The telecoms industry is at odds with the enterprise sector it is seeking to serve with ultra-reliable, low-latency (URLLC) 5G communications. Industrialists want both the control of private networks and the convenience of managed network services, and network operators want to bunch digital enterprises...
The German firm said the trial will take place in the city of Potsdam in the coming weeks
Siemens Mobility, together with German firm ViP Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam, plans to carry out a demonstration of what it claims to be the world's first autonomous tram in...
US carrier Sprint will build a core network and operating system for ‘internet of things’ (IoT) connectivity and applications. Ericsson has been appointed to deliver the solution.
Sprint said the distributed and virtualised core network, allied with a dedicated IoT operating system for managing devices...
A research study revealed that North America will have 14.4 million connected streetlights by 2023
Miami is the world’s number one city in terms of connected streetlights deployment according to a recent study by research firm IoT Analytics.
Converting legacy streetlights into connected LED or connected...
Germany has made its move in the international AI arms race with state support for tech start-ups, a ‘JEDI’ innovation network with France, and backing for its ‘Cyber Valley’ set-up from industrial giants including BMW, Daimler, Porsche, and Bosch.
The German government is to create...
Mainstream appliance manufacturers Electrolux, Haier, LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics will introduce smart-home products based on an emerging ‘internet-of-things’ (IoT) standard from the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) next year.
The group will offer a first wave of interoperable OCF-certified solutions in 2019. The OCF said...
Investor confidence in the burgeoning industrial ‘internet-of-things’ (IIoT) market is up, reckon industry commentators.
A slew of enterprise funds and venture capital has been staked on the sector’s growth in recent months, as vendors have got a better grasp of the technology and industrialists have...
UK start-up Skyports is ramping up activity in the US as it seeks to establish an international network of helipads for flying taxis and drone deliveries.
Skyports has so far secured 15 rooftops in London as ‘vertipads’ for passenger and cargo drones. It is currently...
Local authorities said LoRaWAN technology will enable the implementation of use cases, including digital water metering and waste management
NNNCo, the Australian firm building a national narrowband network in Australia for the internet of things, has signed a contract with the city of Gold Coast...
Lenovo and Pivot3, a provider of ‘hyper-converged infrastructure’ solutions, have struck a deal to develop and sell edge computing products for smart city security. The city of Bogota, in Colombia, has already hooked up 3,000 surveillance cameras to their new system.
Much of the growth...
Sigfox operator UnaBiz has raised over $10 million in Series A funding to develop ‘internet-of-things’ (IoT) infrastructure and services in Singapore and Taiwan. The funding included investments from Japanese operator KDDI and French electric utility ENGIE.
Further investments came from angel investors in Singapore, as...
Dell Technologies will release a number of pre-integrated and pre-tested computer-vision and machine-intelligence bundles for its resellers to more easily cater to certain edge-computing and internet-of-things use cases.
The bundles, billed as secure and scalable, offer storage, security, network and data management, and orchestration. They...
The Scottish government has invested a total of $3.5 million in this IoT project
Business in Scotland will benefit from a new internet of things network launched through a private-public initiative.The new network, called IoT Scotland, will enable all businesses to have the ability to...
Toyota is to invest $500 million in Uber, as the pair seek to bring autonomous ride-sharing to the mass-market. The deal values Uber at $72 billion, despite the company making losses of $4.5 billion last year.
Technology from both companies will be integrated into purpose-built...
AT&T said the trial, which was carried out in Puerto Rico, used an LTE-connected drone
AT&T has carried out a trial in partnership with U.K. temperature control pharmaceutical packaging provider Softbox Systems to test the efficacy of the delivery of temperature-sensitive medicines using drones.
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Nokia's new €500 million loan from the European Investment Bank for 5G research and developnent will boost the region's drive for industrial and economic transformation, as US and Asian markets push ahead.
Nokia told Enterprise IoT Insights 5G will shift the European economy up a...
UK telecoms provider BT is to underpin the delivery of flood response mechanisms with an ‘internet of things’ (IoT) platform for the Environment Agency in England.
BT has been contract by infrastructure and support services company Stobart Group, as part of its four-year project with...
The trial will be initially carried out by Nuro’s fleet of self-driving vehicles
U.S. supermarket retailer Kroger Co. and Nuro confirmed Scottsdale, Ari., as the city for their self-driving grocery delivery pilot. Earlier this year, Kroger and Nuro announced a partnership to begin testing grocery...
Seoul-based electronics giants LG Electronics is to showcase a “human-centric” wearable robot next week at IFA 2018 in Berlin. The wearable robot will connect into a “smart working network”, said LG, to deliver information and tools required for manufacturing, logistics and distribution.
LG took a...
Taiwanese IoT software and edge computing firm ADLINK Technology is making its services available for trial and experimentation, so industrial clients are not obliged to gamble on new IoT projects.
Its new ‘digital experiments-as-a-service’, commercialised as‘DXS', provides a “safe space” for customers to test out...
The city of Arlington, in Texas, has approved a one-year trial of autonomous vehicles in its ‘entertainment’ district, serving the home stadiums of both the Dallas Cowboys and the Texas Rangers.
California-based self-driving car company Drive.ai will supply three self-driving three-passenger vans to the city,...
The city’s smart lighting initiative stipulates the replacement of 270,000 lights across Chicago
Chicago has already installed over 76,000 new LED smart streetlight fixtures in each of the city’s 50 wards in the first year of the city’s smart lighting program. Progress so far on...
The appetite for new digital technologies is growing among manufacturers, with certain brands in certain sectors in certain regions experiencing a considerable uplift in performance. But the take-up of smart manufacturing solutions remains tentative, as companies are unsure how to start with digital change...
New definitions of terms used in data management, edge computing, and IT/OT convergence appear in the trade dictionary for the industrial internet-of-things (IIoT), published by the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC).
The new edition of the Industrial Internet Vocabulary Report, version 2.1, also clears up confusion...
