Semtech Corporation is working with Germany-based IoT blockchain group MXC Foundation to deploy open networks using LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol. The deal will see MXC users bring LoRaWAN networks into their international blockchain-based IoT systems, geared around low-power smart city applications.
MXC’s business...
Spanish clothing brand Desigual has deployed a blockchain solution to improve transparency and resiliency in its supply chain, the company has announced.
It is working with Finboot, also headquartered in Barcelona, to integrate the blockchain group’s MARCO track and trace application into its import and...
Blockchain-based LoRaWAN network operator and hotspot maker Helium has expanded to more than 1,000 cities in North America, and started rolling out in Europe, and announced a new deals with LoRa-maker Semtech.
Helium presents itself as the ‘people’s network’ and the ‘first peer-to-peer wireless network’....
A closer look at some more recent advances in blockchain adoption made by CSPs
Blockchain, a technology that establishes a shared, immutable record of transactions within a network, has been on the radar of communication service providers (CSPs) for some time now, and according to...
Vodafone IoT Director: 'IoT and blockchain are the new power green couple'
Vodafone Business is working with global, nonprofit blockchain organization Energy Web (EW) to integrate distributed energy resources (DERs) with power grids using IoT and blockchain technology. The partnership addresses the growing number of IoT...
The World Economic Forum has released a blockchain toolkit offering guidance to enterprises seeking to deploy the distributed ledger technology. It cited the global pressure created by the COVID-19 outbreak on global trade as reason to cooperate to strengthen international supply chains, and look...
Dell Computers, STMicroelectronics, and Software AG have thrown their weight behind blockchain-rival The Tangle to record and secure transactions and payments between machines in the industrial IoT space.
The companies, joined by various others from the tech and research sectors, have formed a new working...
Recently, there has been a focused interest from the industry on the ‘Private 5G as a Service’ and ‘Neutral Host Service’ models as 5G is being deployed. However, it is imperative to improve the process efficiency for profitable and sizable NaaS business realizations.
FYDENA, a...
The first “neutral aggregating platform” for tracing the provenance of goods in the supply chain has launched, pulling together and making visible data from sundry blockchains.
The World Economic Forum described it as a “self-service track-and-trace” blockchain platform at its general meeting in Davos this...
Telefonica will deploy nodes of its Hyperledger-enabled blockchain at APTE’s 52 locations
Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica has revealed plans to work with Spain’s Association of Science and Technology Parks (APTE) to bring its blockchain-based platform to around 8,000 local companies in form of Hyperledger-based blockchain...
Walmart has put automated pick-and-pack robots to work at a so-called ‘supercenter’ in Salem, New Hampshire.
The new system, called Alphabot, is live in a 20,000-square-foot warehouse-style extension at its Salem superstore, which has been opened as a grocery pickup point with drive-thru lanes for...
Walmart Canada has launched a blockchain-based freight and payment network for 70 third-party trucking companies carrying goods for 400-odd Walmart stores in Canada.
The new platform, designed with Toronto-based blockchain developer DLT Labs, uses distributed ledger technology to track deliveries, verify transactions, and automate...
Deutsche Telekom has launched a blockchain marketplace for German enterprises. The new German blockchain ecosystem (GBE) will enable customers to “map” different applications using blockchain.
The service, from Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems, will allow businesses to map a product's entire supply chain in a distributed...
Seven mining and metals companies have joined a World Economic Forum initiative to design and deploy blockchain solutions for the whole industry.
The seven founding companies are Antofagasta Minerals, Eurasian Resources Group, Glencore, Klöckner & Co, Minsur, Tata Steel, Anglo American/De Beers (Tracr). The group...
A recent surge in telehealth suggests that virtual care will rise in popularity in the coming years. Telemedicine offers an accessible way for patients to remotely connect with doctors for medical advice and diagnoses, particularly for patients who are unable to leave their homes.
Despite...
Cisco, Lenovo, Nokia, Schneider Electric, and Vodafone have joined IBM’s new Trust Your Supplier (TYS) blockchain project to bring efficiency, order, and accountability to the supply chain.
Belgian brewing company Anheuser-Busch InBev and UK pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline have also joined as ‘founding participlants’, alongside these...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is generating a great deal of excitement across all verticals, especially as operators ramp up plans for 5G networks. IoT increasingly is being used across a broad spectrum of industries, as well as in the consumer segment. Globally, IoT...
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 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...
IT company HPE and Continental, best known for making tyres, have revealed a new blockchain-based trading platform for vehicle data to help car makers monetise data and tie in with emerging traffic warning systems and parking solutions. The data-sharing mechanism will also improve driver safety, the...
A new smart cities incubator has been launched in the Dallas Fort Worth region. It will focus on smart cities related technologies. Big-name collaborators on the project include AT&T, Cisco, and Microsoft, as well as local academic institutions.
The new Innov8te incubator, led by the...
IBM , TFT and SweetSense are piloting technologies to accurately monitor and track groundwater use in Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta
The Freshwater Trust (TFT), together with IBM Research and SweetSense, a provider of low-cost satellite connected sensors, are partnering to pilot technologies which can...
The Spice Girls have been back again (at writing) nwith a reunion tour and a souvenir t-shirt. It is a nostalgia trip, for sure – in terms of the songbook at play, and the industrial mechanisms grinding into gear behind it. To be clear,...
Membership of the World Economic Forum’s fledgling Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network (Centre Network) has swelled to over 100, with five nations and a number of international organisations joining the fray.
They will help design policies for technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) and...
