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Honeywell launches smart building technology for airports

Honeywell?s new software suite allows the smart integration of air and ground traffic control with maintenance operations Honeywell has launched a new smart airport technology with the main aim of enhancing the safety and efficiency of airside operations at airports. The Honeywell NAVITAS software suite enables...

SoftBank pumping billions into transportation with GM, ride-share investments

SoftBank vision fund putting $2.25 billion into GM's Cruise Autonomous driving is a goal that most major technology and automotive firms are working toward. Simultaneously, network operators are looking ahead to ultra-dense 5G networks and pervasive edge computing that will support the multi-access connectivity driverless...

LoRaWAN for IoT gaining traction with network deployments, device support

Comcast deploys LoRaWAN in San Francisco; Laird gateway has Senet support baked-in From devices to connectivity, the internet of things (IoT) market is a crowded space. Cellular standards like LTE-M and NB-IoT are seeing widespread support from operators while proprietary tech like LoRa is drawing...

Nokia Technologies president resigns following close of digital health sale

Digital health wearables unit returned to Withings co-founder as Nokia focuses on B2B In 2016 Nokia Technologies spent $190 million to acquire consumer-facing health wearables firm Withings. After standing up a digital health business unit, Nokia has now sold the company back to Withings co-founder...

Nokia to deploy 100Gbps optical transport network for SGCC power grid in China

Nokia has won a contract to deliver an optical transport network (OTN) to the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), covering the SGCC’s power grid operations in Beijing and Tianjin. The deal will see the SGCC achieve 100Gbps speeds in its transport network, up...

Google Cloud joins LoRa Alliance to bolster IoT analytics and insights

Google Cloud has joined the LoRa Alliance as a sponsor member. Its input will help LoRaWAN operators glean deeper insights from data analytics running in their low-power wide-area (LPWA) ‘internet of things’ (IoT) networks, said the LoRa Alliance. Donna Moore, chief executive of the LoRa...

OPC group responds to Kaspersky claims, Rockwell intros OPC UA support

The OPC Foundation has said security vulnerabilities found by Kaspersky Labs in its OPC-UA framework, designed for secure data transfer between clients and servers in industrial systems, were in fact discovered in outdated versions of the OPC UA protocol. Reviewing the Kaspersky Labs findings, from...

The IIoT interview (pt2): “Three is the magic number for digital ROI,” says Hitachi

Manufacturers should treble their money on digital transformation, at least, reckons Greg Kinsey, vice president of Hitachi Vantara. If the digital ROI does not stack up, before starting out, then they should down tools, and start over. If the it does, they should expect to...

Michelin, Sigfox launch IoT-based tracking solution for shipping containers

  Sigfox's new tracking solution provides freighters with a real-time geolocation service of their containers   French tire manufacturer Michelin, together with compatriot IoT connectivity provider Sigfox and Argon Consulting, has launched a new solution for tracking sea-freight containers. Michelin, which has actively participated in the development of...

Nokia establishes transatlantic test lab for power utilities

Nokia has linked its ‘energy innovation centre’ in Plano, Texas, with the University of Strathclyde’s power systems lab in Glasgow, Scotland, to create a transatlantic test lab for utilities to experiment with power grid automation, monitoring and control.  The joint facility will allow energy utilities,...

‘5G suits the mission-critical world,’ says IHS Markit

Incoming 5G technologies will put industrial applications front and centre, and enable new functionalities in critical communications, according to IHS Markit. The research house told Enterprise IoT Insights at Critical Communications World (CCW) in Berlin last week 5G will impact industrial space in the way...

Is 5G a panacea for all things IoT?

Private, licensed networks needed to support mission critical IoT security, Full Spectrum CEO says While initial 5G deployments are focused on enhanced mobile broadband, the two other primary 5G use cases speak to enablement of massive internet of things (IoT) deployments and ultra reliable low...

Sales of autonomous vehicles will reach five million in the US by 2026, study says

Annual sales of fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) in the US will reach five million by 2026, according to a new study by Juniper Research. Juniper also expects a total of 20 million new AVs to be sold globally during the same year. The main drivers...

ADLINK intros IoT design tool to help developers “think big, start small, work fast”

ADLINK has launched an IoT design tool to help developers test the viability of their ‘internet of things’ (IoT) experiments before they put them into production. The service does away with the need for upfront investment, reducing the risk of failure, said the Taiwan...

Orange Business Solutions deploys IoT fuel monitoring for Russian fishing fleet

Orange Business Services, the business-to-business branch of French telecom group Orange, is providing Russian fishing fleet operator Dobroflot with an internet of things (IoT) solution for fuel monitoring. The IoT-based solution will help the Russian firm to optimize fuel consumption, analyzing weather and vessel position...

The IIoT interview (pt1): “It’s a two-speed market; the US doesn’t get it,” says Hitachi

The industrial ‘internet of things’ (IoT) market is geographically skewed, reckons one of its leading protagonists. Greg Kinsey, vice president of Japan-based Hitachi's Vantara business, says the US is way behind, fixated on sensors in factories, while European countries rewrite the industrial rule-book with...

PTC, Hitachi, SAP top Gartner review of IIoT platforms, but major challenges remain

PTC, Hitachi and SAP have come top of Gartner’s inaugural ‘magic quadrant’ for IIoT platforms, ahead of IBM, Software AG and Accenture. But the analyst house warned also that major challenges remain for IoT providers in the industrial space, including with market fragmentation and...

Sigfox group WND debates LPWA money-making with Verizon and Proximus

The choice between licensed and unlicensed low-power wide-area (LPWA) connectivity technologies is about use cases, concurred a panel of ‘internet of things’ (IoT) operators at LPWA World in London this week. But if both technologies fit, as they do in most cases, the choice...

MTN selects Cisco platform as springboard for IoT services in South Africa

MTN has selected Cisco's Jasper Control Center platform as a launchpad for enterprise customers' 'internet of things' (IoT) services on its mobile network in South Africa. MTN said interest in new IoT services was strongest in the connected car, vehicle tracking, building security and...

People Power launches IoT-based HVAC fault detection microservice

  The new offering alerts residents to performance and mechanical problems in their HVAC systems   U.S firm People Power, an internet of things software company which focuses on white-label solutions for home security, energy and care service, has launched its new heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC)...

Network sharing makes sense in-building, not outdoors, says AT&T

Network sharing will become a standard tactic to establish dense in-building mobile coverage, with private enterprises increasingly taking charge of network operations, said AT&T at SCWS World in London. But outdoor coverage will remain the preserve of licensed cellular operators, reluctant to share capacity...

Wireless Broadand Alliance preps IoT roaming framework based on WRIX specs

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has published guidelines for a new ‘internet of things’ (IoT) roaming framework, based on an extended version of its own Wireless Roaming Intermediary eXchange (WRIX) specification for Wi-Fi roaming capabilities. IoT roaming is being accomplished today on different types of...

Enterprises facing “nightmare” with IoT security and data privacy, says IEEE

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has warned enterprises all over the world are face a “nightmare” with the security of everyday devices connecting to their networks. Manufacturers of new ‘internet of things’ (IoT) devices are not thinking about security by design,...

AT&T partners with Honeywell to deliver connected aircraft and freight solutions

AT&T and Honeywell announced they are collaborating to deliver internet of things (IoT) technology to aircraft and freight solutions in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa and Australia. AT&T said its global connectivity and IoT solutions combined with Honeywell’s technology offerings will help...