Chinese technology giant Baidu has announced a new platform that integrates smart vehicle systems and intelligent road infrastructure.
Its ‘intelligent vehicle infrastructure cooperative systems’ (IVICS) solution, called Apollo, supports sensor data for vehicle perception, roadside perception, data compression, communication optimisation, as well as vehicle-to-everything (V2X)...
The global market for smart city platforms will reach $755 million by 2027, according to new research, and enable cities to deliver services to their citizens in the manner of internet giants like Uber, Airbnb, Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
Smart city platforms provide the cities...
Dutch firm Sensoterra has developed a LoRa-based smart agriculture system for use in commercial farms to manage water usage.
Sensoterra says farmers, notably potato and almond farmers, can reduce water usage by 30 per cent.
Sensoterra provides low-cost wireless probes, solar-powered gateways and cloud-based proprietary software....
During the demo, the two partners reached a 6 Gbps throughput using the 3.5 GHz band
Orange Belgium teamed up with Nokia to demonstrate the potential and future applications of 5G including virtual and augmented reality, IoT, connected vehicles, eHealth and industrial applications, among others.
Orange...
A trio of diminutive multi-band low-power wide-area (LPWA) antennas has been announced at MWC Americas, promising further miniaturisation of IoT devices, alongside international roaming for applications like asset tracking.
A new range of antennas from Irish antenna company Taoglas, suitable for NB-IoT networks, as well...
AT&T will make IoT modules with integrated SIMs available on its LTE-M network in the first half of 2019.
The carrier is working with German internet-of-things (IoT) module manufacturer Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) to integrate a next-generation SIM into a chipset by Israeli firm Altair Semiconductor for...
The most advanced factories in the world are in Europe and Asia, according to a new review of smart manufacturing by the World Economic Forum. Just one of the top factories is in the US.
However, German and the US companies, often working outside their...
US carrier AT&T is in talks with the city of Los Angeles about a public-private partnership to deploy small cells, 5G connectivity, and internet-of-things technologies in order to enhance civic operations.
AT&T said the deal will make the city “one of the smartest” in America.
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The JV with Alibaba Cloud’s IoT unit will allow the US firm to offers IoT solutions for Chinese companies
U.S. firm myDevices has partnered with the IoT business unit of Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, to launch turnkey...
Cellular low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks running on LTE-M and NB-IoT technologies will account for three-quarters of the installed base of asset trackers in 2023, according to new research.
These will displace non-cellular LPWA solutions, mostly based on LoRa and Sigfox, as the principle connectivity technologies...
German manufacturing giant Siemens has issued a rallying cry to small-and-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to urgently embrace cultural and technological change, and grasp the opportunity of digital transformation.
Specifically, Siemens addressed small-and-medium sized manufacturing businesses in Germany, as “the backbone of the Germany economy”, at...
Samsung said it aims to employ about 1,000 specialists globally in the AI field
Samsung announced plans to open a new artificial intelligence research centre in New York City, with the aim of strengthening the company’s AI capabilities.
The South Korean firm said the new AI...
Sigfox said it will focus on Russia, China and India to boost growth next year
French internet of things connectivity provider Sigfox is looking to expand its operations in the U.S. market, with special focus on a number of key verticals, Franck Siegel, Sigfox’s chief...
Well established North American and European manufacturers of M2M and IoT devices have seen their share of global shipments slip by 15 per cent in the last 12 months as Chinese vendors have flooded the market with low-value 2G kit, and ramped up their...
The device will feature image recognition functionalities based on DoCoMo’s AI technology
Japanese telecom operator NTT DoCoMo plans to start trials of a new greenhouse pest monitoring device, the company said in a statement.
The device uses an ultra low-power, battery-operated, wireless high-definition camera in conjunction...
Ferry company Stena Line has started using artificial intelligence (AI) to lower the fuel consumption of its ships by 2.5 per cent.
The company signed a deal with Hitachi Vantara, the digital change unit of Japanese conglomerate Hitachi, in June to make it the smartest...
Huawei is collaborating with the German cty of Duisburg, the hub for China's trade with Europe, to implement 5G and IoT technologies. The Chinese vendor said it will provide the city, located in the west of Germany, with infrastructure solutions to underpin its initiatives...
The telecoms industry must get a handle on machine learning if it is to make advanced LTE and 5G communications feasible in industrial settings. This was the conclusion of a presentation by Cambridge Consultants at URLLC 2018 in London last week, an event focused...
Nevada-based NV Energy has upgraded its demand response management system for improved load management capabilities and enhanced cybersecurity.
Smart-city tech provider has handled the software in the modernisation project, which migrated the Nevada utility from its legacy Comverge load management system to its own cloud-based...
Las Vegas, in Nevada, is using artificial intelligence to detect and fix issues within its IT systems, including those underpinning its various smart city projects. California-based FixStream said its deal with Las Vegas is the first implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) for IT operations...
Huawei and China Mobile have announced a new cloud-based platform for mobile operators to enable and manage ‘internet-of-things’ (IoT) connections, promising easy scalability, rapid development, and higher returns for IoT products.
The ‘connectivity enablement platform’ (CEP) is being pushed to the wider operator market after...
AT&T has launched its first GPS asset tracker on its LTE-M network. Besides location tracking, it also packs in sensors for measuring humidity, temperature, light exposure, and impacts and breakages.
The Asset Tracker One (AT1), which works with AT&T’s Fleet Complete mobile app, is suitable...
Car maker Volvo has unveiled an autonomous car concept it reckons will disrupt the multi-billion dollar domestic air travel industry.
Its new ‘360c concept’ presents a fully autonomous, fully electric car that, although flightless itself, will bring a level of convenience, comfort and safety...
Israeli IoT chipset manufacturer Altair Semiconductor has announced a new small antenna technology to enable the development of miniaturised IoT and wearable devices without sacrificing coverage or performance.
The technology combines an ultra-small antenna from US based Ethertronics with Altair’s ALT1250 dual-mode LTE-M/NB-IoT chipset...
