Itron has signed with Lubbock Power & Light (LP&L) to deploy smart electricity meters and management software to improve service for around 107,000 electricity customers in Texas.
The move will bring LP&L up to speed with most other utilities in the state. The new equipment...
The trial, which used Spark’s pre-commercial 5G network, was carried in partnership with local company Ohmio Automation
New Zealand carrier Spark, in collaboration with compatriot firm Ohmio Auromation kicked off a test of a 5G-connected driverless car in Auckland, the telco said in a statement.
The...
The supply chain links the whole Industry 4.0 movement. For higher-grade operational intelligence to be brought to bear across the wider industrial market, the supply chain needs to mesh-in with the various stages of production and delivery. It has to be integrated in order...
At Mobile World Congress, LTE for IoT chip leader Sequans introduced Monarch 2, which is the second generation of its world-leading LTE-M and NB-IoT chip platform, Monarch.
Monarch 2 is built on three years of Sequans’ exclusive and field-proven experience with first-generation Monarch, which has...
Australian operator Telstra has recruited German IT and IoT integration company Software AG to help it devise a software solution for automated water management.
Telstra already uses Software AG’s Cumulocity IoT platform as the basis of its own IoT platform offering. Their new water management...
New seed-stage private equity firm Ubiquity Ventures has made its first six investments in start-ups. Each of the companies selected for funding are in the industrial transformation or tech security games.
Ubiquity Ventures, based in Palo Alto, is focused on “pushing software beyond the screen”,...
Japanese telecoms giant NTT is working with California-based industrial IoT software developer Foghorn to deliver edge-based machine intelligence to industrial clients.
NTT-subsidiary NTT Data, offering systems-integration and IoT consultancy services, has selected Foghorn’s Lightning software for its on-premise analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, which...
5G, the next generation of wireless technology, is poised to have a significant impact on the commercial real estate industry--if stakeholders can coalesce on a straightforward strategy to bring 5G indoors. As 5G ’s enhanced IoT capabilities enable more of the built environment to...
The new service will be initially implamented at Narita and Haneda airports in Tokyo
Japan Airlines is working with Accenture on a new service that uses artificial intelligence to answer passenger requests at the airline’s check-in counters.
The service assesses what check-in counter agents are saying...
Sequans works with aerospace and defense contractor Lockheed Martin to adapt LTE chips to communicate with satellite systems
Sequans is modifying its LTE chipsets to be able to directly communicate with satellite systems, in a partnership with Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed developed an LTE-to-satellite specification, and Sequans...
Industrial companies will invest in their own private LTE and 5G networks because the business case for digital change is irresistible, and because they want control of their own infrastructure. This leaves operators, betting on new revenue from enabling industrial transformation, in the cold,...
The combination of 5G, IoT and edge requires a multi-cloud strategy
With device support and scaling networks, 2019 will be a big year for the commercialization of 5G but is still very much in the early days. Enhanced mobile broadband that brings higher data speeds...
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled 'Software AG cites deals with AT&T, AWS, Dell in pursuit of €24bn IoT opportunity'. Click here to go to the previous article.
New Software AG chief Sanjay Brahmawar has been seven months in the...
The smart lockers allow firms with large field engineering teams to gain more efficiency
BT’s supply chain business, Final Mile, said that it has deployed 1,000 smart delivery lockers across the UK.
Following a number of customer contract wins, the U.K. carrier said that the business...
NB-IoT connections will comprise the vast majority of cellular IoT by 2021, at up to 75 per cent and around one billion devices, according to Huawei. The number will climb from around 30 million in 2018 to 200 million in 2019, it reckons.
Huawei outlined...
Germany-based Software AG has reorganised its channel strategy to prioritise IoT platform deals with the likes of AT&T, ‘hyper-scale’ cloud deals with the likes of AWS, edge hardware deals with the likes of Dell, and IT and IoT reseller deals with the likes of...
One of the agreements stipulated the implementation of Nokia’s WING platform for the delivery of IoT solutions for enterprises
Nokia and Zain Saudi Arabia have signed two memorandums of understanding that will enable the Arab carrier to launch IoT services and applications and provide end-to-end...
Under the three-year agreement, Iteris will provide connected vehicle applications in Los Gatos, Emeryville, Walnut Creek, Concord and Dublin
Iteris, a specialist in applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, announced that it has been selected by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to enhance and upgrade...
Vodafone has joined a UK drone-testing consortium as network provider to develop tools and processes to enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to fly safely in the same airspace as manned aircraft.
Vodafone will provide 4G and 5G connectivity to the National Beyond Visual Line of...
Vodafone will use a range of private networking options to serve industrial verticals, it has said, as it develops its advanced LTE and emerging 5G proposition for enterprises. These options include spot usage of unlicensed LTE, localised usage of public LTE, and dedicated slices...
IoT America designs solutions for precision agriculture, livestock management and infrastructure monitoring
French internet of things (IoT) specialist Kerlink and Internet of Things America (IoT America), a U.S. company dedicated to deploying IoT solutions across rural America, have recently teamed up to enable the deployment of IoT...
Dutch industrial tech provider Koning & Hartman and Irish private-network provider Druid Software have extended their work to bring automation and intelligence to operations at the Port of Rotterdam. The pair have established a private LTE network at the port, using spectrum licensed by...
Google has released new hardware for machine learning at the edge in the form of a single-board computer running its edge-based Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) processor. Alongside the new system-on-module (SOM), available under its Coral brand, Google has unveiled a USB-connected accessory that brings...
Škoda drivers will have access to a wide range of connected cars services across Europe
Cubic Telecom has signed a contract with Czech automobile manufacturer Škoda Auto to enable connectivity for Škoda drivers across Europe.
The new IoT solution will be available first in the new...
