BROWSING: IoT

Digital transformation at the core of GE Ventures strategy

In an interview with Enterprise IoT Insights conducts at the TC3 Summit in Mountain View, Calif., Abhishek Shukla, Managing Director, Software Investments​ ​for G​E Ventures, explained the company's approach to investing in digital transformation. "What I look at is specifically all infrastructure needs for GE...

IIoT security: Why devices are the weakest link in the IoT stack

The most significant challenge for the internet of things (IoT) is device security. Without question, devices represent the weakest link in the IoT technology stack, the industry reckons. “This is because devices are constrained in battery and computing power,” notes Carlos Carazo, director of...

Enabling Global Deployment of LTE IoT Devices with SAW-less Radio Design Architecture

This white paper explains how Sequans’ Single-SKU technology works through a design technique that eliminates the need for surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters in the radio front-end architecture of an LTE system, thereby enabling a single hardware design to work in any LTE band...

Enabling Global Deployment of LTE IoT Devices with SAW-less Radio Design Architecture

  This white paper explains how Sequans’ Single-SKU technology works through a design technique that eliminates the need for surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters in the radio front-end architecture of an LTE system, thereby enabling a single hardware design to work in any LTE band...

MEF widens cloud app reach with IMTC integration

MEF casts wider net in cloud app market with IMTC Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), a nonprofit international industry consortium, is seeking to make a splash in booming cloud-centric applications market by integrating the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) into its new Applications Committee, which formally...

Learn how SunPower set up a smart factory

Solar equipment manufacturer SunPower took a five-step process to turn a Latin American facility into a smart factory In a paper published by MESA International, a nonprofit association for manufacturing enterprises, SunPower Manufacturing Project Manager Nikhil Padhi provides an experience-based guide to how the company...

Singapore smart nation initiative gets boost from Nokia

Connected living, vehicles and buildings target of Nokia, StarHub partnership Finnish vendor Nokia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Singapore telco StarHub to jointly drive IoT adoption in Singapore. Under the terms of the new alliance, the two partners plan to develop new...

China Mobile to invest $300 million to boost IoT market

China Mobile plans to offer subsidies to IoT makers in order to foster the domestic IoT ecosystem China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, announced plans to invest approximately $300 million to subsidize IoT makers as part of a push to build...

Five key takeaways from the Ericsson Mobility Report

Ericsson Mobility Report estimates 5G will cover 20% of people by 2023 LTE will be the dominant mobile technology by the end of this year, but 5G is just around the corner, according to the new Ericsson Mobility Report. Here are five key takeaways from the...

Preventing IoT Edge Device Vulnerabilities

  Security issues around IoT edge devices are rarely mentioned in literature, however, the projected billions of IoT edge devices out in the wild makes for a vast attack surface. Should hardware designers be concerned about security for IoT edge devices? And, is it worth...

Preventing IoT Edge Device Vulnerabilities

  Security issues around IoT edge devices are rarely mentioned in literature, however, the projected billions of IoT edge devices out in the wild makes for a vast attack surface. Should hardware designers be concerned about security for IoT edge devices? And, is it worth...

Deutsche Telekom to focus on NB-IoT developments in new lab

Deutsche Telekom's new facility in Dortmund will be open for companies willing to collaborate in the development of IoT prototypes German telecomd group Deutsche Telekom and the Fraunhofer-Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML, based in Dortmund, announced the foundation of the Telekom Open IoT...

Philips grows smart lighting footprint with Spanish deployment

The smart lighting projects involved the installation of 12,000 connected street lights in Guadalajara In a new smart lighting deployment, Philips Lighting has installed 12,000 LED street lights in the city of Guadalajara, Spain. The street lights are managed by the Philips CityTouch street lighting...

Siemens software refresh targets smart manufacturing customers

The deal with German firm Software AG will allow Siemens to strengthen its IoT operating system MindSphere German company Siemens AG has signed a partnership with compatriot firm Software AG to strengthen the presence of the cloud-based open Internet of Things (IoT) operating system MindSphere...

Huawei partners with French automaker on connected cars

Services for connected cars will be provided through Huawei’s OceanConnect IoT platform Huawei has announced a long-term partnership with French car manufacturer Groupe PSA focused on service enablement for connected cars. Groupe PSA has multiple car brands under its umbrella, including Peugeot, Citroën, DS and...

Nokia honing focus on enterprise verticals

Public safety, enterprise and transportation comprise core of enterprise strategy In October Chris Johnson joined Nokia as the new head of global enterprise verticals, bringing extensive enterprise IT experience with HPE and EMC to the role, which is designed to better position the network infrastructure...

DDoS attacks on the rise: Corero Network Security

Corero Network Security report notes uptick in DDoS attacks Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming more sophisticated and common, according to the latest DDoS Trends and Analysis report by Corero Network Security. In particular, Corero found its customers experienced an average of 237...

Inside Intel’s digital transformation of manufacturing processes

A Q&A with Steve Chadwick, Intel Principal Engineer of Manufacturing IT The Fourth Industrial Revolution is upon as. A wide variety of manufacturers are embracing advanced technologies running the gamut from the internet of things and connectivity to data analytics and automation in an effort to create...

Is Your IoT Operation Ready for the Future? Future-proofing IoT Operations in the As-a-Service Economy

"The Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology trend that has caught the imagination of technical and business folks alike with the promise of billions of connected devices and trillions of dollars of value creation. After the initial hype settles down, there is a serious question of...

NB-IoT and LTE CAT-M1 field measurements and SLA verification

  Internet of Things (IoT) is today’s megatrend in wireless communication industry. Machine to machine wireless connectivity is being adopted in various verticals at increasing pace. Number of IoT devices deployed by 2020 is expected to increase to ~20 Billion. Cellular IoT (CIoT) is defined as...

Analyst Angle: Innovation in the 5G communications platform and the IoT

  At a conference entitled Patents in Telecoms & the Internet of Things, at George Washington University in the District of Columbia last week, I was perturbed to hear a speaker mischaracterizing the communications standards as platforms of preexisting technologies upon which IoT innovation will...

BT CEO on the business and use case challenges of 5G

Leveraging 5G for vertically-focused IoT use cases is key While its not yet standardized, 5G is most certainly the next big thing in telecom. The three primary use cases are enhanced mobile broadband, massive support for the internet of things and mission critical communications. Those...

Cisco to invest $1 billion in smart cities

The capital pool is intended to support municipal adoption of smart cities technologies In many ways smart cities are the ultimate application of the internet of things—a huge variety of connected devices and infrastructure create volumes of data that can be analyzed to create multi-level...

Bill Gates investing $80 million in Arizona smart city

New smart city will embrace "high-speed digital networks, data centers" and other technology-focused infrastructure To the west of Phoenix, Ariz., an 25,000-acre plot of land could eventually be home to a greenfield smart city thanks to significant investment from billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates, according...