Use cases

Is IoT the future of direct marketing? In the latest demonstration of how IoT has the potential to disrupt the marketing sector, WND UK, the UK’s Sigfox Network Operator, and …

German fashion house Hugo Boss has been applying advanced analytics to its production plants in four ways, it told IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona last week. These variously cover …

Digital transformation, set in motion by industrial IoT, is an abstract exercise. It is not an off-the-shelf kind of a sale. It requires all parties to collaborate to affect change …

The mining industry is expected to produce $686 billion in revenue by the end of 2019, a steady eight per cent increase on 2018, according to PwC. The global conveyer …

Some time back, Finnish transmission operator Fingrid ran due diligence on the sector’s transformation, with the decarbonisation and decentralisation of the power supply, and advancements in digital technologies bringing cheaper …

The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA), Deutsche Telekom and Nokia have completed an 18-month field test of 5G slicing and industrial IoT at the Port of Hamburg. The Port of Hamburg …

UK medics and telecoms engineers have demostrated a 5G connected ambulance and a remote-controlled ultrasound scan over a public 5G network. The showcase has been carried out by telecoms provider …

AT&T and Samung have revealed a number of initial use-case experiments for industrial 5G at the duo’s new ‘Innovation Zone’ within Samsung’s semiconductor factory on Austin, Texas. These include tests …

German carrier Deutsche Telekom, Nokia and the Hamburg Port Authority have tested new features of 5G technology in a test bed installed at the Port of Hamburg. From January 2018 …

There’s no master list of smart city use cases primarily because, in the right context, nearly anything could contribute to a smart city. However, some of the major ones that …

Three per cent of the world’s water is accessible freshwater. Of that, 70 per cent of the freshwater consumed is used in the agricultural industry – the largest consumer of …

US frozen drinks company Freezing Point, parent to slushie brand Frazil, has partnered with Norwegian engineering firm 7Sense to develop a low-cost, retrofittable cellular NB-IoT circuit board to make its …

As part of Enterprise IoT Insights‘ investigation into edge-cloud setups in industrial plants, we have unearthed a number of case studies showing how manufacturing companies and technology providers are collaborating …

Quality assurance is a critical part of manufacturing; it’s just humans are not very good at it. Their faculties are not trained to pick out anomalies in rapid carousels of …

In simple terms, the prevailing wisdom is the more data, the better. More data equals better decisions, which equals better products, and more users. That is the theory, anyway. The …

Car companies Audi, Ducati, and Ford have joined with California chip maker Qualcomm to prove the “maturity and potential” of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology by showing their vehicles navigating a …

Food cold storage operator Lineage Logistics has engaged IoT solution provider ndustrial.io and carrier AT&T to reduce annual energy usage by 34 per cent and annual energy costs by $4 …

Boise-based Cradlepoint has never sought out cities to sell to; the smart cities market has come to it. The fact is, some investments are easier to justify than others, it …

Note: This is the full version of an article that appeared previously as an excerpt, found here; it also forms part of a major new report on the state of …

Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, has just upgraded 18,000 street lights in its city centre. The new lanterns are hugely efficient, and supremely smart. And yet the business case …

Cisco is making the business case for mobile operators to install 5G masts in rural regions based on connecting livestock, rather than people. The company, leading a network of 29 …

At its ‘Business Summit’ in Dallas this week, AT&T put major focus on its LTE-M network. Use cases are multiplying, it said. “I hear about new possibilities every day. Use cases …

Canadian telematics firm Geotab is making available hyper-local weather and environmental data from its fleet of over one million vehicles across the globe. It is offering the live feed of …

Cannabis growers, like other agriculturalists, are turning to internet-of-things (IoT) technologies, essentially comprising sensor devices and data analytics, to bring new efficiencies to their operations, and improve yields and profits. …

Momentum is building, fast, for smart manufacturing. Here, Enterprise IoT Insights presents five more use cases from leading industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions providers. Also, check out the major new report …