For technologists, airports in general, and the planet?s busiest ones in particular, are like smart cities in microcosm. They encapsulate a head-spinning array of services and applications, covering everything from waste collection and traffic management to private retail and mission-critical controls.
Threading new airports with...
Google Cloud has joined the LoRa Alliance as a sponsor member. Its input will help LoRaWAN operators glean deeper insights from data analytics running in their low-power wide-area (LPWA) ‘internet of things’ (IoT) networks, said the LoRa Alliance.
Donna Moore, chief executive of the LoRa...
The use of software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is well established in the enterprise data center. Now, industrial organizations are beginning to make tentative steps to XaaS offerings for their operational computing. However, there is some trepidation preventing...
The choice between licensed and unlicensed low-power wide-area (LPWA) connectivity technologies is about use cases, concurred a panel of ‘internet of things’ (IoT) operators at LPWA World in London this week. But if both technologies fit, as they do in most cases, the choice...
Honeywell piloting its Outcome Based Service (OBS) solution across the mechanical components of the HVAC system
Honeywell has been working with management of the world?s tallest building, Burj Khalifa, to implement several connected building and internet of things (IoT) projects in the marquee venue in...
Microsoft promises to pump $5 billion into the IoT and edge computing
Microsoft recently unveiled plans to invest $5 billion in the internet of things (IoT) over the next four years.
The announcement was made by Corporate Vice President of Azure Julia White in a company...
Samsung to make SmartThings Cloud available this spring
Las Vegas, Nev. -- As Samsung moves beyond phones and to IoT devices in general, the company announced at Consumer Electronics Association (CES) 2018 it will make its SmartThings Cloud service available this spring; although, an exact...
Based on the hands-on involvement of the Xona Partners team in the design and rollout of smart cities, we found a clear lag in the deployment of technologies and services versus what technologies enable. We call this the cascading technology trap: technologies are evolving...
A Q&A with Manfred Hahn, VP and Technical Plant Manager, Bosch Rexroth
Many companies in several industries are adopting smart manufacturing strategies in a move to improve operation efficiency and gain more value from business. One of the companies that has embraced digital transformation is...
Telent won a contract to deploy IoT technology to improve the operations of railway company Deutsche Bahn
German company Telent will supply compatriot railway company Deutsche Bahn with smart multi-channel measurement systems, which will be implement at around 7,000 points over the next three years.
Telent...
The internet of things may someday deliver a world of robots and intelligent machines that control all manner of devices, but for now, most connected devices are ultimately controlled by humans. Humans need information - we demand data, and then we want data about...
Nokia is expanding its internet of things business with a consulting service that it says will help network operators analyze opportunities in nine different verticals: the connected car, healthcare, logistics and transport, smart cities, utilities, agriculture, retail, smart homes and buildings, and connected industry...
Nokia's transformation under Chairman Risto Siilasmaa is one of the most significant corporate turnarounds in recent years
I first met Risto Siilasmaa five years ago for lunch in Helsinki, Finland. He had recently stepped into the role of chairman for Nokia, which at the time...
The French telco currently provides LoRa technology in nearly 4,000 towns across the country
French telecommunications group Orange confirmed that it aims to test the interconnection of its LoRa network with that of another European operator by December in the framework of the LoRa Alliance...
China Telecom said it continued to expand coverage of its NB-IoT network across the country in the first quarter of the year.
The company said that this technology allows a wide range of applications including smart parking and smart manufacturing, among others.
The Chinese telco also...
The project, located in Rwanda’s capital Kigali will provide a blueprint for additional smart city projects in Africa
Global mobile satellite communications services provider Inmarsat will deploy LoRaWAN infrastructure around the city of Kigali, in Rwanda to support the city’s flagship smart city project.
Inmarsat said...
The two firms have unveiled a pre-integrated solution to simplify the launch of mobile network-based enterprise IoT services
U.S. software giant Microsoft and Swedish network infrastructure vendor Ericsson announced plans to expand collaboration in the internet of things space via a new enterprise IoT product...
To leverage its scale, Dell is looking for "replicable" IoT solutions rather than "snowflakes"
LAS VEGAS--In an interview with Enterprise IoT Insights during the recent Dell EMC World event, Ron Pugh, Dell EMC OEM Solutions vice president/general manager, discussed the need to move from highly-customized...
VMware said that the new IoT tool will be commercially available during this year
VMware has unveiled a new IoT infrastructure management solution dubbed VMware Pulse IoT Center.
The firm said that this new IoT solution will help customers to efficiently manage, operate, scale and protect their...
The Linux Foundation's EdgeX Foundry looks to bring component interoperability to industrial internet of things edge computing components
LAS VEGAS--Much like William Faulkner's character Vardaman, who famously said in As I Lay Dying, "My mother is a fish," the internet of things is an octopus.
A...
Dell IoT Solutions Director discusses open source IoT, fog versus cloud and partner ecosystems
LAS VEGAS--Kevin Terwilliger, Dell’s IoT Solutions Director, Client Solutions, works with customers to identify IoT “blueprints” meant to accelerate return on investment. In a departure from the predominant thinking, Terwilliger explained...
City officials and infrastructure vendors may come to the smart city challenge from different worlds, but they agree on at least one thing: cities can invest more effectively if they can break down the "silos" that keep different municipal departments from communicating regularly. Usually...
The IoT agreement will allow the Middle East telco to connect to Ericsson’s DCP in Europe
Middle East telecom group Ooredoo has selected Swedish company Telia Carrier to provide internet of things (IoT) backhaul connectivity to Ericsson’s DCP platforms in Europe.
“Ooredoo is positioning itself as...
Both companies will continue 5G trial activities in Japan
Chinese vendor Huawei and Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo have carried out a large-scale 5G trial in the 4.5 GHz band in Yokohama, Japan.
During the trial, 11.29 Gbps total user throughput and less than 0.5 millisecond...
