BROWSING: IoT

OMG! IoT IRL at ARMTechCon

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Wearables and wireless have helped Matt Du Puy conquer mountains. Du Puy, a software engineer at ARM, earlier this year used ARM-powered technology during his summit of Annapurna, the 10th-tallest mountain peak in the world. Du Puy, who has also summited...

Intel’s new IoT processors, the Atom E3900 series

IoT processors from Intel Earlier this week at IoT Solutions World Congress, Intel announced the next generation of the Intel Atom processors for "internet of things" applications. The new Intel Atom E3900 series is designed to support the rapid development and the growing complexity of IoT businesses. Intel claims...

SK Telecom develops 24 IoT services for Korean home market

SK Telecom also announced plans to launch 35 IoT services before the end of the year Korean operator SK Telecom has already completed the development of 24 different internet of things (IoT) services for the domestic market. New services include several areas including gas and electricity. SK Telecom is pushing enhanced...

AT&T LTE-M site goes live in support of IoT pilot

AT&T LTE-M network is said to be now on the air in the San Francisco market in support of test program, with nationwide expansion planned for next year AT&T moved on previously announced plans to commercialize an LTE-M cell site, which it claims to be...

Intel’s new IoT processors, the Atom E3900 series

IoT processors from Intel Earlier this week at IoT Solutions World Congress, Intel announced the next generation of the Intel Atom processors for IoT applications. The new Intel Atom E3900 series is designed to support the rapid development and the growing complexity of IoT businesses. Intel claims...

Uber’s Otto makes Budweiser beer run in self-driving truck

Last week, 51,777 cans of beer were shipped on what will go down as the first commercial shipment by an autonomous vehicle. Otto, Uber’s recently purchased self-driving trucking company, partnered with Anheuser-Busch to carry the shipment of Budweiser through Colorado without anyone behind the...

SoftBank’s Son: ‘Cambrian explosion’ in IoT is coming

SANTA CLARA, California – SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son likened the impending boom in "internet of things" devices to the evolutionary period known as the Cambrian explosion: a turning point for life on earth. "The next big paradigm shift is coming from mobile into the IoT....

ARMTechCon: Enabling IoT use cases

  SANTA CLARA, Calif.--British chip design company ARM's technology powers billions of wireless devices, so the company has unique perspective on the types of internet of things products that exist and are coming down the pipe. Mike Muller, CTO of ARM, ran through a number of...

SoftBank’s Son: ‘Cambrian explosion’ in IoT is coming

SANTA CLARA, California – SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son likened the impending boom in "internet of things" devices to the evolutionary period known as the Cambrian explosion: a turning point for life on earth. "The next big paradigm shift is coming from mobile into the IoT....

Orange Business Services expands IoT reach

New deal will provide IoT connectivity for Tractive's wearables and tracking devices Orange Business Service (OBS), the business services arm of French telecommunications group Orange, has added a new contract in the internet of things (IoT) field through an agreement with Tractive, an Austria-based developer of hardware, apps...

Analyst Angle: 5G – incremental or not?

Will 5G prove the savior to the mobile telecom market’s bottom line, or will the lack of significant IoT and 5G use cases result in continued revenue pressure? We estimate the overall mobile infrastructure equipment market including hardware, firmware and software is on pace to...

Uber’s Otto makes Budweiser beer run in self-driving truck

Last week, 51,777 cans of beer were shipped on what will go down as the first commercial shipment by an autonomous vehicle. Otto, Uber’s recently purchased self-driving trucking company, partnered with Anheuser-Busch to carry the shipment of Budweiser through Colorado without anyone behind the...

Uber’s Otto makes Budweiser beer run in self-driving truck

Last week, 51,777 cans of beer were shipped on what will go down as the first commercial shipment by an autonomous vehicle. Otto, Uber’s recently purchased self-driving trucking company, partnered with Anheuser-Busch to carry the shipment of Budweiser through Colorado without anyone behind the...

LPWAN news: Senet partners with IoT water company, Ingenu expands

Senet partners with IoT-focused water company Senet, the North American provider of public, low-power, wide-area networks (LPWANs) for long range (LoRa)-based internet of things (IoT) applications, today announced Trimble will use its wireless technology to allow water utilities to remotely measure and monitor water, wastewater and...

Keeping Denmark’s milk cold with IoT monitoring solutions

Keeping things cool with IoT monitoring Every time the door to a milk cooler or freezer does not close properly, an alarm goes off on a computer screen in a control building in Odense, Denmark, thanks to an "internet of things" monitoring solution. AK-Centralen provides continually-supervised alarm...

LPWAN news: Senet partners with IoT water company, Ingenu expands

Senet partners with IoT-focused water company Senet, the North American provider of public, low-power, wide-area networks (LPWANs) for long range (LoRa)-based internet of things (IoT) applications, today announced Trimble will use its wireless technology to allow water utilities to remotely measure and monitor water, wastewater and...

Keeping Denmark’s milk cold with IoT monitoring solutions

Keeping things cool with IoT monitoring Every time the door to a milk cooler or freezer does not close properly, an alarm goes off on a computer screen in a control building in Odense, Denmark, thanks to an IoT monitoring solution. AK-Centralen provides continually-supervised alarm...

IoT projects focused on agriculture take root in Brazil

SÃO PAULO – The "internet of things" is still taking shape in Brazil, though some pilot projects are being conducted in the country. At Futurecom 2016, companies showcased some IoT applications of connecting sensors to improve management in agriculture and to measure electricity consumption, for...

Reader Forum: Which 5G evolution is more important–radio or network?

Recent research from Gartner suggests that there are three possible trends that will drive the move to 5G: new services and applications, 4G network obsolescence, and cost disruption. While overall I tend to agree with their assessment, it left a few questions unanswered for...

Massive cyberattack reiterates IoT security concerns

A major distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Friday knocked out access to major websites including Netflix, Reddit, Spotify and Airbnb. As security experts have concluded, the attack was apparently carried out when bad actor(s) leveraged internet-connected devices including security cameras to overwhelm...

Orange Business Services rolls out IoT, data analytics offering

The solution offers IoT devices such as sensors, cameras and modules Orange Business Services, the business services arm of French telecommunications group Orange, launched its internet of things (IoT) and data analytics modular offer Datavenue globally. The company said that Datavenue will help multinational and French corporations seize the opportunities offered...

Reader Forum: Smart homes and offices – the future of integrated lives

Advances in the IoT is set to bolster smart homes and offices with greater efficiency, security and potential cost savings We are currently at a point in time when technology is outpacing our imaginations and changing how we interact with the world. Just a few...

Reader Forum: The road to IoT dominance – identifying challenges and pitfalls (Pt. 2)

Business, technology and operational challenges could trip up service providers as they look to take advantage of IoT opportunities This is the second article in a three-part series examining the opportunity, challenges and course of action for service providers as they tackle the “internet of...

Kagan: Speaking at IBM World of Watson

IBM asked me to give a speech at its World of Watson event this week. In preparing my remarks, I realized what I will be talking about is so important, yet most don’t understand what is happening. It’s about artificial intelligence, the "internet of things," virtual...