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Mainstream appliance manufacturers Electrolux, Haier, LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics will introduce smart-home products based on an emerging ‘internet-of-things’ (IoT) standard from the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) next year. The group will offer a first wave of interoperable OCF-certified solutions in 2019. The OCF said...

Local authorities said LoRaWAN technology will enable the implementation of use cases, including digital water metering and waste management   NNNCo, the Australian firm building a national narrowband network in Australia for the internet of things, has signed a contract with the city of Gold Coast...

Sigfox operator UnaBiz has raised over $10 million in Series A funding to develop ‘internet-of-things’ (IoT) infrastructure and services in Singapore and Taiwan. The funding included investments from Japanese operator KDDI and French electric utility ENGIE. Further investments came from angel investors in Singapore, as...

The Scottish government has invested a total of $3.5 million in this IoT project Business in Scotland will benefit from a new internet of things network launched through a private-public initiative.The new network, called IoT Scotland, will enable all businesses to have the ability to...

Momentum is building, fast, for smart manufacturing. Here, Enterprise IoT Insights presents five more use cases from leading industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions providers. Also, check out the major new report on the state of smart manufacturing from Enterprise IoT Insights. 1 | DYNAMIC SCHEDULING |...

New definitions of terms used in data management, edge computing, and IT/OT convergence appear in the trade dictionary for the industrial internet-of-things (IIoT), published by the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). The new edition of the Industrial Internet Vocabulary Report, version 2.1, also clears up confusion...

Codelco, the National Copper Corporation of Chile, has handed Rockwell Automation a contract worth $50 million to supply connectivity, automation, and control systems to the Chuquicamata mine in Chile, the world's largest open pit mine. The agreement with state-owned Codelco, one of the world’s largest...

Company taps 802.16s for mission critical IoT connectivity Mission critical IoT connectivity specialist Ondas Networks, formerly called Full Spectrum, went through the re-branding process to support its expanded focus on industrial IoT applications for high-value sectors including electric, gas and water utilities, oil and gas...

Semtech’s LoRa technology is being used by Quantified Ag, whose devices are implemented in feedlots in the U.S. and Australia   Semtech said that Quantified Ag, a company specializing in internet of things-based cattle tracking and cattle health solutions, has implemented Semtech’s LoRa devices and wireless...

Berg Insights forecast a total of 16.4 million fleet management systems in the region by 2022 The number of active fleet management systems deployed in commercial vehicle fleets in North America reached 8 million at the end of last year, with Verizon leading the market,...

Low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks like Sigfox are providing the platform for internet-of-thing (IoT) based alarm systems that are cheap and easy to install. They also provide coverage to rural areas, which 3G and 4G based alarm systems struggle to cover. Rural crime is a growing...

  The Slovakian firm said the sensors are ready for the NB-IoT network recently launched by T-Mobile US   Sensoneo, a Slovakian provider of smart waste management solutions, has been testing its waste fill-level sensors in several locations across the U.S. for the past few weeks to...

Research house Strategy Analytics has produced a report, in conjunction with low-power wide-area (LPWA) network provider Actility, that considers the opportunities and the challenges of internet-of-things (IoT) technologies in smart manufacturing, and the broad industrial sector. The benefits of digital technologies, including advanced data analytics...

The team of researches have tested smart city systems from Libelium, Echelon and Battelle   A team of researchers from Threatcare and IBM X-Force Red have joined forces to test several smart city devices, with the specific goal of finding vulnerabilities in smart city systems. Earlier this...

A study by the German Academy of Science and Engineering, known as Acatech, provides the most sophisticated blueprint yet for smart manufacturing, and a methodology for companies to rate their industrial transformation. Acatech's Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index was written for manufacturing companies, specifically, but...

Low-power wide-area (LPWA) network provider SenRa has struck a deal with location and tracking company PNI Sensor to bring LoRaWAN based smart parking to India. It is the latest in a number of major LoRaWAN deployments in Asia Pacific region, covering also smart city...

  The IoT-based fleet management solution was initially launched in France and will also be available in other European countries in the future   French oil firm Total has joined forces with compatriot IoT specialist Sigfox to deploy a solution designed to optimize rolling stock and help...

Intel made more than $1 billion in revenue from artificial intelligence (AI) processor chips sold to data centres in 2017. It also said its target market for connectivity, storage and computing products, swelled by the burgeoning internet of things (IoT) space, will widen to...

The internet of things (IoT) is gathering momentum in the enterprise space. Analyst firm Machina Research anticipates there will be three billion low-power wide-area (LPWA) connections by 2025, and Analysys Mason forecasts LPWA technologies will generate $5 billion globally in connectivity revenue by 2025....

A new investigation by analyst house ABI Research has ranked the top smart manufacturing platforms, and placed PTC’s ThingWorx top of the pile. PTC has ranked at the top consistently in recent research into the leading digital factory platforms. ThingWorx scored highest for augmented reality...

Tencent calls LoRaWAN an 'essential' IoT technology The LoRa Alliance welcomed internet valued-added services provider Tencent Holdings into its association today, receiving further backing for its LoRaWAN standard. This announcement follows Tencent's significant investment in technology and applications for LoRaWAN, with the company looking to push...

The two companies included a 5G testbed at Dekra’s Lausitzring speedway Deutsche Telekom and German firm Dekra announced they are expanding the facilities at a test and race track in Lausitzring speedway, in Germany, to include a 5G testbed for smart mobility. Under the agreement between...

Nokia is to offer GE’s CityIQ platform technology to municipalities in Canada to repurpose outdoor street lighting into digital infrastructure, and help with common challenges like parking and traffic management, public safety enhancements, and weather and air quality monitoring. The CityIQ platform, from GE’s lighting...

According to ABI Research, 5G will be the ideal solution for connected AR/VR experiences Augmented reality (AR) is growing in presence in industrial applications such as smart manufacturing and remote operation of industrial machinery, according to a recent study by consultancy firm ABI Research. The consultancy...