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Ericsson, China Mobile carry out connected factory trial in China

Connected factory trial is currently focused on production line monitoring and materials tracking use cases. China Mobile and Ericsson said they are carrying out a connected factory trial at the plant of Ericsson’s subsidiary Ericsson Panda Communication, in the city of Nanjing,...

IBM partners with Delos to build healthier living spaces

IBM announced earlier this month it is collaborating with wellness and technology firm Delos to adopt IBM Cloud and cognitive technologies to speed the discovery of new insights in health and wellness and their connections to the design of indoor spaces. Designed to be a multi-year collaboration, Delos...

3GPP tech to account for 35% of LPWA networks according to report

There are a number of unlicensed low-power wide-area network startups going toe-to-toe to be one to connect the biggest chunk of the massive and growing "internet of things" market. Players like Sigfox, Ingenu and Senet have been competing with each other over the past...

Altair chipset passes interoperability tests with Lightweight M2M protocol

Altair Semiconductor, a provider of LTE chipsets, announced earlier this month that its ALT1160 LTE Cat-1 chipset successfully completed interoperability testing with the Open Mobile Alliance's Lightweight machine-to-machine protocol. The test took place at the recent OMA TestFest, where vendors had the opportunity to test the stability...

F1 racing team uses IoT to track biometrics of pit crew

Avanade, an IT consulting company, is helping Williams Martini Racing harness IoT by using biometric data to analyze every aspect of pit stop performance and maintain an edge over rivals. Avanade worked with Williams during the 2016 Formula 1 season to capture and evaluate a range...

Autonomous vehicles key reason Ford sees 25% increase in patents

Ford Motor Company registered 1,442 patents this year, a 25% increase from 2015, and the most among the largest automakers in the U.S., according to the Detroit Free Press. Based on data compiled by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Toyota was granted 1,368 patents...

Bsquare brings IoT to Coca-Cola’s futuristic Freestyle machine

IoT for Coca-Cola machine IoT software and services company Bsquare has been working with Coca-Cola since 2006, on a project that would become the Coca-Cola Freestyle, an "internet of things"-enabled drink dispenser. Bsquare first served as the lead systems integrator for the Freestyle machine, before...

Accelerometer and gyroscope market to grow thanks to internet of things

IoT spurs growing accelerometer and gyroscope market The "internet of things" is helping grow the accelerometer and gyroscope market, which is expected to reach $3.5 billion by 2022, according to a new report from MarketsandMarkets. According to the report, "Accelerometer and gyroscope market by accelerometer type, gyroscope type,...

Swift Sensors goes after industrial IoT with wireless sensor system

Swift Sensors to take on industrial IoT. Earlier this month, Swift Sensors announced its transition to industrial "internet of things" where it plans to offer a cloud-based wireless sensor system for industrial and commercial applications. The company said it will work to...

Greenwave adds AI-powered language tool, targets network providers

Greenwave Systems yesterday announced it integrated the Nuance Communications Mix voice and AI-powered natural language understanding (NLU) technologies as part of its AXON Platform for managed services. The solutions offered by the partnership will target networking and communications service providers with the hope of providing the ability to...

Meet BlackBerry Secure, a mobile-security platform for IoT

Last week, BlackBerry unveiled its mobile-native approach to security with the launch of a platform designed for the industrial "internet of things." The BlackBerry Secure platform is a product of the company’s individual security offerings combined into a single suite. The cloud-enabled approach was...

Vodafone provides connectivity for medical asset tracking

As much as one-third of medication is unusable by the time it is supposed to be taken as a result of poor storage of temperature-sensitive medicines due to insufficient supply chain management and failure of patients to correctly store prescriptions, according to a case...

Understanding Lightweight M2M protocol and its benefits

The millions of connected devices that make up machine-to-machine systems and are part of the "internet of things" need to be switched on, configured, provisioned for services, maintained, updated with software, recovered from error conditions, monitored, queried for data, repaired and taken off their...

Understanding Lightweight M2M (LWM2M) protocol and its benefits

The millions of connected devices that make up machine-to-machine systems and are part of the "internet of things" need to be switched on, configured, provisioned for services, maintained, updated with software, recovered from error conditions, monitored, queried for data, repaired and taken off their...

Vodafone provides connectivity for medical asset tracking

As much as one-third of medication is unusable by the time it is supposed to be taken as a result of poor storage of temperature-sensitive medicines due to insufficient supply chain management and failure of patients to correctly store prescriptions, according to a case...

Bluetooth 5 is here, and built for the internet of things

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is going directly after the "internet of things" market with this week’s release of Bluetooth 5, the newest version of the now ubiquitous wireless technology said to offer significant range, speed and broadcast message capacity upgrades. According to the release,...

Bluetooth 5 is here, and built for the internet of things

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is going directly after the "internet of things" market with this week’s release of Bluetooth 5, the newest version of the now ubiquitous wireless technology said to offer significant range, speed and broadcast message capacity upgrades. According to the release,...

Case study: PTC helps health care manufacturer cut MTTR in half

Needing a solution for critical, cancer treating equipment Varian Medical Systems, a company out of Palo Alto, California, uses intensity modulated radiation therapy and image guided radiation therapy cancer treatment systems to support today’s treatment modalities. They looked to PTC for a solution that could help increase...

SCADA systems and how they relate to IoT

SCADA and its use cases. Nearly everywhere you look, there is some type of supervisory control and data acquisition system running behind the scenes, at your local supermarket, refinery, waste water treatment plant or even your own home. SCADA is an automation...

Case study: PTC helps health care manufacturer cut MTTR in half

Needing a solution for critical, cancer treating equipment Varian Medical Systems, a company out of Palo Alto, California, uses intensity modulated radiation therapy and image guided radiation therapy cancer treatment systems to support today’s treatment modalities. They looked to PTC for a solution that could help increase...

SCADA systems and how they relate to IoT

SCADA and its use cases. Nearly everywhere you look, there is some type of supervisory control and data acquisition system running behind the scenes, at your local supermarket, refinery, waste water treatment plant or even your own home. SCADA is an automation...

Sensor types and their IoT use cases

Many sensor types for the many IoT use cases. Sensors are the troops of the "internet of things," the on-the-ground pieces of hardware doing the critical work of monitoring processes, taking measurements and collecting data. They are often one of the first...

Sensor types and their IoT use cases

Many sensor types for the many IoT use cases. Sensors are the troops of the "internet of things," the on-the-ground pieces of hardware doing the critical work of monitoring processes, taking measurements and collecting data. They are often one of the first...

Case study: Thingworx platform helps company prove energy savings

Thingworx platform proves energy savings. Steam systems are one of the largest energy consumers in the United States, making up almost 15% of the country's annual energy usage. There exist 50,000 district and industrial facilities in the country. Pittsburgh-based Embedded Energy Technology...