Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, has issued an executive order to hire a new ‘algorithms management and policy officer’ to bring transparency and order to the city’s use of data and analytics tools.
The move comes after the city convened a...
Telefónica has revealed a five-point reinvention plan to set it for “the next 100 years”. The strategy leans heavily into the digital transformation of industry and society, and sees the Spanish operator establish a brand new digital change unit, called Telefónica Tech, which it...
Bosch and Qualcomm have set up shop at the Smart Production Solutions (SPS) trade fair in Nuremberg, Germany, this week to show industrial devices using time-sensitive networking (TSN) over a live 5G network.
The combination of TSN and 5G is a key showcase for...
Tearing down departmental data silos in cities remains the dream for smart cities, and yet it is still out of reach. German industrial giant Siemens told Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona this week it is the only way to deliver disruptive transformation,...
Singapore, ranked the smartest city in the world in certain polls, has warned cities they must get a handle on artificial intelligence (AI) if they are to succeed as ‘smart cities’, trusted by citizens and enterprises to manage data correctly.
The warning came at Smart...
Walmart Canada has launched a blockchain-based freight and payment network for 70 third-party trucking companies carrying goods for 400-odd Walmart stores in Canada.
The new platform, designed with Toronto-based blockchain developer DLT Labs, uses distributed ledger technology to track deliveries, verify transactions, and automate...
German fashion house Hugo Boss has been applying advanced analytics to its production plants in four ways, it told IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona last week. These variously cover predictive maintenance, line optimisation, and efficiencies around consumption of materials and energy.
Speaking during a...
Finnish telecoms company Elisa is supporting the digital upgrade of around 100 factories owned by US consumer goods company Procter & Gamble, following an initial rollout of IoT monitoring and insights at 10 sites.
The partnership, which has been openly discussed by Elisa on...
Higher-order analytics tools are being embedded in the industrial space, as data science and data capture practices advance, and as compute power and wireless networking become more flexible. But machine learning is limited in its current form, and the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ will slow...
IoT system provider Itron has signed a deal with Rocky Mountain Power to deploy new smart meters and smart grid capabilities. The electric company, serving customers in Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming, will get a real-time read on grid devices and operations, said Itron.
Rocky Mountain...
Microsoft and Nokia are offering a private LTE and IoT bundle for operators and enterprises. UK based BT is the first operator to resell the package, offered as a managed service.
The arrangement, which sees the Microsoft’s Azure based cloud and analytics offered with...
Nokia is to equip a major state-run industrial training facility in Brazil with 5G and AI to accelerate Industry 4.0 skills, trials, and deployments in the region.
The Finnish vendor will deploy connectivity and analytics solutions at the country’s National Service for Industrial Training (SENAI-SP)...
IoT Solutions World Congress, in its fifth year (2019), has the whiff of MWC about it. It’s in Barcelona, at the same venue, and the faces are familiar -- with a number of the European telecoms giants, big cloud brands, and systems integrators scattered...
French IoT firm Traxens has joined the Port of Rotterdam’s new smart container project, Container 42. It will provide the sensors in the container, to measure various physical and environmental impacts, as the container makes its way around the world in a bid to...
Seven mining and metals companies have joined a World Economic Forum initiative to design and deploy blockchain solutions for the whole industry.
The seven founding companies are Antofagasta Minerals, Eurasian Resources Group, Glencore, Klöckner & Co, Minsur, Tata Steel, Anglo American/De Beers (Tracr). The group...
NVIDIA has announced a combination of edge computing and 5G networking innovations around its graphics processing unit (GPU) technologies, to drive scale of artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), and 5G applications.
Its new NVIDIA EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform is geared for rapid-fire data...
California based Pensando Systems has received $145 million in Series C, led by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, to emerge from ‘stealth’ mode to launch its software-defined cloud-to-edge service stack.
The Series C round takes its total funding to $278...
1 | Anglo American, Capcoal coal mine, Queensland, Australia
British mining company Anglo American has just started work in Australia on what it envisions as “one of the most technologically advanced underground mines in the world”. It is pumping $226 million into the expansion of...
Tech Mahindra and Cisco have come up with a new digital factory blueprint that puts 5G at the heart industrial operations. Tech Mahindra said the solution sets a model for IT-OT integration and security.
The solution covers certain factory functions, including wireless networking on the...
BehrTech, the Toronto-based startup in charge of the MIOTY low-power wide-area (LPWA) technolgy, has signed with industrial software company MAJiK Systems, from Ontario, to connect legacy industrial equipment with analytics software.
BehrTech’s MYTHINGS-branded connectivity platform, for managing MIOTY-based sensors and connectivity, has been integrated...
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...
Note, this is the third part in a three-part series about manufacturer Sandvik Cormorant, which has been ranked as the smartest factory in Sweden. Go here to read the previous instalment ('Smash-proof guitars and ‘insane’ amounts of data'). Go here to read the first...
Note, this is continued from a previous article, called: ‘Greta dislikes you, but we like Greta’ – Sandvik on industrial revolution and the smartest little tool-house in Sweden. Go here to read the first instalment.
The smartest factory in Sweden is a couple of...
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,...
