2017 is expected to be a big year for artificial intelligence, with use cases across a wide range of connected use cases and network applications.
AI is largely seen as the full realization of what big data, analytics and automation have been moving towards --...
Cisco has released its latest analysis of mobile network traffic, and its research found that the pace of growth in mobile data traffic has slowed slightly even while mobile network speeds saw a huge boost during 2016.
Takeaways from the 11th annual Cisco Visual Networking...
From data monetization to improving quality of life, smart cities will be highlighted at the Enterprise IoT Summit.
As the internet of things continues to take shape, harnessing connected technologies and attendant data insight to improve the functions of towns and cities has...
Application optimization company PacketZoom launched a new benchmark for mobile application performance and end-user experience, relying on data compiled from networks around the world.
The benchmark is meant to be a guide for app developers who want to take into account mobile app performance across different geographies and...
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 Canadian city.
Mississauga’s population has grown to nearly 800,000 residents in recent years thanks...
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 water treatment plant or even your own home. SCADA is an automation...
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, taking measurements and collecting data. They are often one of the first...
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 50,000 district and industrial facilities in the country. Pittsburgh-based Embedded Energy Technology...
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 mixing process was said to be producing inconsistent output quality, with yields dipping as low as...
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 to help farmers use data to become more "productive, prosperous and viable." The goal...
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...
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’ revenue and one-third of the cost of goods sold, according to a...
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. I have written about IBM and Watson several times over the last few years,...
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 data in real time or near-real time. It is a kind of computing in which...
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 between 1981 and 2013 its population grew by 103%, according to City Metric. The rapid influx...
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 that challenge is the object linking and embedding for process control standard, which is a...
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 stations to treat 20 million gallons of wastewater every day. Pumping, treatment and conveyance are...
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 of goods moving across a supply chain.
Armada places its "internet of things" tiles, or...
Kepware, a PTC business, released its KEPServerEXÂ 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 global corporations requiring operational scalability, security and support. Enhancements include a new method 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 centuries, with a recent trend towards vine growing. Thanks to its proximity to Budapest, Szada...
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 to combat global warming is a major priority of world governments. And while smart city...
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 of the tactical operations for the Mars Science Laboratory mission. From the control room...
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 whose main tenant is consulting firm Deloitte, has been rated the most environmentally sustainable smart...
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 to glean insight into what is actually moving across their networks. However, growing demand...
