
“We will seriously ‘productise’ CityVerve”, says Cisco, as seminal UK smart city pilot winds up
Cisco has said its so-called ‘platform-of-platforms’ has been proven as “procurable and replicable,” as Manchester’s ground-breaking CityVerve smart city pilot in the UK gets set to wind up after two …

AT&T sets 2019 schedule for rollout of NB-IoT networks in the US and Mexico
US carrier AT&T has confirmed it will launch a narrowband ‘internet-of-things’ (NB-IoT) network in the US early next year, and in Mexico by the end of next year. Its support …

Rohde & Schwarz first to release “comprehensive” C-V2X test suite for auto-makers
Munich-based test equipment supplier Rohde & Schwarz has updated its CMW500 radio tester and SMBV100A GNSS simulator to support cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) device certification. It is the first test equipment …

Time is right for industrial-scale digital transformation, say GE Digital and Verizon
“If you are not investing in these technologies to drive your own product gains, know that your competitors are already doing so. If you haven’t started, you need to; the …

Where is the IIoT edge? Four points on the edge-compute continuum
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has mapped out a “continuum” of edge computing in industrial settings, with the ‘edge’ variously located at certain points of remove from the data source …

IIC releases industrial-grade ‘cookbook’ for edge computing
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has issued a white paper with practical guidance on edge computing in industrial internet-of-things (IIoT) settings. The publication seeks to define edge computing architectural functions …

Asset performance management: Three IIoT case studies from GE Digital
General Electric reckons the convergence of machines, data and analytics will contribute $10 to $15 trillion to global GDP in efficiency gains over the next two decades. It has spent …

Car maker Volvo takes stake in California autonomous driving start-up
Swedish car-maker Volvo has taken a stake in US start-up Luminar, based in California and Florida, to develop sensor technology for autonomous vehicles. Volvo Cars, a subsidiary of Chinese automotive …

Ford joins with AT&T to crowdsource mobility solutions in Miami, Pittsburgh
Ford has joined with AT&T, Dell and Microsoft to crowdsource ideas for mobility solutions in Pittsburgh and Miami-Dade County. Ford will award $100,000 to fund pilots of the best community-led …

Smart cities will “choke” if they don’t deal with issues of integration and intelligence
The challenge to integrate strategies, systems and data across departments and regions remains the most significant challenge for smart cities, and the ultimate stumbling block if they are to retain …