Former mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg has announced packages of $70 million and $42 million respectively to help US smart cities fight climate change and develop their usage of data. The new disbursements will be made via his Bloomberg Philanthropies charity.
A year after...
Eleven-x said the new solutions allow existing sensors to provide real-time data collection and monitoring
Eleven-x, a Canadian firm operating a nationwide public low-power network, has launched a new platform that offers interface units which enable wireless LoRaWAN connectivity for currently deployed but unconnected smart...
Embedded processors have become smaller, more powerful and less expensive and are now shaping the development of the Internet of Things. Specifically, new IoT applications have benefited from embedded design, including smart cities, connected auto communication and asset tracking in transportation.
Smart cities
Smart cities use...
Google Cloud has joined the LoRa Alliance as a sponsor member. Its input will help LoRaWAN operators glean deeper insights from data analytics running in their low-power wide-area (LPWA) ‘internet of things’ (IoT) networks, said the LoRa Alliance.
Donna Moore, chief executive of the LoRa...
Annual sales of fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) in the US will reach five million by 2026, according to a new study by Juniper Research. Juniper also expects a total of 20 million new AVs to be sold globally during the same year.
The main drivers...
The industrial ‘internet of things’ (IoT) market is geographically skewed, reckons one of its leading protagonists. Greg Kinsey, vice president of Japan-based Hitachi's Vantara business, says the US is way behind, fixated on sensors in factories, while European countries rewrite the industrial rule-book with...
A great number of enterprise IoT projects remain stuck in pilots, put aside for another day. Before they even start, the challenge is how to make money from, at least to cover the initial investment and take a first giant leap into the unknown....
The choice between licensed and unlicensed low-power wide-area (LPWA) connectivity technologies is about use cases, concurred a panel of ‘internet of things’ (IoT) operators at LPWA World in London this week. But if both technologies fit, as they do in most cases, the choice...
Network sharing will become a standard tactic to establish dense in-building mobile coverage, with private enterprises increasingly taking charge of network operations, said AT&T at SCWS World in London. But outdoor coverage will remain the preserve of licensed cellular operators, reluctant to share capacity...
Commercial and public safety companies are moving inexorably away from TETRA based communications and embracing LTE-based technologies, Chinese vendor Huawei company told Enterprise IoT Insights following the launch of its new eLTE Multimedia Critical Communications System (eLTE MCCS) at Critical Communications World (CCW) in...
Vendors Nokia, Huawei and Motorola Solutions variously talked up next-generation command centres at Critical Communications World (CCW) in Berlin this week. The trio offered multi-media public safety packages that variously make use of ‘internet of things’ (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, and seek...
The ‘internet of things’ (IoT) market is moving towards new value-based and event-based pricing, led by smart cities and industrial operatives, according to Cisco.
Until now, device-as-a-service, and latterly anonymised data sharing with third-parties, have thrived as business models in the nascent IoT space. However,...
Sometimes you need indisputable proof to act upon even the clearest assumptions. If you’re a city council, spending public money on infrastructure to save local communities, this burden of proof is everything.
The idea the natural environment can be harnessed in urban infrastructure to manage...
Comcast has hooked up the “epicentre of IoT” by making live its LoRaWAN-based machineQ service in the San Francisco Bay Area, in California. The launch, one of 10 new machineQ networks to go live in recent weeks, will stimulate local start-ups and developers to...
The Asia Pacific (APAC) region has several smart cities under development, mainly grouped in countries such as China, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. Here we describe three of the region’s most developed smart city initiatives.
Singapore
In 2014, the government of Singapore launched its Smart Nation...
The European Commission (EC) is inviting municipal authorities to apply for €15,000 vouchers to finance Wi-Fi equipment and installation in public spaces. Vouchers worth €17.75 million in total will be made available to 1,183 municipalities in European Union (EU) member states in the next...
The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has selected 10 smart city authorities and regional government agencies to explore the implications of integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, into US national airspace.
The initiative variously involves state, local and tribal governments, in partnership with private...
The European Commission (EC) has established 5G test-beds in Barcelona in Spain and Bristol in the UK to trial of consumer oriented 5G applications. A further €2.2 million has been readies to fund new 5G test-beds in further European ‘smart cities’ over the next...
Washington-state tech giant Microsoft will set up house in Houston, Texas, as part of a long-term effort with the city authority to drive grass-roots innovation, stimulate the local economy, and develop new smart city solutions.
Houston said it was the first US city to be...
Buckinghamshire County Council and Hertfordshire County Council have signed up to InterDigital mobility data engine oneTRANSPORT, taking its smart-city customer count to four in the UK. The duo will share mobility data with third parties for the development of new mobility solutions.
Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire...
Mastercard and Microsoft are to pool their payment, data analytics and cloud technologies to create a smart city “exchange” to help mayors, policy makers and urban planners tackle urban challenges such as traffic congestion and economic development.
The alliance will allow cities to use economic...
Proximus is launching a narrowband internet-of-thing (NB-IoT) network to run alongside its LoRaWAN infrastructure in the Flemish Region in the north of Belgium. The NB-IoT deployment, commissioned by IBM and Sagecom, is initially trained on 1.3 million digital smart meters for monitoring the supply...
Cisco appears to have found its rhythm in the enterprise IoT space by integrating communications technologies and data streams in its Kinetic platform for smart factories and smart cities. Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Bryan Tantzen, in charge of its manufacturing IoT business,...
IBM’s new facility will focus on IoT, AI, blockchain and quantum computing
IBM has launched a new innovation center in Abu Dhabi which will mainly focus on advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, blockchain, security, analytics, internet of things and quantum computing.
IBM’s Innovation...
