BROWSING: Internet of Things (IoT)

Data analytics, the brain of IoT ATLANTA – Mike Gualtieri, principal analyst at Forrester, hosted a panel titled Five Essential Analytics for IoT Applications, at Teradata's PARTNERS 2016 conference in Atlanta. He listed five essential types of data analytics that must be performed on "internet of things" applications...

Human expectations for constant connectivity and better information are boosting industrial internet of things projects, according to Sherri McDaniel, president of Atek Access Technologies. "I think we're at an interesting time as human beings," McDaniel said. "We now expect to be connected all the time,...

Data analytics, the brain of IoT Mike Gualtieri, principal analyst at Forrester, hosted a panel titled Five Essential Analytics for IoT Applications, at Teradata's PARTNERS 2016 conference in Atlanta, Georgia. He listed five essential types of data analytics that must be performed on IoT applications on...

Teradata analytics easily transferable to leading clouds Teradata today announced Teradata Everywhere at its PARTNERS 2016 conference in Atlanta. Teradata Everywhere brings the massively parallel processing analytics database to multiple public clouds, managed cloud and on-premises environments including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Teradata Managed...

Cities across the world face significant challenges stemming from urbanization, demographic change, changing lifestyles and climate change. These challenges, which have ushered in a focus on smart cities and enabling technologies, are illustrated in the UN-Habitat’s World Cities Report for 2016: Urbanization: The urban...

Teradata analytics easily transferable to leading clouds Teradata today announced Teradata Everywhere at its PARTNERS 2016 conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Teradata Everywhere brings the massively parallel processing (MPP) analytics database to multiple public clouds, managed cloud and on-premises environments including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure,...

Japanese operator Softbank will deploy IoT networks using multiple LPWAN technologies, starting with LoRaWAN. Low power wide area network (LPWAN) technology LoRaWAN for IoT networks continues to gain ground as yet another carrier, Japanese Softbank, announced plans to deploy the technology. LoRaWAN supporters already include...

What is the internet of nanoscale things? Nanoscale technology is enabling the development of devices as small as one to a few hundred nanometers (10^-9 meters). To give a sense of scale, a strand of human DNA is roughly 2.5 nanometers in diameter. At this scale, a...

Leading train producer uses big data Train operators are expected to never be late, having acute service and availability targets to meet. To fulfill those requirements, an efficient maintenance program is important, and data-enabled functionality is a must, according to Siemens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv5lr57Vzro Reactive maintenance, as well as...

The alliance includes internet of things players, corporations and government An alliance of internet of things (IoT) industry players, corporations and government, has officially launched Hypercat Australia as a technology standard to support the development of smart cities. Hypercat is a U.K.-developed alliance and standard that...

What is the internet of nanoscale things? Nanoscale technology is enabling the development of devices as small as one to a few hundred nanometers (10^-9 meters). To give a sense of scale, a strand of human DNA is roughly 2.5 nanometers in diameter.  At this scale, a...

Leading train producer uses big data Train operators are expected to never be late, having acute service and availability targets to meet. To fulfill those requirements, an efficient maintenance program is important, and data-enabled functionality is a must, according to Siemens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv5lr57Vzro Reactive maintenance, as well as...

Data-driven, connected diabetes management is the focus of a new joint venture between Alphabet’s subsidiary Verily Life Sciences and French pharmaceutical company Sanofi. Developing a comprehensive, data-driven, connected diabetes management platform will be the goal of Onduo, the joint digital healthcare company formed by French...

Saving money and creating a connected beer center Del Papa is a beer distribution company founded more than a century ago, and the company today distributes 10 million cases of beer annually from 30 suppliers. More than 375 employees work at their headquarters in Texas City,...

SoftBank will initially offer Massive MIMO technology in 43 cities across Japan Japanese telecommunications operator SoftBank officially launched its “5G Project”, local press reported, and will initially launch commercial Massive MIMO technology to enhance network capacity. SoftBank said that it will launch commercial services through 100 base...

What is upstream oil and gas? The upstream oil and gas sector, focused on exploration and production (E&P), includes searching for potential underground or underwater crude oil and natural gas fields, drilling exploratory wells and subsequently drilling and operating the wells that recover and bring crude oil and/or raw...

An industrial IoT automation standard may be within reach as three global automation standard leaders have started working together to advance the industrial IoT. Realizing the full potential of the industrial IoT will require interoperability between devices and machines that today use different protocols. Forget...

Smart trains and the connected railway The industrial "internet of things" has had a major impact on the transportation industry, with the advent of autonomous vehicles and improved cargo management. One area that has seen less coverage is the connected railway. The fact that trains...

Increasing health care demands calls for a connected solution Sysmex, a manufacturer of blood and urinalysis medical equipment, teamed with Thingworx to connect its health care products and bring added services to its offerings, according to a case study provided by Thingworx. The healthcare equipment manufacturer sells...

Berlin demo is part of a 5G field trial initiated by the German Senate German telecommunications group Deutsche Telekom and Finnish vendor Nokia carried out a demonstration of 5G ultra mobile broadband capabilities in Berlin Olympia stadium. The demo is part of the 5G Test Field...

Smart trains and the connected railway The industrial internet of things has had a major impact on the transportation industry, with the advent of autonomous vehicles and improved cargo management. One area that has seen less coverage is the connected railway. The fact that trains...

Increasing healthcare demands call for a connected solution Sysmex, manufacturer of blood and urinalysis medical equipment, teamed with Thingworx to connect its healthcare products and bring added services to its offerings, according to a case study provided by Thingworx. The healthcare equipment manufacturer sells to 48 companies...

LPWAN leaders find partners for new modules, added security Ingenu, a low-power wide-area network provider, and u‑blox, a company that specializes in wireless and positioning of modules and chips, today announced a partnership that will enable the "next generation" of Ingenu’s Random Phase Multiple Access technology to serve global...

Connected health care You have probably used them before: the health care devices that look like bottomless cup holders you put your arm through to check blood pressure metrics at a pharmacy or even the grocery store. One of those machines, with the help of Verizon Wireless's...