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The importance of reliable indoor mobile coverage during lockdown (Reader Forum)

Nextivity: Uninterrupted 4G coverage in public sector buildings in the U.K. cannot wait As COVID-19 lingers on relentlessly, mobile telecoms and home broadband services are providing society with some semblance of normality. Everyday life involves homeworking on a level the world has never seen, socialising...

A complex diagnosis: In-building wireless for hospitals

Nextivity CEO discusses the opportunity for in-building wireless in health care segment As enterprises in a variety of verticals increase investment in in-building wireless systems to support typical cellular use cases—voice, text and data—as well internet of things (IoT) deployments, vendors are faced with serving...

Ericsson takes on diabetes monitoring with IoT solution

Bluetooth and LTE will provide connectivity for IoT wearable Altair Semiconductor, a provider of LTE chipsets, has partnered with Ericsson and Sony Mobile to demonstrate a new concept for an LTE-M/Cat-M1-powered diabetes monitoring in an IoT wearable form factor that will be showcased during the...

How carriers achieve global scale for IoT

IoT use cases include supply chain management, transport and health care For carriers looking to sell internet of things (IoT) products and services to global enterprises, how do they achieve global scale connectivity outside the boundaries of their physical network footprint? In the case of...

Intel launches IoT application for remote health care

Intel's new IoT offering provides connectivity to health care metrics like blood pressure, glucose monitors and pulse oximeters Firming up vertical focus, Intel launched its Health Application Platform, dubbed Intel HAP, which is an application software platform that can be used by remote health care...

The benefits of IoT health care solutions

Leveraging IoT health care tools cuts provider costs while improving patient outcomes Adoption of IoT health care solutions benefits industry by redefining how applications, devices and people interact and connect with each other in delivering and managing patients. IoT is offering new tools as well as...

Weka Health Solutions uses IoT to improve vaccine storage

Bringing the IoT to health care one use case at a time While vaccines save millions of lives each year about 1.5 million children die each year from vaccine-preventable diseases, according to the World Health Organization. Some factors that contribute to the availability of vaccines...

Vodafone claims IoT will improve adherence to medical treatments

Vodafone highlighted that smart devices, cloud-based services and IoT can lead to more effective healthcare U.K. telecommunications group Vodafone claims that new connected solutions based around the internet of things (IoT) will help people to follow their medical treatment programs more closely. This is the main...

The role of temperature sensors in medical devices

Herbert E. Dwyer, COO/GM at Nanmac Corporation, gave a presentation titled “Tackling the Need for Better Temperature Sensors in Medical Devices” at the 2017 Sensors Expo and Conference. Sensors are becoming increasingly common in healthcare. Fueled by aging baby boomers, spikes in chronic diseases and...

The internet of things in the health care sector

The internet of things (IoT) is transforming the health care industry by redefining how applications, devices and people interact and connect with each other in delivering healthcare solutions. IoT is offering new tools as well as efficiencies that make up an integrated health care system...

Automotive, real estate, hospitality and health care interests focus on small cell

The broad in-building wireless market, including small cell vendors, is increasingly targeting sales to the enterprise market as a way to solve for current coverage and capacity problems, as well as set the stage for enterprise-facing internet of things initiatives such as smart lighting,...

IHS Markit chief economist: 5G will touch ‘virtually every industrial sector’

Building on research published in January, IHS Markit Chief Economist Nariman Behravesh, writing in a op-ed piece published May 13 by The Hill, shares his view that 5G "will be a technology platform for innovation in virtually every industrial sector, from automotive to healthcare. As...

Ericsson inks health care IoT agreement in China

Swedish vendor signed the health care IoT deal with AstraZeneca, China’s Wuxi national Hi-Tech District and China Mobile Group Jiangsu. Ericsson signed a memorandum of understanding with China’s Wuxi national Hi-Tech District, China Mobile Group Jiangsu and AstraZeneca to partner on...

IBM partners with Delos to build healthier living spaces

IBM announced earlier this month it is collaborating with wellness and technology firm Delos to adopt IBM Cloud and cognitive technologies to speed the discovery of new insights in health and wellness and their connections to the design of indoor spaces. Designed to be a multi-year collaboration, Delos...

Machine learning is leading the way to a smarter internet of things

What is machine learning and what can it do? You step into the tennis section of your local sports store looking for a new racket when a notification alerts you of a coupon on Wilson products. Something must have picked up your location along with...

Machine learning is leading the way to a smarter internet of things

What is machine learning and what can it do? You step into the tennis section of your local sports store looking for a new racket when a notification alerts you of a coupon on Wilson products. Something must have picked up your location along with...

Health care IoT: reducing heart disease readmission

Health care provider partners with ThingWorx for machine learning An unnamed regionally-managed health care provider partnered with ThingWorx's machine learning platform to detect patterns in data that would lead to better patient care and reduce costly readmissions for patients with ischemic heart disease, according to...

Health care IoT: reducing heart disease readmission

Health care provider partners with ThingWorx for machine learning An unnamed regionally-managed health care provider partnered with ThingWorx's machine learning platform to detect patterns in data that would lead to better patient care and reduce costly readmissions for patients with ischemic heart disease, according to...