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IoT industry must be proactive about ethical data use

Panel discussion: the Internet of Things (IoT) industry has a unique opportunity to enforce ethical data use right from the start. The billions of things that are expected to get connected will generate massive volumes of data. Making sense of that data will be key...

Uber’s Otto makes Budweiser beer run in self-driving truck

Last week, 51,777 cans of beer were shipped on what will go down as the first commercial shipment by an autonomous vehicle. Otto, Uber’s recently purchased self-driving trucking company, partnered with Anheuser-Busch to carry the shipment of Budweiser through Colorado without anyone behind the...

Google Fiber pauses operations, loses CEO and cuts 9% of workforce

Google Fiber, a slowly sinking ship Google Fiber will be halting its operations in 10 "potential Fiber cities" while it refines its approaches, according to a blog post by Craig Barratt, SVP of Alphabet and CEO of Access. In yesterday's post, Barratt stated Google Fiber must...

SoftBank’s Son: ‘Cambrian explosion’ in IoT is coming

SANTA CLARA, California – SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son likened the impending boom in "internet of things" devices to the evolutionary period known as the Cambrian explosion: a turning point for life on earth. "The next big paradigm shift is coming from mobile into the IoT....

ARMTechCon: Enabling IoT use cases

  SANTA CLARA, Calif.--British chip design company ARM's technology powers billions of wireless devices, so the company has unique perspective on the types of internet of things products that exist and are coming down the pipe. Mike Muller, CTO of ARM, ran through a number of...

What’s driving smart city trend, and how it will impact local economies?

HOUSTON--Carriers, vendors and municipalities around the world are embracing smart city technology--sensors, cameras, smart meters and other IoT devices--meant to drive urban quality-of-life. As cities gain intelligence and process become automated, there's the opportunity to gain efficiency while creating new revenue streams. But, before...

5G New Radio (NR) will create a unified air interface

From NB-IoT to Enhanced Mobile Broadband, 5G NR will have it covered “5G New Radio (NR) is the wireless standard that will become the foundation for the next generation of mobile networks. Whereas 3G and 4G connected people, 5G will connect everything—a unifying connectivity fabric...

Orange Business Services expands IoT reach

New deal will provide IoT connectivity for Tractive's wearables and tracking devices Orange Business Service (OBS), the business services arm of French telecommunications group Orange, has added a new contract in the internet of things (IoT) field through an agreement with Tractive, an Austria-based developer of hardware, apps...

Microsoft launches security program for Azure IoT

Microsoft presented updates to its cloud-based Internet of Things suite, Microsoft Azure IoT, including a security program. Internet of Things (IoT) devices are under increased scrutiny following massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the past few weeks, including one which took down Netflix,...

Industrial IoT test beds in focus at IOT Solutions World Congress

A number of industry leaders at IOT Solutions World Congress highlighted the importance of industrial IoT test beds in making the Industrial IoT a reality. When the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) was founded two years ago, few believed in the industrial IoT test beds the...

Uber’s Otto makes Budweiser beer run in self-driving truck

Last week, 51,777 cans of beer were shipped on what will go down as the first commercial shipment by an autonomous vehicle. Otto, Uber’s recently purchased self-driving trucking company, partnered with Anheuser-Busch to carry the shipment of Budweiser through Colorado without anyone behind the...

Uber’s Otto makes Budweiser beer run in self-driving truck

Last week, 51,777 cans of beer were shipped on what will go down as the first commercial shipment by an autonomous vehicle. Otto, Uber’s recently purchased self-driving trucking company, partnered with Anheuser-Busch to carry the shipment of Budweiser through Colorado without anyone behind the...

Nearly 9 out of 10 businesses unprepared for the industrial IoT

While a vast majority of business leaders expect the industrial IoT to become a reality very soon, only a minority are ready for it. The industrial Internet of Things (industrial IoT) or the fourth industrial revolution, defined by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as the...

LPWAN news: Senet partners with IoT water company, Ingenu expands

Senet partners with IoT-focused water company Senet, the North American provider of public, low-power, wide-area networks (LPWANs) for long range (LoRa)-based internet of things (IoT) applications, today announced Trimble will use its wireless technology to allow water utilities to remotely measure and monitor water, wastewater and...

Keeping Denmark’s milk cold with IoT monitoring solutions

Keeping things cool with IoT monitoring Every time the door to a milk cooler or freezer does not close properly, an alarm goes off on a computer screen in a control building in Odense, Denmark, thanks to an "internet of things" monitoring solution. AK-Centralen provides continually-supervised alarm...

LPWAN news: Senet partners with IoT water company, Ingenu expands

Senet partners with IoT-focused water company Senet, the North American provider of public, low-power, wide-area networks (LPWANs) for long range (LoRa)-based internet of things (IoT) applications, today announced Trimble will use its wireless technology to allow water utilities to remotely measure and monitor water, wastewater and...

Keeping Denmark’s milk cold with IoT monitoring solutions

Keeping things cool with IoT monitoring Every time the door to a milk cooler or freezer does not close properly, an alarm goes off on a computer screen in a control building in Odense, Denmark, thanks to an IoT monitoring solution. AK-Centralen provides continually-supervised alarm...

Workforce skills gaps, regulatory framework key 5G issues

HetNet Expo opens with emphasis on streamlined small cell and DAS deployments to support in-building wireless today, 5G tomorrow HOUSTON--The vision of 5G--ultra-dense networks and pervasive in-building wireless cellular connectivity--won’t be easy to realize. Massive network builds will require streamlined deployment models supported by realistic...

Workforce skills gaps, regulatory framework key 5G issues

HetNet Expo opens with emphasis on streamlined small cell and DAS deployments to support in-building wireless today, 5G tomorrow HOUSTON – The vision of "5G" – ultra-dense networks and pervasive in-building wireless cellular connectivity – won’t be easy to realize. Massive network builds will require...

IoT projects focused on agriculture take root in Brazil

SÃO PAULO – The "internet of things" is still taking shape in Brazil, though some pilot projects are being conducted in the country. At Futurecom 2016, companies showcased some IoT applications of connecting sensors to improve management in agriculture and to measure electricity consumption, for...

Reader Forum: Which 5G evolution is more important–radio or network?

Recent research from Gartner suggests that there are three possible trends that will drive the move to 5G: new services and applications, 4G network obsolescence, and cost disruption. While overall I tend to agree with their assessment, it left a few questions unanswered for...

Massive cyberattack reiterates IoT security concerns

A major distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Friday knocked out access to major websites including Netflix, Reddit, Spotify and Airbnb. As security experts have concluded, the attack was apparently carried out when bad actor(s) leveraged internet-connected devices including security cameras to overwhelm...

Orange Business Services rolls out IoT, data analytics offering

The solution offers IoT devices such as sensors, cameras and modules Orange Business Services, the business services arm of French telecommunications group Orange, launched its internet of things (IoT) and data analytics modular offer Datavenue globally. The company said that Datavenue will help multinational and French corporations seize the opportunities offered...

Telefonica launches big data services unit

Called Luca, the big data unit offers three lines of business Spanish telecommunications firm Telefonica launched a new big data services unit as part of the telco’s strategy to become a data-driven company. The new unit, dubbed Luca, will enable companies, public institutions and all kinds or...