Ohio-based tool distributor Jergens Industrial Supply (JIS) has developed an industrial spin-off of Amazon’s Dash IoT button for retail customers of its products. The Wi-Fi-enabled solution, which simplifies and automates stock replenishment, uses software from Austin-based Epicor.
JIS says it has improved productivity by...
Rockwell Automation has acquired India-based systems integrator MESTECH Services for an undisclosed fee. It said the deal will enhance its digital-change offer, spur business in India, and provide a new channel for PTC solutions.
Rockwell Automation took a $1 billion stake in PTC last year,...
An NHS trust in Manchester, in the UK, has agreed a £25 million deal with Hitachi Consulting to use advanced data analytics and IoT tools to digitise its processes and optimise its staff resources, in what is billed as the “UK’s first fully integrated...
Dense Air, a subsidiary of network infrastructure vendor Airspan, has signed a deal with the city of Cascais in Portugal, a municipality in the Lisbon district, to build a 5G smart-city test network that makes use of its local 3.6GHz spectrum holding, to support...
Toronto based LPWA challenger BehrTech has released a new wireless smart sensor for environmental monitoring in industrial IoT setups under its MYTHINGS brand.
As with all its MYTHINGS family, the new sensor uses telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB) technology for low-power wide-area (LPWA) connectivity in industrial IoT...
No city in the world is ready for the disruption that artificial intelligence (AI) will bring. This is the conclusion of a new review by management consultancy Oliver Wyman, which considers the readiness of 105 cities to cope with AI-inspired digital change, and finds...
Digital transformation, set in motion by industrial IoT, is an abstract exercise. It is not an off-the-shelf kind of a sale. It requires all parties to collaborate to affect change and reinvention, capturing business culture and business practice.
Importantly, it also needs to consider...
Qualcomm is working with California-based Trimble to make high accuracy positioning solutions for cellular vehicle-to-everything services (C-V2X) in connected and autonomous vehicles.
Qualcomm said it will host Trimble’s RTX sitioning software library on its Snapdragon platforms for the vehicle market. Qualcomm’s 4G and 5G based...
French IoT firm Traxens has struck deals with logistics and transport providers Inter Transit Pharma (ITP) and Inter Transit et Prestations Logistiques (ITPL) for real-time precision tracking of consignments of pharmaceuticals auto-parts by air and sea to Africa.
ITP and ITPL are part of...
Sprint has signed a strategic partnership with technology solutions provider CalAm to deliver intelligent telematics devices and software applications, along with CalAmp iOn Device-as-a-Service (DaaS) subscription services.
The relationship further expands Sprint's range of connected car, fleet and asset management services for enterprise and business...
At
least 25 mobile operators worldwide are currently involved in trials of LTE or
5G-based Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) technologies, according to a
recent study by the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA).
In its
report, GSA has identified the following cellular-V2X ecosystem status:
-25
operators involved in trials of LTE- or 5G-based...
Telecoms vendor Huawei has partnered with Chinese agricultural technology supplier XAG on a series of experiments to explore the application of 5G and AI in agriculture.
XAG is also an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) manufacturer, producing drones, alongside internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence...
Hitachi Vantara has introduced a suite of AI-flavoured industrial IoT solutions to accelerate digital transformation on the shop floor in manufacturing operations.
The new Lumada Manufacturing Insights package applies “data science rigor to drive continuous improvement” in manufacturing, said Hitachi Vantara. It incorporates artificial intelligence...
AT&T has joined Qualcomm’s smart cities accelerator programme, which now counts almost 70 members and met for the first time in San Diego last week.
The initiative has been convened as a collaboration vehicle, to connect cities, municipalities, government agencies and enterprises with end-to-end smart...
Indian telecom operator Bharti Airtel is currently focusing on the development of internet of things applications to expand its presence in this segment, local newspaper Economic Times reported Sundi Raman, head of digital products and IoT for Airtel Business, as saying.
Raman said that India was...
California-based software developer FogHorn provides edge intelligence software for industrial and commercial IoT applications.
The company has signed with auto-parts maker ADVICS to deploy its edge compute software to enable real-time analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) as part of its “smart factory transition”.
It is...
Deutsche Telekom has added new partners for its 5G-based smart factory ecosystem, the German telco said in a statement.
The new partners are EK Automation, Konica Minolta and Endress+Hauser.
"Our development of a complete 5G ecosystem for industry will accelerate the pace of digitization in industry....
The Italian smart port of Livorno in Italy is to showcase how buzzword industrial tech like 5G, AI, and IoT can help enterprises, municipalities and governments to bring forward environmental improvements to meet the United Nations’ ‘sustainable development goals’ (SDGs).
The SDGs were set out...
Deloitte has launched a pre-configured suite of cloud-based IoT applications designed to accelerate smart factory transformations for companies with manufacturing operations.
Powered
by Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT, the Smart Factory Fabric suite of services is
aimed at helping industrial companies improve their operational performance and
reduce...
German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies is investing €1.6 billion in a new, fully automated factory for producing 300-millimeter thin wafer chips in Villach, in Austria. It has recruited German data integration and analytics firm Software AG to underpin the new site’s manufacturing execution (MES)...
The city of Cleveland, in Ohio, has upgraded its network of 61,000 streetlights with connected LED lights.
The work, which took just three business days, has also included installation of 1,000 cameras on the lighting infrastructure. These will be operated by the Cleveland Police...
Huawei Technologies, China Unicom
and China Eastern Airlines have launched a 5G-based smart travel service system
at Beijing Daxing International Airport.
The partners said that 5G smart travel service system enables an improved airport experience for passengers. 5G-enabled services, such as facial recognition for check-in and security,...
The pursuit of cheaper, faster, and more varied production is intensifying. Factories are bustling with innovation experiments, as industrialists are availed of ever-more sophisticated digital tools.
But the manufacturing sector is competitive, and its grab for innovation, to raise its members above their rivals, is...
Canadian telecom operator Telus has launched the Telus IoT Shop in Canada, a self-serve online portal that enables businesses to purchase and manage prepaid IoT connectivity.
According to Telus, purchasing IoT connectivity has previously meant committing to volume requirements, credit checks and other processes that...
