Spending on factory data applications will grow from $18 billion in 2019 to just over $27 billion in 2024, a rise of 50 per cent in the period, according to analyst house ABI Research. The industrial and manufacturing sector is seeking to upgrade software...
Latency improvements of 5G and proliferation of the IoT will be disruptive to industries
Autonomous fleet control, remote health monitoring, smart traffic control and the use of digital twins for smart buildings are all among the applications called out by Derek O'Halloran, the World Economic...
The Irish government has unveiled a five-year Industry 4.0 strategy to help manufacturing firms to respond to technological change.
The plan, announced last month, includes €23.5 million of funding for the Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR) Centre, a joint initiative between Enterprise Ireland and the IDA,...
Bosch wants to be an “innovation leader” in AI, it told CES last week. The German industrial giant, one of the manufacturing sector’s most outspoken champions of industrial 5G, is seeking to mainline data in its products and factories, and apply advanced analytics to...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has opened a new ‘customer experience centre’ in Bangalore (Bengaluru), in India, to offer IoT solutions to customers and partners from across industries.
The facility, on a 20,000 square-foot campus, shared with a global engineering centre for its Pointnext Services division,...
China-owned Volvo Cars is working with China Unicom to develop 5G based communications between cars and infrastructure in China.
The two companies have agreed to work together to research, develop and test automotive applications of 5G and emerging vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology, they said. The pair...
Twenty one of Europe’s capital cities are to participate in a new initiative to accelerate development and delivery of "high impact" digital services.
The two-year scheme, by Bloomberg Philanthropies, will see cities receive technical help, access to city leaders, and training from "innovation experts" about...
The installed base of smart waste sensors is expected to reach 1.5 million worldwide in 2023, compared to 379,000 in 2018, according to a recent study by IoT research firm Berg Insight.
The Swedish firm highlighted that the smart waste sensors market is forecast to...
Siemens and Arm have struck a deal around computing and sensor design for connected and autonomous vehicles, to help the automotive industry develop more complex platforms for in-car and between-car connectivity.
The work to redefine vehicles within intelligent and interconnected transport systems starts with on-board...
The World Economic Forum has named 18 new factories, mostly from Asia (and mostly in China), as part of its ‘global lighthouse network’ of advanced manufacturers. They join the existing roster of 26 factories.
All of the sites have been assessed by consultancy McKinsey &...
For a time, electronics shows were dominated by handheld devices. The biggest and most glam stands belonged to smartphone makers. It seems almost passé now, and more interesting for it, as the miniaturisation and acceleration of computing has exploded tech into new industrial realms.
In...
BMW is pushing in-car 5G connectivity at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2020 in Las Vegas. The German car marque reckons its forthcoming iNEXT electric crossover, scheduled for launch in 2021, equipped with a built-in SIM, will be the first high-end consumer vehicle to...
Japanese company Toyota unveiled plans to build a prototype "city" of the future on a 175-acre site at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan.
Called the Woven City, it will be a fully connected ecosystem powered by hydrogen fuel cells, Toyota said in a...
Sprint announced that its Curiosity IoT platform will soon be available for customers in Australia following a partnership with Australia’s largest mobile network operator, Telstra.
Sprint said that the Curiosity IoT service is expected to be commercially available in Australia in the first half of 2020.
"Curiosity IoT will add a new layer of...
Walmart has put automated pick-and-pack robots to work at a so-called ‘supercenter’ in Salem, New Hampshire.
The new system, called Alphabot, is live in a 20,000-square-foot warehouse-style extension at its Salem superstore, which has been opened as a grocery pickup point with drive-thru lanes for...
US carrier Verizon and Dutch mapping company HERE are pairing 5G connectivity and multi-access edge computing (MEC) with location data and autonomous vehicle knowhow as part of a co-innovation exercise to hone various consumer and industrial IoT use cases.
The two companies are working, at...
Industrial IoT firm Seeq raises $24 million from equity sale
Seattle-based industrial analytics company Seeq has raised $24 million from investors, according to a report in Computer Reseller News.
Seeq has sold $24.3 million of equity to an unnamed investor group, according to the report, which...
The installed base of smart street lights is forecasted to surpass 31.2 million at a global level by 2013, according to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight.
The Swedish firm said that the installed base of smart street lights was...
The Things Network, a key networking and community support group in the LoRaWAN space, has inter-linked 10,000 LoRaWAN gateways across the globe, it has claimed.
The Amsterdam-based group started in 2015 with an agenda to foster LoRaWAN deployments globally. It said, at the turn of...
Itai Dadon, director of smart cities and IoT, Itron:
1. The finance industry takes an interest
“Cities continue to grow at a fast pace; at the same time, they are learning fast and their strategy around digital transformation is maturing, which is generating a lot of...
Continental announced its Smart City Mobility and Transportation Hub in Auburn Hills, Michigan, the firm said in a release.
The company highlighted that the center of this Smart City Mobility and Transportation Hub are two intersections made intelligent with Continental sensors and intelligent software integrated...
Organizations will move IoT projects from proof-of-concept to proof-of-value
Ramya Ravichandar, vice president of product management, FogHorn:
“During proof-of-concept deployments in the last few years, many organizations have confirmed the benefits that IoT can bring to a wide variety of industries – and IoT spending is...
HKBN Enterprise Solutions has inked a partnership with Thinxtra to launch IoT platform solutions based on Sigfox's technology standard in Hong Kong.
As part of this partnership, HKBN Enterprise Solutions has also provided connectivity support to expand the Thinxtra’s network to achieve a population coverage...
Chip maker Sequans has announced a series of IoT and LTE approvals, including certification with T-Mobile, new devices for private networks, and a new tracking unit with Telstra.
The company’s Monarch dual-band LTE-M/NB-IoT solutions have been approved by various operators, including in the US, Japan,...
