A review of long-range wireless power technologies–the future is now (Reader Forum)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailWireless technologies have been popular with consumers for several decades now (think Wi-Fi, cordless phones, etc.). The proliferation of smart devices has only fed the need for wireless advances, which …
LoRa Alliance drives LoRaWAN usage in utility meters with closer DLMS integration
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe LoRa Alliance and the DLMS User Association (DLMS UA) have signed a liaison agreement to define a new DLMS communication profile for LPWAN technologies such as LoRaWAN. The two …
London to use sensor-equipped school backpacks to monitor air quality
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail The trial stipulates that 250 children will carry the sensors during a week London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan launched an air quality monitoring trial in which 250 children attending …
Ameren Missouri launches smart energy plan
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail As part of the $5.3 billion initiative, the company aims to add more than 800,000 smart electric meters through 2023 Utility provider Ameren Missouri announced the company’s Smart …
State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 4): Buying digital change
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThis article is the fourth instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The …
IBM and partners use Blockchain, IoT to combat drought in California
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailIBM , TFT and SweetSense are piloting technologies to accurately monitor and track groundwater use in Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta The Freshwater Trust (TFT), together with IBM Research and …
Bell, IBM collaborate in smart city program in Canada
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail The city of Markham is partnering with Bell to provide an advance solution featuring interconnected IoT applications The Canadian city of Markham has launched its smart city accelerator …
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., …
“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, …
London intros major IoT project to clean up city’s “filthy air”, tackle “public health crisis”
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailA major new internet of things (IoT) project has launched in London to investigate improve the city’s toxic air. The initiative, Breathe London, claims “the world’s most advanced and comprehensive …
