Itron wins contract to upgrade local Swedish smart grid and meters
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailUS-based industrial networking company Itron has signed with local electricity provider Borås Elnät in Sweden to swap-in 46,000 smart electric meters and layer-in sensors and analytics across its grid infrastructure. …
Dell-backed edge AI firm FogHorn gets $25m fund, signs Stanley B&D, Honeywell
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailCalifornia-based industrial AI developer Foghorn has closed $25 million in a series C round of funding, led by LS Corp, part of $25 billion South Korean industrial conglomerate LS Group. …
“Humans should be arbiters of AI decisions” – Bosch sets down ‘red lines’ on industrial AI
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailGermany industrialist Bosch has set out a ‘code of ethics’ around the usage of artificial intelligence (AI) in its connected products, which says humans should be the arbiter of any …
Private nets with Voda, Industry 4.0 with Ford, Robin Hood lives – UK’s £35m 5G trials
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe UK government has announced the winners of a £35 million funding pot for rural and industrial 5G projects, alongside a new $30 million 5G development competition for the media, …
Operators are best placed to serve Industry 4.0 with 5G slices, says Huawei
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailHuawei said today at a London launch event for new 5G gear that it would prefer to go via the operator community to serve the Industry 4.0 movement, using slices …
BMW, Microsoft recruit InBev, Bosch to help resolve IoT connectivity and analytics
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAnheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), Bosch Group, and ZF Friedrichshafen Group have joined the steering committee for the Open Manufacturing Platform (OMP). BMW Group and Microsoft are already on board as …
Nokia’s edge-based machine vision AI is put through its paces at Japanese rail crossing
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailJapan-based train company and railway operator Odakyu Electric Railway is trialling machine vision technology from Nokia to improve safety at rail crossings. The firm has started testing at the Tamagawa …
Sales of outdoor lighting poles and indoor lighting controls to jump 50% and 5%
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAnnual deployments of new smart poles for street lighting, featuring sensors and connectivity, willl increase at a compound rate of more than 50 per cent per year, from just 600 …
Nokia and Airtel push private LTE and industrial AI to India’s manufacturing sector
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNokia has struck a deal with Indian operator Bharti Airtel to offer private LTE and industrial AI to enterprises in the manufacturing and distribution sector. The pair said their partnership …
On-device AI is “new normal” – Arm claims mega-jump in edge AI with new chip combo
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailOn-device AI on minuscule IoT units will be the “new normal”, said UK-based Arm, as it unveiled a 480-times boost in edge processing performance with two new chip designs, pairing …
