BROWSING: Energy
Nokia focuses on smart grid and other ‘high growth’ verticals
New wireless router for field area networks for smart grid, smart city and other IoT applications.
Digital transformation is driving change in nearly all enterprise and industrial verticals including for power utilities, which are using internet of things devices to create smart grid infrastructure using...
Enterprise IoT Summit: Transforming water and energy management
Enterprise internet of things solutions are all about creating efficiencies – using data and smart devices to do more and better work while consuming less resources. And as the IoT leads digital transformation initiatives in myriad verticals, water and energy management can benefit not...
Sensus opens first global IoT support facility in India
The new center to be located in Hyderabad and support the firm’s IoT business in India and globally.
Sensus, a U.S.-based supplier of utility grade communications systems and smart meters, opened its first global support center in Hyderabad, India, local press reported.
Hyderabad...
Case study: Smart city technology in Singapore
In 2014, the government of Singapore launched its Smart Nation vision in which the authorities of the Asian nation stipulated the implementation of a number of smart city initiatives as a response to growing urban challenges including urban density and energy sustainability.
The most developed...
Case study: Thingworx platform helps company prove energy savings
Thingworx platform proves energy savings.
Steam systems are one of the largest energy consumers in the United States, making up almost 15% of the country's annual energy usage. There exist 50,000 district and industrial facilities in the country. Pittsburgh-based Embedded Energy Technology...
How IoT can be used to protect and restore the environment
New IoT solutions for age-old problems
The increasing capabilities and awareness of the "internet of things" are providing more avenues for companies and organizations to keep the environment safe. Here are use cases of how IoT can help protect and restore our endangered world.
Animal tracking
Global organizations...
Case study: Reducing costs with cloud-based energy management
The expense of water recycling
The Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency claims to operate the world’s largest water recycling facility designed for raw food crop irrigation, using 25 pumping stations to treat 20 million gallons of wastewater every day. Pumping, treatment and conveyance are...
Smart street lighting enabled by LoRaWAN network in Budapest test site
A LoRaWAN test town for Hungary
Szada is a small town on the outskirts of Budapest, Hungary, with a population of around 5,000. Its economy has relied on agriculture for centuries, with a recent trend towards vine growing. Thanks to its proximity to Budapest, Szada...
Meet the world’s most intelligent smart building: The Edge in Amsterdam
World's most intelligent smart building
Twenty-eight thousand sensors. That is how many it takes to create the world's smartest, most environmentally friendly building: The Edge. An office building in Amsterdam whose main tenant is consulting firm Deloitte, has been rated the most environmentally sustainable smart...
Data analytics helps supermarket achieve huge energy savings
U.S. supermarket sees value in energy efficiency
OutSmart used its monitoring and data analytics programs to help an unnamed regional supermarket chain with more than 800 stores located across the U.S. reach energy efficiency and renewable energy targets. This customer was willing to use data and...
AT&T helps save 15 billion gallons of water by connecting IoT
Landscape irrigation, a wasteful endeavor
For decades, landscape irrigation in homes and commercial properties has been controlled by timers or manual valves without the ability to regulate how much water is being used. This has led irrigation to become the most wasteful method in urban water...
Huawei signs AI research agreement with UC Berkeley
The Chinese vendor will provide funding for AI research through its Noah’s Ark Lab
Chinese ICT services provider Huawei has entered a strategic partnership with the University of California--Berkeley to carry out basic research into artificial intelligence (AI).
Under the partnership, Huawei will provide a $1...
Keeping the IoT green by reducing e-waste
Environmental caveat: e-waste
New technologies are fighting an uphill battle to reduce the environmental decay from century-old processes that are both inefficient and wasteful. The internet of things has the potential to reduce emissions from those processes, and create a truly green earth. But while green use...
How using IoT for testing toxins is improving water quality
Drinking water varies from place to place depending on the condition of the source water from which it is drawn and the treatment it receives. No matter its origin, water must meet Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations. The traditional method of testing turbidity, PH and...
Stackable, IoT-enabled dumpster homes to address urban housing crisis
From dumpster to smart home
AUSTIN--Jeff Wilson, CEO and founder of KASITA, moved from a modern, comfortable, 3,000 square-foot home to a 33 square-foot dumpster.
His inspiration for the drastic, unconventional change came from a UCLA study that tracked the movements of 32 middle class families throughout...
Case study: GE uses PowerUp platform to optimize wind farm
Background
In 2013, General Electric (GE) Renewable Energy launched the PowerUp Platform to help wind developers get more power from their existing wind energy equipment. According to the company, PowerUp is a customized suite of software and hardware-enabled technologies created to increase a wind farm’s...
Use cases: How the IIoT is changing energy management
Energy management use cases
Our current energy management systems are inadequate. Atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are estimated to reach almost 685 parts per million (ppm) by 2050, well above the concentration level of 450 ppm required to have at least a 50% chance of...
How big data can save money and our environment
A growing problem with a win-win solution
Society is far from reaching its greenhouse gas emissions goals. And, as part of the effort to reshape how energy is produced and used, big data can help prevent a potentially disastrous environmental forecast.
Atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases...
Smart Building Technologies that Reduce Energy Costs
Reducing costs with smart building
Thanks to the smart building, today's structures are alive, equipped with technology that allows for automated processes of things that have, for hundreds of years, lived in dormancy.
Many older buildings have the capability to become smart buildings, but owners and...
Smart city deployments must address core city problems
The smart city market is set for explosive growth, but ongoing smart city deployments may be missing the mark.
Despite a rapid increase in smart city deployments around the globe, few projects are at scale and financially sound. Furthermore, many smart city solutions deployments fail...
Tesla looks to energy, self-driving trucks and buses
Tesla CEO Elon Musk lays out his "master plan, part deux"
Tech visionary Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and Space X, has big plans for growing the electric car manufacturer. Included in what he calls his "master plan, part deux" is the development of fully...
Huawei and GE form IoT partnership
Companies target industrial internet of things
Huawei is partnering with GE to develop solutions for the industrial internet of things. The two companies announced their partnership in Shanghai, where GE is launching an incubator for startups and software developers focused on connected machines.
The companies said...
#TBT: Enron’s nascent IoT plans … 18 years ago this week
Editor’s Note: IIoT/5G Insights shares an oldie but goodie for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our sister site RCR Wireless News' archives to resuscitate IoT-related headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
Enron...
Ericsson IoT Accelerator meant to speed time-to-market
Cloud-based, SaaS IoT Accelerator addresses transport, energy and public safety
With numerous projections pegging the value of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions in the trillions of dollars, it's apparent that carriers, enterprises and developers have a huge, albeit complex, opportunity to transform their businesses and...