What does football have to do with the internet of things? More than you know
It’s Sunday. NFL football is on our TV and the word for the week in my wife’s photography club is anthropomorphism. NFL football is all about quarterbacks. The pundits obsess or rave...
The city of Markham is partnering with Bell to provide an advance solution featuring interconnected IoT applications
The Canadian city of Markham has launched its smart city accelerator research program in partnership with Canadian carrier Bell.
The program will deploy Bell's smart city platform, which includes...
The carrier carried out a precision agriculture trial in Mississippi last year as part of the firm’s Tech Movement initiative
Regional carrier C Spire, which is headquartered in Ridgeland, Miss., aims to partner with farmers and smart equipment firms to provide network and information technology...
The Korean telco will initially deploy 2,000 5G sensors developed by Samsung Electronics
South Korea’s largest carrier, SK Telecom, was awarded a contract to deploy 5G infrastructure to support a smart traffic system in Seoul, local press reported.
Seoul’s cooperative-intelligent transport system (C-ITS) project has a...
The Swedish company acquired Etalon, a German provider of equipment calibration solutions
Swedish digital solutions company Hexagon has boosted its smart factory capabilities via the acquisition of Etalon, which provides equipment calibration solutions.
Etalon’s solutions continuously monitor and initiate compensation of machine tools, measuring machines, robots...
AID expects to launch fully autonomous vehicles in 2021
U.S. company Luminar announced its collaboration with Autonomous Intelligent Driving (AID) to provide the LiDAR technology and accelerate plans towards AID’s first fully autonomous deployments in 2021.
AID, a wholly owned subsidiary of Audi AG, is the...
The company said the IoT network will cover some 3 million hectares across Australia
Australia’s National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo) and Goanna Ag announced the rollout of a publicly available LoRaWAN internet of things network for smart irrigation management solutions to Australian cotton growers.
The network...
Las Vegas said that it aims to deploy smart city solutions under this agreement by mid-2019
The state of Nevada, city of Las Vegas and Japan's NTT Group have reached an agreement to advance and accelerate smart technologies, following a smart city proof-of-concept initiative that...
Bosch discusses automotive opportunity during Electronica 2018
In 2016, every newly registered vehicle globally had nine Bosch chips on board, on average, the German manufacturer told Electronica 2018 in Munich last week. The multiplicity and value of the chips in vehicles is only spiralling upwards,...
Semtech says that Laird Connectivity’s engineering services capabilities will enable the acceleration of LoRa-based IoT solutions
Semtech has added Laird Connectivity, a global provider of wireless connectivity solutions, to its Semtech Design Partner Program.
The program, which was launched two months ago, focuses on the creation...
EU co-funded ENSEMBLE project aims to introduce multi-brand platooning on European roads by 2021
German company ZF said it is currently working with truck manufacturers as part of the European Union's co-funded ENSEMBLE project to test programs with the goal of introducing multi-brand platooning on...
The Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, robots, and drones are just a few technology topics we read about almost every day – in the mainstream press as well as in specialized industry publications. A wealth of articles has been written about emerging...
The telco already operates an IoT network based on LoRaWAN technology across New Zealand
New Zealand telecom operator Spark has switched on its second internet of things network, which brings LTE Cat-M1 to the carrier ’s 4G mobile network.
Spark said that the new IoT network...
The IR sensor is a crucial component in many everyday products, ranging from medical equipment to mobile phones. But the technology is 50 years old and in serious need of an upgrade. The next generation IR sensor 2.0 for IoT will be much thinner...
Vodafone will use its new "Sensing4Farming" platform for the NB-IoT project with Bodegas Emilio Toro
Vodafone has signed an agreement with Spanish wine producer Bodegas Emilio Moro to develop what it describes as the "winery of the future", using narrowband Internet of Things technology, Spanish...
The JV with Alibaba Cloud’s IoT unit will allow the US firm to offers IoT solutions for Chinese companies
U.S. firm myDevices has partnered with the IoT business unit of Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, to launch turnkey...
We all have the experience of driving around looking for a parking place, whether we are attending a conference or shopping downtown. It is not just time-consuming and frustrating, but if you add up all the cars, there is also a lot of fuel...
The Scottish government has invested a total of $3.5 million in this IoT project
Business in Scotland will benefit from a new internet of things network launched through a private-public initiative.The new network, called IoT Scotland, will enable all businesses to have the ability to...
Deutsche Telekom said the system will be linked to the IoT for bridges, tunnels, building and other concrete infrastructure at the airport
Düsseldorf Airport, one of the most important German hubs in international air traffic, has teamed with Deutsche Telekom and its partner BS2 Sicherheitssysteme...
The Korean telco said that initial plans stipulate the deployment of 300 sensors in the short term
Korean operator SK Telecom announced plans to install earthquake-detecting sensors at its base stations in 8,000 spots nationwide to improve earthquake forecasting, Korean press reported. The carrier signed...
The smart traffic initiative stipulates the deployment of 450 smart parking sensors
The government of Australia announced the launch of a project to install 450 smart parking sensors to benefit residents in the country’s Central Coast area.
Federal Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities Paul Fletcher...
The Slovakian firm said the sensors are ready for the NB-IoT network recently launched by T-Mobile US
Sensoneo, a Slovakian provider of smart waste management solutions, has been testing its waste fill-level sensors in several locations across the U.S. for the past few weeks to...
The team of researches have tested smart city systems from Libelium, Echelon and Battelle
A team of researchers from Threatcare and IBM X-Force Red have joined forces to test several smart city devices, with the specific goal of finding vulnerabilities in smart city systems.
Earlier this...
Internet of things (IoT) technology is to be installed in school zones across the state of Georgia to improve road safety for children. The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) is working with Applied Information and AT&T to deploy the technology, and will also be...
