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Industrial Internet Consortium, OpenFog conclude merger process

The combined organization will focus on industrial, internet including the promotion of best practices for fog and edge computing The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and the OpenFog Consortium have concluded the details to combine the two consortia. Effective immediately, the organizations will work together under the IIC...

Cisco launches new offerings in the IoT field

  The networking firm said its developer program DevNet offers a new set of developer tools for IoT   Cisco has launched new internet of things networking products, developer tools, validated design guides and partner specializations to increase flexibility and security for IoT environments, the company said...

From 50ms to 1ms and 5x9s to 6x9s – Nokia makes case for private industrial networks

Note, this is the second part in a feature about Nokia'snew industrial strategy. The first instalment can be found here.  Nokia’s latest results, which saw shares slip on a slow forecast for 2019 5G sales, present the company’s strategic re-organisation around three so-called ‘pillars’ –...

Ericsson maps cellular IoT to 5G, with new categories and solutions

Ericsson has redefined its portfolio and vision for cellular IoT technologies in four categories, including two new segments for Broadband IoT and Industrial Automation IoT. It said the objective of the exercise is to “outline the evolution” of IoT technologies, to encompass higher-powered LTE and...

Itron, ComEd implement smart lighting initiative in Chicago

  The project stipulates the connection of 140,000 municipal smart streetlights in Chicago and northern Illinois   U.S. firm Itron, together with power company ComEd have a new initiative aimed at modernizing municipal lighting and driving smart city development in northern Illinois. ComEd serves more than 4 million...

Total LoRa devices reach 80 million, making it ‘de facto’ IoT tech, says Semtech

The total installed base of LoRa enabled chips and nodes reach around 80 million units at the end of 2018, according to California based semiconductor company Semtech, which owns the LoRa technology and licenses the chips. Semtech said the number of LoRa gateways is now...

Nokia joins Nordic smart city project to build energy-positive urban data centres

Norwegian real estate and tech firm Miris is building 20 data centres in business parks and residential areas in Norway during 2019 to support the smart city applications and services. The new facilities will recycle heat for local homes and businesses. Miris will deploy network...

Ericsson launches AI-based managed services for telcos

  The new offering uses AI and automation to address telecom operators’ complexity challenges   Ericsson has launched a new artificial intelligence-based managed services offering for communications service providers. The new offering, dubbed Ericsson Operations Engine, is an end-to-end managed services operating model that, through artificial intelligence and...

10m factories, 3m warehouses, 50k mines – Nokia counts out its new industrial targets

Nokia’s biggest opportunity, it explains, is to go beyond its traditional customer base to serve industrial markets directly, with private networking solutions. The total market for private LTE, and later private 5G, masts is potentially twice as large in straight volume terms as the...

Microsoft inks agreement to open AI, IoT lab in Shanghai

  The new facility is expected to be inaugurated in April this year   Microsoft has signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation to locate its new artificial intelligence and internet of things Insider Lab in Shanghai, China, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. The memorandum was signed between the...

Siemens opens digital factory to build batteries for ferries, fishing boats, drilling rigs

German company Siemens has opened a fully automated battery factory in Trondheim, in Norway. The facility will produce batteries for the marine sector, including for ships, rigs, and other offshore operations. From unpacking the production parts to testing the final module, the factory is completely...

‘No future Elon Musks in IoT’, ‘no future in IoT without LoRaWAN’ – team LoRa plots next moves

This week, 1,500 business types from every-sized enterprise in the burgeoning IoT space will descend on Amsterdam in The Netherlands to chat LoRaWAN, the low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking technology that saw 60 per cent growth last year. The occasion is The Things Conference (January 31...

C Spire targets partnerships to boost precision agriculture business

The carrier carried out a precision agriculture trial in Mississippi last year as part of the firm’s Tech Movement initiative Regional carrier C Spire, which is headquartered in Ridgeland, Miss., aims to partner with farmers and smart equipment firms to provide network and information technology...

AWS open-sources SageMaker Neo code for training machine learning in edge devices

AWS has launched a new open source machine learning project, Neo-AI, which makes the code for its key SageMaker Neo machine learning service available to developers for the first time. It is the second time in a few months the company has released source...

Arm, AT&T, Ericsson, HPE et al  join new Linux group to bring order to edge IoT chaos

The Linux Foundation has started a new umbrella organisation, LF Edge, to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing that is independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. The launch “changes the IoT and edge computing landscape,” it said in a press note....

Amazon joins Zigbee board to push open standards in smart home, smart city

Amazon is to take a seat on the Zigbee Alliance board of directors. The Zigbee Alliance said the decision shows the IoT market is convening around its technology as a short-range technology for smart devices, notably in smart home and smart city applications. The move...

“A green earth and blue ocean is a growth generator,” Japanese PM tells Davos

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe told the World Economic Forum in Davos this week his country has been revitalised by recent economic policy, and will exploit data to create a fairer future, as part of a Society 5.0. “Japanese defeatism is defeated,” he said. The...

Kamstrup, Siemens to roll out large-scale smart metering project in Ireland

  Siemens said that the project, which will be executed in two years, stipulates the deployment of 250,000 smart meters   A Kamstrup-Siemens consortium announced that it will deliver a smart metering solution including 250,000 electricity meters, a remote reading system and a data management system to...

World Economic Forum’s new Industry 4.0 policy bureau puts focus on AI, blockchain

Membership of the World Economic Forum’s fledgling Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network (Centre Network) has swelled to over 100, with five nations and a number of international organisations joining the fray. They will help design policies for technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) and...

Siemens and SAP join Industry 4.0 initiative to move enterprises out of digital ‘pilot trap’

A new industrial consortium including SAP and Siemens has convened to help industrial organisations go beyond the ‘pilot trap’ with their Industry 4.0 deployments. The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and German testing and certification company TÜV Süd have recruited SAP and Siemens, alongside management...

Sigfox seeks new USA president; responds to staff exits, office moves, sales talk

Sigfox USA has confirmed its president, Christian Olivier, has left the business. It said the decision was mutual, and the business is preparing a new appointment to drive the “next stage” of expansion of its network operations in the US. The French IoT firm also...

M1 adds Nokia’s IoT platform to enhance smart city portfolio

  The Singaporean telco, together with Noki,a had launched a nationwide NB-IoT network in 2017   Singaporean telco M1 said it will use Nokia’s Impact IoT platform to bolster its carrier’s current smart city and internet of things portfolio. The carrier said the new addition will allow the...

UK tech incubator sets up Industry 4.0 demo labs to show LoRa based IoT solutions

UK tech incubator Digital Catapult is sponsoring a pair of UK firms to set up as Industry 4.0 showcase labs for the rest of the UK manufacturing industry. County Durham based fabrication and machining firm Dyer Engineering, and Hereford based superalloy manufacturer Special Metals Wiggin...

Verizon, Nokia CEOs talk Fourth Industrial Revolution in Davos

Nokia CEO on Fourth Industrial Revolution: "If ever something was worth working, it's this." Harnessing steam to drive mass production; tapping electricity to globalize manufacturing; widespread computing--all past industrial revolutions that ushered in sea changes in the way people live, work and communicate. And now,...