BROWSING: AI

Slowly, slowly, slowly – Software AG’s three principles of IIoT success

German software company Software AG reckons the industrial internet-of-things (IIoT) has reached a tipping point. Enterprises have bought into its promise, and are starting to carry through on tech blueprints to connect to improve efficiencies and productivity. “We see a turning point in the industry,...

5G and AI are “instrumental” for auto-driving, says BMW

Incoming 5G networks, buoyed by network slicing and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, will be at the heart of developments in autonomous vehicles, intelligent transport systems, and driver safety, BMW Group has said at a 5G demo with Nokia at its headquarters in Munich. The German...

The hype and the glory: Industry 4.0 look-outs at Hannover Messe

The real impact of industrial technologies will be discussed and demonstrated at Hannover Messe next week (April 23-27). Automation and digital twins, powered by data analytics and artificial intelligence, will be the mainstays of the developing Industry 4.0 movement, reckon Bosch, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom,...

Huawei CEO reportedly downplays importance of 5G

Analyst: 5G is one part of network transformation At an event for analysts in Shenzhen, China, Huawei CEO Eric Xu reportedly downplayed the transformation value fo 5G, running contrary to industry-wide talking points about the next-generation fo wireless, according to Mobile World Live. "We do have...

9 ways CSPs can incorporate AI into their business today (Reader Forum)

  Artificial Intelligence. The words themselves sound complex, and that may be off-putting to communications service providers (CSPs) struggling to determine how AI might help their business grow. There are so many questions for service providers. Why should you care about AI? Why now? What...

From drone-mounted AI to smart-city blockchains: five EU innovation projects

In the face of rising political disruption, the European Commission (EC) has in recent weeks redoubled its innovation schedule with new commitments to artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and digital healthcare applications. Here, we pick five of its best Horizon 2020 projects, covering everything from drone-mounted...

UK manufacturers falling behind Asia and US in smart factory rollout

UK manufacturers are falling behind their counterparts in Asia and the US in the international race for industrial transformation. They are also bottom of the pile for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into manufacturing processes. These are the findings of a new study by PwC research...

Nokia claims first “real-world” 5G smart factory trial with Telia and Intel

Finnish duo Nokia and Telia have combined with US chip-maker Intel to run a series of 5G smart factory tests using a trial 5G radio access network, operating in the 28 GHz frequency band. The 5G smart-factory tests used a video application to monitor and...

Creating the internet of value

NEW YORK--As the internet of things (IoT) continues to take shape, working toward projections of tens of billions of new networked devices by the end of the decade, there need to be some major changes to how service providers approach billing and network resources. Senior...

Brussels wants “hard cash” for digital change to keep pace with US, China

The European Commission (EC) has called for both national governments and private enterprises to contribute to the region’s digital transformation programme from 2021. If new finances are not secured from regional administrations and private sources, the progress the region has made with data privacy...

Oracle EVP: ‘You have to go to the cloud’

For service providers and enterprises, cloud adoption drives innovation NEW YORK--Oracle Executive Vice President Bob Weiler stressed to attendees of the Oracle Industry Connect event that now is the time to move business processes to the cloud. "You have to go to the cloud," he...

25 countries join forces in major European AI collaboration

Twenty five European countries have signed a declaration to jointly develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and solutions. The new commitment is further evidence of the gathering political view of AI as an economic power play. It follows France’s €1.5 billion AI package last month, which...

The new tech arms race: a review of national AI strategies

France’s national AI strategy is only the latest promise in an intensifying political arms race. Enterprise IoT Insights considers the seven most significant national AI strategies to date, including state AI blueprints from the US, Canada, the UK, China and Japan. France's bold plan to...

Oracle focused on AI, machine learning

Oracle AI, machine learning solutions mark move toward automation The long view on telecommunications networking is automation of management and operational processes. This is highlighted with the advent of 5G, which is designed to provide connectivity for billions of new devices with a wide range...

AI and blockchain underpin new EU proclamations on digital single market

The European Commission (EC) is set to re-tool its agenda for a digital single market with new focus on artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and digital healthcare technologies. Tomorrow (April 10), the Brussels-based government will convene with ministers, business leaders, academics and others from European Union...

ABB to invest €100m in industrial automation R&D campus in Austria

Swiss engineering conglomerate ABB is to splash €100 million on a new innovation and training campus at the home of Austria-based automation systems manufacturer B&R. It is the largest internal investment ABB has ever made in industrial automation. The new campus will develop technologies...

Smart cities market to hit $2tn by 2025, buoyed by AI and new platforms

The value of the smart cities market will pass $2 trillion by 2025 as artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become standardised in city functions and the final hurdle of inter-departmental integration is finally overcome, according to new research by Frost & Sullivan. Different regions are putting...

KDDI partners with VC fund to invest in 5G

KDDI planning to spend $186 million over five years Japanese telecommunications company KDDI has inked a partnership with compatriot venture capital firm Global Brain Corp to establish KDDI Open Innovation Fund 3 (KOIF3), a fund that will invest in venture firms that could generate synergies...

Industry welcomes Macron’s $1.85bn AI initiative as latest in new tech arms race

French president Emmanuel Macron’s commitment to invest €1.5bn ($1.85bn) in new education and business initiatives around artificial intelligence (AI) was applauded by the telecoms industry, but only as the latest promise in an intensifying political arms race. Macron said last week France would invest...

France-based Orange follows Macron’s AI promise with new jobs and training

Orange said in a statement it supports the French government’s new plan on artificial intelligence (AI), and announced in tandem the acceleration of its own use of AI. The France-based company said it will help train 500 people in the field, and recruit 200...

AI for IoT focus of NVIDIA, Arm partnership

NVIDIA combining AI architecture with Arm machine learning platform Two leaders in the machine learning/deep learning field have joined forces to push artificial intelligence (AI) into the quickly growing ecosystem of devices that comprise the internet of things (IoT). Announced during the recent GPU Technology...

France to invest $1.85 billion in artificial intelligence through 2022

Samsung and Fujitsu announce further investments in artificial intelligence French president Emmanuel Macron said his government would invest 1.5 billion euros ($1.85 billion) into artificial intelligence (AI) research until the end of his term in 2022 as part of a strategy to accelerate innovation. “We have...

Taking AI to the edge

Putting AI on devices moves processing to the very edge of the network As 5G continues to develop in support of new latency-sensitive use cases, there's a broad move to augment centralized cloud-based services with processing, compute and storage capabilities at the network edge. Think...

Kagan: Why Apple’s Siri reminds me of Goober Pyle

If Apple was first to AI with Siri, why then are they trailing today? We all know artificial intelligence is the future. We all know it is growing in importance and will dominate our world going forward. We all know Apple was first with...