The city of Philadelphia in the US is deploying lighting, sensors, and networking technologies from Cisco and CIMCON Lighting as it seeks to be “one of the leading smart cities in the United States”.
The new NearSky lighting platform from CIMCON, running lighting controls, air...
Two new announcements this week, by cities both sides of the the Atlantic, make clear, again, the case for smart street-lighting is undeniable.
In the US, the city of Syracuse in New York State has teamed with the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to...
Cisco has launched an IoT ‘maker-space’ in conjuction with Manchester Metropolitan University, continuing its close involvement in the UK city’s tech scene.
Over the past two years, Cisco has led a number of collaborative initiatives to help solve challenges and drive opportunities in the Greater...
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...
UK-based Mettis Aerospace, manufacturer of components for the likes of Airbus, Boeing and Rolls-Royce, is to test Wi-Fi 6 for connecting industrial machines and processes. The Wireless Broadband Alliance said the trials represent the first of Wi-Fi 6 for enterprise and industrial internet-of-things (IoT)...
Rakuten says it will build a cloud-native, nationwide network for about $5 billion
As operators transition from LTE to 5G, there's significant discussion around how 5G requires a cloud-native, fully-virtualized design capable of dynamically supporting the myriad applications and device types that will connect over...
Dutch industrial tech provider Koning & Hartman and Irish private-network provider Druid Software have extended their work to bring automation and intelligence to operations at the Port of Rotterdam. The pair have established a private LTE network at the port, using spectrum licensed by...
The executive said that 5G networks will be deployed by a combination of suppliers from Europe, China and the U.S.
Cisco System’s CEO Chuck Robbins said that governments should not be worried about the possibility that Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies will dominate the race to...
Cisco inks deals with Verizon, Sprint, KT, Rakuten, Softbank and Airtel
BARCELONA--Cisco kicked off Mobile World Congress by touting its 5G prowess, both in terms of technology and operator contract wins. Cisco said it has 40 service providers actively trialing and deploying its 5G offerings,...
Eight further organisations have joined the Charter of Trust for cybersecurity, an initiative launched by Siemens last year to raise security in the internet of things (IoT) market. Membership of the charter now stands at 17. Siemens said the group’s first task is to...
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...
This article is the fourth instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018.
The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine...
The Japanese company aims to launch mobile services in Japan in October 2019
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten announced plans to invest in U.S.-based virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) vendor Altiostar, as the former company is on track to launch a mobile network in Japan using...
Liberty Lake IoT provider Itron has started to certify devices under the Wi-SUN Field Area Network (FAN) 1.0 programme. It follows fellow Wi-SUN leader Cisco to have its products passed by the Wi-SUN Alliance.
Itron said its Bridge 5-WS product was the first to gain...
Precision agriculture is a key focus of rural 5G trial
While the long-term plan for 5G is widespread coverage, we're still in the early days and commercial deployments are largely focused on major metro markets. However, Cisco U.K., along with partners are looking "beyond the...
The networking firm said its developer program DevNet offers a new set of developer tools for IoT
Cisco has launched new internet of things networking products, developer tools, validated design guides and partner specializations to increase flexibility and security for IoT environments, the company said...
The two companies initially deployed an IoT-based solution for the city of Las Vegas
Iteris, a U.S company that focuses on applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, has signed a strategic partnership with Cisco with the aim of promoting the latter’s Connected Roadway solution through...
6G and the quantum internet
If you're in the telecoms world, you likely hear something about 5G at least 100,000 times every day. But, as with anything technology-related, you've got to keep on looking at what's next. And if 5G is on the bubble, it...
Driverless cars will be on UK roads within five years. So says two thirds (65 per cent) of senior industry leaders in the UK, working at the crossover of technology and transport.
Future transport collective, the Smart Mobility Living Lab: London (SMLL), polled 250 senior...
The internet of things is hitting its stride and will shift from mere connections to "tangible value and monetization," according to Cisco's newly released Visual Networking Index forecast through 2022.
While Cisco expects the internet to reach 4.8 billion human users by the end of...
Distributing machine learning is key to latency-sensitive applications
Today, the vast majority of machine learning algorithms are run in centralized cloud computing facilities. But as 5G opens up a new set of latency-sensitive applications, doing machine learning just in the cloud won't be enough, which...
Cisco has started certifying a number of its industrial routers for smart grids, smart cities, and smart manufacturing under new Wi-SUN standards, as the San Jose based outfit throws its weight behind the Wi-SUN Alliance’s field area networks (FAN) certification programme.
Wi-SUN, based on open...
Wi-SUN has been quietly succeeding in the smart utilities and smart cities markets as an alternative for low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking like LoRa and Sigfox.
The open ‘wireless smart utility network’ (Wi-SUN) mesh protocol is based on the IEEE 802.15.4g SUN standard, approved in March...
Cisco is making the business case for mobile operators to install 5G masts in rural regions based on connecting livestock, rather than people.
The company, leading a network of 29 organisations in the UK, is confident its project will produce a ‘hard’ ROI for service...
