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...
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...
CIMCON is adding road condition monitoring to its smart lighting deployments in the town of Spencer in the company’s home state of Massachusetts.
Town officials have been looking to improve driver safety, meet state environmental guidelines, and reduce costs from ineffective road monitoring and maintenance....
Low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT technologies like LoRaWAN are proving their worth as connectivity technologies for smart water preservation and management during periods of change and crisis, including in the current COVID-19 crisis.
Smart connectivity networks are enabling improved management of water and other utilities during...
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...
Digi International has released a new line of cellular routers for critical infrastructure and intelligent traffic system applications. The company said it wants to be the “IoT connectivity player of choice”.
The firm said it is working to “align” enterprise customers and IoT solutions in...
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...
The City of Las Vegas is to pay $1.58 million over five years for a range of camera-based artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to automate the enforcement of parking and traffic regulations.
Australian AI provider SenSen Networks has won the five-year contract, which covers the purchase...
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...
Chinese smart metering firm Hexing is bundling the Pelion IoT platform, from UK-based silicon design company Arm, and low-power Wi-SUN connectivity into its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), as it seeks to expand into Southeast Asia, India, South America, and Europe.
Hexing is offering Wi-SUN based...
The low-power and short-range segments of the wider IoT market, along with industrial majors, are seeking to re-engineer and innovate afresh in order to produce rapid low-cost IoT sensing solutions to assist with the global Covid-19 pandemic.
Notably, IoT solution developer WMW, part of Belgian...
Sigfox Germany has expanded its product portfolio with the introduction of a range of sensors from Finnish IoT firm Connected Inventions.
The new range includes sensors for monitoring dust, temperature, humidity, CO2, and motion. Connected Inventions, is the hardware arm of Sigfox operators Connected Finland,...
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,...
Swiss firm Landis+Gyr said it has recently expanded smart grid capabilities in Central America with the completion of an advanced metering project for Empresa Eléctrica De Guatemala S.A. (EEGSA), to support the utility's time-of-use (TOU) rates for reducing peak electricity demand.
The five-month project involved...
A new IoT innovation centre in Finland has been rigged up with private 5G from Elisa and IoT devices from Qualcomm. The facility will be opened shortly by new Finnish tech firm UROS, alongside US chip maker Qualcomm, as a “next generation” IoT showroom...
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has put focus on various communications technologies, if only as an adjunct to disciplines like healthcare and government, and as a means to work and play in lockdown.
As well as driving stay-at-home video traffic to services like Netflix and Zoom,...
Sigfox is offering to waive connectivity costs for US-based IoT projects developed on its connectivity infrastructure that seek to address critical challenges related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The French firm’s US office has issued a called to the IoT community to “join forces” to...
Swiss operator Sunrise has launched an IoT connectivity management platform to activate and monitor IoT SIM cards. It is targeted at smart manufacturing, smart farming, and smart sports stadiums.
The new connectivity management platform, called Sunrise IoT Connect, allows IoT customers to activate and manage...
Industrial services firm PK Solutions is deploying private LTE in the 3.5 GHz CBRS band in the US for the oil and gas sector. It is working with Nokia and Cradlepoint on the offer.
PK Solutions, part of the PK Companies group, is based in...
Driverless shuttle buses require four separate safety solutions to ensure they operate safely and reliably even in the event of technical failures. So says Bosch, which has led a €4.3 million research initiative to scope out back-up systems to guarantee automated public transport stays...
Swiss IoT company u-blox has bought UK-based Thingstream, which offers low power wide-area (LPWA) IoT connectivity based on the MQTT lightweight messaging protocol. The sale closed for at CHF 10 million (€9.5m / $10.4m), plus coverage for some deferred staff retention.
MQTT, short for message...
German automotive giant BMW has confirmed it will apply for 5G spectrum licences in the 3.7-3.8 GHz industrial band in local factories at home on an ad hoc basis through the remainder of 2020, as use cases and experiments arise.
“Depending on the projects we...
