Use cases

The need for an oil and gas solution Oil and gas producers are doing everything they can to grind through a period of historically low per barrel oil prices. The …

Powertool manufacturer Black & Decker turned to Cisco to provide an internet of things (IoT) solution that increases visibility and decreases complexity in one of the largest tool manufacturing plants in …

The need for a smart highway Traffic jams do not benefit anyone. According to Cisco, for every minute spent clearing an accident from a road, there is a four-minute delay to …

Orange Business Services working with Swiss oil and gas firm on remote monitoring Orange Business Services won a three-year contract with Swiss firm Sensile Technologies to remotely monitor oil and …

Nokia demo at 5G World showcases industrial automation applications of 5G To some extent, the industrial and consumer internet of things are viewed as the killer app that 5G will …

Amazon’s automated shipment centers are large scale examples of the cyber physical systems driving toward Industry 4.0, or the fourth industrial revolution. The leading online marketplace’s “fulfillment centers” already rely on …

Mobile edge computing is seen as an important part to alleviating network congestion and improving cloud-based applications for both current 4G and future 5G networks. In the approach to 5G …

5G trials conducted ahead of 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea SHANGHAI – Korean telecommunications company KT confirmed “5G” technology will be available during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, which are …

Driven by strong IoT investment, revenues projected to grow at 16.1% CAGR from 2015 to 2019 U.S. investment into the “internet of things,” including hardware, software, services and connectivity spending …

The U.S. Department of Transportation, Vulcan Industries and AT&T will fund Smart City Challenge winner Mayors of the seven finalist cities taking part in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Smart …

Autonomous driving will usher in a new era of road safety as vehicles gain the ability to use 5G networks to connect to other cars, real-time traffic data, smart infrastructure …

Huawei said smart parking solutions would generate revenue opportunities for municipal governments Chinese vendor Huawei and U.K-based telecoms group Vodafone completed the first trial on commercial networks for pre-standard NB-IoT smart …

In increasingly congested and crowded cities, timely information and communication can be the difference between deadlock and dynamism Until recently, smart city solutions often seemed more like “slideware” than real …

5G Symposium digs into RAN requirements and millimeter waves AUSTIN, Texas — With four years to go until a target timeframe for commercialization, “5G” technology faces several key challenges ranging …

For now, while “5G” technology continues to take shape ahead of standardization, the Internet of Things is developing without the benefit of ultra-fast, incredibly low latency network access. But, to …

From asset tracking to health monitoring, these Industrial IoT use cases could transform manufacturing The Industrial “Internet of Things” is reshaping a variety of vertical industries as managers around the …

Smart cities are often imagined as clean, convenient, connected utopias where traffic and resources flow smoothly and efficiently. That vision may never quite materialize, but some cities may need to …

VR for IIoT is coming: Hiab is planning to launch a crane operation system that uses real-time virtual reality video technology. The innovation offers safety and productivity gains. VR for IIoT …

The impact of platooning on the global economy will be far-reaching and profound The Netherlands was treated to a fleeting glimpse of the future in April. The successful trial of …

Smart city use cases highlight role of Internet of Things We’ve all heard the term smart cities, but it covers a broad swatch of technologies and applications. To get a …

Asset efficiency is important to a manufacturer’s bottomline A recent study on the maturity of asset efficiency practices from Infosys and the Institute for Industrial Management (FIR) at Aachen University …

Industrial Internet Consortium member organizations Real-Time Innovations (RTI), National Instruments and Cisco are currently working on a communications and control testbed for microgrid applications. These three companies are working with …

A number of companies including Bosch Rexroth, Cisco, Intel, KUKA, National Instruments, Schneider Electric and TTTech have announced last month, plans to develop what it claims to be the world’s …

The culmination of mass urbanization coupled with the near- and long-term implications of climate change is straining global water resources from the highly developed metropolitan areas of Southern California to …

Microgrid movement, behavioral data are changing generation/distribution paradigm As data generated by Industrial IoT appliances creates a clear picture of how consumer behavior impacts the power grid, the energy sector …