Sigfox has struck a deal with mapping company HERE to create a global internet-of-things (IoT) location service for the supply chain and logistics industry. The deal will see Sigfox’s low-power …
James Blackman
James Blackman
James Blackman has been writing about the technology and telecoms sectors for over a decade. He has edited and contributed to a number of European news outlets and trade titles. He has also worked at telecoms company Huawei, leading media activity for its devices business in Western Europe. He is based in London.
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European operators Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone have completed the first international roaming trial in Europe using narrowband ‘internet-of-things’ (NB-IoT) technology, according to the GSMA. The trade body said 29 mobile …
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The emergence of the OPC UA TSN communications stack, backed by a loose-knit consortium of automation specialists, is a key part of the developing industrial IoT narrative, with halting technological …
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For technologists, airports in general, and the planet?s busiest ones in particular, are like smart cities in microcosm. They encapsulate a head-spinning array of services and applications, covering everything from …
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Nokia has won a contract to deliver an optical transport network (OTN) to the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), covering the SGCC’s power grid operations in Beijing and Tianjin. …
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Google Cloud has joined the LoRa Alliance as a sponsor member. Its input will help LoRaWAN operators glean deeper insights from data analytics running in their low-power wide-area (LPWA) ‘internet …
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The OPC Foundation has said security vulnerabilities found by Kaspersky Labs in its OPC-UA framework, designed for secure data transfer between clients and servers in industrial systems, were in fact …
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Manufacturers should treble their money on digital transformation, at least, reckons Greg Kinsey, vice president of Hitachi Vantara. If the digital ROI does not stack up, before starting out, then they …
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Nokia has linked its ‘energy innovation centre’ in Plano, Texas, with the University of Strathclyde’s power systems lab in Glasgow, Scotland, to create a transatlantic test lab for utilities to …
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Analyst house Gartner has put the leading IIoT platforms through their paces, and named the best in the business. Here, Enterprise IoT Insights reviews the Gartner review, and orders the …
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ADLINK has launched an IoT design tool to help developers test the viability of their ‘internet of things’ (IoT) experiments before they put them into production. The service does away …
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The industrial ‘internet of things’ (IoT) market is geographically skewed, reckons one of its leading protagonists. Greg Kinsey, vice president of Japan-based Hitachi’s Vantara business, says the US is way …
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A great number of enterprise IoT projects remain stuck in pilots, put aside for another day. Before they even start, the challenge is how to make money from, at least …
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PTC, Hitachi and SAP have come top of Gartner’s inaugural ‘magic quadrant’ for IIoT platforms, ahead of IBM, Software AG and Accenture. But the analyst house warned also that major …
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The choice between licensed and unlicensed low-power wide-area (LPWA) connectivity technologies is about use cases, concurred a panel of ‘internet of things’ (IoT) operators at LPWA World in London this …
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Network sharing will become a standard tactic to establish dense in-building mobile coverage, with private enterprises increasingly taking charge of network operations, said AT&T at SCWS World in London. But …
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“There are three ways to be smart in manufacturing,” says Michael Yost, president of manufacturing association MESA International. Three, it seems, is the magic number when it comes to categorising …
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Japan-based Toyota has taken a stake in data analytics firm ALBERT, also from Japan, to bring new artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies in house, and develop its own …
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Many ‘internet of things’ (IoT) providers are failing to factor installation costs into their business proposals, and both suppliers and customers are coming unstuck as a result. This is the …
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The White House hosted 100 government officials, research academics, and business leaders to discuss artificial intelligence (AI) in the context of funding, regulation, workers and “military advantage” last week. The …
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The ‘internet of things’ (IoT) market is moving towards new value-based and event-based pricing, led by smart cities and industrial operatives, according to Cisco. Until now, device-as-a-service, and latterly anonymised …
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Oracle has agreed to buy California-based data analytics specialist DataScience.com for an undisclosed fee to boost its machine learning capabilities. DataScience.com offers a one-stop data analytics platform, providing self-service access …
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has completed a $15 million 18-month overhaul of Gatwick Airport?s IT systems, which it has compared to performing open-heart surgery while the patient is running. The …
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has completed a $15 million 18-month overhaul of Gatwick Airport’s IT systems, which it has compared to performing open-heart surgery while the patient is running. The …
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Sometimes you need indisputable proof to act upon even the clearest assumptions. If you’re a city council, spending public money on infrastructure to save local communities, this burden of proof …
