Heineken launched a global marketing campaign, partnering with the Bond franchise and using Microsoft Azure for "technically demanding" promotions, including one for the UEFA Champions League that required low latency and support for over one million users, according to a case study provided by...
Microsoft said digital strategies are key for the survival of telecom operators
BERLIN – Telecom operators should think in a different way in order to launch digital transformation strategies, Bob de Haven, GM of worldwide communications and media at Microsoft, said during the Amdocs Experience 2017...
Landscape companies often struggle to reconcile customers’ billable hours with employee labor hours – especially when using manual time cards to record the data. To improve billing accuracy, S&S Landscaping needed a way to document driver arrival and departure times at customer sites. They...
Silicon Labs recently released its new Thunderboard React, a cloud-connected, Bluetooth-enabled, sensor-driven "internet of things" developer kit that lets customers demo, evaluate and develop their own projects. To show off the capabilities of the new platform, Silicon Labs hosted a pinewood derby race with IoT-enabled cars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dybp-89g6hM
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Languages for IoT developers
We have seen a changing of the guard in the past few years as software takes center stage and once-beloved hardware simply becomes a canvas for developers. The ability to code is an important skill for the production of any modern technology, especially a...
Back in August we wrote an article answering the question on everyone’s mind: "What is the internet of things?" We spoke about some of the embedded systems used in the "internet of things," and how it can transform a number of industries. As the...
Volvo to launch new sensor-based monitoring system
Volvo Buses unveiled the first pedestrian and cyclist detection system for the bus industry. Launching at the IAA in Hannover, Germany, the system will be on Volvo’s European city bus fleet in 2017.
“Accidents involving buses and unprotected road-users seldom occur,...
The cloud deal aims to connect over 3,500 sites across 37 markets
British Telecom signed a contract with global human resources services provider Randstad Group to deploy a new global information technology infrastructure providing cloud connectivity to more than 3,500 sites across 37 countries in Europe, North...
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Many promises are being made for real-time communication (RTC) services in the Cloud. Unfortunately, service providers are realizing that transitioning RTC services to Cloud architectures is not as simple as slideware suggests. In order to be successful, service...
As real-time communications (RTC) and session border controllers (SBCs) migrate to the Cloud, it is important to understand the differences between network transformation myths and realities. There are many promises being made for what a virtual SBC can deliver in a cloud deployment model....
Digital transformation is a trending buzzword in the information technology industry. While somewhat nebulous, it speaks to the need for generally risk-adverse, slow-moving enterprises to embrace things like the app economy, cloudification and software-based virtualization of business process. Factor in the threat from highly focused startups...
The internet of beans
Thumb-sized "plastic beans" are being filled with sensors and tossed into grain bins and storage facilities for precision agriculture, getting rid of the need for handheld devices or elaborate moisture monitoring systems, according to an article on Farm Journal's AGWeb.
The sensor pods...
A problem with corn production, and a precision agriculture solution
Italy is one of the top maize grain producers in the European Union alongside France, Germany, Hungary and Spain, producing more than 7 million tons of corn in an area of 700,000 hectares in 2015, according to EuroStat...
Bosch hosted its Bosch Connected World conference in Chicago last week where it showed off its position within the industrial "internet of things." The event was highlighted by news that Bosch would team with GE to bring interoperability between the two manufacturers' IoT platforms....
Environmental caveat: e-waste
New technologies are fighting an uphill battle to reduce the environmental decay from century-old processes that are both inefficient and wasteful. The "internet of things" has the potential to reduce emissions from those processes and create a truly green earth. But while green use...
Controlling the liquid streets of the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, waterways, small inland harbors and canals are used by citizens in their daily routines. Each city has a water infrastructure with high-density shipping traffic. Municipalities, provinces and other potential canal authorities such as the Ministry of...
Nokia CTO and Bell Labs President Marcus Weldon discusses the network of the future
PHILADELPHIA--In a part keynote address, part physics lecture at the SCTE/IBSE Cable Tec Expo, Marcus Weldon of Nokia Bell Labs discussed how future networks will need to be highly distributed to...
Health care provider partners with ThingWorx for machine learning
An unnamed regionally-managed health care provider partnered with ThingWorx's machine learning platform to detect patterns in data that would lead to better patient care and reduce costly readmissions for patients with ischemic heart disease, according to...
Chris Swearingen, manager of SenseAware at FedEx, gave a talk titled How Innovations in Manufacturing and Supply Chain are Redefining Mobility and Reshaping the Globe, at Bosch Connected World in Chicago. He spoke about the company's "internet of things" product SenseAware and how it is driving supply chain optimization.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CZXPFM1KUc
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A smart factory for spoons
A company out of Belgium that designs and manufactures food packaging including plastic cups, mugs, plates and cutlery, deSter created a smart factory to cut cycle times, according to a case study provided by IoT-One.
Its products are brought to the market as...
Agriculture is evolving
Smart farming and precision agriculture have become important parts of modern agricultural practices. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), by 2050, food production may increase 70% to feed 9.6 billion people. Food and agricultural companies are...
Cisco fog applications provide factory maintenance
Machine tool provider Mazak teamed with Cisco in a move to increase its manufacturing line availability and improve machine utilization through the use of fog applications. If you need a refresher on what fog computing is all about, our article Fog...
Continuing to build out its global infrastructure, while leveraging hardware designs compiled via the Open Compute Project, Facebook announced it will break ground in October on its seventh data center.
The new facility is said to be "one of the most advanced, energy-efficient data centers...
Use cases for analyzing data
ATLANTA – Ron Bodkin, founder and president of Think Big, hosted a panel titled "The key to unlocking value in the internet of things? Managing data!" at the Teradata PARTNERS 2016 conference in Atlanta, and emphasized that a variety of data...
