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,...
Creating a connected city.
Mississauga, Ontario, looked to Cisco Systems to help leverage the "internet of things" to improve services, reduce costs and drive efficiency with real-time data in the Canadian city.
Mississauga’s population has grown to nearly 800,000 residents in recent years thanks...
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,...
Creating a connected city.
Mississauga, Ontario, looked to Cisco Systems to help leverage the "internet of things" to improve services, reduce costs and drive efficiency with real-time data in the Canadian city.
Mississauga’s population has grown to nearly 800,000 residents in recent years thanks...
Services beyond connectivity are expected to play a large role in how operators derive value from adding millions of connected vehicles to their networks, from billing and analytics to software updates and more.
RCR examines the services side of the connected car ecosystem, including what...
Services beyond connectivity are expected to play a large role in how operators derive value from adding millions of connected vehicles to their networks, from billing and analytics to software updates and more.
RCR examines the services side of the connected car ecosystem, including what...
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...
Arrow to market and sell network services tailored for customer applications.
Arrow Electronics inked an agreement with Vodafone to market the latter’s “internet of things” services as part of its EVolve IoT offering.
The agreement between the two companies creates a new offering...
SDN, NFV and cloud will further network transformation necessitated by 5G use cases.
WASHINGTON – Emphasizing the key role of communications in global economic development, Sorabh Saxena, SVP of software development and engineering at AT&T, said collaboration and innovation are musts if...
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...
Along with interoperability, securing the internet of things is a major priority in a smart city
WASHINGTON--Advances in communications technology, primarily reduced costs of devices and computing power, has set the stage for the internet of things to transform urban areas into smart cities, which...
Uber is rapidly acquiring startups as it gears up for a future filled with autonomous ride-hailing vehicles. Yesterday, the company announced the purchase of an artificial intelligence startup Geometric Intelligence to provide the core for a new central AI lab being established in Uber’s...
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...
From cloud-based robot brains to using wireless signals as sensors, 5G promises a technological revolution.
WASHINGTON – During an expansive panel discussion at this week's IEEE GlobeCom 2016 event, a group of academic and industry reps shared an exciting long-term vision...
Uber is rapidly acquiring startups as it gears up for a future filled with autonomous ride-hailing vehicles. Yesterday, the company announced the purchase of an artificial intelligence startup Geometric Intelligence to provide the core for a new central AI lab being established in Uber’s...
Ongoing reverse and forward auction, millimeter wave efforts and CBRS sharing model represent new approaches to making spectrum available for wireless services.
WASHINGTON – Spectrum management and allocation is one of the Federal Communications Commission’s primary responsibilities, noted Julius Knapp, chief of...
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...
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...
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...
AT&T announced in October it would be launching mobile-specific IoT rate plans and a scheduled trial of LTE-M in San Francisco next month.
The new prepaid plans include three tiers of data and text messages: 1 gigabyte of data valid for up to 1 year...
The two firms look to launch LoRa-capable solutions in early 2017.
South Korean telecommunications firm SK Telecom inked a memorandum of understanding with Honeywell Korea, a provider of automation and control solutions, for a low power wide area-based "internet of...
Problems with polymers
Hitachi used its analytics platform to integrate production and sensor data outputs to help visualize, analyze and diagnose a manufacturer’s polymer mixing problems.
An unnamed manufacturer’s polymer mixing process was said to be producing inconsistent output quality, with yields dipping as low as...
A suburb of Washington, D.C., is growing into a living laboratory for "internet of things" technology projects. Set in Montgomery County, Maryland, Thingstitute is set to be an agricultural testbed to help farmers use data to become more "productive, prosperous and viable." The goal...
Problems with polymers
Hitachi used its analytics platform to integrate production and sensor data outputs to help visualize, analyze and diagnose a manufacturer’s polymer mixing problems.
An unnamed manufacturer’s polymer mixing process was said to be producing inconsistent output quality, with yields dipping as low as...
