BROWSING: AI

ZTE works with 40+ global operators for 5G cooperation and testing

With the rapid growth of network traffic demand, the 5G commercialization process is also accelerating, and many operators around the world announced that they will launch 5G services in 2019. As one of the four main equipment vendors in the 4G era, ZTE has released 5G end-to-end...

Cisco to work with Italian gas utility Snam on 5G and IoT, as part of €850m digital change

Cisco has signed a deal with Italian natural gas infrastructure company Snam to research and develop solutions in the smart energy and industrial internet-of-things (IoT) space, making use of 5G, edge and fog computing, and artificial intelligence (AI). The deal, in the form of a...

Kagan: Keep your company’s AI investment on target

Companies have begun investing in AI, the next transformative technology. However, many are wasting money focusing on the wrong areas at this early stage. True, in coming years the AI revolution will completely reinvent the way we do business, but we are still just...

Rockwell intros “predictive analytics without a data scientist” to cover the skills gap

The drive to make advanced industrial analytics more accessible is gathering pace. Rockwell Automation has just released a new articificial intelligence (AI) module for “predictive analytics without a data scientist”, as it seeks to make advance the digital transformation of industry, despite a general...

Telensa teams with Samsung on 5G, AI and blockchain for smart cities in APAC, US

Samsung and Telensa are to collaborate on smart city projects around streetlighting and data governance, with work slated in South Korea, followed by wider deployments across Asia Pacific and in the United States. The pair will also bring Samsung’s knowhow in 5G, artificial intelligence...

AI from cloud to edge focus of new Qualcomm chip

Distributed AI part of unlocking 5G value Some of the primary enhancements associated with 5G are major increases to cellular speed and similarly significant reductions to latency. This combination is seen as the enabler of applications like mobile augmented and virtual reality, as well as...

NTT DoCoMo adds new companies to 5G trial

Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has reached an agreement with enterprises and organizations in the United States and Israel as well as Japan, to collaborate in trials involving a 5G mobile test network established in Guam, the telco said in a statement. NTT DoCoMo highlighted that...

Bosch targets €1bn gains on the blood-rush of 5G to its factory nervous system

Bosch has raised more than €1.5 billion in revenue from the implementation of Industry 4.0 techniques in its own factories, as well as its customers’ factories, during the past four years, it has said. The company has set an incremental revenue target of €1...

Report available now: From supply chain to demand chain – how IoT and AI are enabling the supply chain to flex to changing demand

AUSTIN, Texas, March 25, 2019 — Digital transformation of the supply chain will be bookended by two key technologies: the internet-of-things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). Everything else is held in place by these twin digital capabilities. This is the conclusion of a new editorial...

The supply chain is dead; long live the demand chain! How AI is tilting the balance between supply and demand

For digital transformation of the supply chain, artificial intelligence (AI) is effectively the only game in town. This is because it is the only technological discipline that knits together a chain of supply, making its parts work in concert to bring intelligence across its...

Belgian IoT firm deploys Nokia machine learning tool for security streaming

Belgian smart-city security provider Room40 has announced a deal with Nokia to use the Finnish vendor’s machine learning tool for video analytics to discern anomalies in stream streams of video, audio and sensor information, and flag incidents in real-time. It is using the Nokia...

AT&T mixes industry verticals and digital tech to brew-up new supply-chain magic

The supply chain links the whole Industry 4.0 movement. For higher-grade operational intelligence to be brought to bear across the wider industrial market, the supply chain needs to mesh-in with the various stages of production and delivery. It has to be integrated in order...

NTT bundles in FogHorn’s edge AI software to round out industrial IoT offer

Japanese telecoms giant NTT is working with California-based industrial IoT software developer Foghorn to deliver edge-based machine intelligence to industrial clients. NTT-subsidiary NTT Data, offering systems-integration and IoT consultancy services, has selected Foghorn’s Lightning software for its on-premise analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, which...

Cloud to help emerging markets diminish tech, cost barriers (Reader Forum)

The cloud is a powerful transformational agent for emerging markets, but only when dovetailed with other emerging and evolving digital technologies to deliver complete solutions.  The International Data Corporation or IDC's top 10 predictions for IT, 2019, says that by 2022, 40% of organizations’...

Telefónica inks strategic AI partnership with Microsoft

Under the deal, both companies aim to develop innovative services for the telecom sector BARCELONA -- Telefónica and Microsoft have put in place a strategic partnership to collaborate on projects to accelerate innovation in the telecommunications field. The new agreement, announced during the Mobile World Congress...

SEAT and IBM showcase AI for smarter urban mobility

Spanish car brand SEAT is using artificial intelligence (AI) from IBM Watson to bring information and guidance to city residents about their usage of cars, scooters, bikes and public transport. Cars have, invariably, been a feature of Mobile World Congress 2019 this week. SEAT,...

What emerging service assurance capabilities are needed for NFV networks?

  Network and service assurance needs are evolving rapidly, as more applications — both network functions that support telecom network operations, and enterprise applications — are becoming virtualized. SNS Research estimates that service provider SDN and NFV investments will have a compound annual growth rate...

Where is the current ‘cutting edge’ for network and service visibility?

Network and service assurance needs are evolving rapidly, as more applications — both network functions that support telecom network operations, and enterprise applications — are becoming virtualized. SNS Research estimates that service provider SDN and NFV investments will have a compound annual growth rate...

Editorial Webinar: AI and IoT at the cutting edge – when to move intelligence out of the cloud and closer to the action

Operational intelligence does not come just by connecting machines; it requires advanced analytics to sort the data and recommend a course of action. Many critical use cases at the edge can’t wait for the cloud. Instead, they demand insights and decisioning at the source,...

HERE establishes AI research center in Austria

  The mapping services firm will provide funds of more than $28 million to establish the new facility   Mapping and location services company HERE Technologies is establishing a new artificial intelligence research center. The International Institute for Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence (IARAI), to be located in...

Editorial Report: AI and IoT at the cutting edge – when to move industrial intelligence closer to the action

Operational intelligence does not come just by connecting machines; it requires advanced analytics to sort the data and recommend a course of action. Many critical use cases at the edge can’t wait for the cloud. Instead, they demand insights and decisioning at the source,...

Editorial Webinar: AI and IoT at the cutting edge – when to move intelligence out of the cloud and closer to the action

Operational intelligence does not come just by connecting machines; it requires advanced analytics to sort the data and recommend a course of action. Many critical use cases at the edge can’t wait for the cloud. Instead, they demand insights and decisioning at the source,...

Trump enters US into global AI arms-race with detail-light federal investment plan

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to commit certain federal government resources to the research and development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, tools, and services. Trump stopped short of putting a financial value on the investment; instead, he promised wider availability of...

From coffee machines to paint shops: IIoT at the cutting edge – four Software AG use cases

As part of Enterprise IoT Insights' investigation into edge-cloud setups in industrial plants, we have unearthed a number of case studies showing how manufacturing companies and technology providers are collaborating to bring intelligence closer to the action. Here, we present four examples from Software...