Toronto-based BehrTech, licensee of the new MIOTY low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology, has come out swinging, it says, both as it gathers business from incumbent LPWA rivals and as it sets itself for a full tilt at the IoT connectivity market in 2020.
The firm has...
In a trio of announcements at Arm TechCon 2019 in San Jose yesterday (October 8), chip design company Arm walked the line on increasing flexibility and reducing fragmentation in the IoT space, as the rise of 5G and AI place ever-higher demand on compute...
Schneider Electric and ThoughtWire combine digital twins for hospitals
French firm Schneider Electric is partnering with Canadian IoT platform provider ThoughtWire on data integration and digital twins for the healthcare sector. Schneider Electric will leverage ThoughtWire’s digital twin solution to offer facilities managers in the...
Verizon and NEC claim existing fibre networks, rather than purpose-built fibre networks, can be used for optical sensing, to collect data on city traffic conditions and environmental measures.
They suggest existing fibre infrastructure, such as Verizon and other carriers make available in urban locales,...
High-tech Hudson Yards a showplace for CRE connectivity
Velstar?International, a global technology solutions provider, announced the deployment of a fully redundant, dual-path internet network into 555 West 25th Street in?New York City.
Owned by MacTaggart Family & Partners (MFP LP), this building?is a six-story, pre-war loft...
Vodafone is the first network operator in the UK to sub-license unused LTE / 4G spectrum under UK regulator Ofcom’s new spectrum policy, which seeks to bolster rural and indoor coverage, and drive industrial transformation.
The deal signals a race for spectrum innovation, according to...
German telecom
operator Deutsche Telekom has signed a 5G-focused memorandum of understanding
(MoU) with Audi and the city of Ingolstadt.
The goal of this partnership is
to use 5G technology to make urban mobility safer, more digital and more
sustainable.
The partners said that this MoU is the basis...
BT has
launched a smart cycling trial with 200 volunteers from its Adastral Park
R&D campus and surrounding area in Suffolk, UK, with the aim of testing
smart IoT-enabled bike lights to improve the cycling experience, the company
said in a blog post.
“This innovative use of connected technology...
Ohio-based tool distributor Jergens Industrial Supply (JIS) has developed an industrial spin-off of Amazon’s Dash IoT button for retail customers of its products. The Wi-Fi-enabled solution, which simplifies and automates stock replenishment, uses software from Austin-based Epicor.
JIS says it has improved productivity by...
Rockwell Automation has acquired India-based systems integrator MESTECH Services for an undisclosed fee. It said the deal will enhance its digital-change offer, spur business in India, and provide a new channel for PTC solutions.
Rockwell Automation took a $1 billion stake in PTC last year,...
An NHS trust in Manchester, in the UK, has agreed a £25 million deal with Hitachi Consulting to use advanced data analytics and IoT tools to digitise its processes and optimise its staff resources, in what is billed as the “UK’s first fully integrated...
The Port of Marseille Fos, in France, has new discussions with Orange about 5G, a developing relationship with IBM on blockchain, and a host of collaborations with local industry around port innovation, geared towards container handling, traffic management, cyber-security, and renewable energy.
Stéphane Reiche, general...
Dense Air, a subsidiary of network infrastructure vendor Airspan, has signed a deal with the city of Cascais in Portugal, a municipality in the Lisbon district, to build a 5G smart-city test network that makes use of its local 3.6GHz spectrum holding, to support...
Toronto based LPWA challenger BehrTech has released a new wireless smart sensor for environmental monitoring in industrial IoT setups under its MYTHINGS brand.
As with all its MYTHINGS family, the new sensor uses telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB) technology for low-power wide-area (LPWA) connectivity in industrial IoT...
Factories are bringing intelligence to the production line in a number of ways. Most are focused on integration between machines on the factory floor and leveraging sensor data for actionable insights.
Texas-based software firm Epicor identifies certain examples: shop-floor scorecard systems for reviewing performance, touchscreen...
French IoT firm Traxens has struck deals with logistics and transport providers Inter Transit Pharma (ITP) and Inter Transit et Prestations Logistiques (ITPL) for real-time precision tracking of consignments of pharmaceuticals auto-parts by air and sea to Africa.
ITP and ITPL are part of...
Sprint has signed a strategic partnership with technology solutions provider CalAm to deliver intelligent telematics devices and software applications, along with CalAmp iOn Device-as-a-Service (DaaS) subscription services.
The relationship further expands Sprint's range of connected car, fleet and asset management services for enterprise and business...
At
least 25 mobile operators worldwide are currently involved in trials of LTE or
5G-based Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) technologies, according to a
recent study by the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA).
In its
report, GSA has identified the following cellular-V2X ecosystem status:
-25
operators involved in trials of LTE- or 5G-based...
Telecoms vendor Huawei has partnered with Chinese agricultural technology supplier XAG on a series of experiments to explore the application of 5G and AI in agriculture.
XAG is also an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) manufacturer, producing drones, alongside internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence...
AT&T has joined Qualcomm’s smart cities accelerator programme, which now counts almost 70 members and met for the first time in San Diego last week.
The initiative has been convened as a collaboration vehicle, to connect cities, municipalities, government agencies and enterprises with end-to-end smart...
Indian telecom operator Bharti Airtel is currently focusing on the development of internet of things applications to expand its presence in this segment, local newspaper Economic Times reported Sundi Raman, head of digital products and IoT for Airtel Business, as saying.
Raman said that India was...
BehrTech is a Toronto-based industrial IoT connectivity provider claiming a “disruptive” streak in the burgeoning low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking market. The company has just issued a (privately commissioned, independently researched) report that says its novel telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB) technology is better than LoRaWAN.
Indeed, it...
“It's like a secret recipe,” says Bernd Gross, chief technology officer at German firm Software AG, when asked about why the car industry is not crowing, yet, about its paint-shop analytics solution, developed with German robot maker Dürr, and rolled out by at least two...
Deutsche Telekom has added new partners for its 5G-based smart factory ecosystem, the German telco said in a statement.
The new partners are EK Automation, Konica Minolta and Endress+Hauser.
"Our development of a complete 5G ecosystem for industry will accelerate the pace of digitization in industry....
