As part of the $5.3 billion initiative, the company aims to add more than 800,000 smart electric meters through 2023
Utility provider Ameren Missouri announced the company’s Smart Energy plan, which includes more than 2,000 electric projects over the next five years that will modernize the...
This article is the fourth instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018.
The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine...
IBM , TFT and SweetSense are piloting technologies to accurately monitor and track groundwater use in Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta
The Freshwater Trust (TFT), together with IBM Research and SweetSense, a provider of low-cost satellite connected sensors, are partnering to pilot technologies which can...
The city of Markham is partnering with Bell to provide an advance solution featuring interconnected IoT applications
The Canadian city of Markham has launched its smart city accelerator research program in partnership with Canadian carrier Bell.
The program will deploy Bell's smart city platform, which includes...
The carrier carried out a precision agriculture trial in Mississippi last year as part of the firm’s Tech Movement initiative
Regional carrier C Spire, which is headquartered in Ridgeland, Miss., aims to partner with farmers and smart equipment firms to provide network and information technology...
Note, this was originally intended to be a two part series covering Airbus' four essential lessons for Industry 4.0. Here, we are inserting another entry and another lesson, of sorts, into the middle of the planned schedule. Watch out for the final instalment; sign...
A major new internet of things (IoT) project has launched in London to investigate improve the city’s toxic air. The initiative, Breathe London, claims “the world’s most advanced and comprehensive network of air quality monitors”.
The project is a collaboration between the Mayor of London,...
The Swedish company acquired Etalon, a German provider of equipment calibration solutions
Swedish digital solutions company Hexagon has boosted its smart factory capabilities via the acquisition of Etalon, which provides equipment calibration solutions.
Etalon’s solutions continuously monitor and initiate compensation of machine tools, measuring machines, robots...
Cubic paid nearly $87 million in cash to acquire Gridsmart
U.S company Cubic has announced the acquisition of Gridsmart Technologies for approximately $87 million in cash.
Gridsmart’s system tracks vehicle trajectory from approach through the center of the intersection to exit. Based in Knoxville, the company says...
Las Vegas is working with network operator AT&T and IoT provider Ubicquia to trial a new smart street-lighting solution that makes use of existing lighting infrastructure.
In a flurry of announcements from the city, timed for the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the network operator...
Growth in smart meter shipments by water utilities during the next decade, alongside higher sales of smart gas meters, will offset a decline in smart electricity meters, which have underpinned the market to date. Asia Pacific will remain the biggest market for smart meters,...
American Tower’s LoRaWAN network in Brazil has passed 400,000 connected devices. The company has set target two million or more by the end of 2019, deployed for a range of IoT applications.
LoRa maker Semtech, whose protocol, technology and gateways is at the heart of...
Over three million water meters will be connected to Orange’s LoRa network in France, after a subsidiary division of French water company Veolia appointed the telecoms provider to help digitise its water-related services in the country.
The deal is between Orange’s enterprise arm Orange Business...
Food cold storage operator Lineage Logistics has engaged IoT solution provider ndustrial.io and carrier AT&T to reduce annual energy usage by 34 per cent and annual energy costs by $4 million with sensors and data. Here’s how…
Michigan based Lineage Logistics operates 120 warehouses in...
EdgeX Foundry has released a new version of its Delhideveloper code for IoT edge devices, with new security and management features, new software developer kits (SDKs), and an updated user interface.
The third major code release from EdgeX Foundry, the open source Linux Foundation project,...
The company said the IoT network will cover some 3 million hectares across Australia
Australia’s National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo) and Goanna Ag announced the rollout of a publicly available LoRaWAN internet of things network for smart irrigation management solutions to Australian cotton growers.
The network...
With brand new silicon, a vibrant support network, and a profile burnished in the early IoT rush, LoRa specialist Semtech is looking to spread its wings and rise above the challenge from cellular IoT carriers.
Outside of the IoT space, the US semiconductor outfit has...
Las Vegas said that it aims to deploy smart city solutions under this agreement by mid-2019
The state of Nevada, city of Las Vegas and Japan's NTT Group have reached an agreement to advance and accelerate smart technologies, following a smart city proof-of-concept initiative that...
Through a deal with the city of Waco, the local utility will install 45,000 modules and 12,000 leak sensors
Itron has signed a contract with the city of Waco, Texas to install Itron’s OpenWay Riva IoT solution, including smart water communication modules and leak sensors.
Itron...
The number of cellular IoT connections, comprising NB-IoT and LTE-M technologies, will reach 4.1 billion in 2024.
As reference, the new forecast reckons the number of cellular IoT connections, mostly of machines, will outrun the total number of 5G connections, mostly of people, by a...
The wisdom of bespoke chip design for IoT products is plain, and already discussed in some detail. UK based Arm says a custom chip will produce a higher-grade product, with optimised performance, and save money in the end.
Fine. But how should developers, with little...
PropTech drawing billions in investment from REITs
Verdigris Technologies, a leading developer of artificial intelligence technology (AI) platforms for smart building energy management, has launched a new PropTech solution that enables facility managers to pinpoint device-level causes of energy waste in commercial office buildings and...
Once a successful proof-of-concept has been established, what’s next? The day after creating a proof-of-concept of your custom IC, you might ask “Now what do we do?” It is time to make your idea real and start developing a system prototype.
This white paper covers...
The planet’s appetite for energy is growing; demand for electricity shows no signs of slowing. German technology company Siemens told European Utility Week 2018 in Vienna the only way the planet will hit latest sustainability targets is through comprehensive electrification and digitisation of the energy...
