With predictions of billions of new devices with wireless connectivity over the coming years, the "Internet of Things" is expected to have a major influence on multiple verticals and consumers' everyday lives. And it turns out that already, everything from dog dishes to stuffed...
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...
Intel shifting from PCs to data center, cloud and IoT businesses
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich on Tuesday told employees a company-wide "restructuring initiative" will involve cutting some 12,000 jobs, 11% of the company's global workforce, by mid-2017 as part of a shift away from the PC...
On this week’s carrier wrap we speak with CCA CEO Steve Berry on the trade organization’s MCS show and upcoming agenda, and with Ericsson on 5G, IoT and NFV
This week’s Carrier Wrap comes from the recent Competitive Carriers Association Mobile Carriers Show, where...
America needs to 'up its game,' Bill Gates writes in op-ed piece
In an opinion piece published April 18 by Reuters, Microsoft Co-founder and all around tech luminary Bill Gates called on The U.S. government to increase spending and other initiatives associated with driving research,...
Enterprise mobility management is starting to include "Internet of Things" deployments as well as traditional mobile devices, according to MOBI, as companies get to a point where they want assistance in managing IoT devices and connectivity.
"I think it's at a tipping point in the market,"...
Finnish vendor Nokia and Turkish mobile telephony operator Türk Telekom have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate the development of 5G radio access network technology.
Under the terms of the MoU, both firms will work together on testing 5G and Internet of Things...
Excelacom sees opportunity in using big data and ACM to bolster the customer experience
As systems become increasingly intelligent, companies are able to collect extraordinary amounts of data about their products and their customers. The term “big data” emerged several years ago to describe this...
Ovum research highlights IoT growth
The Internet of Things, or IoT, is and has been making major waves in both consumer and industrial applications, and the IoT is only expected to grow as new connections ranging from health wearables to asset tracking sensors are deployed.
To...
The smart city project aims to transform Kowloon East district into a new business area
Swedish vendor Ericsson has teamed with U.S.-based professional services company Arup to carry out a smart city feasibility study, following the Hong Kong government’s vision of developing Hong Kong into...
The Internet of Things, or IoT, is a hot topic in telecom. The connectivity needs range, on the low end, to sending just a few Kilobytes at fixed intervals, to incredibly high-throughput, low-latency applications like autonomous driving.
To support IoT needs, particularly machine-type communications, networks...
IGR explains the reasoning for putting out today forecasts for 5G connectivity and bandwidth needs up to a decade down the road
We recently published a report with a model of the global “5G” connections for 2021 to 2026, combined with the bandwidth these connections...
CCA Mobile Carrier Show revamp highlights expanded interest in IoT and 5G, though policy and spectrum expected to remain core to event
The Competitive Carriers Association is looking to alter business as usual for its spring fling, going with a new name designed to highlight...
Municipal services, business climate targeted by smart city projects in Jeddah
Saudi mobile telephony operator Zain KSA and Finish vendor Nokia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on a smart city initiative in Jeddah.
Under the terms MoU, Nokia and Zain will...
QIVICON smart home platform reaches more than 40 partners
German company Gigaset Elements has jointed Deutsche Telekom’s QIVICON smart home platform, which will add new protocols in the coming months.
The QIVICON platform has an open architecture and is designed to integrate with multiple connected devices...
Mosaik sees a growing need for providers to look beyond QoS and towards QoE
Quality of service is a top priority these days, but as providers struggle to manage complex customer relationships across disparate wireless networks and a variety of devices, the message from consumers...
Gemalto notes ecosystem-wide benefits to the use of eSIMs in wearables
Since the launch of smartwatches – first Pebble, then Samsung Gear and now Apple Watch – the wearables market has expanded beyond mobile health and fitness trackers to mass consumer devices that are packed...
Since its inception in 2011, April 9 has been observed by a niche audience as global IoT Day in honor of the "Internet of Things," which is projected to comprise some 50 billion connected devices by 2020.
According to organizers at the IoT Council: "Anyone...
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...
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...
Internet of Things adoption drivers, vertical markets, use cases and more highlighted in new Verizon report
The "Internet of Things," which promises to add connectivity and intelligence to billions of machines and objects, presents an enormous business opportunity for carriers as new vertical applications are enabled....
Etisalat targeting additional verticals with LPWA and NB IoT
Huawei and Middle East telecom operator Etisalat conducted a trial of smart parking technology in the United Arab Emirates. The live trial of narrow-band "Internet of Things" technology used the end-to-end infrastructure based on Etisalat's live...
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...
