NY, LA to lead smart city charge, as global market for civic tech nears $1bn by 2023
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThe global market for smart city information and communications technologies will grow by 15.8 per cent per year on average over the next five years, reaching $994.6 million by 2023. …
Pharma, steel and tyres: Three ‘predictive quality’ use cases from Hitachi
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailHitachi sets about the task of industrial transformation with its customers by posing three simple, but very pointed, questions. “What if you could predict and prevent production downtime? What if …
Retro-fits, recycling and data: How Stockholm became Europe’s greenest smart city
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailStockholm is a ‘lighthouse city’, alongside Cologne and Barcelona, in the European Commission’s GrowSmarter project, one of three to receive support in the first ‘Smart Cities and Communities’ (SCC1) call under the Horizon …
Orange launches AI acceleration program in Silicon Valley
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThe new platform, dubbed Orange Fab, was launched in partnership with a group of investors and companies French telecommunication group Orange has launched Orange Fab, a Silicon Valley acceleration …
Car maker Volvo takes stake in California autonomous driving start-up
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailSwedish car-maker Volvo has taken a stake in US start-up Luminar, based in California and Florida, to develop sensor technology for autonomous vehicles. Volvo Cars, a subsidiary of Chinese automotive …
Remote management: What good is Big Data if you can’t get it? (Reader Forum)
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailNow that I spend a lot of my time thinking about how to help companies get their networks to do what their businesses want them to do, I realize what …
Comcast launches IoT solution for water utilities via new partnership
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThe new IoT-based solution combines Comcast’s IoT service machine with Neptune LoRa-enabled water meters Comcast’s internet of things service, machineQ, and U.S water technology company, Neptune Technology Group, have announced …
Canadian firm launches LoRaWAN wireless solutions for smart city, enterprise IoT apps
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailEleven-x said the new solutions allow existing sensors to provide real-time data collection and monitoring Eleven-x, a Canadian firm operating a nationwide public low-power network, has launched a new …
MIT researchers design fleet of autonomous boats
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail The driverless boat has been already tested in Amsterdam’s canals in 2016 Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Senseable City Lab in …
Orange Business Solutions deploys IoT fuel monitoring for Russian fishing fleet
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailOrange Business Services, the business-to-business branch of French telecom group Orange, is providing Russian fishing fleet operator Dobroflot with an internet of things (IoT) solution for fuel monitoring. The IoT-based …
