Japanese telecoms giant NTT is working with California-based industrial IoT software developer Foghorn to deliver edge-based machine intelligence to industrial clients.
NTT-subsidiary NTT Data, offering systems-integration and IoT consultancy services, has selected Foghorn’s Lightning software for its on-premise analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, which...
The new service will be initially implamented at Narita and Haneda airports in Tokyo
Japan Airlines is working with Accenture on a new service that uses artificial intelligence to answer passenger requests at the airline’s check-in counters.
The service assesses what check-in counter agents are saying...
Industrial companies will invest in their own private LTE and 5G networks because the business case for digital change is irresistible, and because they want control of their own infrastructure. This leaves operators, betting on new revenue from enabling industrial transformation, in the cold,...
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New Software AG chief Sanjay Brahmawar has been seven months in the...
The smart lockers allow firms with large field engineering teams to gain more efficiency
BT’s supply chain business, Final Mile, said that it has deployed 1,000 smart delivery lockers across the UK.
Following a number of customer contract wins, the U.K. carrier said that the business...
NB-IoT connections will comprise the vast majority of cellular IoT by 2021, at up to 75 per cent and around one billion devices, according to Huawei. The number will climb from around 30 million in 2018 to 200 million in 2019, it reckons.
Huawei outlined...
Germany-based Software AG has reorganised its channel strategy to prioritise IoT platform deals with the likes of AT&T, ‘hyper-scale’ cloud deals with the likes of AWS, edge hardware deals with the likes of Dell, and IT and IoT reseller deals with the likes of...
Vodafone has joined a UK drone-testing consortium as network provider to develop tools and processes to enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to fly safely in the same airspace as manned aircraft.
Vodafone will provide 4G and 5G connectivity to the National Beyond Visual Line of...
Vodafone will use a range of private networking options to serve industrial verticals, it has said, as it develops its advanced LTE and emerging 5G proposition for enterprises. These options include spot usage of unlicensed LTE, localised usage of public LTE, and dedicated slices...
IoT America designs solutions for precision agriculture, livestock management and infrastructure monitoring
French internet of things (IoT) specialist Kerlink and Internet of Things America (IoT America), a U.S. company dedicated to deploying IoT solutions across rural America, have recently teamed up to enable the deployment of IoT...
Dutch industrial tech provider Koning & Hartman and Irish private-network provider Druid Software have extended their work to bring automation and intelligence to operations at the Port of Rotterdam. The pair have established a private LTE network at the port, using spectrum licensed by...
Google has released new hardware for machine learning at the edge in the form of a single-board computer running its edge-based Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) processor. Alongside the new system-on-module (SOM), available under its Coral brand, Google has unveiled a USB-connected accessory that brings...
Škoda drivers will have access to a wide range of connected cars services across Europe
Cubic Telecom has signed a contract with Czech automobile manufacturer Škoda Auto to enable connectivity for Škoda drivers across Europe.
The new IoT solution will be available first in the new...
IBM has introduced a new suite of industrial internet of things (IoT) solutions for preventative and predictive downtime and maintenance that leverage artificial intelligence and advanced analytics.
The solution will reduce the risk of failure of physical assets including vehicles, manufacturing robots, turbines, mining...
Boston has appointed its first chief information security officer (CISO) to lead its fight to secure the data of its city operations and its citizens, and to modernise its technology architecture alongside.
Gregory McCarthy, with the city since 2010, will lead its cybersecurity team within...
German software company SAP has launched a new internet of things (IoT) suite for its Leonardo platform, as well as closer cloud integration with Microsoft’s Azure IoT Hub.
SAP Leonardo IoT enables customers to combine business process data with IoT data garnered from machines...
Both partners have already carried out 5G verification at the Port of Qingdao
BARCELONA-Ericsson and China Unicom said they are currently developing a 5G-enabled smart harbor at the Port of Qingdao in China.
Ericsson said that the announcement follows a technical solution verification at Qingdao and...
Mobile World Congress (MWC) is an operator show, run by the GSMA operator group, that has always looked and sounded like a handsets show, dominated by device makers. On Sunday night at MWC 2019, as Samsung and Huawei gathered the blogger world in cavernous...
LTE-based cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology will launch in earnest in the next months, as new automotive chipsets and platforms are released. The first vehicles to feature 5G-based C-V2X, enabling autonomous control of critical driving functions, will come off the production line in 2022, said...
Through the partnership, both companies will provide IoT solutions for Chinese firms and foreign companies operating in China
Arm and China Unicom announced a long-term partnership to deliver internet of things solutions to Chinese enterprises and global companies which are seeking a local presence in...
The Industry 4.0 movement is regarded in some circles as a magic bullet that will marry technology with manually intensive projects like mining, operating a factor or managing logistics in a port of warehouse. It's still early days on the idea but the long-term...
What is 5G anyway? Ericsson kicked off Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 by stating it is deploying 5G networks at pace, faster than anyone else. But these networks – alongside those of its peers, and all the slick handsets (some foldable) on the stands – just...
Cameron Coursey, vice president of IoT product development at AT&T, got a laugh from the audience Sunday afternoon at the Mobile IoT Summit, a curtain raiser for Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. “All this talk of putting up walls,” he said. “We’re tearing...
Zurich-based Momenta Partners has launched a $25 million venture fund to foster startups and innovations in the low-power wide-area (LPWA) market, and specifically the LoRaWAN sector. The fund could stretch to $60 million, the company said.
Momenta Ventures makes early-stage investments in “connected industry” projects,...
