The industrial internet-of-things (IoT) is at the heart of France’s new 5G roadmap, unveiled late yesterday by the French electronic communications and postal regulatory authority (Arcep). The new plan, presented …
Actility has struck a deal with mapping and location company HERE Technologies to integrate HERE’s positioning capabilities into its own LoRaWAN management platform. It means internet-of-things (IoT) users can “pinpoint” …
Siemens has founded an industrial IoT (IIoT) group of manufacturing and technology companies in Italy to expand the international reach of its MindSphere platform. The new MindSphere World Italy set-up …
GE Digital will integrate its Predix portfolio with Microsoft Azure’s cloud capabilities, and standardise its Predix solutions on Microsoft Azure, it has announced. GE and Microsoft said they will also …
The European market for cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) communications will grow to 416.5 million connections by 2023, from 86 million at the end of 2017, according to ABI Research. This growth, …
Bosch and Daimler will test a fleet of autonomous vehicles in California, with a view to launching a driverless shuttle service on certain routes in the second half of 2019. …
In 2017, a natural gas leak was detected six kilometres off the coast of Nikiski in Alaska. The leak impinged on a critical habitat for endangered beluga whales. The Alaskan …
The latest index of countries’ progress against the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) makes for grim reading. No country is on track to achieve the targets, set out by the …
Forget the notion of an integrated smart city platform for a moment, says Jonathan Reichental chief information officer for the city of Palo Alto in the US. “What does a …
In the final instalment in our industrial IoT trilogy with Hitachi, Greg Kinsey, in charge of the company’s digital transformation business, says innovation is not available to pre-order and take-away, …
Singapore’s industrial development agency JTC has appointed engineering group ST Engineering to build an open smart city platform for its green-field Punggol Digital District (PDD) project, a new tech hub …
Siemens has released a cloud-based software suite to help cities manage air pollution. Its new City Air Management (CyAM) solution, based on its MindSphere internet-of-things (IoT) platform, is the “smartest …
The LoRaWAN movement has something of the do-it-yourself ethos of punk music in the late 1970s. The Things Network (TTN), an Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN curation project, is one of its leaders, …
Rockwell Automation has added six new companies to its partner programme, organised to help industrial enterprises with digital transformation. “Industrial companies that want to implement smart manufacturing or other initiatives …
The adoption of cellular internet-of-things (IoT) technologies is not being slowed by the high price of chipsets, but by the complexity of their design, reckons chip supplier Nordic Semiconductor. Module …
Siemens and Alibaba have struck a deal to “foster” new growth in the industrial ‘internet of things’ (IIoT) market in China, the pair have announced. The deal will see Siemens’ …
The problem with smart cities is no one wants to pay for them. That’s the challenge for Manchester, now, having just completed a ground-breaking two-year smart-city pilot, CityVerve, which appears …
New research by McKinsey Global Institute has evaluated the planet’s smartest cities on both their underlying infrastructure and their over-lying applications, and ranked them in order on both counts. Here, …
New research by McKinsey Global Institute has evaluated the planet’s smartest cities on both their underlying infrastructure and their over-lying applications, and ranked them in order on both counts. Here, …
Cisco and Samsung have completed the first successful 5G fixed-wireless tests on Orange’s live network in Romania. The fixed-wireless access (FWA) tests, in the 26 GHz band, have verified a …
If happiness is a measure that considers one’s health, lifestyle, security and sociability in any way, then smart cities can surely make us happier. New research by the McKinsey Global …
Nick Chrissos takes a breather from a packed agenda at the CityVerve ‘market-place‘ in Manchester, at the end of last month. Innovate UK has just told a conference room the …
Nokia and Tencent will make research into 5G-enabled internet-of-things (IoT) applications for industry verticals including transportation, energy and manufacturing a major part of their new collaboration in China, based out …
The French and UK governments have signed a five-year accord to work together to improve digital services through state-level collaboration on artificial intelligence (AI), data and digital administration. Mounir Mahjoubi …
The UK government has announced a £420 million joint investment in ‘bytes and mortar’ to use digital technologies in ‘smart construction to develop new techniques for sustainable and rapid house …
