What is lights out manufacturing?
"Lights out" manufacturing is the term used for a manufacturing process where factories run fully autonomously, without any human intervention. The term is quite literal, with production occurring free of human necessities like lighting or heating, ventilation and air conditioning...
The internet of things network currently covers 360 cities
China’s second largest mobile operator China Unicom ended the first half of 2016 with more than 20 million internet of things connection, after a net addition 10.5 million connections during the period, local press reported.
The Chinese operator...
RIO DE JANEIRO – Payments using near field communication technology have been a promise for a while, but until now no application has been popular or good enough to replace plastic cards. With about 4,000 points of sale equipped with NFC, Visa is using the Rio...
Smart city connectivity is expanding to water utilities looking to ensure safe drinking water for citizens
We may not think about it every time we turn the faucet on, but it takes a very complex infrastructure to provide safe drinking water to a population.
Water utilities...
5 things to know today...
1. AT&T's IoT business has won a high profile healthcare customer. Biotricity, a publicly traded maker of wearable technology for medical diagnostics, has chosen AT&T as its network provider. The company is preparing to launch a product called bioflux, which...
Control and savings with building management systems
Building management systems are the backbone of smart buildings. They are the systems put in place to allow building owners and tenants to monitor, maintain and manage the mechanical, electrical and electromechanical functions within a structure. BMS deployment usually...
Control and savings with building management systems
Building management systems (BMS) are the backbone to smart buildings. They are the systems put in place to allow building owners and tenants to monitor, maintain and manage the mechanical, electrical and electromechanical functions within a structure. BMS...
The Italian telco will develop the waste management project with two other companies
Italian mobile operator TIM and AlmavivA, with Agriconsulting, won a tender organized by the Ministry of the Environment for the deployment of a waste management system geared toward waste tracking.
The agreement, worth...
Does continued growth of the IoT open up cybersecurity concerns for building automation?
Every day when we arrive at the office we take some things for granted – the lights will be on, the heat or air conditioning will be working and the building entry...
What is massive MIMO?
Before going into “massive MIMO,” a potential enabler of 5G, it is important to understand the technology behind the traditional, smaller scale MIMO (multiple-input/multiple-output). MIMO deployment uses multiple antennas that are located at both the source (transmitter) and destination (receiver). Those...
China and the U.S. will lead the market in terms of internet of things connections and revenue
Global internet of things (IoT) connections will reach 27 billion in 2025, up compared to 6 billion connections last year, according to a recent report by Machina Research.
According...
What is a time-sensitive network?
A time-sensitive network (TSN) is a set of Ethernet standards that will allow time-synchronized low latency streaming services through 802 networks. TSN delivers mechanisms to create distributed, synchronized, hard real-time systems over standard Ethernet. These systems use the same infrastructure...
What is a time-sensitive network?
A time-sensitive network is a set of Ethernet standards that will allow time-synchronized low latency streaming services through 802 networks. TSN delivers mechanisms to create distributed, synchronized, hard real-time systems over standard Ethernet. These systems use the same infrastructure to...
Telstra plans to conduct a 5G trial in September using Ericsson’s 5G radio test bed. Here is how the Australian operator is preparing for it.
Australia-based operator Telstra has started upgrading its Australian network’s wireless core with network function virtualisation (NFV) and software defined networking (SDN)...
The 'internet of things' network will be nationwide in 2018
Sigfox, a French provider of global communications service for the IoT, and UnaBiz, an IoT network operator in Asia, announced the creation of a global internet of things testbed in Taiwan.
The testbed, which will be based...
The internet of things network will be nationwide in 2018
Sigfox, a French provider of global communications service for the “internet of things,” and UnaBiz, an IoT network operator in Asia, announced the creation of a global internet of things testbed in Taiwan.
The testbed, which...
Technology developments play a big role in transforming the Rio Olympics, whether improving result accuracy or increasing athletes’ performances. The next transformation and even greater impact are expected to come from the massive use of sensors combined with big data analytics.
Almost 20% of the...
What do you think of when you hear “Internet of Things” (IoT)? Controlling your thermostat remotely with your cellphone? Getting a break on your auto premium using a monitoring dongle in your car? There are plenty of gee-whiz IoT applications out there, but there...
A growing problem with a win-win solution
Society is far from reaching its greenhouse gas emissions goals. And, as part of the effort to reshape how energy is produced and used, big data can help prevent a potentially disastrous environmental forecast.
Atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases...
The projected status of the world's water supply and quality in the next decade looks bleak: widespread shortages, difficulties growing food for a booming global population and billions exposed to diseases caused by poor sanitation. These anticipated outcomes result from the combination of wasted freshwater...
5 things to know today...
1. The connected car is much more than a consumer market for Verizon Communications. Today the company announced a major investment in a maker of vehicle fleet management software.
Just one week after announcing a $4.8 billion deal to buy Yahoo's...
Peter Cochrane also doesn't think 5G will supplant Wi-Fi
In a new piece published by Computing, Peter Cochrane, the former CTO and head of research for BT, upends predominant industry discourse around 5G.
Cochrane is skeptical the telecom industry will be able to deliver on the...
Just about everyone is familiar with Bitcoin, or at least knows of its controversial history. Behind the most popular and polarizing cryptocurrency in existence is blockchain, a framework that could revolutionize the internet of things. Blockchain differs from most IoT solutions in that it...
