A new smart cities incubator has been launched in the Dallas Fort Worth region. It will focus on smart cities related technologies. Big-name collaborators on the project include AT&T, Cisco, and Microsoft, as well as local academic institutions.
The new Innov8te incubator, led by the...
This article is the fourth instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018.
The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine...
China and South Korea are the top markets in terms of IoT adoption within the region, according to the study
Spending on the internet of things in the Asia/Pacific region excluding Japan (APEJ) is forecasted to reach $381.8 billion by 2022, according to a new...
Sigfox has publicly released the specifications of its radio protocol for connected objects. The company said it expects a “boom” in the number of objects, including consumer devices, connecting to its network as a result.
The release of its radio specifications means any manufacturer, developer,...
This article is the third instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018.
The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine the...
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to commit certain federal government resources to the research and development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, tools, and services.
Trump stopped short of putting a financial value on the investment; instead, he promised wider availability of...
Companies already testing 5G in industrial environments are Worcester Bosch and Yamazaki Mazak
The U.K.’s first live 5G factory trials have been launched at the Worcestershire 5G Testbed, according to the U.K.-government-backed Worcestershire 5G Consortium.
The smart factory trials allow manufacturers to test the potential of...
The AutoAir consortium has demonstrated the first application of independently operated 5G for connected and autonomous vehicles in the UK.
The showcase took place at the Millbrook proving ground in the UK, where the AutoAir consortium, lead by Florida-based Airspan Networks and backed by £4.1...
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Nordic Semiconductor is bundling an eSIM with 10MB of data into all its nRF9160 development kits. Network operators buying the company’s dual-mode LTE-M / NB-IoT nRF9160 system-in-package (SiP) can connect their cellular IoT services anywhere in the world, it said.
The eSIM is from international...
This article is the second instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018.
The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine the...
IBM , TFT and SweetSense are piloting technologies to accurately monitor and track groundwater use in Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta
The Freshwater Trust (TFT), together with IBM Research and SweetSense, a provider of low-cost satellite connected sensors, are partnering to pilot technologies which can...
This article is taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018.
The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine the expectations surrounding the IIoT movement (‘The...
Nokia has introduced four ready-made IoT packages to help mobile network operators go after the agriculture, livestock management, logistics, and asset management markets. Its new IoT packages – available “off-the-shelf” and “as—a-service” – will drive new revenues for operators, with “minimal investment and less...
The city government said this roadmap will serve as a guide on how Philadelphia can adopt smart city solutions to better serve residents and businesses
The city of Philadelphia has released the SmartCityPHL roadmap, which outlines three key strategies aimed to spur innovation and collaboration...
U.K. authorities also announced a strengthening of its code of practice to trial automated vehicles
The U.K. government said it is developing a process to support advanced trials of automated vehicles in the country -- and that such trials will not be supported unless they have...
The city of Markham is partnering with Bell to provide an advance solution featuring interconnected IoT applications
The Canadian city of Markham has launched its smart city accelerator research program in partnership with Canadian carrier Bell.
The program will deploy Bell's smart city platform, which includes...
Abu Dhabi-based district cooling giant Tabreed has integrated California based OSIsoft’s big-data analytics system across its network of 74 district cooling plants to monitor, analyse, and improve performance and reliability.
Tabreed is now tracking around 30,000 data streams, or ‘tags’, via OSIsoft’s PI System, in...
The Israeli company recently inked a deal to provide its IoT solution to a Tier 1 U.S. network operator
Network intelligence and security provider Allot is seeing business opportunities in the U.S. market for its IoT solution, Ran Fridman, executive VP of worldwide sales at...
Liberty Lake IoT provider Itron has started to certify devices under the Wi-SUN Field Area Network (FAN) 1.0 programme. It follows fellow Wi-SUN leader Cisco to have its products passed by the Wi-SUN Alliance.
Itron said its Bridge 5-WS product was the first to gain...
Digi International has released a ruggedised LTE edge computing router for smart cities and utilities.
The Digi IX14 is designed for low-cost, low-bandwidth single-asset applications, its maker said. It contains an LTE modem with 3G fallback for North America; a version for Europe, with 3G/2G...
UK smart street lighting company Telensa has launched an open data platform for smart cities to collect, protect, and make use of urban data. The city of Cambridge in the UK is the first to sign up.
The initiative, branded the Urban Data Project, is...
Vodafone Idea said it is already testing automatic metering infrastructure at Genus’s R&D facility in Jaipur
Vodafone Idea Business Services, the enterprise arm of Indian carrier Vodafone Idea, has inked a strategic partnership with compatriot firm Genus Power Infra to establish a commercial proof of...
Germany, France and the U.K. will be the markets with the highest level of IoT adoption in 2019
Revenues for the European internet of things market are forecast to increase by 19.8% year-on-year to reach $171 billion in 2019, according to a recent report by...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is poised to release a new product, the Edgeline 8000, in its family of ‘converged edge systems’. The 8000 will provide the most advanced edge capabilities of any of its Edgeline entries, targeted at industrial IoT operations.
Tom Bradicich, the company’s...
