The Houston-based firm will deploy this system at 28 intersections along three major roads in the Californian smart city
The City of Chula Vista, in southern California--engaged in a number of smart city projects--has selected Trafficware’s SynchroGreen adaptive signal technology, which allows a smart signal...
New entity Hitachi Vantara targets IoT for enterprises in verticals including manufacturing, financial services, government, transportation and telecommunications
Japanese conglomerate Hitachi has announced the launch of Hitachi Vantara, a new business entity which will focus on the delivery of data-driven solutions for commercial and industrial enterprises.
This...
Samsung said smart sensors, artificial intelligence and high-performance computing will be among the top priorities of the new fund
Samsung Electronics has unveiled the Samsung Automotive Innovation Fund, a new $300 million pool which will focus exclusively on the automotive market. Samsung’s investment will put...
Metro Atlanta Chamber will work with Accenture and other partners to oversee and advise on strategy and direction for smart cities
Accenture, AT&T, General Electric and The Weather Company along with Atlanta Committee for Progress have jointly launched IoT.ATL, a new initiative to attract internet...
The telco said the new modules are part of T-Mobile’s certification process for NB-IoT
Sierra Wireless announced that testing is underway for its next-generation Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) modules, which are expected to be certified and available for T-Mobile’s Narrowband IoT network in early 2018.
T-Mobile expects...
Rajeev Suri on Fourth Industrial Revolution for 'productivity gains, economic growth and business success'
SAN FRANCISCO--"Certainly there's plenty of hype," Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri said of the ICT-enabled, socalled Fourth Industrial Revolution during a keynote presentation at Mobile World Congress Americas this week. "Everyday there's...
AT&T is exclusive reseller for GE Current intelligent sensor nodes in U.S. and Mexico
AT&T may be moving much of its workforce out of Atlanta, but the company clearly remains committed to the city. This week at Mobile World Congress Americas, AT&T said it will...
LTE for IoT was the subject of a panel discussion that was part of 151 Advisors' App-solutely IoT conference at Mobile World Congress Americas. The conference focuses on end user applications for IoT technology, and the LTE panel focused primarily on ways that cellular...
The IoT platform will allow Tilburg municipal government to manage air and water quality and measure sound levels
The Council of the Dutch city of Tilburg has selected Ericsson and Spanish firm Libelium to set up an IoT platform around the area of Puishaven, in...
T-Mobile promises first nationwide NB-IoT network, AT&T adds new platform and customers, Verizon predicts B2B growth
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. wireless carriers focused on the internet of things during the first part of Mobile World Congress Americas, the inaugural event produced by GSMA in partnership...
Massive MIMO will be a cornerstone of 5G and IoT for Sprint
SAN FRANCISCO -- Sprint said it expects four to ten times more network capacity from new antennas designed by Ericsson for the carrier's 2.5 GHz spectrum. The companies plan to roll out the...
LTE-only chipmaker Sequans has announced another key carrier partner. The company said its LTE Category 1 module has been certified for the AT&T network. The module supports AT&T’s LTE bands 2, 4, and 12.
The news marks a milestone for Sequans, which to date has...
Silver Spring Networks and Acuity are teaming up to develop a smart lighting platform for utilities, municipalities and campuses. The first step will be the integration of Silver Spring’s IPv6 networking platform and smart city management software with Acuity's intelligent photocontrols.
The partnership is...
According to Navigant Research, smart building technology can aid government operations and services
The global smart building market is expected to grow from $3.6 billion in 2017 to $10.2 billion by 2026, according to a recent study by Navigant Research.“There is a growing market opportunity...
Nokia is expanding its internet of things business with a consulting service that it says will help network operators analyze opportunities in nine different verticals: the connected car, healthcare, logistics and transport, smart cities, utilities, agriculture, retail, smart homes and buildings, and connected industry...
5G will be different from LTE in several ways, and these differences could give Intel an advantage
Intel isn't a top provider of LTE chips, but the company is determined to play a major role in 5G and the internet of things. Its chipsets are...
Vodafone highlighted that smart devices, cloud-based services and IoT can lead to more effective healthcare
U.K. telecommunications group Vodafone claims that new connected solutions based around the internet of things (IoT) will help people to follow their medical treatment programs more closely.
This is the main...
Americas will represent a third of total revenue, GSMA says
Mobile network operators globally will benefit from an estimated $1.8 trillion internet of things (IoT) revenue opportunity by 2026 boosted by the early deployment of commercial Low Power Wide Area Networks in licensed spectrum, the...
More than almost any other connected devices, connected cars need to communicate with one another. This will require interoperability of disparate devices, networks and software platforms. That's why software developers, network engineers and automakers are partnering and cooperating to create new frameworks for autonomous...
Utility will work with OSIsoft and Petasense
Silicon Valley Power, the municipal electric utility owned by the city of Santa Clara, is adding operational intelligence to its connected predictive maintenance system. The utility has been working with Petasense for predictive maintenance, and now will leverage...
The long view on autonomous driving is vehicles that can effectively see and communicate with the world around them--pedestrians, infrastructure, other vehicles, etc...While full-blown self-driving vehicles are still in their infancy, Qualcomm has announced a new chipset that lays the groundwork for supporting multi-faceted...
AT&T is already using unmanned aerial vehicles to survey and inspect cell towers, and now the carrier is investing in software to help drones autonomously repair tower equipment and carry radios to places where network traffic is heavy. Right now, the U.S. Federal Aviation...
Vodafone confirmed it will carry out proof-of-concept trials of smart lighting and smart parking through NB-IoT
The Irish subsidiary of U.K. telecommunications operator Vodafone has launched a nationwide NB-IoT network, local press reported. Vodafone Ireland has upgraded existing 4G base stations, in cooperation with Ericsson,...
NXP Semiconductors, which is set to be acquired by Qualcomm within a few months, is optimizing its 8-bit microcontroller for industrial internet of things use cases that require compact modules. As developers try to cram more functionality onto tiny printed circuit boards, NXP wants...
