
‘No future Elon Musks in IoT’, ‘no future in IoT without LoRaWAN’ – team LoRa plots next moves
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThis week, 1,500 business types from every-sized enterprise in the burgeoning IoT space will descend on Amsterdam in The Netherlands to chat LoRaWAN, the low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking technology that …

“Put IT and OT in the same room, have them talk about ‘real time’” – and other Airbus rules for Industry 4.0
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailFor European aerospace company Airbus, the introduction of new digital tools into factory processes must be assured. New technology has to work straight away, and intuitively. It should also deliver …

C Spire targets partnerships to boost precision agriculture business
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe carrier carried out a precision agriculture trial in Mississippi last year as part of the firm’s Tech Movement initiative Regional carrier C Spire, which is headquartered in Ridgeland, Miss., …

AWS open-sources SageMaker Neo code for training machine learning in edge devices
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAWS has launched a new open source machine learning project, Neo-AI, which makes the code for its key SageMaker Neo machine learning service available to developers for the first time. …

Arm, AT&T, Ericsson, HPE et al join new Linux group to bring order to edge IoT chaos
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe Linux Foundation has started a new umbrella organisation, LF Edge, to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing that is independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. …

Amazon joins Zigbee board to push open standards in smart home, smart city
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAmazon is to take a seat on the Zigbee Alliance board of directors. The Zigbee Alliance said the decision shows the IoT market is convening around its technology as a …

“A green earth and blue ocean is a growth generator,” Japanese PM tells Davos
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailJapanese prime minister Shinzo Abe told the World Economic Forum in Davos this week his country has been revitalised by recent economic policy, and will exploit data to create a …

“Yes, the driller has to drill, but it also has to compute” – and other Airbus rules for Industry 4.0
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNote, this was originally intended to be a two part series covering Airbus’ four essential lessons for Industry 4.0. Here, we are inserting another entry and another lesson, of sorts, …

World Economic Forum’s new Industry 4.0 policy bureau puts focus on AI, blockchain
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailMembership of the World Economic Forum’s fledgling Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network (Centre Network) has swelled to over 100, with five nations and a number of international organisations …

Siemens and SAP join Industry 4.0 initiative to move enterprises out of digital ‘pilot trap’
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailA new industrial consortium including SAP and Siemens has convened to help industrial organisations go beyond the ‘pilot trap’ with their Industry 4.0 deployments. The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) …