BROWSING: Buildings

Buildings and transportation use cases are well served by combining unlicensed Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN, according to a new white paper from the two organisations responsible for developing and promoting the technologies. The Wireless Broadband Alliance and the LoRa Alliance have said use cases in the...

The pursuit of cheaper, faster, and more varied production is intensifying. Factories are bustling with innovation experiments, as industrialists are availed of ever-more sophisticated digital tools. But the manufacturing sector is competitive, and its grab for innovation, to raise its members above their rivals, is...

Digital twins of smart cities will number 500 by 2025, from a handful today, according to ABI Research. The concept of digital twins will start move from smart factories, where spatial modelling is starting to be used to show the interplay between physical environments...

CommScope announced plans to initially demonstrate fixed wireless access, private LTE and IoT use cases in multiple markets following the official notification from the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) that its spectrum access system (SAS) to support the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) has been...

“The world is changing, and changing extremely fast,” explains Swedish manufacturer Sandvik at PI World 2019 in Gothenburg this week. The firm, a ‘lighthouse’ smart manufacturer for the World Economic Forum, says industrialists must drive digital change in order to save the planet.   During a...

Air France will track all bags at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags from 2020. Around eight million pieces of baggage will be tagged each year, it said. Air France is working with Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport to implement the technology,...

  JMA said that it has received OnGo certification of its XRAN virtual baseband and Cell Hub radio product line as a multiple-radio system for the new Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS). JMA said that the certification covers Category A and B Citizens Broadband Service Device...

  NuSutus, a Canadian provider of global enterprise communications and managed network solutions, has acquired compatriot firm Relight Solutions, a smart building integrator for commercial buildings. NuSutus said that this acquisition will allow the firm to better support commercial buildings, retail stores, and quick-service restaurants. Relight designs...

Vodafone has deployed a high speed, high capacity fibre optic network at Gatwick Airport in the UK to support 5G services, and enable higher levels of automation and intelligence in its airport operations. The UK-based carrier said the 5G upgrade at Gatwick, starting with its...

McDonald's has announced a deal to acquire Silicon Valley speech recognition startup Apprente for an undisclosed fee. It is the burger chain’s second acquisition of an artificial intelligence (AI) software firm in less than six months. Both newly-acquired Apprente and recently-acquired Dynamic Yield have been...

Getronics Solutions Pte, the Singapore unit of global ICT company Getronics, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Boustead Projects Limited, a Singaporean real estate solutions provider for the provision of integrated smart building solutions for industrial buildings, industrial parks and integrated digital...

Nokia has agreed with NTT DoCoMo and Omron to run a series of joint field trials of 5G at production sites in Japan to assess the reliability of industrial 5G networks and the viability of modular “layout-free” production lines. Nokia said in its announcement...

A Vietnam-based startup car manufacturer, VinFast, claims to have built a “fully-digital” automotive factory with capacity for 250,000 cars a year, and flexibility to scale to more, from scratch in just 21 months. Similar greenfield developments, to establish new automotive manufacturing facilities, have taken...

The number of certified Zigbee IoT products and platforms in the market for smart homes and cities has passed 3,000, according to the Zigbee Alliance. The alliance’s certification programme seeks to establish quality standards and levels of interoperability among Zigbee products for product developers,...

Austin-based Silicon Labs and?Allegion, a specialist in security solutions, have collaborated to further expand Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities to security products for both smart homes and commercial buildings. Under the terms of the collaboration agreement, a growing number of Allegion solutions now use Silicon...

As our collective awareness of the environment continues to grow due to climate change, our surroundings and the way we interact with them are changing dramatically. Buildings and infrastructures are not just cement blocks anymore. They have become dynamic environments, capable of self-correction and...

  Semtech, which supplies products including high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, has launched its Smart Building Reference Kit, a collection of tools designed to accelerate the development of smart building solutions based on?LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol. The kit will allow users to monitor doors...

The rise of private cellular networks has been a key narrative recently in the story of industrial transformation, propelled by the emergence of advanced data analytics (AI), distributed sensing and processing infrastructure (IoT), and super-fast connectivity (5G). Irish firm Druid Software has helped to...

Bosch is prepping an autonomous factory transport system for launch, after testing in its own factories. It will target the likes of BMW, Osram, and Trumpf - existing customers for its industrial IoT solutions already.  In tandem, the German firm has opened a new innovation...

Amazon has applied with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a temporary license to work in the CBRS band in California to test and analyse the performance of new 3.5 GHz (3550 MHz to 3700 MHz) wireless devices. It is its second application, at...

  Cloud and IoT specialist Synchronoss Technologies announced an agreement with Arrow Electronics to develop and bring to market a new end-to-end IoT smart building solution. The partners said that the new solution is intended for use by telecom operators, service providers and system integrators. The IoT-based...

Detail of the design of Thailand’s new real-estate mega development, One Bangkok, has been revealed for the first time. The $3.9 billion project, billed as the country’s largest ever private sector real-estate initiative, will set “new benchmarks in design, smart-city living and sustainability,” its...

Industrial giant Siemens, reticent on the subject until now, has been gushing in its support of 5G for industry, as a means to automate and animate digital factories, and bring total flexibility to production facilities. “Once we start to realise these possibilities, we will...

Broadband connectivity, both wired and wireless, is now akin to a utility in its importance for building owners and the tenants they want to attract. So what are building owners looking for in the technologies they want in their buildings? "What we're seeing is a...