Google-led smart city project draws civic backlash in Toronto
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailEighteen months ago, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and leaders of Google-parent Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs announced the planned $1 billion redevelopment of Toronto’s Quayside area. The idea was kit …
The IoT is inherently fragmented–what does that mean for enterprise?
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailVMware takes open, interoperable approach to enterprise IoT LAS VEGAS–The proliferation of internet of things devices will create the data enterprises, regardless of vertical focus, need to gain operational efficiencies …
Selling smart cities: Go for grand slams or base hits?
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailMoving from PoC to meaningful scale with smart cities investment When imagining a smart city, many people immediately think of pervasively connected infrastructure streaming valuable data that allows city managers …
Digital transformation investments focused on process automation, Accenture says
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailFuture 5G investments will focus on creating service revenues HANNOVER, Germany–Despite major marketing efforts coming out of the telecoms sector, industrial manufacturers today aren’t focused on “leveraging 5G within the …
Ericsson Head of IoT: Industry 4.0 requires operators and industry to partner
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe Industry 4.0 movement is regarded in some circles as a magic bullet that will marry technology with manually intensive projects like mining, operating a factor or managing logistics in …
Qualcomm honing vertical focus on automotive, robotics and industrial IoT
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail5G as the ‘nervous system’ for the industrial IoT BARCELONA–Qualcomm is a major force in not just the modems and other components that power smartphones but also in the processes …
Is big data more like oil or sunshine?
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailMetaphors aside, big data is the key to AI development We’ve all heard the comparison, perhaps too often, but here it is: big data is the new oil that business …
Deloitte examines if companies are ready for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailStudy finds executives appreciate the benefits the Fourth Industrial Revolution will bring but many lack a clear strategy Political and corporate leaders gathered in Davos, Switzerland, this week for the …
Verizon, Nokia CEOs talk Fourth Industrial Revolution in Davos
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNokia CEO on Fourth Industrial Revolution: “If ever something was worth working, it’s this.” Harnessing steam to drive mass production; tapping electricity to globalize manufacturing; widespread computing–all past industrial revolutions …
C-V2X can solve a lot of the problems facing autonomous driving
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailC-V2X would let vehicles communicate with, well, everything Companies investing in autonomous driving have logged thousands of hours and millions of miles on the road to test out sensor arrays, …
