Las Vegas has extended its smart-city rollout with Japanese group NTT to cover high-definition optical and audio sensors at 14 locations across the city.
The extension follows an initial trial, which provided information to city personnel to increase situational awareness and provide some minor traffic...
Ninety percent of companies in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry are yet to leverage digital technologies at scale, and that even the best equipped of them are struggling to make their digital deployments pay.
This is the conclusion of a new report from SmarterChains,...
Note, this article is taken from an editorial report on industrial AR, called Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers. The full report is available to download here.
Use cases for industrial AR are all variations on the theme of remote guidance. Whether...
In research for a new report on industrial AR, Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Ian Henderson, chief technologist for manufacturing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to discuss the challenges with contemporary AR (and VR) setups in the industrial space. Here is the interview, in...
Industrial IoT data management firm OSIsoft has announced the general availability of its Edge Data Store software for remotely monitoring critical assets.
The product, released from testing with limited customers, allows industrial operators to collect, store, and access data from assets and sensors in remote...
U.S. firm Ubicquia, which specializes in smart streetlight and smart city platforms, announced that it has acquired CityIQ. Ubicquia is buying all CityIQ's assets, including technology, related patents and contracts with major customers and cities across the U.S. and Canada.
CityIQ, owned by GE Current,...
Note, this article is taken from an editorial report on industrial AR, called Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers. The report is available to download here.
What is the deal with all of these alternative realities? The industry has come up with...
Qualcomm has introduced the idea of extended reality (XR), combining and going beyond the disciplines of augmented (AR), virtual (VR), and even mixed (MR) reality technology. More than this, it is talking about 'boundless XR', which leverages industrial 5G and distributed AI, when powerful...
The trick with AR in industry is to keep lights on and services flowing even during periods of absence, as enforced in extremis by the new coronavirus pandemic. The kinds of remote assistance tools being offered by companies like Microsoft and PTC, and some...
France-based industrial software provider Dassault Systèmes and China-based facilities management company Aden Group are combining their digital twin and modular architecture platforms to fast-track hospital construction.
The arrangement is in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dassault Systèmes was involved with China’s Central-South Architectural Design Institute...
The World Economic Forum has released a blockchain toolkit offering guidance to enterprises seeking to deploy the distributed ledger technology. It cited the global pressure created by the COVID-19 outbreak on global trade as reason to cooperate to strengthen international supply chains, and look...
Note, this article is taken from an editorial report on industrial AR, called Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers. The report is available to download here.
AR hardware has a reputation for being expensive and cumbersome. How is the experience, actually? Not...
Note, this article is taken from an editorial report on industrial AR, called Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers. The report is available to download here.
Let us start with the scenario the main article finishes (see report) with: a connected...
The Zigbee Alliance and the Digital Illumination Interface Alliance (DiiA), the organisation for DALI lighting control, are working together to bring further standardisation and system interoperability to IoT-based luminaires in the smart lighting space.
The pair said the collaboration will help realise the benefits of combining...
Federated Wireless has announced it has secured $13.7 million in additional Series C funding from existing investors Allied Minds and Pennant Investors.
The funding will accelerate its partnership with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure to offer connectivity-as-a-service, which has seen most business in the...
This article continues from here. It is an excerpt from a full report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is...
Note, this article is taken from an editorial report on industrial AR, called Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers. The report is available to download here.
Research firm Strategy Analytics has worked through a detailed example of an industrial maintenance and repair...
Ubicquia has released a new IoT router for street lights that it claims is the simplest, cheapest, and most sophisticated way for smart cities to control their various tech sensors.
The Fort Lauderdale firm, which makes smart lighting control platforms, said the new Ubicell 2.0...
This article continues from here. It is an excerpt from a full report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is...
This article continues from here. It is an excerpt from a full report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is...
This is an excerpt from a full report called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is available to download (for free)...
Japanese carrier KDDI and Korean telco LG Uplus announced plans to launch Coretronic Intelligent Robotics Corporation (CIRC)'s G6.0, a drone compatible with smart drone platforms, in Japan and South Korea.
Headquartered in Taiwan, CIRC’s business focuses on the development of autonomous intelligent robot solutions.
The smart...
California-based Wind River is working with Chinese smart mining solutions provider Beijing Tage Idriver Technology Company on a software platform for autonomous mining vehicles for open-pit mining.
The mining industry has been an early adopter of autonomous vehicles and machinery to improve safety, increase productivity,...
German car giant BMW will invest €30 billion in “future-oriented” technologies during the next five years. The group has confirmed it will expand a blockchain pilot for purchasing front lights to suppliers of other car parts.
The announcements, made at the end of last month,...
