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France puts industrial transformation at the heart of ambitious 5G roadmap

The 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 by Arcep chair Sébastien Soriano, flanked by secretaries of state for economic affairs and...

How IoT sensors are helping protect and conserve beluga whales in Alaska

In 2017, a natural gas leak was detected six kilometres off the coast of Nikiski in Alaska. The leak impinged on a critical habitat for endangered beluga whales. The Alaskan authorities sought ways to assess and manage the leakage, and its impact upon the...

Deep fiber: Why building owners will need to adapt or risk extinction

Fiber infrastructure drives occupancy and lease prices As deep fiber becomes to the go-to source of building connectivity and capacity, commercial office building owners will either have to invest in fiber or risk extinction, experts say. Fiber-backed solutions inside of commercial office buildings enable wireless connectivity...

5GAA, BMW, Ford, PSA Group and Qualcomm carry out key C-V2X demo

  The demo of C-V2X direct communication technology utilized vehicles from multiple auto manufacturers The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), together with the BMW Group, Ford Motor Company, Groupe PSA  and Qualcomm Technologies, have carried out what 5GAA claims to be Europe’s first live demonstration of cellular...

The market is too fragmengted, even for the punk ethos of IoT, says LoRaWAN leader TTN

The LoRaWAN movement has something of the do-it-yourself ethos of punk music in the late 1970s. The Things Network (TTN), an Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN curation project, is one of its leaders, offering a simplified set of 'internet-of-things' (IoT) connectivity solutions and developer tools, and a...

Designing with the MultiTech LoRaWAN Developer’s Kit

When developers decide to create a new product using LoRaWAN™, a critical first step is the proof of concept to make sure the product works as intended. To simplify the process, it is easier to use a LoRaWAN developer’s kit. I tested the Multiconnect®...

Design, not price, will drive 2019 adoption of cellular IoT, says Nordic Semiconductor

The adoption of cellular internet-of-things (IoT) technologies is not being slowed by the high price of chipsets, but by the complexity of their design, reckons chip supplier Nordic Semiconductor. Module design is the ultimate barrier to adoption of licensed low-power wider-area (LPWA) technologies like narrowband...

What is IoT telemetry?

Telemetry, data acquisition, SCADA — What do they mean, and how do they become part of IoT? Let’s try to sort it out. What is telemetry? Telemetry — the gathering of data from remote places for analysis and other purposes — is at the heart of...

The top 10 smart cities – ranked according to their infrastructure and potential

New research by McKinsey Global Institute has evaluated the planet’s smartest cities on both their underlying infrastructure and their over-lying applications, and ranked them in order on both counts. Here, we consider the fist of these measures - the top 10 smart cities, globally,...

Car maker Hyundai takes stake in Israeli V2X chipset maker Autotalks

Car maker Hyundai has bought a stake in Israeli vehicle-to-everything (V2X) chipset provider Autotalks. The pair will work together to accelerate deployment of “next generation chipsets” for connected cars, the South Korean firm said. The size of the investment has not been disclosed. Reuters has...

Jaguar Land Rover tests connected cars on UK roads

Jaguar Land Rover recently opened a new software, IT and engineering center in Manchester to support its connected technologies strategy   Jaguar Land Rover announced that it is currently testing a fleet of connected cars on U.K. roads. Road infrastructure and vehicles, including Discovery Sports, Range Rovers...

Senet claims LoRaWAN in 80 markets, invites towercos to join its LPWA market

US IoT company Senet has expanded its LoRaWAN capabilities to over 80 markets. It has also introduced a raft of server enhancements for its LoRaWAN platform, to simplify the deployment, management and monetisation of LoRaWAN-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks and applications. Senet claimed it now...

China Mobile, Huawei demo remote vehicle control via CV2X and ‘5G Era LTE’

The demo, carried out during MWC Shanghai, used vehicles provided by Chinese manufacturer SAIC   China Mobile, together with Huawei and Chinese state-owned automotive manufacturing company SAIC, have jointly demonstrated the application of intelligent and connected vehicles using a low-latency network enabled by "5G Era LTE"...

Sprint aims to deploy robot EV chargers in New York via IoT, 5G

The carrier is currently testing its Mobi self-driving robot using its LTE network in New York Sprint, working with Adaptive Motion Group (AMG), is starting to deploy its "Mobi" self-driving robot -- designed to charge electric buses, cars and industrial vehicles in New York City. Sprint...

The IIoT intervew: “Edge computing is the death of the cloud as we know it,” says IIC

Where is the edge of the data network, where compute power increasingly resides? This is the question industrial operatives are asking, as they look to combine advanced connectivity technologies and analytics techniques to bring new intelligence to their systems and processes. It is the...

IoT America launches managed IoT service for rural US

IoT America aims to provide turnkey IoT offering for rural use cases A new, Texas-based startup has launched managed internet of things services aimed at rural America, with its first project in Alabama. Internet of Things America says that it will be partnering with rural wireless and...

Key challenges of visual fog computing

To understand visual fog computing, it is important to first understand fog computing. Let’s take a look at how the physical world connects to the cloud. Think of the physical world at the bottom of a pyramid, and the cloud as the top. At the...

NY, LA to lead smart city charge, as global market for civic tech nears $1bn by 2023

The global market for smart city information and communications technologies will grow by 15.8 per cent per year on average over the next five years, reaching $994.6 million by 2023. A new report by BCC Research claims cities in North America will dominate, notably...

LoRaWAN initiatives combine to create UK’s largest free-to-use LPWA network

UK tech incubator Digital Catapult has meshed its Things Connected LoRaWAN network in with the UK footprint of Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN project The Things Network (TTN). The result is the UK’s largest free-to-use low-power wide-area (LPWA) network deployment and innovation community, according to its architects. UK...

Sprint launches 5G-ready connected car platform

Platform includes maintenance reminders, preventive notifications and roadside assistance   Sprint has partnered with NXM Labs to launch a 5G-ready connected car platform. The carrier said the platform will offer high-speed, on-demand passenger Wi-Fi with advanced vehicle health monitoring and safety. The connectivity service will be offered...

“We will seriously ‘productise’ CityVerve”, says Cisco, as seminal UK smart city pilot winds up

Cisco has said its so-called ‘platform-of-platforms’ has been proven as “procurable and replicable,” as Manchester’s ground-breaking CityVerve smart city pilot in the UK gets set to wind up after two years. Cisco will develop a commercial proposition for cities out of the final ashes...

AT&T sets 2019 schedule for rollout of NB-IoT networks in the US and Mexico

US carrier AT&T has confirmed it will launch a narrowband ‘internet-of-things’ (NB-IoT) network in the US early next year, and in Mexico by the end of next year. Its support for NB-IoT will run in parallel with its existing LTE-M network. AT&T said the...

Rohde & Schwarz first to release “comprehensive” C-V2X test suite for auto-makers

Munich-based test equipment supplier Rohde & Schwarz has updated its CMW500 radio tester and SMBV100A GNSS simulator to support cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) device certification. It is the first test equipment vendor to offer a “comprehensive” C-V2X test suite for the car industry, it said. 3GPP...

Time is right for industrial-scale digital transformation, say GE Digital and Verizon

“If you are not investing in these technologies to drive your own product gains, know that your competitors are already doing so. If you haven’t started, you need to; the industrial IoT (IIoT) race has already begun.” This was the view from GE Digital...