Singapore is trialing the usage of a robot dog from Boston Dynamics to assist with social distancing measures in parks, gardens and nature reserves.
The announcement by Singapore’s Smart Nation and Digital Government Group, which comprises its The Smart Nation and Digital Government Office (SNDGO)...
Ninety percent of companies in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry are yet to leverage digital technologies at scale, and that even the best equipped of them are struggling to make their digital deployments pay.
This is the conclusion of a new report from SmarterChains,...
German industrial giant Siemens has called for the planet to urgently prioritise digital technologies, of the type it is selling, in order to meet environmental and societal challenges, and to equip the economy with the working tools to better cope in mass-crisis scenarios, such...
Sidewalk Labs, the smart-city side project of Google-parent company Alphabet, has pulled the plug on its controversial tech-fuelled urban re-development project in Toronto, blaming “economic uncertainty” brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
The firm said the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis was felt in...
At the end of last year, Orange Business announced a major strategic overhaul, placing analytics and automation at the heart of its operations, and stating that 2-to-3% per year of its future growth through 2023 will come from supplying connectivity and intelligence to enterprises,...
In research for a new report on industrial AR, Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Ian Henderson, chief technologist for manufacturing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to discuss the challenges with contemporary AR (and VR) setups in the industrial space. Here is the interview, in...
A consortium of 16 industrial companies and research institutions have combined in a €9.5 million project to set out the “groundwork” for truck platooning with autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles, as the primary use case to establish usage of 5G and Wi-Fi in intelligent transport...
Industrial IoT data management firm OSIsoft has announced the general availability of its Edge Data Store software for remotely monitoring critical assets.
The product, released from testing with limited customers, allows industrial operators to collect, store, and access data from assets and sensors in remote...
Note, this article is taken from an editorial report on industrial AR, called Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers. The report is available to download here.
What is the deal with all of these alternative realities? The industry has come up with...
CIMCON is adding road condition monitoring to its smart lighting deployments in the town of Spencer in the company’s home state of Massachusetts.
Town officials have been looking to improve driver safety, meet state environmental guidelines, and reduce costs from ineffective road monitoring and maintenance....
Qualcomm has introduced the idea of extended reality (XR), combining and going beyond the disciplines of augmented (AR), virtual (VR), and even mixed (MR) reality technology. More than this, it is talking about 'boundless XR', which leverages industrial 5G and distributed AI, when powerful...
The trick with AR in industry is to keep lights on and services flowing even during periods of absence, as enforced in extremis by the new coronavirus pandemic. The kinds of remote assistance tools being offered by companies like Microsoft and PTC, and some...
Bosch is preparing to ramp up production again after shutting down production at nearly 100 facilities globally in the COVID-19 pandemic, on the back of a 17 percent slowdown in March, a 7.3 percent fall in the first quarter, and a refusal to forecast...
The island of Orkney in Scotland has developed a 5G-powered digital twinning system to help residents participate in the delivery of its new energy network.
Led by Heriot-Watt University’s Global Research, Innovation and Discovery (GRID) facility and supported by the Scotland 5G Centre, the project...
France-based industrial software provider Dassault Systèmes and China-based facilities management company Aden Group are combining their digital twin and modular architecture platforms to fast-track hospital construction.
The arrangement is in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dassault Systèmes was involved with China’s Central-South Architectural Design Institute...
Note, this article is taken from an editorial report on industrial AR, called Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers. The report is available to download here.
AR hardware has a reputation for being expensive and cumbersome. How is the experience, actually? Not...
Note, this article is taken from an editorial report on industrial AR, called Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers. The report is available to download here.
Let us start with the scenario the main article finishes (see report) with: a connected...
This article continues from here. It is an excerpt from a full report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is...
The City of Las Vegas is to pay $1.58 million over five years for a range of camera-based artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to automate the enforcement of parking and traffic regulations.
Australian AI provider SenSen Networks has won the five-year contract, which covers the purchase...
Ubicquia has released a new IoT router for street lights that it claims is the simplest, cheapest, and most sophisticated way for smart cities to control their various tech sensors.
The Fort Lauderdale firm, which makes smart lighting control platforms, said the new Ubicell 2.0...
This article continues from here. It is an excerpt from a full report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is...
This article continues from here. It is an excerpt from a full report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is...
Chinese smart metering firm Hexing is bundling the Pelion IoT platform, from UK-based silicon design company Arm, and low-power Wi-SUN connectivity into its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), as it seeks to expand into Southeast Asia, India, South America, and Europe.
Hexing is offering Wi-SUN based...
This is an excerpt from a full report called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is available to download (for free)...
