Annual revenue from smart street lights will grow at compound annual rate of 31 per cent to reach $1.7 billion in 2026, reckons ABI Research.
The analyst house said street lighting programmes will continue to focus on replacing conventional lamps with LED lamps through...
Smart Dubai has announced the completion of the first phase of the UAEPASS initiative — its nation-wide program for digital identity — integrating seven leading government entities to date.
This smart city initiative allows citizens, residents and visitors to access the entities’ services via smartphones,...
UK smart street-lighting firm Telensa has appointed Belfast-based digital services provider Kainos as lead partner in the ramp-up and rollout of its Urban Data Project to additional smart cities.
The Urban Data Project initiative launched in Cambridge, in the UK, in February, and brings...
Technology that was designed for optimising data centres is being applied to power distribution in airports and hospitals. Canadian infrastructure management firm Maya Heat Transfer Technologies (HTT) has repackaged its data centre platform, running on OSIsoft’s data management engine, for new verticals.
Maya HTT,...
Microsoft has acquired embedded computing software firm Express Logic for an undisclosed fee, with an aim to “unlock access to billions of new connected endpoints” in the internet-of-things (IoT) space.
The San Diego outfit is behind the ThreadX real-time operating system (RTOS), for managing highly...
Japanese telecommunications
operator NTT DoCoMo, together with compatriot logistics firm Itochu Logistics
Corp. and their U.S. subsidiaries announced that they will trial an IoT
solution for delivery-fleet management in the United States.
The companies said that this
IoT-based solution uses LTE-M devices to visualize operational status of
outsourced trucks.
The trial...
Two schools in Houston will pilot an internet of things (IoT)-enabled platform called ActiveShield to improve public safety.
The IoT safe-spaces technology created by Insight Enterprises (NSIT) integrates with a building safety platform from BeSafe Technologies to facilitate critical, real-time information sharing during a crisis.
Insight’s
Safe...
Verizon, Cradlepoint, Arrow among accelerator partners
Qualcomm Technologies, a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, announced the launch of its Smart Cities Accelerator Program.
The program will bring together companies that utilize Qualcomm's products to provide a solutions-focused website specifically for smart cities applications around the world.
The...
Nokia and Cellcom Israel have
signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to deploy Sensing as a Service in
Israel with the main aim of creating a real-time environmental data offering using
Cellcom Israel's existing radio infrastructure.
Nokia Sensing as a Service allows
the re-use of existing radio sites to...
The original Monarch system-in-package (SiP) from French chipmaker Sequans Communications has been made available Verizon’s ThingSpace IoT ‘accelerator programme’ for just $6.50.
The new price point is a significant advance on the magic $10 mark for IoT chips that was breached in the middle of...
German automotive manufacturer Volkswagen will start construction of its own 5G mobile networks in 122 factories in Germany in 2020, according to a report in Wirtschaftswoche, the German business magazine.
Volkswagen, the largest automaker by worldwide sales, has issued a tender to network equipment vendors....
French internet of things specialist Sigfox has announced the launch of a nationwide IoT network in Canada.
Through the partnership with the Sigfox Global Network, Sigfox Canada can provide customers with IoT coverage in any of the 60 countries around the world where the firm...
Deutsche Telekom said private networks are easy to talk about, but hard to manage, at Hannover Messe 2019 last week, swatting away the perceived jeapordy for operators in the industrial 5G debate.
Adel Al-Saleh, member of the board at Deutsche Telekom and chief executive...
The craziness of the conference season, which has seen Enterprise IoT Insights cover both MWC 2019 and Hannover Messe 2019 in recent weeks, means content falls through the gaps. Sometimes, it is really good content, too.
One of the better conversations from MWC 2019,...
Spanish telecom giant Telefónica has launched the IoT Cybersecurity Unit, a new project focused on the securing the internet of things, the telco said in a release.
The new unit combines the company’s capabilities in both the cybersecurity and IoT fields.
Telefonica’s
IoT Cybersecurity Unit will have the...
Schneider Electric has launched a new digital ecosystem, called Exchange, to foster collaboration between industry, software, and startup elements within the IoT space. The French automation specialist wants to drive easier innovation in the market, and get IoT solutions deployed more quickly.
At Hannover Messe...
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The storm of digital change that 5G connectivity will unleash is...
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Prior to Hannover Messe 2019, Software AG released a new...
The installed base of wireless internet of things devices in the global oil and gas industry reached 1.3 million in 2018, according to a new research report from Swedish machine-to-machine/IoT analyst firm Berg Insight.
Growing
at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.8%, this number...
Bernd Gross, chief technology officer at Software AG, is sitting in a side room, off a busy booth at Hannover Messe 2019. The Darmstadt outfit looks a different proposition, he reckons, with new leadership, a fresh strategy, and a vogueish tagline. “Yes, freedom-as-a-service; the...
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The role of Orange Business Services as a “carrier-grade systems integrator” might sound familiar (see...
A "no-deal" Brexit would put at risk future investments in the connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) in the UK, according to a new report published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and analyst firm Frost & Sullivan.
The report stated that the U.K....
A Sigfox network in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) provided optional tracking for 10,000 athletes and delegates at the Special Olympics World Games 2019 at the end of March.
The Special Olympics World Games claims to be the world’s largest humanitarian sporting event. Organised...
Having effectvely reduced the discipline of network operations to an elaborate marketing exercise, to sell look-alike SIM cards and airtime bundles, it seems the new 5G era has telecoms operators sounding different, again. It seems like their personalities are coming through, at last.
This...
