Michigan, home of the traditional automotive industry, is hoping to take the lead on autonomous driving regulation. In the meantime, Microsoft opens its Azure IoT Gateway SDK to public beta; and IPass launches its developer program, with the promises of scale and shorter time-to-market,...
Michigan, home of the traditional automotive industry, is hoping to take the lead on autonomous driving regulation. In the meantime, Microsoft opens its Azure IoT Gateway SDK to public beta and iPass launches its developer program with the promises of scale and shorter time-to-market.
Michigan...
Verizon strike update
1. Verizon has cancelled medical coverage for the thousands of employees who have been on strike for more than two weeks now. The company told the union last week that the employees' healthcare coverage would stop at the end of April if...
Asset efficiency is important to a manufacturer's bottomline
A recent study on the maturity of asset efficiency practices from Infosys and the Institute for Industrial Management (FIR) at Aachen University revealed that 85% of manufacturing companies globally are aware of asset efficiency, but only 15%...
Nokia's return to the consumer market will not just be about smartphones. The company said today that it plans to buy France's Withings, which makes connected devices to monitor health and fitness.
"With this acquisition, Nokia is strengthening its position in the Internet of Things...
AT&T has been saying for months that satellites will be part of its "Internet of Things" strategy, and this week the carrier finally shared details. Globecomm will be AT&T's IoT partner for satellite services, enabling AT&T to better leverage DirecTV's satellite portfolio to connect...
AT&T has been saying for months that satellites will be part of its "Internet of Things" strategy, and this week the carrier finally shared details. Globecomm will be AT&T's IoT partner for satellite services, enabling AT&T to better leverage DirecTV's satellite portfolio to connect...
5 things to know today ....
1. A former T-Mobile US customer is trying to bring a class action lawsuit against the "Un-carrier." A man who bought four handsets from T-Mobile US and was paying for them in monthly installments claims the carrier's advertising campaign...
The Internet of Things is projected to connect billions of previously unintelligent objects to global telecommunications networks opening up the possibility of gaining new, analytics-based insight from machines with the goal of revolutionizing industry.
There are various market forecasts that place differing values on the...
A primer on 5G, when it will be deployed and what difference it is likely to make
The 5G future is closer than you think. That’s the headline on a recent article by Charla Rath, Verizon’s vice president of wireless policy development. Verizon isn’t the only...
Increase productivity with enterprise asset management cloud and data analytics tools
Companies of all sorts, particularly those working in physical plant-intensive markets, need to keep up with their equipment to understand maintenance needs, optimize process efficiency and, ideally, get more productivity for less money.
The practice...
Goldman Sachs views IoT as the third “internet” wave while predicting that IoT will exceed preceding internet waves by connecting 28 billion “things”. By extending mobile and wireless “pipes”, IoT will unlock product innovation, create new business models and expose networks to unprecedented level...
Low oil prices mean petroleum producers need to spend and invest more carefully than ever, and the "Internet of Things" is helping. Last year, Royal Dutch Shell realized a $1 million return on an $87,000 investment in digital technology to monitor oilfields in some...
Initiatives like Germany’s Industrie 4.0 and Made in China 2025 seed regional IoT economy
The "Internet of Things" promises to connect 20 billion previously unconnected objects by 2020. As the IoT takes shape, some global regions, largely due to government-led planning, are emerging as likely...
1. AT&T is using its Cricket prepaid brand to take aim at T-Mobile US. Cricket is offering customers who switch from T-Mobile a $100 bill credit when they sign up for its new $70 per month unlimited plan. That $70 plan includes unlimited data,...
As low-power networks take off, what’s the place of Bluetooth?
Invented by Ericsson in the early 1990s and initially standardized in 1999, most people associate Bluetooth with connectivity between a handset and an earpiece or mobile speaker.
But Bluetooth, which operates in the 2.4 GHz band...
According to research conducted by analyst Chetan Sharma, the term “Internet of Things” was first coined in September 1985 by Peter T. Lewis in a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation 15th Annual Legislative Weekend in Washington, D.C. Lewis defined the IoT as...
From predictive crime applications to police monitoring, public safety IoT is driving governmental innovation
The "Internet of Things" is already offering benefits for private companies across the globe, but the adoption of these technologies by government institutions and agencies is also going through a rapid...
A major aspect of the industrial "Internet of Things" is massive machine-to-machine communications supported by a redundant, reliable, high-speed network. General Electric, which has interests in numerous industrial verticals, uses a network test bed deployed in New York capable of 100 gigabit-per-second data transmission to...
Six fleets of self-driving trucks arrived in the Netherlands today from locations in Sweden, Germany, Denmark and Belgium. The trucks used a system called "platooning" in which two or three trucks drive about 50 feet apart, connected by Wi-Fi. Sensors, processors and radios control...
Essentially since the advent of health care, diagnosis has been dependent on a direct, face-to-face interaction between the patient and the doctor. But now, as robust, high-capacity mobile networks transmit insightful data generated by sensors and other remote monitors comprising the "Internet of Things,"...
The global "Internet of Things" – projected to amount to more than 20 billion connections by 2020 – is taking shape with dedicated networks expanding across the globe. Sigfox is a major player in this space with dedicated IoT networks live in 14 countries...
Brocade Communications has agreed to buy Ruckus Wireless in a deal worth $1.2 billion, which the companies say will create a "pure-play networking company." The goal is to deliver products and solutions that span the continuum from the heart of the data center to...
As low-power networks take off, what’s the place of Bluetooth?
Invented by Ericsson in the early 1990s and initially standardized in 1999, most people associate Bluetooth with connectivity between a handset and an earpiece or mobile speaker.
But Bluetooth, which operates in the 2.4 GHz band...
