Industrial giant Siemens, reticent on the subject until now, has been gushing in its support of 5G for industry, as a means to automate and animate digital factories, and bring total flexibility to production facilities. “Once we start to realise these possibilities, we will...
Mining has evolved from a hard, manual process, involving hand tools and rudimentary explosives, to one that takes advantage of sophisticated technologies that bring connectivity, automation, and intelligence into play.
Today, mines run conveyor belts like arteries, moving equipment and materials between the mine shaft...
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...
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,...
rSquared CRE, which is a SaaS-based provider for the commercial real estate (CRE) industry, announced its official launch this month.
The new entity, a spin-off of Realogic Analytics, will focus specifically on developing cloud software solutions that fill the unmet demands within the CRE space,...
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...
Hitachi sees traditional supply chain management as a road block to disruption
The broad Industry 4.0 conversation focuses on how the internet of things and data analytics can add value to foundational sectors like manufacturing, transportation and retail. But linking together those industries, connecting the...
Note, this article is serialised from a broad-ranging report on the statre of the smart energy market. It continues from a previous post, entitled 'Why the home is the heart of the new energy internet'. Go here for the last post; go here for...
Smart meters have provided a read-out on energy consumption and a window on energy usage. They have brought insight and control to the field of energy management, both sides of the meter. They are, in a sense, the gateway devices for these concepts of...
The European Commission is offering manufacturing companies funding of €60,000 each to run collaborative smart manufacturing experiments at neutral hub sites, with a total funding pot stretching to almost €1 million.
The Commission has invited small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing and...
For Nokia there are three critical technologies for enabling digital transformation of the supply chain, and all of the points along it, including the production, transportation, and storage of goods.
These technologies are private networks, indoor positioning, and advanced analytics. "The combination will be of...
One key element that was skirted around in Enterprise IoT Insights’ recent report on digital change in the power sector: the nitty-gritty of data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). We referenced these as key disciplines – as the real art of digital change, in...
Some time back, Finnish transmission operator Fingrid ran due diligence on the sector’s transformation, with the decarbonisation and decentralisation of the power supply, and advancements in digital technologies bringing cheaper hardware and better software to grid operations. “We looked at how we could take...
The only way the planet will hit sustainability targets is through comprehensive electrification and digitisation of the energy market, and of society at large, reckons German tech giant Siemens.
Consumption of electrical power was 10,000 TWh in 1990 and 25,000 TWh in 2017, and will...
The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA), Deutsche Telekom and Nokia have completed an 18-month field test of 5G slicing and industrial IoT at the Port of Hamburg.
The Port of Hamburg is ready to automate various port operations with 5G as soon as the networks go...
Ericsson is to build a fully-automated smart factory in the US, opening from 2020, to build its 5G radios and accelerate 5G rollout in the country.
The factory will use industrial 5G for connecting machines and sensors to edge compute and cloud analytics programmes,...
New Jersey-based Honeywell is a stalwart in smart energy systems, with focus particularly on industrial and enterprise solutions. It is proviidng managed smart grid services as a way for utilities to manage technical smart grid networks more easily, and enable improved electricity service and...
There will be 41.6 billion connected IoT devices generating 79.4 zettabytes (ZB) of data by 2025. So says International Data Corporation (IDC), which calculates at the same time the amount of data created by these IoT devices will grow at a compund rate of...
Professional services company Accenture has bought Seattle-based ‘security-of-things’ company Deja vu Security for an undisclosed fee, as it seeks to ramp up its cyber-security offer in the face of an estimated $5.2 trillion cyber-risk for global enterprises.
Deja vu Security specialises in security design and...
AT&T will work with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to help businesses harness edge capabilities. The two companies have agreed a go-to-market programme for the sale of edge connections and edge computing. They are targeting customers in retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and stadiums, in particular.
AT&T’s...
ABB and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have struck a deal on wireless connectivity for large industrial customers, where ABB sensors attached to industrial equipment are connected to the cloud via HPE gateways.
An integrated solution, slated to be available late 2019 and targeted at...
Vodafone has signed a deal with industrial IoT and AR specialist PTC to help developers and enterprises deploy digital-change applications. The deal is an extension of an existing three-year arrangement, they said.
Milwaukee-based PTC quoted market analysis from LNS Research that says less than 10...
