BROWSING: Platforms

AT&T has joined Qualcomm’s smart cities accelerator programme, which now counts almost 70 members and met for the first time in San Diego last week. The initiative has been convened as a collaboration vehicle, to connect cities, municipalities, government agencies and enterprises with end-to-end smart...

Google-backed analytics provider Canvass Analytics has signed with the two “largest industrial automation companies” to resell its takeaway AI solution for industrial companies.  The Toronto-based firm, founded in 2016, is focused on advanced analytics for optimising assets, processes, and energy usage in industrial firms. Its...

The operational technology (OT) industry moved to shore up its position as the arbiter of industrial change at PI World 2019 in Sweden today by declaring that new-fangled digital technologies like artificial intelligence cannot be so easily sold into the industrial set by opportunistic...

German industrial giant Siemens has announced it will acquire UK based Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), a supplier of advanced data modelling software for process industries, including the chemicals, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food and beverage manufacturing. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter;...

Digital transformation of the global maritime freight industry is gathering pace. A new report claims digital change in the shipping industry will expand in value-terms by around 10 per cent per year in the period to 2027, reaching about $38.4 billion in total. Danish...

Hats off to the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), which continues to publish comprehensive and constructive guides on how to design, deploy, and manage digital change systems in highly individualistic ‘vertical’ sectors, as part of this broader Industrie 4.0 concept. Its recent publication, Managing and Assessing...

The enterprise IoT sector has moved up a gear, out of the lab and onto the ‘shop floor’, because the various parties involved have hit upon a way to collaborate on digital-change solutions. Perhaps the remarkable aspect of this is that it has taken...

Germany-based IT and IoT integration company Software AG is looking to replicate its ADAMOS alliance of machine manufacturers in other industrial domains. It wants to hone its digital-change technologies at the ‘coal-face’ of the markets they are designed for, in collaboration with the companies...

Arm has launched an updated version of its Pelion IoT connectivity management platform for mobile network operators. The 2.0 version will help operators to offer a simplified device management tool, featuring higher levels of automation, to enterprises bringing online large numbers of IoT devices...

Asia Pacific accounted for 42 per cent of the total installed base of smart water meters in 2018; its share will rise in the coming years as water utilities in China, India, Japan, and South Korea move from trials to large scale deployments, starting...

Old familiars Hitachi, PTC, and Software AG ranked top again among industrial IoT (IIoT) platforms in Gartner’s latest ‘Magic Quadrant’ assessment of the sector. But Software AG swapped places with PTC at the summit, this time, and Hitachi followed behind this pair.These three ranked...

Walgreens, one of the largest drugstore chains in the U.S. has selected Theatro, a provider of voice-controlled mobile platform as a service for the hourly workforce. Under the terms of the contract, Walgreens is implementing Theatro’s enterprise-wide solution at all of its 9,560 stores, with the first...

IoT provider Ingenu has relaunched with a ‘2.0’ message about the suitability of its low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology for sundry industrial sectors, with a platform-as-a-service offer and a number of contract wins in the Asia Pacific region. The San Diego based company has also...

Sprint’s Curiosity IoT is enabling connectivity, over-the-air device management and intelligent data capabilities for Dynamics' Wallet Card, which claims to be the world's first connected payment card. Already adopted by major global financial institutions, the Wallet Card will operate with seamless connectivity through Curiosity IoT, remote device management...

  Xfinity Communities, a unit of Comcast, and?Kass Management Services, a Chicago-based rental and commercial property and condominium association management company, announced the launch of the commercial deployment of the Xfinity Communities? Smart Communities platform at two Kass-operated, multifamily rental properties in Chicago Through the partnership,...

German telco Deutsche Telekom and Software AG have announced a strategic partnership to deliver IoT services on a global scale. Under the terms of the deal, Deutsche Telekom and its enterprise customer unit T-Systems will expand their "Cloud of Things" offering, using Software AG’s...

One key element that was skirted around in Enterprise IoT Insights’ recent report on digital change in the power sector: the nitty-gritty of data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). We referenced these as key disciplines – as the real art of digital change, in...

Boston-based tech firm PTC announced that Lufthansa Technik Group has selected the Windchill Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the ThingWorx Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platforms as the core technology to digitally transform its product development and engineering processes. PTC said that the Windchill platform will serve as the engineering...

HP and Siemens have combined to offer an “integrated” additive manufacturing solution for manufacturing companies, with the likes of VW and Jaguar Land Rover in the wings. The initiative, drawing on Siemens’ digital factory offer and HP’s additive printing systems, notably its new Jet Fusion...

Samsung and Telensa are to collaborate on smart city projects around streetlighting and data governance, with work slated in South Korea, followed by wider deployments across Asia Pacific and in the United States. The pair will also bring Samsung’s knowhow in 5G, artificial intelligence...

UK smart street-lighting firm Telensa has appointed Belfast-based digital services provider Kainos as lead partner in the ramp-up and rollout of its Urban Data Project to additional smart cities. The Urban Data Project initiative launched in Cambridge, in the UK, in February, and brings...

Technology that was designed for optimising data centres is being applied to power distribution in airports and hospitals. Canadian infrastructure management firm Maya Heat Transfer Technologies (HTT) has repackaged its data centre platform, running on OSIsoft’s data management engine, for new verticals. Maya HTT,...

Two schools in Houston will pilot an internet of things (IoT)-enabled platform called ActiveShield to improve public safety. The IoT safe-spaces technology created by Insight Enterprises (NSIT) integrates with a building safety platform from BeSafe Technologies to facilitate critical, real-time information sharing during a crisis. Insight’s Safe...

German automotive manufacturer Volkswagen will start construction of its own 5G mobile networks in 122 factories in Germany in 2020, according to a report in Wirtschaftswoche, the German business magazine. Volkswagen, the largest automaker by worldwide sales, has issued a tender to network equipment vendors....