
Safer, smarter workplaces – three ways to empower facilities with AI (Reader Forum)
Artificial intelligence is reshaping how businesses view and use their workspaces. While employees have begun returning on-site, concerns about health and safety remain high. As a result, real-time workspace-utilization insights …

Industry loves Industry 4.0; it’s just not very good at showing it – says Verizon
MWC, Barcelona: The industrial sector loves the idea of digital change, says Verizon, and private 5G as a platform for it, but it’s just not very good at showing it. …

California-based Aeris unveils its new IoT network
Global Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider Aeris announced the next generation of its IoT network. In a release, the company said that the new offering includes a suite …

Just what are you up to, Mr Hyperscaler? Unpacking AWS’s private 5G thunderbolt
That headline; is it a thunderbolt, really, this private 5G package from Amazon Web Services (AWS)? No, because nothing in it is a surprise. We know AWS is serious about …

Overcoming IoT security threats from the start (Reader Forum)
Here’s the sobering reality: across the Internet of Things (IoT), security has been overlooked. An amazing 1.51 billion IoT devices were breached in the first six months of 2021, an …

From cost to value – shifting the economics of IoT security (Reader Forum)
Insecurity affects us all, whether we own several smart home devices, hundreds of connected cameras, or thousands of industrial sensors. In fact, a report by Cybersecurity Ventures estimates that cybercrime …

Investment in industrial IoT to trump cloud, security, analytics in next three years
New research from UK satellite company Inmarsat says IoT is set to overtake cloud computing as the primary Industry 4.0 technology, with enterprise IT investments in industrial IoT to trump …

Siemens targets smart buildings, smart factories with Wattsense buy, Zscaler tieup
Siemens has bought French startup Wattsense, a hardware and software company offering a plug-and-play IoT management system for small and mid-size buildings, including schools, offices, warehouses and retail. Meanwhile, it …

Cybersecurity and patent abuse hold back industrial IoT’s true potential (Reader Forum)
Between device hijacking, data breaches, and intellectual property theft, there are many known risks associated with a cybersecurity compromise in internet of things (IoT) applications. At the same time, many …

Edzcom partners on mission-critical private 5G for emergency services, heavy industry
Finnish industrial networking specialist Edzcom is working with France-based communications software provider Streamwide to bring higher-grade security to mission critical private LTE and 5G networks. It said the partnership will …