Huawei expects its OceanConnect IoV platform to enable the digital transformation of automobile manufacturers
Huawei announced the release of the OceanConnect "internet of vehicles" (IoV) platform, which will enable intelligent and connected vehicles, as well as a new version of its smart airport solution.
Huawei highlighted...
Cellular ‘internet-of-thing’ (IoT) connections will reach 3.5 billion by 2023, from around 0.6 billion million today, with compound annual growth of 30 per cent per year, according to Ericsson, with most take-up in the industrial and automotive markets.
In total, Ericsson predicts 19.8 billion...
The new IoT-based solution combines Comcast’s IoT service machine with Neptune LoRa-enabled water meters
Comcast’s internet of things service, machineQ, and U.S water technology company, Neptune Technology Group, have announced a collaboration on an IoT solution designed to accelerate smart city projects focused on advanced...
London has set out a five-point digital strategy to make it the smartest city in the world.
Among more than 20 initiatives, bucketed into five ‘mission’ themes, the plan details a new Civic Innovation Challenge to match startups with enterprises, a new London Office for...
Rockwell Automation is to take a $1 billion stake in Needham-based industrial software maker PTC as part of a part of a strategic partnership to drive growth for both firms, and enable customers to make good on the "promise of industrial IoT." Rockwell Automation...
Smart buildings create a win-win for owners, occupants
The continued perpetuation of internet of things (IoT) implementations is bringing to life digital transformation across nearly all enterprise and industrial verticals. In the case of smart buildings, in-building connectivity, IoT sensors and cloud-based data analytics are...
US carrier Verizon wants to make it easier for enterprises to launch IoT services on its LTE-M network. Its new ThingSpace Ready programme is designed to help developers and enterprises build, certify and manage IoT devices more easily and cheaply. Enterprise IoT Insights chats...
The German firm said the acquisition of Enlighted will be closed during the third quarter
German firm Siemens expects to close the acquisition of California-based Enlighted, a provider of smart internet of things (IoT) systems in buildings during the third quarter of 2018.
The acquisition was...
The rate of growth of licensed low-power, wide-area (LPWA) network connections will outpace their unlicensed equivalents as the LPWA market swells by 53 per cent per year over the next five years. By 2023, NB-IoT and LTE-M will capture more than 55 per cent...
Vodafone's IoT connectivity would allow mills to provide fortified flour to millions of people in African countries
U.K.-based telecom group Vodafone is currently working with Sanku (Project Healthy Children) to equip small flour mills across Africa with internet of things (IoT) services to provide fortified...
AT&T has agreed with Nokia to use the Finnish vendor’s ‘worldwide IoT network grid’ (WING) to offer enterprise customers global IoT connectivity. Nokia’s WING service covers core network, dedicated IoT operations, billing, security, and data analytics.
Nokia said the pair will develop, test and launch...
LLTS' smart city, campus and building solutions provides energy management, cloud-based space occupancy and asset utilization and performance management
Indian engineering and research firm L&T Technology Services (LTTS), announced new smart city, campus and building solutions integrations with Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Field Service for...
Microsoft’s mega $7.5 billion all-stock purchase of developer platform GitHub is good for the tech sector at large and for the ‘internet of things’ (IoT) market in particular, provided the US computing giant demonstrates a lightness touch in its integration work and avoids a...
IT/OT convergence key enabler for successful smart buildings
LAS VEGAS--From the in-building wireless systems that support IoT sensors to the mobile apps that let facilities managers have real-time, granular access to operational data, technology can deliver smart buildings that create ROI and operational efficiencies. But,...
European ferry operator Stena Line is working with Hitachi to review its digital operations and smarten-up its fleet with artificial intelligence (AI). The pair will combine to review Stena Line’s existing digital architecture, and formulate a transformation strategy to make Stena Line the “world’s...
The Chinese vendor said the new product doubles the cell capacity of previous terminals
Huawei has launched what it claims to be the world's first 3GPP Release 14-based commercial NB-IoT solution in eRAN13.1.
Huawei said that this new NB-IoT solution increases data rates by a factor...
The European Commission (EC) has proposed a total budget of €51.5 billion for new technologies and network infrastructure under its next funding cycle, from 2021 to 2027, to drive industrial transformation and technological leadership across the region.
As part of two separate proposals, it has...
Former mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg has announced packages of $70 million and $42 million respectively to help US smart cities fight climate change and develop their usage of data. The new disbursements will be made via his Bloomberg Philanthropies charity.
A year after...
Drones could increase UK GDP by £42 billion, or two per cent, by 2030, according to a new report by financial services firm PwC, with the largest productivity gains in the wholesale and retail trade sector in percentage terms (2.5 per cent) and the...
Despite the heady forecasts about economic value and productivity gains, evidence of transformational digital change in manufacturing is scarce; at least, no one wants to shout about it. The problem is manufacturers are cautious and competition is rife. Worse, the terminology is confused, and...
Siemens said the acquisition of Califonia-based J2 Innovations will allow the firm to grow its business in this segment
German firm Siemens confirmed that it is acquiring California-based J2 Innovations, a software framework provider for building automation and the internet of things.
J2 has been operating...
Linux Foundation's EdgeX Foundry dedicated to edge IoT interoperability
As the diverse internet of things (IoT) continues to drive digitalization efforts for a variety of consumer, enterprise and industrial services, ecosystem stakeholders are working to distribute compute and storage functionality from centralized data centers out...
Sigfox has struck a deal with mapping company HERE to create a global internet-of-things (IoT) location service for the supply chain and logistics industry.
The deal will see Sigfox’s low-power wide-area (LPWA) network and geolocation engine supplemented Wi-Fi hotspot coverage from Dutch firm HERE, owned...
European operators Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone have completed the first international roaming trial in Europe using narrowband ‘internet-of-things’ (NB-IoT) technology, according to the GSMA. The trade body said 29 mobile operators have launched 51 commercial licensed low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, running either of the...
