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Audi’s largest production center deploys IoT-enabled smart parking

Audi’s Ingolstadt, Germany, factory is its largest and the second largest in Europe, producing 566,646 cars in 2015. It is where the auto manufacturer produces its A3, A4, A5, Q2 and Q5 models and is considered by the company as its "most important location." The...

Analyst Angle: Sensors to play a significant part in the age of technological disruption

Applications of sensors ranging from health care to automotive have introduced innovative approaches of operation, providing safety and convenience. Sensors have made their way into every aspect of human lives ranging from smartphones to health care. Consumer electronics products are utilizing the devices to...

What is complex event processing and why is it needed for IoT?

What is CEP? Complex event processing is an emerging network technology commonly used in the "internet of things" that uses distributed message-based systems, databases and applications to derive conclusions from data in real time or near-real time. It is a kind of computing in which...

Offering IoT solutions from physical sensors to LPWAN

We sat down with Guillaume Houssay, co-founder and CEO of Qowisio North America, to discuss the company's view on providing LoRa-based low power wide area network services in a more targeted basis rather than looking to provide the widest possible coverage. France-based Qowisio offers...

Offering IoT solutions from physical sensors to LPWAN

We sat down with Guillaume Houssay, co-founder and CEO of Qowisio North America, to discuss the company's view on providing LoRa-based low power wide area network services in a more targeted basis rather than looking to provide the widest possible coverage. France-based Qowisio offers...

What is complex event processing and why is it needed for IoT?

What is CEP? Complex event processing is an emerging network technology commonly used in the "internet of things" that uses distributed message-based systems, databases and applications to derive conclusions from data in real time or near-real time. It is a kind of computing in which...

How IoT can be used to protect and restore the environment

New IoT solutions for age-old problems The increasing capabilities and awareness of the "internet of things" are providing more avenues for companies and organizations to keep the environment safe. Here are use cases of how IoT can help protect and restore our endangered world. Animal tracking Global organizations...

How IoT can be used to protect and restore the environment

New IoT solutions for age-old problems The increasing capabilities and awareness of the "internet of things" are providing more avenues for companies and organizations to keep the environment safe. Here are use cases of how IoT can help protect and restore our endangered world. Animal tracking Global organizations...

Following digital roadmap, Kansas City embraces smart city projects

2011 was a big year for Kansas City; that's when Google Fiber, a subsidiary of Alphabet, selected the Midwest hub as the first U.S. metro area to build out a new gigabit fiber optic network. By 2014, the area had attracted new tech-oriented business...

Dell, Emerson discuss IIoT deployments, business cases and challenges

Mike Boudreaux, director of connected services at Emerson, and Andy Rhodes, VP and GM of IoT at Dell, spoke at our studio during an Austin IIoT meetup group session. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQ4JasvZjU&feature=youtu.be The session began with a general discussion of where the two companies see themselves within the industrial...

Smart street lighting enabled by LoRaWAN network in Budapest test site

A LoRaWAN test town for Hungary Szada is a small town on the outskirts of Budapest, Hungary, with a population of around 5,000. Its economy has relied on agriculture for centuries, with a recent trend towards vine growing. Thanks to its proximity to Budapest, Szada...

Smart street lighting enabled by LoRaWAN network in Budapest test site

A LoRaWAN test town for Hungary Szada is a small town on the outskirts of Budapest, Hungary, with a population of around 5,000. Its economy has relied on agriculture for centuries, with a recent trend towards vine growing. Thanks to its proximity to Budapest, Szada...

Monitoring air quality in a smart city using a sensor network

Transparency based on open data is another hallmark of a smart city Reemphasized by the ongoing, United Nations-hosted Marrakech Climate Change Conference, reducing levels of greenhouse gases in an effort to combat global warming is a major priority of world governments. And while smart city...

Meet the world’s most intelligent smart building: The Edge in Amsterdam

World's most intelligent smart building Twenty-eight thousand sensors. That is how many it takes to create the world's smartest, most environmentally friendly building: The Edge. An office building in Amsterdam whose main tenant is consulting firm Deloitte, has been rated the most environmentally sustainable smart...

Meet the world’s most intelligent smart building: The Edge in Amsterdam

World's most intelligent smart building Twenty-eight thousand sensors. That is how many it takes to create the world's smartest, most environmentally friendly building: The Edge. An office building in Amsterdam whose main tenant is consulting firm Deloitte, has been rated the most environmentally sustainable smart...

Data analytics helps supermarket achieve huge energy savings

U.S. supermarket sees value in energy efficiency OutSmart used its monitoring and data analytics programs to help an unnamed regional supermarket chain with more than 800 stores located across the U.S. reach energy efficiency and renewable energy targets. This customer was willing to use data and...

Data analytics helps supermarket achieve huge energy savings

U.S. supermarket sees value in energy efficiency OutSmart used its monitoring and data analytics programs to help an unnamed regional supermarket chain with more than 800 stores located across the U.S. reach energy efficiency and renewable energy targets. This customer was willing to use data 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...

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...

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...

Qualcomm confident mobile will drive IoT

IoT is happening, and it is being driven by mobile HONG KONG – Qualcomm hasn’t been shy about sharing its aggressive approach in helping enable the "internet of things." In fact, IoT, alongside processors, networks and devices, was a major focus of discussion at this year’s Qualcomm...

Mobile will drive IoT, claims Qualcomm

IoT is happening, and it is being driven by mobile HONG KONG - Qualcomm hasn’t been shy sharing its aggressive approach in helping enable the internet of things. In fact, IoT, alongside processors, networks and devices, was a major focus of discussion at this year’s...

Looking beyond fingerprint sensors: ways to enhance smartphone security

The Motorola Atrix 4G was the first smartphone with a fingerprint scanner for quicker, more secure log in authentication. But the security feature's widespread use came about when Apple introduced it in its iPhone 5s back in 2013. Since then, Snapdragon-powered Android phones have...

Looking beyond fingerprint sensors: ways to enhance smartphone security

The Motorola Atrix 4G was the first smartphone with a fingerprint scanner for quicker, more secure login authentication. But the security feature's widespread use came about when Apple introduced it in its iPhone 5s back in 2013. Since then, Snapdragon-powered Android phones have made...