Retro-fits, recycling and data: How Stockholm became Europe’s greenest city
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailStockholm is a ‘lighthouse city’, alongside Cologne and Barcelona, in the European Commission’s GrowSmarter project, one of three to receive support in the first ‘Smart Cities and Communities’ (SCC1) call under the Horizon …
How does energy harvesting enable the IoT?
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailMany of the sensors used in IoT are battery-powered and organized into mesh networks. Set to transmit anywhere from every few seconds to every few hours. They can run for …
EC proposes €51.6bn for new industrial transformation tech and infrastructure
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThe European Commission (EC) has proposed a total budget of €51.5 billion for new technologies and network infrastructure under its next funding cycle, from 2021 to 2027, to drive industrial …
Mike Bloomberg pledges $112m for smart-city climate change and data sharing
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailFormer mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg has announced packages of $70 million and $42 million respectively to help US smart cities fight climate change and develop their usage of …
Nokia to deploy 100Gbps optical transport network for SGCC power grid in China
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailNokia has won a contract to deliver an optical transport network (OTN) to the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), covering the SGCC’s power grid operations in Beijing and Tianjin. …
Nokia establishes transatlantic test lab for power utilities
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailNokia has linked its ‘energy innovation centre’ in Plano, Texas, with the University of Strathclyde’s power systems lab in Glasgow, Scotland, to create a transatlantic test lab for utilities to …
How Honeywell helped the Burj Khalifa become a smart building
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailHoneywell piloting its Outcome Based Service (OBS) solution across the mechanical components of the HVAC system Honeywell has been working with management of the world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa, to …
GE urges telcos to follow its lead on IIoT innovation
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailTelecoms carriers should urgently marry innovation with new working practices if they are to capitalise on the opportunity of the industrialised ‘internet of things’ (IoT), according to GE. Sue Siegel, …
Nokia testing IoT solutions with French power utility
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailNokia looks to support customer-led testing prior to investment in an IoT solution As internet of things (IoT) companies look to help enterprise and industrial interests get a better grasp …
From smart metering to transformation of the energy industry
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThe IoT is applicable to energy in many more ways than just smart metering Smart metering–connecting electric, gas and other utility meters to the internet–has emerged as an important early …
