Big Data Analytics

Creating a connected city. Mississauga, Ontario, looked to Cisco Systems to help leverage the “internet of things” to improve services, reduce costs and drive efficiency with real-time data in the …

SCADA and its use cases. Nearly everywhere you look, there is some type of supervisory control and data acquisition system running behind the scenes, at your local supermarket, refinery, waste …

Many sensor types for the many IoT use cases. Sensors are the troops of the “internet of things,” the on-the-ground pieces of hardware doing the critical work of monitoring processes, …

Thingworx platform proves energy savings. Steam systems are one of the largest energy consumers in the United States, making up almost 15% of the country’s annual energy usage. There exist …

Problems with polymers Hitachi used its analytics platform to integrate production and sensor data outputs to help visualize, analyze and diagnose a manufacturer’s polymer mixing problems. An unnamed manufacturer’s polymer …

A suburb of Washington, D.C., is growing into a living laboratory for “internet of things” technology projects. Set in Montgomery County, Maryland, Thingstitute is set to be an agricultural testbed …

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 …

Fresh food: A growing use case for machine learning. Machine learning can help retailers address the challenges of offering fresh foods, which account for up to 40% of a grocers’ …

After attending this year’s IBM World of Watson event in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, I was both stunned and overwhelmed by the advancements in artificial intelligence and cognitive. …

What is CEP? Complex event processing is an emerging network technology commonly used in the “internet of things” that uses distributed message-based systems, databases and applications to derive conclusions from …

A multistep smart city initiative Milton Keynes, England, was founded as a “new town” in 1967. In less than 50 years, it has grown to more than 250,000 people, and …

OPC, standards for the IIoT Making data actionable by moving it away from machines and onto software is a fundamental challenge for the industrial “internet of things.” Looking to tackle …

The expense of water recycling The Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency claims to operate the world’s largest water recycling facility designed for raw food crop irrigation, using 25 pumping …

Armada today announced a partnership with iPass, an out-of-home Wi-Fi provider. Armada produces a supply chain visibility platform, which will use iPass’s network and analytics to track the location data …

Kepware, a PTC business, released its KEPServerEX Version 6 software, which is an update to the company’s industrial “internet of things” connectivity platform aimed at strengthening its core product offering for …

A LoRaWAN test town for Hungary Szada is a small town on the outskirts of Budapest, Hungary, with a population of around 5,000. Its economy has relied on agriculture for …

Transparency based on open data is another hallmark of a smart city Reemphasized by the ongoing, United Nations-hosted Marrakech Climate Change Conference, reducing levels of greenhouse gases in an effort …

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a center for the robotic exploration of space, having sent a robot towards every planet in the solar system. Cloud computing is an essential part …

World’s most intelligent smart building Twenty-eight thousand sensors. That is how many it takes to create the world’s smartest, most environmentally friendly building: The Edge. An office building in Amsterdam …

Consumer demand for mobile connectivity and cloud-based platforms has resulted in mobile networks transmitting more data than ever, which puts carriers in a prime spot to use analytics in order …

The ever-evolving push toward faster networks that handle more traffic is hampering the ability of current tools to monitor that traffic effectively, according to Andy Huckridge, director of service provider …

U.S. supermarket sees value in energy efficiency OutSmart used its monitoring and data analytics programs to help an unnamed regional supermarket chain with more than 800 stores located across the U.S. …

DALLAS–City of Memphis CIO Brent Nair, gave a talk titled, Why make a city smarter? at TMForum earlier this week. He spoke of the human element within the smart city, …

The benefits and processes of creating a smart city DALLAS–Jennifer Sanders, the executive director and co-founder of the Dallas Innovation Alliance, gave a talk titled Creating a smart city legacy: …

DALLAS–“Anything that can be digitalized will be.” That is how Nik Willets, deputy CEO of TM Forum, opened the keynote session titled “Embracing the new digital business reality,” at this …