Sigfox nabs ex-Nokia man to head up US sales
Sigfox has appointed former Nokia man Murray Kawchuk as vice president of sales for its US business. Kawchuk will lead the company’s sales, engineering and IoT teams, develop partnerships with device makers, system integrators, and other...
The Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, robots, and drones are just a few technology topics we read about almost every day – in the mainstream press as well as in specialized industry publications. A wealth of articles has been written about emerging...
IBM has released a range of new Watson artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and services tailored for the agriculture, manufacturing, supply chain, building management, and automotive industries.
“Tailoring general AI for specific industries and professions is a critical way to enable everyone to reach new potential...
The U.S. carrier launched a nationwide NB-IoT network in July 2018
Swiss firm u‑blox says that T‑Mobile US has certified its LTE Cat NB1 SARA‑N410 module to run on the carrier’s narrowband internet of things network.
U-blox said its module, which supports ultra-low power consumption, can...
GuardHat developed a smart hard hat that monitors worker safety at industrial settings
Detroit-based industrial internet of things startup GuardHat said that it has raised a $20 million Series A funding round.
The investment was led by RTP Ventures, with participation from 3M Ventures, Caterpillar Ventures,...
Ericsson will have completed construction of Sprint’s new IoT core network and operating system (OS) by next month, it has said. The US carrier will be able to offer ‘internet of things’ (IoT) connectivity and applications on the new infrastructure in November.
The IoT platform,...
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) is on a charm offensive to strike cross sector alliances with trade bodies, communities and consortia to bring greater harmony and faster transformation of industry as it engages with new digital technologies.
The IIC said last month it had “global...
At its ‘Business Summit’ in Dallas this week, AT&T put major focus on its LTE-M network. Use cases are multiplying, it said. “I hear about new possibilities every day. Use cases are taking off – from asset tracking to connected healthcare, vehicle solutions and more,”...
The UK government has ramped up its transformation of manufacturing and mobility with new initiatives and funding opportunities.
Its ‘made smarter’ commission, aimed at unlocking £455 billion gains in the manufacturing industry over the next decade, has convened for the first time, with senior executives...
Ericsson said the new technology will allow the carrier to expand its LTE footprint across the country
Swedish vendor Ericsson and Australian carrier Telstra said they have successfully deployed and tested narrowband internet of things data connections up to 100 kilometers from a base station...
Throughout the ‘ask-the-experts’ session at URLLC 2018 in London earlier this month, serialised here across a number of posts, the conversation circled back time and again to 5G use cases. What are the sync requirements? How many slices? Where is the edge? Every time,...
AT&T has introduced a flat-rate full-fat LTE-M data plan in the US of £30 per month for unlimited data.
The One Rate subscription applies only to AT&T-approved IoT LTE-M devices, and to single devices at a time – data cannot be pooled across multiple internet-of-things...
Artificial intelligence (AI) will create more jobs than its takes away, as well as bringing new efficiencies and profit making to enterprises. This is the conclusion of new research into the impact of AI on the global workforce, as well as the prevailing opinion...
Network slicing, allowing for multiple network layers on top of a single shared infrastructure, is arguably the most significant capability of incoming 5G technologies. It brings brand new business opportunities to operators to serve enterprises and industries, each with conflicting requirements.
One of the panel...
AT&T is inviting companies in the manufacturing, retail, health, finance, and public sector industries into its Foundry innovation lab in Plano, Texas, for the first time to collaborate on new digital solutions.
A new area within the facility has been given over to “all aspects...
“5G will do the boring stuff first”. The low-latency pyrotechnics that will fire the industrial sector into a new gear for the first time will come much later. The version of 5G that radio engineers are preparing and network marketers are promoting is only...
Through the new facility, Hitachi aims to foster the adoption of smart factory technology in Asia
Japanese firm Hitachi has opened a digital services hub in Thailand with the aim of helping Asian companies to cut costs through the implementation of smart factory technology, Japanese...
Cannabis growers, like other agriculturalists, are turning to internet-of-things (IoT) technologies, essentially comprising sensor devices and data analytics, to bring new efficiencies to their operations, and improve yields and profits. The impact has been seismic.
Marijuana is a booming business in North America. US states...
Operators Sprint and Vodafone have backed Arm’s integrated SIM (iSIM) technology to help the internet-of-things (IoT) market reach scale.
Sprint confirmed it is working with fellow Softbank companies Arm and Packet on its new IoT platform, announced last week. Swedish vendor Ericsson has been handed...
The JV with Alibaba Cloud’s IoT unit will allow the US firm to offers IoT solutions for Chinese companies
U.S. firm myDevices has partnered with the IoT business unit of Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, to launch turnkey...
German manufacturing giant Siemens has issued a rallying cry to small-and-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to urgently embrace cultural and technological change, and grasp the opportunity of digital transformation.
Specifically, Siemens addressed small-and-medium sized manufacturing businesses in Germany, as “the backbone of the Germany economy”, at...
Huawei and China Mobile have announced a new cloud-based platform for mobile operators to enable and manage ‘internet-of-things’ (IoT) connections, promising easy scalability, rapid development, and higher returns for IoT products.
The ‘connectivity enablement platform’ (CEP) is being pushed to the wider operator market after...
Germany has made its move in the international AI arms race with state support for tech start-ups, a ‘JEDI’ innovation network with France, and backing for its ‘Cyber Valley’ set-up from industrial giants including BMW, Daimler, Porsche, and Bosch.
The German government is to create...
Mainstream appliance manufacturers Electrolux, Haier, LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics will introduce smart-home products based on an emerging ‘internet-of-things’ (IoT) standard from the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) next year.
The group will offer a first wave of interoperable OCF-certified solutions in 2019. The OCF said...
