As much as one-third of medication is unusable by the time it is supposed to be taken as a result of poor storage of temperature-sensitive medicines due to insufficient supply chain management and failure of patients to correctly store prescriptions, according to a case...
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is going directly after the "internet of things" market with this week’s release of Bluetooth 5, the newest version of the now ubiquitous wireless technology said to offer significant range, speed and broadcast message capacity upgrades.
According to the release,...
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...
Sigfox announced earlier this month it is closing a $160 million (150 million euros) funding round it intends to use on expansion of its low power wide area network. Companies including Salesforce, Total, Henri Seydoux, Alto Invest, Swen CP and Tamer Group joined existing shareholders...
MQTT and the internet of things.
MQ Telemetry Transport, invented in 1999 by Andy Stanford-Clark of IBM and Arlen Nipper of Eurotech, is an open standard messaging protocol created for constrained devices and low-bandwidth, high-latency or unreliable networks. Its design principles are to...
What is Modbus?
Modbus is a serial communication protocol for use with programmable logic controllers. It is typically used to transmit signals from instrumentation and control devices back to a main controller; or data gathering system, for example a system that measures temperature and humidity...
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...
We sat down with Guillaume Houssay, co-founder and CEO of Qowisio North America, to discuss the company's view on providing LoRa-based low power wide area network services in a more targeted basis rather than looking to provide the widest possible coverage. France-based Qowisio offers...
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...
Future Electronics announces new franchise agreement with Gemalto
Future Electronics, a supplier of electronics components, recently announced a new franchise agreement with Gemalto. The new agreement includes Gemalto’s portfolio of machine-to-machine products, cellular technologies and "internet of things" solutions.
“The addition of Gemalto to our line...
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 global corporations requiring operational scalability, security and support. Enhancements include a new method for...
In 2015, Huawei published a report titled "NB-IoT: Enabling new business opportunities," arguing that wide area low power networks, which had already been around for a decade, were fragmented – having poor reliability, security and high operational costs. Its response was narrowband-IoT, the cellular...
GSM-R, an aging railway standard
In 2000, the railway companies of Europe sat down to finish up the creation of a cost-efficient and interoperable standard for communication between trains. The aim was to replace all analog systems then in use. They laid down the requirements...
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...
CSL, an "internet of things" and machine-to-machine solutions company with a footprint in the fire and security industry, selected Vodafone to bolster the connectivity of its more than 2,800 alarm installers.
CSL became a Vodafone partner in 1996, as it looked "scale resilience of the...
This year’s Small Cells Americas Conference focused around talks on "5G," in-building infrastructure and the "internet of things." If there is one concept that filled the expo hall and session rooms as much as any other, it was network densification.
What is network densification?
There...
There may be no more appropriate place in the United States than New York City for a discussion on network densification and the challenges of "5G." ZenFi, a dark fiber backhaul company claiming to have the first solution of its kind deployed specifically to...
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 year’s TM Forum Innovation inFocus meetup. He gave the digitalization example of our phones,...
DALLAS–Craig Bachmann, senior director of open digital/IoE at TM Forum, opened up the internet of everything track of TM Forum Innovation InFocus this week with a talk titled “Forum InFocus: Enabling an open digital ecosystem.” TM Forum is finding that enterprises are questioning what their...
LPWA: low cost, fast expansion
DALLAS–Dave Kjendal, CTO and vice president of engineering at Senet, a LoRaWAN network provider, gave a talk titled “Enabling rapid IoT network deployment to capture market share,” at this year's LPWA Americas conference.
Low cost is the single most important requirement...
DALLAS–Allen Proithis, president of Sigfox North America, gave a keynote address titled “Power to the devices,” at this week’s LPWA Americas event. He spoke of the current state of IoT and gave requirements for what is needed from low-power wide-area networks to help continue...
DALLAS – Randall Schwartz, founder and consultant at broadband wireless consulting firm Wireless 20/20, gave a number of recommendations for breaking the dam holding back in-building deployment in a workshop titled "In-building wireless – how to create a win-win-win business model" at the recent...
DALLAS – The Small Cell Forum published its latest technical guide detailing best practices for operators planning to deploy network functions virtualization. Small cell virtualization is expected to be a key enabler of "5G" technology, heterogeneous networks, enterprise services and the "internet of things"...
Apple on Thursday released a new Macbook Pro design, the first time it has seen a refresh in four years. It has all but killed off its popular Air line of ultra-portable computers, replacing it with the 13-inch version of the Macbook Pro or 12-inch...
