Data Analytics

Health tech startup Upstream Health has developed a low-cost IoT monitoring solution with the UK-based Thingstream division of IoT semiconductor maker U-Blox (branded ‘u-blox’) to help with remote care of elderly patients in their homes. The new solution could save …

The industrial internet-of-things (IIoT) is here to stay. Many heavy industry companies in fields such as engineering, mining, oil and gas, and manufacturing are accelerating their adoption of digital transformation journeys due to recent global events. The barriers to adopting …

Siemens sounded rather chuffed last week with the progress of and prospects for industrial 5G, home and abroad. The company said at its digital enterprise summit that 5G, when it finally comes available as a viable networking alternative for industry, …

Orange and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have demonstrated 5G network slicing in a robot-powered Industry 4.0 setup. The pair said they will expand the demo into an “end-to-end campus trial” as they plot its broader availability. HPE has also announced …

Walmart Canada is investing $3.5 billion in digital transformation over the next five years, including to develop smarter stores and distribution centres, and to strike new deals with local tech firms. The investment covers internet-of-things (IoT) sensors, artificial intelligence (AI) …

Verizon and IBM are combining their capabilities in 5G connectivity, edge and cloud computing, and data analytics to service the industrial market’s pursuit of digital change, as part of the so-called Industry 4.0 movement. The collaboration will see the pair …

Siemens and SAP have agreed to offer each other’s industrial production software as complementary solutions in an integrated Industry 4.0 offer, enabling a digital thread between lifecycle management and business operations. SAP will offer Siemens’ cloud-based Teamcenter software to customers …

The World Economic Forum has published a study that says “nature-positive” enterprise solutions can create 395 million jobs and $10 trillion in revenue by 2030. A major subtext of the piece is how digital technologies, bringing insight and automation to …

Groupe Renault will use Google’s cloud platform and analytics engine to bring tighter integration and keener insights to its centralised Industry 4.0 data management platform, the company has announced. Renault has been developing its own digital platform since 2016 to …

UK water utility Yorkshire Water is in the final stages of an NB-IoT and AI pilot with BT to connect almost 4,000 acoustic, flow, pressure, and water quality monitors to manage leaks and interruptions in the water network in the …

As much as 30 percent of the installed base of outdoor small cell networks and 71 percent of indoor enterprise systems in the next five years will be operated by new entrants to the cellular segment. This is the conclusion …

UK-based chip design company Arm is looking to hand control of its burgeoning IoT platform and data analytics businesses over to parent company Softbank, to distribute to “new entities”, in order to strengthen its focus on its core semiconductor business. …

Danish pump manufacturer Grundfos is to replace wired connections with a private 5G network from Swedish vendor Ericsson and local operator TDC NET at its production plant in Bjerringbro, north of Aarhus, in Denmark. The project is a trial-run, with …

Sometimes IoT technologies work better in concert. The standard model for IoT networks to combine two or more different connectivity technologies is when short-range wireless protocols are used in the sensors themselves. Often, these short-range sensors utilise IEEE 802.15.4 based …

Real-time Bluetooth-based sports analytics is coming to football (soccer), says Finnish duo Wisehockey and Quuppa after putting their real-time locating system (RTLS) to the test in their home country. Player and ball movements were tracked during a pre-season match between …

Salesforce and Siemens have bundled their workplace management tools in a new IoT suite to help businesses reopen after lockdown and embrace new practices for physical workplaces, as a so-called ‘new normal’ takes shape in the shadow of the global …

Qualcomm is working with Maryland-based systems integrator Infinite Computer Solutions to offer a ‘plug-and-play’ smart cities package on a subscription. The pair claim to have compiled an “end-to-end” IoT solution for sundry players in the smart cities space, including government, …

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) has introduced an ‘edge orchestrator’ to enable telecoms carriers to bundle-up and resell edge-based compute, connectivity, and apps to verticals on a subscription basis, and to attack the Industry 4.0 space. The offer is presented by …

Deutsche Telekom is offering a sensor-based people counting solution and alert system to retailers in Germany manage in-store traffic volumes and social distancing as they reopen after lockdown. The solution uses LTE or LoRaWAN for local-area sensor connectivity, and LTE, …

German industrial giant Bosch restated its expectation to capitalise both ways on new industrial connectivity and analytics in the next years as it revealed a 25 percent jump in sales of its own Industry 4.0 solutions, and a new €500 …

UK-based Zeetta Networks has struck a deal with Germany-based open networking specialist Stordis to develop and distribute its management software for private LTE and 5G networks to enterprise resellers globally. The deal covers distribution of the Zeetta Enterprise network management …

Siemens has acquired Swedish service and software company Vizendo, maker of augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) training solutions for automotive manufacturing. The deal sees it deepen its Industry 4.0 contracts with the likes of BMW, Daimler, and Ford, …

Spain-based telecoms operator Telefónica and Germany-based industrial provider Siemens have announced a deal to offer combined IT / OT cybersecurity for the Industry 4.0 sector in Spain, marrying their respective strengths in IT and OT security. The Spanish division of …

Germany-based Software AG has struck a deal with IT consultancy Tech Mahindra to provide technical support and integration platforms, alongside networking and analytics tools, to enable mobile operators to deliver IoT services to enterprise customers. They are also targeting enterprise …

Japanese duo Mitsubishi Corporation and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Corporation have jointly acquired a 30 percent ownership stake Netherlands-based mapping company HERE Technologies. The two companies have co-invested in HERE via holding company COCO Tech Holding in the Netherlands, …