San Jose-based ADLINK has said its MXE-110i industrial ‘internet-of-things’ (IIoT) gateway has been selected by Michelin and Softbank as part of the first tyre monitoring system to be deployed in Japan.
Michelin’s cloud-based ‘tyre pressure monitoring system’ (TPMS) features sensors that monitor air pressure and...
The practicalities of implementing decentralised blockchain governance, and the fear it raises within the supply chain about a lack of control, remain major stumbling blocks for the technology, said a panel from the food industry at Blockchain Expo in Amsterdam.
The distributed ledger technology remains...
The carrier is currently testing its Mobi self-driving robot using its LTE network in New York
Sprint, working with Adaptive Motion Group (AMG), is starting to deploy its "Mobi" self-driving robot -- designed to charge electric buses, cars and industrial vehicles in New York City.
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nuTonomy has been testing autonomous vehicles in certain districts of Boston since 2017
The city of Boston announced that nuTonomy, a firm which specializes in the development of autonomous vehicle software, has been authorized to expand testing on streets city-wide.
Under the city’s supervision, nuTonomy has...
Where is the edge of the data network, where compute power increasingly resides? This is the question industrial operatives are asking, as they look to combine advanced connectivity technologies and analytics techniques to bring new intelligence to their systems and processes. It is the...
IoT America aims to provide turnkey IoT offering for rural use cases
A new, Texas-based startup has launched managed internet of things services aimed at rural America, with its first project in Alabama.
Internet of Things America says that it will be partnering with rural wireless and...
Itron’s new offering will be commercially available in the last quarter of this year
U.S. firm Itron, a technology company that specializes in products and services for energy and water resource management, has announced the launch of its new intelligent gas meter.
The new offering, dubbed...
The global market for smart city information and communications technologies will grow by 15.8 per cent per year on average over the next five years, reaching $994.6 million by 2023. A new report by BCC Research claims cities in North America will dominate, notably...
UK tech incubator Digital Catapult has meshed its Things Connected LoRaWAN network in with the UK footprint of Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN project The Things Network (TTN). The result is the UK’s largest free-to-use low-power wide-area (LPWA) network deployment and innovation community, according to its architects.
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Platform includes maintenance reminders, preventive notifications and roadside assistance
Sprint has partnered with NXM Labs to launch a 5G-ready connected car platform.
The carrier said the platform will offer high-speed, on-demand passenger Wi-Fi with advanced vehicle health monitoring and safety. The connectivity service will be offered...
Cisco has said its so-called ‘platform-of-platforms’ has been proven as “procurable and replicable,” as Manchester’s ground-breaking CityVerve smart city pilot in the UK gets set to wind up after two years. Cisco will develop a commercial proposition for cities out of the final ashes...
The new platform, dubbed Orange Fab, was launched in partnership with a group of investors and companies
French telecommunication group Orange has launched Orange Fab, a Silicon Valley acceleration program designed to identify and support early-stage startups with focus on smart connectivity.
The initiative is being...
US carrier AT&T has confirmed it will launch a narrowband ‘internet-of-things’ (NB-IoT) network in the US early next year, and in Mexico by the end of next year. Its support for NB-IoT will run in parallel with its existing LTE-M network.
AT&T said the...
The consumer sector will lead IoT spending followed by insurance and healthcare
Global internet of things (IoT) spending will experience a compound annual growth rate of 13.6% between 2017-2022 and reach $1.2 trillion in 2022, according to a recent study by research firm IDC.
"The IoT...
Munich-based test equipment supplier Rohde & Schwarz has updated its CMW500 radio tester and SMBV100A GNSS simulator to support cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) device certification. It is the first test equipment vendor to offer a “comprehensive” C-V2X test suite for the car industry, it said.
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“If you are not investing in these technologies to drive your own product gains, know that your competitors are already doing so. If you haven’t started, you need to; the industrial IoT (IIoT) race has already begun.” This was the view from GE Digital...
Daimler said it is currently working with customers to trial truck platooning in the country
Daimler Trucks has announced the inauguration of its automated truck research and development center in Portland, Oregon.
The center will be dedicated to further developing automated driving technology and understanding its...
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has issued a white paper with practical guidance on edge computing in industrial internet-of-things (IIoT) settings. The publication seeks to define edge computing architectural functions and drivers, highlight key use case considerations.
The IIC paper, called IIC Introduction to Edge...
Telit’s module enables the deployment of LTE CatM1 and NB-IoT technologies
IoT specialist Telit announced that its Telit ME910C1-J1 module is being used in a field trial of a delivery service application implemented by Japanese telecommunications firm NTT DoCoMo.
Telit said that the ME910C1-J1 features Telit’s...
Swedish car-maker Volvo has taken a stake in US start-up Luminar, based in California and Florida, to develop sensor technology for autonomous vehicles.
Volvo Cars, a subsidiary of Chinese automotive company Geely, has been working with Luminar already on development and testing of LiDAR technology,...
Ford has joined with AT&T, Dell and Microsoft to crowdsource ideas for mobility solutions in Pittsburgh and Miami-Dade County. Ford will award $100,000 to fund pilots of the best community-led ideas in each city.
The two eight-month projects, headlined by the crowdsourcing element, marketed as...
Badger Meter will explore ways to offer water metering solutions via AT&T’s network
U.S. firm Badger Meter announced it has joined the AT&T Smart City Alliance to explore several alternatives to provide large and small cities with access to smart city water metering solutions.
AT&T said...
The challenge to integrate strategies, systems and data across departments and regions remains the most significant challenge for smart cities, and the ultimate stumbling block if they are to retain charge and influence as the main interface with citizens for city services. Otherwise, the...
The digital transformation of industry will be more dramatic than transformation of the consumer retail and media markets, reckons General Electric.
“We have seen how retail has been remade, how media has been remade, how telecoms has been remade. The winners and losers in...
