The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and the OpenFog Consortium (OpenFog), the largest international consortia in the industrial internet-of-things (IoT) and edge computing markets, have agreed to combine as one organisation.
They said the timing is apt, as their areas of technology are complementary, crossing-over, and...
UK super market chain Waitrose is to start farming and selling crops reared by robots. The firm behind the technology claims farming revenues will increase by up to 40 per cent and farming costs will reduce by up to 60 per cent with the...
Qualcomm has launched its long-awaited 9205 LTE modem for internet-of-things (IoT) applications, combining cellular low-power wide-area (LPWA) LTE-M and NB-IoT connectivity, and support for IoT developers.
Module makers Telit and Quectel were quick to announce products based on the 9205 integrated module.
The new Qualcomm solution,...
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...
The French firm aims to expand the IoT initiative to other terminals within the Valencia port in the future
French firm Traxens, which serves the supply chain industry, said that it is collaborating with the MSC Mediterranean shipping company on a pilot internet of things...
Note, this is the second part of an interview with Mentor Graphics; for the first instalment go here.
For Siemens, Mentor Graphics' software capabilities with chip and board design, particularly the latter, was attractive, as the German company sought to build its digital-twinning offer as...
The Canadian firm has launched a security credential management system service to accelerate the development of smart city and transportation systems
Canadian company BlackBerry has announced the launch of a new service to help the private and public sectors accelerate the development of smart cities...
Nordic Semiconductor’s new cellular IoT module, billed as the world’s smallest and lowest power, according to its maker, could “kick-start a new wave” of cellular IoT applications, including in tracking, metering, industrial intelligence, and smart cities.
The Trondheim-based firm said its nRF9160 ‘system-in-package’ (SiP) is...
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...
“The kaleidoscope has been shaken, the pieces are in flux.” It is a phrase written for a different time, and another sphere – a generation ago, which seems like a lifetime, to mark a political transformation, which now seems so slight
Because the future is...
The European Commission (EC) has stepped up its strategy to foster AI in the region, with a four-step plan and a target of €20 billion of private and public investments by the end of 2020, and €20 billion per year afterwards.
The EC will contribute...
Note, this is the third part of a wide-ranging interview with AT&T President of IoT Solutions Chris Penrose; for the first instalment go here.
AT&T has used the line before: it is a ‘master systems integrator’, it says. There is a job to create order...
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...
Back in August, Enterprise IoT Insights published a list of the biggest smart street-lighting deployments. It was an imperfect list, then, we acknowledged, and likely to be an iterative exercise – to be updated as new information comes to light, and new cities limber...
Sigfox is looking to add a half a dozen territories to its global footprint by the end of this year, and pass the 70-mark by the end of next. Its top priority in 2019 is to open operations in China, India, and Russia, as...
Note, this is the second part of a wide-ranging interview with AT&T President of IoT Solutions Chris Penrose; for the first instalment go here.
In all, AT&T has connected 48 million devices around the world. It counts 2,000 different “types of deployment” down the years....
The greatest challenge for Chris Penrose, president of IoT solutions at AT&T, is just to order and manage the multiplying opportunities afforded by the advancement of machine connectivity and intelligence.
For Penrose, the key is that business is repeatable, and his resources within the business...
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has announced results from a pair of testbeds investigating, alternatively, artificial intelligence (AI) for smart buildings management and ways to connect up old factories to new smart manufacturing tools.
In the first case, Dell EMC and Toshiba have developed an...
Driverless cars will be on UK roads within five years. So says two thirds (65 per cent) of senior industry leaders in the UK, working at the crossover of technology and transport.
Future transport collective, the Smart Mobility Living Lab: London (SMLL), polled 250 senior...
Swedish vendor Ericsson is looking at ways to employ artificial intelligence to enable advanced “fingerprinting” of mobile radio networks to enhance the positioning resolution of LTE-M and NB-IoT devices.
The initiative will have implications for both the consumer and enterprise space, it said. However, the...
Minnesota based Digi supplies routers, gateways and IoT modules for machine connectivity in a variety of applications in the smart city space, including in transit systems, street lights, smart waste bins, smart metering and waste-water systems.
As part of an investigation into the funding models...
What is a ‘smart city’, exactly? Is it a city with a neat collection of smart solutions, or is it one where everything works together to create new innovations?
As it stands, the term is attached to practically any urban centre with a network of...
The sense to design and build a custom system-on-chip (SoC) is plain, we understand from an earlier companion piece. As we also understand, from the first part of this post, the process of IoT chip design is logical, much like constructing a printed circuit...
