Smart Cities

Civic operational intelligence is not the preserve of the world’s mega-cities, said Dutch lighting company Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, as it continued deployment of 5G street-lighting poles with American Tower …

“The kaleidoscope has been shaken; the pieces are in flux.” It is a phrase written for the political age, almost two decades ago. But as an analogy for ground-shaking change, …

Two hours from Warsaw, the town of Kazimierz Dolny has hardly changed since the Renaissance, when it thrived as centre for the grain trade. T-Mobile Poland has just announced plans …

Cisco is making the business case for mobile operators to install 5G masts in rural regions based on connecting livestock, rather than people. The company, leading a network of 29 …

The problem with smart cities is no one wants to buy them. Because no one knows how to sell them. The technology is proven, but the commercial models are only …

Cameras as a sensor drives multiple smart city use cases Adoption of smart city solutions is moving from limited pilot projects to larger scale implementation and, with 5G networks going …

US carrier Verizon discovered the secret to smart-city building in Sacramento, in California, it says. “We tried it there first, and we’re now replicating it with a lot of cities,” …

We have 12 years to save the planet, calculate scientists in the starkest warning yet that our chances of tackling climate change and averting disaster are slipping away. After 2030, …

Cisco has reorganised its innovation team as a function of its engineering department, rather than its strategy unit, to drive commercial results from its more pioneering work around technologies like …

The scramble for technology to create cleaner, safer, richer cities has intensified as funding models have started to take root. The fashion for smart city pilot tests has finished. The …

IBM has released a range of new Watson artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and services tailored for the agriculture, manufacturing, supply chain, building management, and automotive industries. “Tailoring general AI for …

Ford, Uber and Lyft have agreed to pool their road traffic data in an open platform available to public and private sector companies to improve mobility in and around cities. …

The first ‘robotic supermarket’ is set to open in Miami, Florida. The facility uses robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) to retrieve groceries from closely-stacked shelves and pack them into shopping …

Ericsson will have completed construction of Sprint’s new IoT core network and operating system (OS) by next month, it has said. The US carrier will be able to offer ‘internet …

California-based industrial analytics firm Plutoshift has released a cloud-based AI solution to connect asset and financial data to unearth previously inaccessible insights, trends, and revenues. The new artificial intelligence (AI) application …

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) is on a charm offensive to strike cross sector alliances with trade bodies, communities and consortia to bring greater harmony and faster transformation of industry …

  Ericsson will provide SAP’s HANA in-memory platform for this smart meter project   Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity and Water has announced a new smart meter project which will connect …

At its ‘Business Summit’ in Dallas this week, AT&T put major focus on its LTE-M network. Use cases are multiplying, it said. “I hear about new possibilities every day. Use cases …

The UK government has ramped up its transformation of manufacturing and mobility with new initiatives and funding opportunities. Its ‘made smarter’ commission, aimed at unlocking £455 billion gains in the …

Throughout the ‘ask-the-experts’ session at URLLC 2018 in London earlier this month, serialised here across a number of posts, the conversation circled back time and again to 5G use cases. …

AT&T has introduced a flat-rate full-fat LTE-M data plan in the US of £30 per month for unlimited data. The One Rate subscription applies only to AT&T-approved IoT LTE-M devices, …

Lift maker KONE has selected AT&T to connect it elevators and escalators in North America in order to gather data, enable predictive maintenance, and improve safety and performance. AT&T said …

The marine division of US machinery and equipment maker Caterpillar has integrated OSIsoft’s data management system into its industrial artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help shipping companies reduce fuel and …

Energy giant BP and car maker Honda have joined with insurance companies Aviva and Hastings Direct to fund a new three-year smart mobility pilot in London to develop and test …

Under the contract, the French IoT specialist will install up to 500 gateways across Scotland   French internet of things specialist Kerlink has been selected as the provider of hardware …