This is just the beginning, says the Industrial Internet Consortium. Preoccupations with technology are only ever fleeting. The stakes are higher; the future is still being mapped out. 5G – so what? Who cares, really, so long as it works? Connectivity is a utility...
IoT system provider Itron has signed a deal with Rocky Mountain Power to deploy new smart meters and smart grid capabilities. The electric company, serving customers in Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming, will get a real-time read on grid devices and operations, said Itron.
Rocky Mountain...
Postal company UPS has achieved another ‘first’ for drone deliveries by making a commercial delivery of a medical prescription from a pharmacy to a residential property. The firm’s drone subsidiary UPS Flight Forward received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate a...
Small and medium sized enterprises can “punch above their weight” in global markets by taking IoT as-a-service from mobile operators. Where large organisations will go it alone, and develop their own IoT platforms internally, smaller companies must seek specialist partners.
At the same time,...
Between them, US telecoms operator Sprint and Swedish telecoms vendor Ericsson claim considerable experience in the IoT space. The variety of IoT use cases is vast, and ever-growing, they say. Just look at their websites to see their enterprise IoT stories stacking up. But...
Microsoft and Nokia are offering a private LTE and IoT bundle for operators and enterprises. UK based BT is the first operator to resell the package, offered as a managed service.
The arrangement, which sees the Microsoft’s Azure based cloud and analytics offered with...
Spanish IoT hardware maker Libelium has announced a new strategy to expand its offer to include integrated hardware, software and systems.
The company said at IoT Solutions World Congress 2019 in Barcelona it is moving into consultancy mode in order to capture more complex IoT...
IoT Solutions World Congress, in its fifth year (2019), has the whiff of MWC about it. It’s in Barcelona, at the same venue, and the faces are familiar -- with a number of the European telecoms giants, big cloud brands, and systems integrators scattered...
What is smart infrastructure? It sounds like a silly question, almost. But the rise of new digital technologies -- spearheaded by IoT, AI, and 5G, as the tools of digital change -- has shifted the meaning, from telecoms poles and server racks, to physical...
Microsoft has added a rush of new capabilities variously to its IoT development platform and its IoT cloud platform to simplify and scale IoT deployments.
It has added a number of features to its IoT Central app development platform. The platform is designed to make...
Deutsche Telekom has launched a blockchain marketplace for German enterprises. The new German blockchain ecosystem (GBE) will enable customers to “map” different applications using blockchain.
The service, from Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems, will allow businesses to map a product's entire supply chain in a distributed...
South Korean car brand Hyundai has partnered with Silicon Valley AI firm Pony and New York City based ride-sharing company Via to launch a shared, on-demand, autonomous vehicle service on public roads in California.
The pilot service, branded BotRide, launches next week (November 4) for...
Seven mining and metals companies have joined a World Economic Forum initiative to design and deploy blockchain solutions for the whole industry.
The seven founding companies are Antofagasta Minerals, Eurasian Resources Group, Glencore, Klöckner & Co, Minsur, Tata Steel, Anglo American/De Beers (Tracr). The group...
Qualcomm is working with over 30 Chinese automotive companies, including the China-based joint ventures with European and US car makers, to showcase the commercial viability of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology for connected and autonomous vehicles.
China will deploy commercial C-V2X in vehicles from next year,...
Outdoor surveillance cameras will be the largest market for 5G internet-of-things (IoT) solutions over the next three years, according to analyst house Gartner.
They will represent 70 per cent of installed 5G-based IoT endpoints in 2020. By 2028, however, as much as 94 per...
NVIDIA has announced a combination of edge computing and 5G networking innovations around its graphics processing unit (GPU) technologies, to drive scale of artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), and 5G applications.
Its new NVIDIA EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform is geared for rapid-fire data...
Cities are set to be able to run smart city applications in CBRS spectrum contained on street-lighting poles, after streetlight networking provider Ubicquia announced it is adding CBRS functionality to its Ubimetro-branded small cells.
The addition of support for IoT, LTE, and 5G networks...
From monitoring patients in hospitals to manufacturing plants, many industries are transforming with IoT. By 2020, Ericsson predicts that there will be around 29 billion connected devices worldwide, of which the majority (18 billion) will be IoT-based. IoT is slowly becoming the Internet of...
The policy is the technology and the technology is the policy. That is the truth of city governance in the digital age, says Gartner. Any government services delivered at scale are underpinned by various technologies, it says. The challenge is to get these technologies...
Fifteen smart city networks and tech governance groups, representing 200,000 public and private sector organisations in the smart cities space, have joined together to establish global policy standards for the use of connected devices in public spaces.
Their objective, they said, is to ensure cities...
The Department of Water and Sewage (DAE) of Americana in São Paulo, Brazil, will deploy smart meters and management solutions from Itron to stem water losses from 80,000 water and sewage connections. It is also seeking to gain closer insight of the performance of...
Silicon companies Arm, Bosch, NVIDIA, and NXP Semiconductors have joined with car makers General Motors and Toyota and automotive suppliers Continental and DENSO in a new alliance geared towards ‘making fully self-driving vehicles a reality’.
The new Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC) was announced at...
Schneider Electric and ThoughtWire combine digital twins for hospitals
French firm Schneider Electric is partnering with Canadian IoT platform provider ThoughtWire on data integration and digital twins for the healthcare sector. Schneider Electric will leverage ThoughtWire’s digital twin solution to offer facilities managers in the...
Sumitomo's smart city ambitions extend throughout Asia
Japanese company Sumitomo and Vietnamese developer BRG Group have established a real estate development company through a JV scheme, with the main goal of building a smart city in the Dong Anh district in northern Hanoi, Vietnam,...
