Wi-Fi edges European fight over driving tech, despite noisy 5G rearguard
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailEurope moved a step closer to rejecting 5G for autonomous vehicles in favour of wi-fi based communications last week, after the European Parliament voted in favour of the latter technology …
Revenue from smart street lights to hit $1.7bn by 2026, surge 31% per year
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAnnual revenue from smart street lights will grow at compound annual rate of 31 per cent to reach $1.7 billion in 2026, reckons ABI Research. The analyst house said street …
How America fell in love with slushies again – a tale of natural flavours and smart dispensers
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailUS frozen drinks company Freezing Point, parent to slushie brand Frazil, has partnered with Norwegian engineering firm 7Sense to develop a low-cost, retrofittable cellular NB-IoT circuit board to make its …
Telensa ramps-up Urban Data Project with new tech partners, new smart cities
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailUK smart street-lighting firm Telensa has appointed Belfast-based digital services provider Kainos as lead partner in the ramp-up and rollout of its Urban Data Project to additional smart cities. The …
Maya HTT teams up with OSIsoft to bring building OS to airports and hospitals
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailTechnology that was designed for optimising data centres is being applied to power distribution in airports and hospitals. Canadian infrastructure management firm Maya Heat Transfer Technologies (HTT) has repackaged its …
Microsoft snaps up IoT firm Express Logic to “unlock billions of new endpoints”
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailMicrosoft has acquired embedded computing software firm Express Logic for an undisclosed fee, with an aim to “unlock access to billions of new connected endpoints” in the internet-of-things (IoT) space. …
Verizon drops price of Sequans LTE-M/NB-IoT chips to $6.50 for ThingSpace customers
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe original Monarch system-in-package (SiP) from French chipmaker Sequans Communications has been made available Verizon’s ThingSpace IoT ‘accelerator programme’ for just $6.50. The new price point is a significant advance …
Volkswagen to build private 5G networks from 2020; invites tenders from kit vendors
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailGerman automotive manufacturer Volkswagen will start construction of its own 5G mobile networks in 122 factories in Germany in 2020, according to a report in Wirtschaftswoche, the German business magazine. …
Deutsche Telekom: “People underestimate what it takes to manage a network”
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailDeutsche Telekom said private networks are easy to talk about, but hard to manage, at Hannover Messe 2019 last week, swatting away the perceived jeapordy for operators in the industrial …
AT&T talks cities: “We wouldn’t do it if it didn’t make sense, but it’s not about money”
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe craziness of the conference season, which has seen Enterprise IoT Insights cover both MWC 2019 and Hannover Messe 2019 in recent weeks, means content falls through the gaps. Sometimes, …
