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Maersk and IBM debut blockchain platform for global shipping industry

Logistics company Maersk and technology company IBM have introduced an open blockchain platform, called TradeLens, to digitise the global shipping trade. The pair said 94 organisations are already involved, or have agreed to participate, including 20 port and terminal operators across the globe. TradeLens employs blockchain-based...

New business cases, technologies driving NB-IoT toward market acceptance (Reality Check)

With the announcements by three major U.S. telecom carriers this year, and significant activity taking place in China, narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) has come out of the shadows in a big way. The announcements by AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile that they would be stepping up...

Revenues from IIoT increasing, but connectivity still a challenge

Transportation and logistics sector seeing benefit of IIoT The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) could be good for cash flow according to a new report by Inmarsat, who have found that businesses can boost their revenues by $154 million. The study analyses IoT adoption across...

Finnish operator Elisa looks for rise from industrial AI, IoT and 5G

Finnish network operator Elisa is combining its efforts in artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT) and 5G technologies to stimulate operational excellence in the enterprise market, and drive forward Finland's industrial transformation. Elisa has selected 13 startups from eight countries to compete for...

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...

Actility brings “pinpoint” accuracy to LoRa based tracking of supply-chain assets

Actility has struck a deal with mapping and location company HERE Technologies to integrate HERE’s positioning capabilities into its own LoRaWAN management platform. It means internet-of-things (IoT) users can "pinpoint" their assets accurately and continuously in both indoor and outdoor environments. The combined solution, combining...

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®...

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...

Comcast expanding enterprise IoT base with utility, ag customers

Enabling enterprise IoT applications key focus of Comcast's LoRaWAN network As cable-giant Comcast continues to build on its core business with services typically dominated by more traditional wireless operators, its Xfinity Mobile MVNO play, for instance, the Philadelphia-based company continues to grow its enterprise IoT...

Nokia and Tencent set up China 5G lab to test IoT for transport, energy, manufacturing

Nokia and Tencent will make research into 5G-enabled internet-of-things (IoT) applications for industry verticals including transportation, energy and manufacturing a major part of their new collaboration in China, based out of a new test lab in Shenzhen. The pair said at Mobile World Congress in...

Sprint approaching enterprise IoT with one-stop-shop strategy

Sprint IoT push includes a dedicated core The internet of things is driving digital transformation for enterprises in a variety of sectors by creating new revenue streams and decreasing operating expenses through actionable data insights. To address this market segment, Sprint Business, the operator's enterprise-facing...

Making smart buildings safer with trusted ID solutions (Reader Forum)

Thousands of people pour into and out of high-rise office buildings each day, and each must be kept safe and secure. Two of the most significant challenges in accomplishing this are guard tour management and ensuring that all fire and safety equipment complies with...

Orange launches AI acceleration program in Silicon Valley

The new platform, dubbed Orange Fab, was launched in partnership with a group of investors and companies   French telecommunication group Orange has launched Orange Fab, a Silicon Valley acceleration program designed to identify and support early-stage startups with focus on smart connectivity. The initiative is being...

AT&T Smart City Alliance adds new member to target smart water metering

Badger Meter will explore ways to offer water metering solutions via AT&T’s network   U.S. firm Badger Meter announced it has joined the AT&T Smart City Alliance to explore several alternatives to provide large and small cities with access to smart city water metering solutions. AT&T said...

Remote management: What good is Big Data if you can’t get it? (Reader Forum)

Now that I spend a lot of my time thinking about how to help companies get their networks to do what their businesses want them to do, I realize what sorts of challenges IT organizations have overcome to get any truly remote management operational. Now...

The impact of OT/IT convergence on manufacturing

We live in a world of continuous digital transformation. One technology obsoletes another, and the pattern repeats itself. For example, the invention of email has displaced the fax technology. Today we see another digital transformation caused by the industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) — the convergence...

Edge computing: 4 facts vs. fiction (Reader Forum)

Today’s IT landscape is all about moving towards the microdata centers, as the demand for edge computing pushes through the need for quick and instant access to data. Edge computing is localized computing for systems that operate away from the primary data center. Typically,...

Siemens expands presence in the building automation market via new acquisition

Siemens said the acquisition of Califonia-based J2 Innovations will allow the firm to grow its business in this segment German firm Siemens confirmed that it is acquiring California-based J2 Innovations, a software framework provider for building automation and the internet of things. J2 has been operating...

How airports, like miniature smart cities, offer multi-sided IoT use cases

For technologists, airports in general, and the planet?s busiest ones in particular, are like smart cities in microcosm. They encapsulate a head-spinning array of services and applications, covering everything from waste collection and traffic management to private retail and mission-critical controls. Threading new airports with...

Handle with care: How the IoT enables monitoring of sensitive assets throughout the supply chain (Reality Check)

  Over the past decade, the Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed logistics, enabling shippers to track the location of assets as they move through the supply chain — in real-time, if necessary. However, although enterprises have become savvy at using the IoT to track...

Why mesh networks matter at the edge

Mesh networks are essential ingredients in almost every IoT platform, as they use short-range wireless standards to communicate with each other and send their data to the “outside world.” So, it’s important to understand how they differ from their counterparts, and why their characteristics...

7 IoT product design best practices

Regardless of the hyperbole constantly hammered home by marketing departments, IoT as a tangible entity is embryonic. We’re at the very early stages of the IoT learning curve, so it should be no surprise that the success rate for IoT adopters has been in...

When does XaaS make sense for industrial operations? (Reader Forum)

  The use of software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is well established in the enterprise data center. Now, industrial organizations are beginning to make tentative steps to XaaS offerings for their operational computing. However, there is some trepidation preventing...

IoT platform licensing models

Behind the benefits of connectivity and big data that the IoT promises there remains a question: Who will pay for it? And how? This article will take a look at the available models and give a few tips on choosing what’s best for you. Making money from...