Drones used in precision agriculture
OCEALIA Group is a French farming cooperative with 7,200 members and nearly 900 employees. Since 2015, five drone operators have been flying the group's two AIRINOV multiSPEC 4C sensor-equipped SenseFly eBee Ag drones in order to gain valuable fertilization data.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du7wJX6hEP4
“The drone data is complementary to satellite...
Drones used in precision agriculture
OCEALIA Group is a French farming cooperative with 7,200 members and nearly 900 employees. Since 2015, five drone operators have been flying the group's two AIRINOV multiSPEC 4C sensor-equipped SenseFly eBee Ag drones in order to gain valuable fertilization data.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du7wJX6hEP4
“The drone data is complementary to satellite...
Mass urbanization is straining resources in metropolitan areas and having a direct impact on quality-of-life for residents. This global trend is prompting increasing investment in solutions designed to transform high population density areas into smart cities.
Smart cities is a somewhat nebulous term--it can include a...
Drones are a capitivating IoT example
According to a report from retail research firm NPD group, sales of drones have more than tripled over the last year, reaching around $200 million in sales. The increasing interest in using these aerial devices is one of the best illustrations...
RFID, a technology brought down by hype
Radio-frequency information (RFID) was once the poster child of the industrial internet of things (IIoT), before new companies, technologies, use cases and networks turned the concept into an interoperability nightmare. RFID tags were often linked to the word...
Following the launch of its global IoT network in Columbia, Sigfox claims to cover 57 percent of Latin America’s territory.
Sigfox’s international expansion shows no signs of slowing down. The IoT operator has now announced the launch of its global IoT network in Columbia, together with...
What are indoor positioning systems?
Indoor positioning systems (IPS) are the indoor equivalent of what GPS offers outdoors: visibility. They are able to locate people and objects inside buildings, usually using a mobile device, like a smartphone or tablet.
IPS relies on technologies like wall- or ceiling-mounted...
Nutonomy has launched the world’s first public trial of self-driving taxis in Singapore, beating Uber to it.
Self-driving taxis powered by Nutonomy hit the streets of Singapore today, as the first autonomous driving taxi service trial in the world. The cars used in the trial...
IIoT solutions for fleet management
Orion Fleet Intelligence is an American fleet monitoring company with offerings designed to make fleet transportation more efficient, compliant and safe. For six years, Orion teamed with SemperCon, an app development company, to help it manage the backend development and integration of its...
A dangerous problem with an IIoT solution
One in five American adults has at least one kind of disability, according to a 2015 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study, drawn from 2013 data, says the disabled are the largest minority group in North...
What is ZigBee?
ZigBee is a low-power wireless local area network (WLAN) specification that was designed to provide small amounts of data using very little power, with most connected devices running off of a battery. Because of this, the open standard has been linked with...
Despite likely fragmentation on the road to 5G, the number of 5G connections is expected to reach 690 million by 2025, says Strategy Analytics.
The number of 5G connections will reach 690 million by 2025, according to a new forecast by Strategy Analytics. This means 5G...
Aruba's sole supplier of electricity turns to RPMA
N.V. Elmar (or, in Dutch, Naamloze Vennootschap Electriciteit-Maatschappij Aruba), the sole provider of electricity to Aruba, turned to Ingenu to help deploy an RPMA-based network capable of creating a smart grid across the entire island.
The grid was built...
Cisco fog applications provide factory maintenance
Machine tool provider Mazak teamed with Cisco to increase its manufacturing line availability and improve machine utilization through the use of fog applications. Mazak required a common, standards-based method to securely connect and receive value from the raw data in...
A fight against the living room
Stadiums are in trouble. In a 1998 ESPN poll, 54% of sports fans said they'd rather watch a game at the stadium than at home. By 2011, only 29% of respondents to the same poll said they preferred being...
Intel devices will use GE Predix industrial IoT cloud platform for smart manufacturing
During the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel CEOÂ Brian Krzanich was joined on stage by GE CEO Jeff Immelt to discuss how the companies are working together to develop industrial IoT...
The need for better connectivity
In a 2012 Cisco study, 44% of fans said connectivity is very important to their experience at a sports stadium. That number likely will continue to grow given the increasing demand for mobile phones, a market which currently has more than...
Deutsche Telekom and SK Telecom are expanding their 5G alliance to include more operators and vendors around the globe.
Deutsche Telekom (DT) and SK Telecom announced they are expanding their 5G alliance to include more operators and vendors from USA, Asia and Europe. The goal...
Volvo and Uber have entered a partnership to co-develop the next generation of self-driving cars, marking the start of a longer term industrial partnership.
While most automakers expect to have self-driving cars on the road by 2021, car-hailing service provider Uber is actually planning to let customers...
American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network Moonshot Roundtable: Overcoming barriers to progress in cancer research
The American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network Moonshot Roundtable met in Austin yesterday to speak about overcoming barriers to progress in cancer research. Panel member Nadia Morris, head of innovation...
Fujitsu's new sensor-based sewer system flood detection solution promises both higher efficiency and lower deployment costs.
Amid high levels of urbanization and repetitive torrential downpours, Japanese ICT company Fujitsu announced it will start selling in Japan a sewer system flood detection solution, which aims to minimize...
A new development kit launched by LoRa Alliance members Libelium and Loriot promises faster LoRa-based IoT app prototyping and testing.
Semtech announced the availability of a new development kit delivered by LoRa Alliance members Libelium and Loriot, which will enable faster LoRa-based IoT app prototyping...
Funding and identifying the right business case are the top challenges to IIoT adoption. IIoT understanding is however growing fast.
Awareness of industrial IoT (IIoT) has been improving fast, with 19 percent of companies saying they did not know or understand the IIoT in 2016,...
Global IoT platform revenues are expected to continue to grow fast and reach $3.3 billion by 2021. We discuss IoT platform trends with Berg Insight.
Berg Insight expects global IoT platform revenues to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.8 percent between 2015...
