fi
In a new piece published by Computing, Peter Cochrane, the former CTO and head of research for BT, upends predominant industry discourse around 5G.
Cochrane is skeptical the telecom industry will be able to deliver on the...
The French operator will initially install 100 smart meter devices starting next month
French telecommunications group Orange will launch what it claims to be Tunisia’s first smart meter pilot in partnership with the Tunisian Company of Electricity and Gas (STEG).
The pilot, which will be...
Just about everyone is familiar with Bitcoin, or at least knows of its controversial history. Behind the most popular and polarizing cryptocurrency in existence is blockchain, a framework that could revolutionize the internet of things. Blockchain differs from most IoT solutions in that it...
Since its release on July 6 Pokémon Go, the highly popular and contagious game, has made headlines in news outlets The Guardian, Fox News, Huffington Post and the Independent for claims of real health benefits. Some commentators and articles even claim the game to be...
A public access city-wide LoRaWAN IoT network has been launched in Sydney, enabling anyone to connect a device and obtain sensor data.
A public access LoRaWAN IoT network has been launched in Sydney, allowing academia, startups and businesses to take advantage of the data gathered...
"Connecting" rural farming to accommodate a booming global population
Connected and precision agriculture, which heavily revolves around providing low-income rural farming areas with mobile networks for access to the internet, is becoming a necessity for the stability of those areas, as well as to accommodate...
There are a number of variables that can impact a farmer’s yield, from variations in temperature to soil composition. IoT deployments allow all of these aspects to be outfitted with sensors that send relevant information to a farmer's PC or tablet. However, all varying data...
Samsung and Nestlé announced the two companies are to collaborate on a new IoT health platform designed to advance digital health.
As the market for Internet of Things (IoT) starts maturing, an increasing number of collaborations between technology vendors and industrial actors across multiple vertical...
See which countries are leveraging the internet of things to drive business transformation
A lot of vendors throw around the projection that by 2020 there will be some 50 billion "things" comprising the growing internet of things (IoT). But what about today; which countries are...
The University of Surrey’s 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) and Digital Greenwich have partnered to co-create and trial new 5G smart city technology.
The University of Surrey’s 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC), one of Europe’s largest research centre dedicated to 5G, has partnered with the Royal Borough...
In 2013, Americans generated about 254 million tons of trash, or 4.6 pounds per person per day, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Trash bins are overflowing with waste that potentially contains dangerous and health-affecting chemicals found in everyday products. Creating an efficient...
Industrial internet of things (IIoT) a partial solution to a serious food problem
Around 30% of the food the world produces is lost each year, according to a 2012 study conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. That staggering number means supply...
A significant minority of companies now claim to run their entire business on the internet of things
Some of the enterprise pioneers of the internet of things (IoT) are trying to race ahead of their peers in the hope that this disruptive technology will drive...
The IoT services agreement will be initially valid for five years
Swedish vendor Ericsson and China Telecom signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly deploy and offer global internet of things connectivity to enterprise customers through Ericsson Device Connection Platform (DCP).
The agreement will initially...
An essential task
Dozens of companies from around the world navigate our oceans to deliver more than 90% of the world’s cargo, according to Ericsson. And Maersk Line, a shipping company based in Denmark, claims to have the biggest fleet of them all.
With more than...
An essential task
Dozens of companies from around the world navigate our oceans to deliver more than 90% of the world’s cargo, according to Ericsson. And Maersk Line, a shipping company based in Denmark, claims to have the biggest fleet of them all.
With more than...
Industrial internet of things use cases: The IIoT at sea
The industrial "internet of things" has found its way to sea, with connected sensors and unified platforms designed to provide increased visibility for crews. Ships have for some time been equipped with sensors that collect data. Now, that...
