Smart Cities

Restaurant chains Shake Shack, Five Guys and Hard Rock Café have deployed LoRa-based temperature monitoring systems in their commercial kitchens. UK firm CM Systems, a specialist in monitoring systems for …

Sigfox has said it will boost its so-called 0G network infrastructure six-fold in terms of capacity and features to serve as a cellular back-up network for an expanding customer base. …

Portland General Electric Company is launching its Smart Grid test bed in Oregon, the company said in a release. “We’re using our Smart Grid Test Bed to deliver simple, seamless …

French IoT firm Traxens is poised to receive major investment from shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, alongside a big order for cellular cargo trackers. It has also been drafted into the …

Australian internet-of-things (IoT) operator National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) has signed a strategic investment agreement with global energy and environment company Enzen Group. The $8 million deal is geared towards …

UK firm Telensa has struck a deal to provide smart controls to 15,000 LED street lights in the City of Dunedin in New Zealand. The arrangement is part of a …

French IoT company Sigfox claims 6.7 million active devices in the field (“not counting proofs of concept, just commercial rollouts in diverse industries”), in 63 countries on five continents. It …

Sea ports have become a primary focus for the telecoms sector as it maps out potential customers for private communications networks, particularly as the industrial space at large hits upon …

With the rise of connected devices in homes and offices spiralling upwards, Paul Hague, chief executive at UK cybersecurity firm BlackDice, says enterprises are letting vulnerable home devices onto their …

The rise of private industrial networking should be measured by the number of new networks, and network operators, and not by the number of cell sites, reckons Italy-based industrial networking …

Satellite connectivity, spurred by new projects from the likes of Amazon and SpaceX, will support 24 million IoT connections by 2024, bringing new competition to established IoT technologies like LoRa, …

Carmakers BMW, Hyundai, Nissan, Mitsubishi and Renault have joined with the likes of Deutsche Bahn, LG Electronics and Shell to pump $100 million into a new early-stage fund for innovation …

Mobile service providers have started rolling out 5G wireless services this year, giving subscribers their first glimpse of this new technology. As 5G technology spreads, cities will leverage it to …

There should be few excuses for cyber attacks, and the buck stops with senior managers for failing to prevent and minimise their impact, even as the volume of connected ‘things’ …

Slicing should make enterprise networking as simple as electricity supply, and more dynamic, says Vassilis Seferidis, chief executive of Zeetta Networks. Here, he challenges the enterprise market to think bigger …

There should be few excuses for cyber attacks, and the buck stops with senior managers for failing to prevent and minimise their impact, even as the volume of connected ‘things’ …

Note, this article is serialised from a report on the state of the smart energy market. It continues from a previous post.Go here for the last post; go here for the full …

5G technology is back in the driving seat as the connectivity platform for connected and autonomous vehicles in Europe, after European Union member states rejected a European Commission vote to …

5G technology is back in the driving seat as the connectivity platform for connected and autonomous vehicles in Europe, after European Union member states rejected a European Commission vote to …

Note, this article is serialised from a broad-ranging report on the statre of the smart energy market. It continues from a previous post, entitled ‘Why the home is the heart …

Smart meters have provided a read-out on energy consumption and a window on energy usage. They have brought insight and control to the field of energy management, both sides of …

The installed base of smart electricity meters in Asia’s four main markets will reach almost 966 million in 2024, up from 613.4 million last year, according to a new a …

Senet has announced a deal to integrate LoRaWAN connectivity with LoRa-based sensors from US equipment vendor Radio Bridge and smart cities solutions from Spanish IoT firm Wellness Telecom. Radio Bridge …

One key element that was skirted around in Enterprise IoT Insights’ recent report on digital change in the power sector: the nitty-gritty of data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). We …

Some time back, Finnish transmission operator Fingrid ran due diligence on the sector’s transformation, with the decarbonisation and decentralisation of the power supply, and advancements in digital technologies bringing cheaper …