
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 …

Going wireless improves data acquisition in harsh environments
Environments too harsh for wires OneProd, producers of predictive maintenance monitoring equipment aimed at preventing unexpected breakdowns in industrial production tools, looked to deploy a wireless data acquisition system that …

Lasers track ship movement for traffic monitoring in the Netherlands canals
Controlling the liquid streets of the Netherlands In the Netherlands, waterways, small inland harbors and canals are used by citizens in their daily routines. Each city has a water infrastructure with …

Bosch gives ThyssenKrupp visibility into rules on steel grade production
Bosch provides business rules management to ThyssenKrupp factory ThyssenKrupp, a German conglomerate corporation, found that it’s leading steel division needed to replace the models it used to manage the production …

How IoT is expected to transform the insurance industry
Insurance companies looking to cut costs, improve business practices and better assess clients’ risk levels, will increasingly invest in the internet of things, according to Business Insider. Some auto and health …

Ingenu deploys LPWA IoT network in South Africa
U.S.-based Ingenu has deployed a LPWA IoT network in South Africa, and announced a new smart city platform. Ingenu announced the deployment of a Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) Internet …

Health care IoT: reducing heart disease readmission
Health care provider partners with ThingWorx for machine learning An unnamed regionally-managed health care provider partnered with ThingWorx’s machine learning platform to detect patterns in data that would lead to …

SenseAware is FedEx’s IoT response to supply chain optimization
Chris Swearingen, manager of SenseAware at FedEx, gave a talk titled How Innovations in Manufacturing and Supply Chain are Redefining Mobility and Reshaping the Globe, at Bosch Connected World in Chicago. He spoke …

VimpelCom selects Cisco Jasper platform to launch IoT services
New services will include smart metering and fleet management, among others European telecoms operator VimpelCom selected Cisco Japser to enter the Internet of Things (IoT) business. The Amsterdam-based telco will …

5G deployment worth $127 billion per year to EU countries
A new European Commission-supported study details the expected costs and benefits of 5G deployment in the European Union’s 28 member states. The cost of 5G deployment in the European Union’s …