Walgreens, one of the largest drugstore chains in the U.S. has selected Theatro, a provider of voice-controlled mobile platform as a service for the hourly workforce.
Under the
terms of the contract, Walgreens is implementing Theatro’s enterprise-wide
solution at all of its 9,560 stores, with the first...
Deutsche Telekom is offering industrialists so-called ‘campus networks’, which offer a kind of proto-slicing as a pre-cursor to slicing-proper with 5G networks.
But its recent work in the Port of Hamburg with Nokia experimented with network-slicing proper, specifically for environmental monitoring, traffic control, and maintenance...
The Marseille Fos port in southern France is leading the new French Smart Port in Med initiative, with an ambition to “build the port of the future”. It has a focus on efficiency, innovation, and environmental sustainability
The initiative has received funding from CMA CGM,...
The Port of Marseille Fos is amping up its smart port strategy with 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,...
South East Water is connecting digital water meters, sensors and acoustic loggers on underground mains water pipes to Vodafone’s NB-IoT network in the UK. The arrangement is part of a year-long trial of the technology to monitor and fix water leakage, in line with...
Recent trials of industrial 5G at the Port of Hamburg have given the German port a lift, and clear designs about digital change. But it will count for nothing if the German telecoms industry cannot conjure rapid rollout of 5G networks, it said.
“The main...
Ofcom will open up a large tranche of the UK airwaves for enterprises to deploy private and shared networks, dedicating the 3.8-4.2 GHz band for local deployments, requiring national operators to relinquish unused licensed spectrum to enterprises, and making available the lower 26 GHz...
Cellular IoT technologies are expected to take the lion's share of the low-power wide-area (LPWA) market, but it has been a bumpy start – outside of China, at least. Rival non-cellular technologies LoRaWAN and Sigfox have stolen a march in other territories.
Here, we...
IoT provider Ingenu has relaunched with a ‘2.0’ message about the suitability of its low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology for sundry industrial sectors, with a platform-as-a-service offer and a number of contract wins in the Asia Pacific region.
The San Diego based company has also...
In the end, it comes down to customer satisfaction – which, in the end, comes down to money. However you spin it, smarter industrial operations make better products, more efficiently, which raise customer loyalty, which makes business. The theory is not new. The method,...
Device availability, network flexibility, and technical features give LoRaWAN the edge on NB-IoT today, reckons Proximus. But competition between the two IoT technologies will grow closer, it expects. Meanwhile, Sigfox is missing in action, having apparently retreated from the kinds of metering and smart-city...
Sprint’s Curiosity IoT is enabling connectivity, over-the-air device management and intelligent data capabilities for Dynamics' Wallet Card, which claims to be the world's first connected payment card.
Already adopted
by major global financial institutions, the Wallet Card will operate with
seamless connectivity through Curiosity IoT, remote device management...
LoRaWAN supports a broad set of IoT applications, applicable to a wide variety of vertical markets. Below is a comprehensive list of 19 use cases, as provided by LoRaWAN provider Senet, which offers LoRaWAN infrastructure in 80 countries.
Check out the new report on...
Restaurant chains Shake Shack, Five Guys and Hard Rock Café have deployed LoRa-based temperature monitoring systems in their commercial kitchens.
UK firm CM Systems, a specialist in monitoring systems for food safety compliance, has transferred these chains, alongside regional brands like City Barbeque and...
Sigfox has said it will boost its so-called 0G network infrastructure six-fold in terms of capacity and features to serve as a cellular back-up network for an expanding customer base. It has also extended a key deal with Securitas Direct into Portugal.
Sigfox said...
French IoT firm Traxens has followed up news of pending investment from shipping giant Maersk with the closing of a €20 million Series C round of investment funding.
Traxens said the injection will go to scale-up of its smart containers and rail freight businesses,...
Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) is a cellular-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology. Specified in Release 13 of the 3GPP in June 2016, it coexists with GSM and LTE in licensed frequency bands.
NB-IoT is associated with simple sensor applications, which make up most of the burgeoning...
T-Mobile US announced it will start selling what it claims to be the first asset tracking solution in the United States, the telco said in a release.
T-Mobile US partnered with Roambee for its BeeAware asset tracking IoT offering. The solution will be offered via...
French IoT firm Traxens is poised to receive major investment from shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, alongside a big order for cellular cargo trackers. It has also been drafted into the new French Smart Port in Med initiative in Marseille as an associate partner.
Traxens...
Australian internet-of-things (IoT) operator National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) has signed a strategic investment agreement with global energy and environment company Enzen Group. The $8 million deal is geared towards driving LoRaWAN adoption in Australia “at scale”.
The pair said they are in position to...
UK firm Telensa has struck a deal to provide smart controls to 15,000 LED street lights in the City of Dunedin in New Zealand.
The arrangement is part of a deal by Spanish-owned, Australia-based infrastructure management company Broadspectrum to upgrade the city’s streetlighting network. Broadspectrum...
French IoT company Sigfox claims 6.7 million active devices in the field (“not counting proofs of concept, just commercial rollouts in diverse industries”), in 63 countries on five continents. It has set an ambitious (bonkers, surely?) target of one billion connections by 2023, under...
Sea ports have become a primary focus for the telecoms sector as it maps out potential customers for private communications networks, particularly as the industrial space at large hits upon the opportunity for new LTE and 5G networks to bring digital advancement.
But networking...
With the rise of connected devices in homes and offices spiralling upwards, Paul Hague, chief executive at UK cybersecurity firm BlackDice, says enterprises are letting vulnerable home devices onto their networks and walking blindly into a cybersecurity nightmare.
The internet of things (IoT) hasn’t changed...
