Siemens has struck a deal with private network provider Ondas Networks to range the California firm’s wireless radio systems under its own brand in North America, as part of its offer to the railroad sector. The German industrial giant will …
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Singapore is trialing the usage of a robot dog from Boston Dynamics to assist with social distancing measures in parks, gardens and nature reserves. The announcement by Singapore’s Smart Nation and Digital Government Group, which comprises its The Smart Nation …
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Ninety percent of companies in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry are yet to leverage digital technologies at scale, and that even the best equipped of them are struggling to make their digital deployments pay. This is the conclusion of …
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Note, this article is taken from an editorial report on industrial AR, called Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers. The full report is available to download here. Use cases for industrial AR are all variations on the …
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Sidewalk Labs, the smart-city side project of Google-parent company Alphabet, has pulled the plug on its controversial tech-fuelled urban re-development project in Toronto, blaming “economic uncertainty” brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The firm said the economic impact of the …
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In research for a new report on industrial AR, Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Ian Henderson, chief technologist for manufacturing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to discuss the challenges with contemporary AR (and VR) setups in the industrial space. Here …
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A consortium of 16 industrial companies and research institutions have combined in a €9.5 million project to set out the “groundwork” for truck platooning with autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles, as the primary use case to establish usage of 5G and …
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Industrial IoT data management firm OSIsoft has announced the general availability of its Edge Data Store software for remotely monitoring critical assets. The product, released from testing with limited customers, allows industrial operators to collect, store, and access data from …
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Note, this article is taken from an editorial report on industrial AR, called Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers. The report is available to download here. What is the deal with all of these alternative realities? The …
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CIMCON is adding road condition monitoring to its smart lighting deployments in the town of Spencer in the company’s home state of Massachusetts. Town officials have been looking to improve driver safety, meet state environmental guidelines, and reduce costs from …
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Low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT technologies like LoRaWAN are proving their worth as connectivity technologies for smart water preservation and management during periods of change and crisis, including in the current COVID-19 crisis. Smart connectivity networks are enabling improved management of …
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Note, this article is taken from an editorial report on industrial AR, called Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers. The report is available to download here. AR hardware has a reputation for being expensive and cumbersome. How …
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Note, this article is taken from an editorial report on industrial AR, called Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers. The report is available to download here. Let us start with the scenario the main article finishes (see …
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The Zigbee Alliance and the Digital Illumination Interface Alliance (DiiA), the organisation for DALI lighting control, are working together to bring further standardisation and system interoperability to IoT-based luminaires in the smart lighting space. The pair said the collaboration will help …
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Digi International has released a new line of cellular routers for critical infrastructure and intelligent traffic system applications. The company said it wants to be the “IoT connectivity player of choice”. The firm said it is working to “align” enterprise …
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Note, this article is taken from an editorial report on industrial AR, called Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers. The report is available to download here. Research firm Strategy Analytics has worked through a detailed example of …
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The City of Las Vegas is to pay $1.58 million over five years for a range of camera-based artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to automate the enforcement of parking and traffic regulations. Australian AI provider SenSen Networks has won the five-year …
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Ubicquia has released a new IoT router for street lights that it claims is the simplest, cheapest, and most sophisticated way for smart cities to control their various tech sensors. The Fort Lauderdale firm, which makes smart lighting control platforms, …
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Chinese smart metering firm Hexing is bundling the Pelion IoT platform, from UK-based silicon design company Arm, and low-power Wi-SUN connectivity into its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), as it seeks to expand into Southeast Asia, India, South America, and Europe. …
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The low-power and short-range segments of the wider IoT market, along with industrial majors, are seeking to re-engineer and innovate afresh in order to produce rapid low-cost IoT sensing solutions to assist with the global Covid-19 pandemic. Notably, IoT solution …
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Sigfox Germany has expanded its product portfolio with the introduction of a range of sensors from Finnish IoT firm Connected Inventions. The new range includes sensors for monitoring dust, temperature, humidity, CO2, and motion. Connected Inventions, is the hardware arm …
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German car giant BMW will invest €30 billion in “future-oriented” technologies during the next five years. The group has confirmed it will expand a blockchain pilot for purchasing front lights to suppliers of other car parts. The announcements, made at …
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Swiss firm Landis+Gyr said it has recently expanded smart grid capabilities in Central America with the completion of an advanced metering project for Empresa Eléctrica De Guatemala S.A. (EEGSA), to support the utility’s time-of-use (TOU) rates for reducing peak …
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A new IoT innovation centre in Finland has been rigged up with private 5G from Elisa and IoT devices from Qualcomm. The facility will be opened shortly by new Finnish tech firm UROS, alongside US chip maker Qualcomm, as a …
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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has put focus on various communications technologies, if only as an adjunct to disciplines like healthcare and government, and as a means to work and play in lockdown. As well as driving stay-at-home video traffic to …