Industrial IoT firm Seeq raises $24 million from equity sale
Seattle-based industrial analytics company Seeq has raised $24 million from investors, according to a report in Computer Reseller News.
Seeq has sold $24.3 million of equity to an unnamed investor group, according to the report, which...
The installed base of smart street lights is forecasted to surpass 31.2 million at a global level by 2013, according to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight.
The Swedish firm said that the installed base of smart street lights was...
Itai Dadon, director of smart cities and IoT, Itron:
1. The finance industry takes an interest
“Cities continue to grow at a fast pace; at the same time, they are learning fast and their strategy around digital transformation is maturing, which is generating a lot of...
German giant Siemens said it is working to develop an integrated digital solution to help the world-famous Halle orchestra, based in Manchester, U.K., cut its costs by 35% through energy reduction.
Siemens? integrated digital solution will aim to make Halle St. Peter?s, the historic recording...
Fingrid, Finland’s national transmission system operator, has appointed Nokia to build an IP/MPLS network to support the digital transformation of its national electrical grid.
Fingrid will use the network to operate 120 high-voltage substations and control 14,600 kilometres of power transmission across the country. The...
Japanese utility firm Nippon Gas (NICIGAS) announced plans to upgrade 850,000 gas meters with smart capabilities in 2020 using a retrofitted gas meter reader developed by UnaBiz and Soracom, the latter said in a statement.
IoT connectivity provider Soracom highlighted that Space Hotaru, an...
Oracle is expanding its Chicago Innovation Lab, which would allow more organizations to explore new technologies and strategies to bolster their digital transformation efforts, the firm said in a release.
Since its launch last year, the
Lab has helped construction organizations explore and test solutions...
Nokia has deployed private LTE networks with more than 120 customers across multiple industries and geographies, it has revealed.
The Finnish vendor said it had deployed almost two in five (37 per cent), on average, of its total private wireless networks in Europe, followed by...
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...
Global energy firm ENGIE and enterprise artificial intelligence software company C3.ai are partnering to launch?Smart Institutions?, an AI-powered, energy-as-a-service software solution for universities, municipalities, corporate campuses and hospitals.
Designed by C3.ai and ENGIE Digital, the group?s software entity, ?Smart Institutions? enables organizations to automatically manage...
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced best-practice standards aimed at supporting more resilient and energy efficient buildings across the state.
The release of the NYStretch Energy Code ? 2020 toolkit will aid municipalities interested in voluntarily adopting higher efficiency standards...
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...
The Italian smart port of Livorno in Italy is to showcase how buzzword industrial tech like 5G, AI, and IoT can help enterprises, municipalities and governments to bring forward environmental improvements to meet the United Nations’ ‘sustainable development goals’ (SDGs).
The SDGs were set out...
Digital twins of smart cities will number 500 by 2025, from a handful today, according to ABI Research. The concept of digital twins will start move from smart factories, where spatial modelling is starting to be used to show the interplay between physical environments...
“The world is changing, and changing extremely fast,” explains Swedish manufacturer Sandvik at PI World 2019 in Gothenburg this week. The firm, a ‘lighthouse’ smart manufacturer for the World Economic Forum, says industrialists must drive digital change in order to save the planet.
During a...
The operational technology (OT) industry moved to shore up its position as the arbiter of industrial change at PI World 2019 in Sweden today by declaring that new-fangled digital technologies like artificial intelligence cannot be so easily sold into the industrial set by opportunistic...
Johnson Controls, a global provider of solutions for smart buildings, is making infrastructure improvements at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, to help improve energy efficiencies throughout the campus, the company said in a statement.
The firm said that updates began in August with plans...
Germany is to pump €40 billion into digital transformation of its old coal-mining regions, to drive enterprise and employment as coal mining is phased out in the country.
New legislation that is expected to pass by the end of the year, which will designate...
EDMI, owned by Osaki Electric Company in Japan, has major smart metering deals with water, gas, and electric utilities in Asia and Europe. The Singapore-based company makes IoT modules for utilities, to provide the management platform for smart meter devices, connectivity, and data.
EDMI struck...
Germany has a good model for the adoption of renewable energy resources. The country has an aggressive decarbonisation agenda as part of its energiewende (‘energy transition’). It shut down seven reactors after the nuclear disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011, has since...
Itron has a deal with givernment owned utility Western Power in Australia to connect around 240,000 electricity meters.
Western Power, in Western Australia, will gain visibility into the operation of its electricity distribution network, enabling automated data collection, new remote services and the ability...
Detail of the design of Thailand’s new real-estate mega development, One Bangkok, has been revealed for the first time. The $3.9 billion project, billed as the country’s largest ever private sector real-estate initiative, will set “new benchmarks in design, smart-city living and sustainability,” its...
Peninsula Light Company (PenLight) has appointed US carrier Verizon to upgrade its power distribution system in Washington State with an LTE-based system, comprising smart electricity meters and a data analytics platform.
Verizon will replace end-of-life meters with cellular IoT meters in 33,000 homes and businesses....
Georgia
Power, the largest electric subsidiary of Southern Company, and homebuilding
company PulteGroup announced the opening of what it claims to be Atlanta’s
first Smart Neighborhood.
Leaders
from Georgia Power, PulteGroup, the Georgia Public Service Commission, U.S.
Department of Energy, City of Atlanta and the project’s technology partners
joined together to...
