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  Industrial IoT firm Seeq raises $24 million from equity sale Seattle-based industrial analytics company Seeq has raised $24 million from investors, according to a report in Computer Reseller News. Seeq has sold $24.3 million of equity to an unnamed investor group, according to the report, which...

  European private equity firm IK Investment Partners announced that the IK VIII Fund has reached an agreement to acquire a majority stake in German building automation company MDT Technologies, the former said in a release. MDT is a ?manufacturer of building automation products based on...

Industrial Controls announced the launch of a new business unit, ICD Building Automation, which is focused on helping commercial building owners and managers improve day-to-day operations and IoT applications, the company said in a relaase. David Wilken, vice president of Rawson/Industrial Controls, said ICD Building...

French IoT firm Kerlink and Dutch systems integrator MCS have deployed a private LoRaWAN network at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. The network offers coverage in all public areas, including arrival and departure halls, lounges, piers, and shopping area. It also provides coverage in non-public areas...

Sven Hamann, Senior Vice President, Bosch Connected Industry: “Only the floor, the walls, and the ceiling are fixed; everything else is flexible and mobile, and adapts to customers’ orders in seconds. People remain at the centre of the action. This is Bosch’s vision of the...

  Siemens Smart Infrastructure has updated its Desigo CC integrated building management platform, the firm said in a release. The new version of the platform is suitable for use across a wider range of buildings. The technology enables building operators to boost energy efficiency while ensuring...

  Private equity firm?Huron Capital?announced that its building automation and energy services platform,?Albireo Energy, has acquired?Quality Building Controls?(QBC), a provider of building automation systems and related repair and maintenance services. Tampa, Florida-based QBC was founded in 1997?and primarily serves customers in the education, healthcare, industrial, and...

  Embedded device security company Red Balloon Security has partnered with Siemens Smart Infrastructure (SI) to deliver enhanced cybersecurity for the latter?s building automation systems. Red Ballon Security said that this collaboration will initially feature embedded security for Siemens building automation controllers and will be deployed...

Japan’s Softbank will plough artificial intelligence (AI) and internet-of-things (IoT) technologies into a burgeoning smart city project in Indonesia, after striking a deal with Jakarta-based conglomerate Lippo Group. The deal, with the Indonesian firm’s real-estate division PT Lippo Karawaci (LPKR), focuses on Lippo Village in...

GDI Integrated Facility Services announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Ainsworth ?have entered into an agreement to acquire ESC Automation along with its U.S. subsidiaries Delta Connects Inc. and New Patriot Energy, the former said in a statement. ESC is a building system integrator in North...

Siemens has followed country-mate Bosch to apply for spectrum licences in the 3.7-3.8 GHz band in Germany. The firm will seek to manage its own LTE and 5G networks in at least six ‘digital’ factories, it is understood.  Klaus Helmrich, chief executive of the company’s...

Stephen Mellor picks up where he left off, and where we left him: the challenge with industrial IoT to gain widespread adoption is as much to do with interpretation as with deployment. Different industrial disciplines have different demands, even if they sometimes appear the...

Bosch and Qualcomm have set up shop at the Smart Production Solutions (SPS) trade fair in Nuremberg, Germany, this week to show industrial devices using time-sensitive networking (TSN) over a live 5G network. The combination of TSN and 5G is a key showcase for...

    Johnson Controls, a global provider of solutions for smart buildings, announced that it closed an agreement to purchase the?EasyIO Building and Energy Management System?(BEMS) product line, the U.S. company said in a statement. Based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, EasyIO has operations in Asia, Australia, Europe...

Nextivity, Spry Fox Networks to facilitate in-building 4G coverage for organizations across the U.K. In preparation for new Emergency Services Network (ESN) in the U.K., Nextivity and Spry Fox Networks are joining forces to facilitate uninterrupted, in-building 4G coverage for public and private sector organizations...

Tearing down departmental data silos in cities remains the dream for smart cities, and yet it is still out of reach. German industrial giant Siemens told Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona this week it is the only way to deliver disruptive transformation,...

  Infrastructure and in-building coverage specialist SOLiD recently introduced Fiber2Antenna, a new class of wireless solutions aimed at solving the "middleprise" in-building coverage challenge, the firm said in a release. The company said that the first new product in this family is the SOLiD?ALLIANCE ?edgeROU, a...

According to?Himanshu Khurana, CTO of Honeywell Building Solutions, while the term ?smart building? might be used by some verticals and not others, various industries and environments, including hospitality, airports and hospitals are all showing increased interest in establishing smarter ecosystems. ?The stakeholders care about the...

  Johnson Controls and CBRE Group, a commercial real estate services and investment firm headquartered in Los Angeles, have developed an integrated digital solution for the Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) office in the SCB Building in Kowloon East, Hong Kong. Led by the CBRE JCI Building...

    The?Open Connectivity Foundation?(OCF), an internet of things standards body, announced that it will continue the work of the Fairhair Alliance, which was aimed at IoT for commercial buildings, under the OCF name. This integration will advance interoperability and security within the automated building and lighting...

  Geoverse has signed a contract with the 7 Cedars Casino for the provision of a private LTE solution for the casino, the company said in a statement. The solution will also provide indoor coverage for three restaurants and the new $40 million luxury hotel that...

Schneider Electric and ThoughtWire combine digital twins for hospitals French firm Schneider Electric is partnering with Canadian IoT platform provider ThoughtWire on data integration and digital twins for the healthcare sector. Schneider Electric will leverage ThoughtWire’s digital twin solution to offer facilities managers in the...

Vodafone is the first network operator in the UK to sub-license unused LTE / 4G spectrum under UK regulator Ofcom’s new spectrum policy, which seeks to bolster rural and indoor coverage, and drive industrial transformation.  The deal signals a race for spectrum innovation, according to...

Note, this is continued from a previous article, called: ‘Greta dislikes you, but we like Greta’ – Sandvik on industrial revolution and the smartest little tool-house in Sweden. Go here to read the first instalment. The smartest factory in Sweden is a couple of...