Cisco promises $100m for UK tech sector; partners with UCL for AI talent factory
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailCisco is to invest $100 million in the UK to help the UK government with its ‘industrial strategy’ to become a leading economy for emerging digital technologies, including artificial intelligence …
Itron secures contract to deploy IoT-based system for a water utility in Texas
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailItron said the deployment of sensors and software-as-a-service will allow the city of Pearland to improve delivery of water to the city’s 120,000 customers U.S. firm Itron, a technology …
ThoughtWire intros IoT automation apps for building owners and healthcare providers
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailCanadian IoT platform provider ThoughtWire has produced five new applications for building owners and healthcare providers to manage connected “people, systems and things”. ThoughtWire has introduced two new applications as …
Tesla and DeepMind among 160 AI firms to sign pledge against robot killers
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailMore than 160 companies and organisations from 36 countries working with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, including the founders of Tesla and Google DeepMind, have signed a pledge not to develop, …
AI will boost jobs, except in digital factories, intelligent transport and smart cities
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailArtificial intelligence (AI) will boost jobs during the next two decades, except in manufacturing, transport and city administration. New research finds digital factories, intelligent mobility and smart cities will cause …
KT uses IoT, big data analytics to monitor and analyze air quality in South Korea
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailIn the first phase of its Air Map Korea project, the telco has installed monitors at 1,500 telecom sites Korean telecom operators KT has been using technologies such as the …
PTC tops three separate polls of the leading industrial IoT platforms
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailNeedham-based industrial software maker PTC has come top in a series of reviews of industrial IoT (IIoT) platform providers. Its ThingWorx proposition has been consistently identified by analysts in 2018 …
Cisco in pole, as Newcastle prepares to pick a partner to make it the UK’s smartest city
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThe city of Newcastle in the UK will procure a “technological partner” after the summer to set down the infrastructure to help it develop its connectivity and sensor capabilities and …
France puts industrial transformation at the heart of ambitious 5G roadmap
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThe industrial internet-of-things (IoT) is at the heart of France’s new 5G roadmap, unveiled late yesterday by the French electronic communications and postal regulatory authority (Arcep). The new plan, presented …
Actility brings “pinpoint” accuracy to LoRa based tracking of supply-chain assets
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailActility has struck a deal with mapping and location company HERE Technologies to integrate HERE’s positioning capabilities into its own LoRaWAN management platform. It means internet-of-things (IoT) users can “pinpoint” …
