The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) and Panasonic of North America have signed a deal to develop an advanced transportation data network, the vendor said in a release.
This network will improve safety and mobility on the road
by sharing data between vehicles, infrastructure,...
Annual revenue for the global smart city technology market will jump from $97.4 billion in 2019 to $263 billion by 2028, a rise of more than 150 per cent, with cumulative revenue expected to reach almost $1.7 trillion.
This is the forecast from analyst...
UK medics and telecoms engineers have demostrated a 5G connected ambulance and a remote-controlled ultrasound scan over a public 5G network.
The showcase has been carried out by telecoms provider BT and University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB), an NHS foundation trust . It has been...
With localised power generation, the flow of electricity and data has to go both ways. New electricity metering infrastructure establishes an integrated system of meter hardware, communications networks, and data management systems to enable this two-way communication between utilities and customers.
This new gadgetry also...
Dutch lighting company
Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, has launched a new smart pole
dubbed BrightSites, the firm said in a release.
The new BrightSites smart pole accommodates a wide variety of IoT applications, connectivity, cameras and environmental sensors as well as controllable high-quality energy-efficient LED lighting, the company...
There will be 41.6 billion connected IoT devices generating 79.4 zettabytes (ZB) of data by 2025. So says International Data Corporation (IDC), which calculates at the same time the amount of data created by these IoT devices will grow at a compund rate of...
Three quarters of the IoT market will be given over to low-power wide-area (LPWA) network solutions, compared with just one quarter for high-bandwidth low-latency 5G applications.
So says the LoRa Alliance, which continues to push its line about being the key technology in low-power...
National Grid, the UK-based electricity and gas utility, has pumped money into a group of new energy tech providers, taking its total investment portfolio to $90 million. It has also set up a new start-up incubation office in San Francisco.
National Grid Partners, the investment...
Orange told 5G World in London yesterday (July 12) that private networks are too expensive, and that hiving off spectrum for the industrial sector to run private networks will throttle the development of 5G networks.
The French operator is trialling campus-style networks with industrial players...
The UK government is seeking to reform planning laws and release new spectrum to accelerate 5G deployments, as it also increases public funding for 5G testbeds to stimulate the digital transformation of industrial sectors and public services.
Jeremy Wight, secretary of state for the department...
The number of cellular IoT connections, mostly to machines, will continue to outrun the number of 5G connections, mostly to people, for at least five years. Ericsson predicts cellular IoT connections will reach 4.1 billion by 2024, compared with 1.9 billion 5G connections.
According...
New 5G technologies will generate $17 trillion in economic growth in the period to 2035, with the initial stimulus coming from smart-city applications piggybacking on urban 5G rollouts. But operators' revenues from industrial 5G, hyped as the will not outpace revenues from consumer 5G...
There’s no master list of smart city use cases primarily because, in the right context, nearly anything could contribute to a smart city. However, some of the major ones that have seen strong adoption include vehicular connectivity for police cars, school buses and the...
How to move from limited smart cities pilots to scaled deployments
“Smart cities” is most certainly a nebulous term. At a high-level, it refers to a collection of use cases, things like public Wi-Fi, information kiosks, responsive lighting, traffic management, etc…, that, individually and collectively,...
AT&T has made climate data from the US Department of Energy available to public and private colleges and universities, as well as local governments, to use for climate risk analysis.
AT&T is working with the Argonne National Laboratory, a research laboratory run by the...
The LoRa Alliance has expanded its LoRaWAN certification programme to simplify and reduce testing for device makers and network operators.
A single certification process will cover conformance, interoperability, and radio-frequency testing, reducing time and expense for device manufacturers. Network operators will not be required to...
UK firm Telensa is to provide smart outdoor lighting, bringing remote control and energy savings, at the Port of Tyne, in the northeast of England.
The Port of Tyne, one of the UK's major deep-sea ports, is a trading centre for a diverse range of...
Network operator Three has rented out 50MHz of its 2.6 GHz frequency holding in Sweden in bid to boost local industry and stop regulator PTS carving-up the 3.5 GHz band for private usage.
Three Sweden has struck a deal with Finland-based “micro-network” operator Ukkoverkot to...
The city of Philadelphia in the US is deploying lighting, sensors, and networking technologies from Cisco and CIMCON Lighting as it seeks to be “one of the leading smart cities in the United States”.
The new NearSky lighting platform from CIMCON, running lighting controls, air...
Siemens will bring internet-of-things (IoT) technologies and solutions to the home stadium of the Jacksonville Jaguars, the American fooball team, based in Jakcsonville, Florida.
The German firm has signed a deal with the Florida gridiron team to deploy its MindSphere IoT platform as part...
The digital transformation of the agricultural sector – a review of the strategies, technologies and stakes in play as farmers seek more sustainable and competitive ways to feed the world.
Arm has launched a work-space analytics tool, Space Analytics, to give property managers of coworking spaces, commercial offices and hotels a view of the utilisation and availability of offices and hospitality spaces.
Space Analytics is part of its Pelion Smart Spaces portfolio, running...
German logistics company DHL has launched its first drone delivery solution for last-mile deliveries in urban areas of China, starting with flights in Guangzhou, the port city northwest of Hong Kong on the Pearl River.
DHL Express has signed a partnership with Cinese drone company...
Two new announcements this week, by cities both sides of the the Atlantic, make clear, again, the case for smart street-lighting is undeniable.
In the US, the city of Syracuse in New York State has teamed with the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to...
