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 …
From coffee machines to paint shops: IIoT at the cutting edge – four Software AG use cases
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAs part of Enterprise IoT Insights‘ investigation into edge-cloud setups in industrial plants, we have unearthed a number of case studies showing how manufacturing companies and technology providers are collaborating …
Smart manufacturing: HPE and Foxconn’s edge-based AI video system for quality assurance
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailQuality assurance is a critical part of manufacturing; it’s just humans are not very good at it. Their faculties are not trained to pick out anomalies in rapid carousels of …
From power grids to oil rigs: IIoT at the cutting edge – four AWS use cases
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailIn simple terms, the prevailing wisdom is the more data, the better. More data equals better decisions, which equals better products, and more users. That is the theory, anyway. The …
Road safety with C-V2X – at a four-way ITS intersection, with no traffic signals
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailCar companies Audi, Ducati, and Ford have joined with California chip maker Qualcomm to prove the “maturity and potential” of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology by showing their vehicles navigating a …
How cold storage firm Lineage Logistics used IoT tech to reduce energy by 34%
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailFood cold storage operator Lineage Logistics has engaged IoT solution provider ndustrial.io and carrier AT&T to reduce annual energy usage by 34 per cent and annual energy costs by $4 …
‘Some investments are just easier to justify’ – making cities smart, the Cradlepoint way
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailBoise-based Cradlepoint has never sought out cities to sell to; the smart cities market has come to it. The fact is, some investments are easier to justify than others, it …
“It’s a big change, this Michael Jackson scenario” – how Cardiff got to grips with smart street lighting
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNote: This is the full version of an article that appeared previously as an excerpt, found here; it also forms part of a major new report on the state of …
“Let’s be clear: smart cities are expensive” – how Cardiff made the tech add up
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailCardiff, the capital city of Wales, has just upgraded 18,000 street lights in its city centre. The new lanterns are hugely efficient, and supremely smart. And yet the business case …
Holy cow! Cisco on the meaning of 5G, and how collared cattle will stand up 5G masts
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailCisco is making the business case for mobile operators to install 5G masts in rural regions based on connecting livestock, rather than people. The company, leading a network of 29 …
