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 …
Hexagon strengthens smart factory strategy via acquisition
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail The Swedish company acquired Etalon, a German provider of equipment calibration solutions Swedish digital solutions company Hexagon has boosted its smart factory capabilities via the acquisition of Etalon, …
Cubic acquires Gridsmart Technologies to expand its smart traffic portfolio
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail Cubic paid nearly $87 million in cash to acquire Gridsmart U.S company Cubic has announced the acquisition of Gridsmart Technologies for approximately $87 million in cash. Gridsmart’s system tracks …
AT&T intros smart lights in Vegas, 5G for Dallas Cowboys, $250k for IoT startups
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailLas Vegas is working with network operator AT&T and IoT provider Ubicquia to trial a new smart street-lighting solution that makes use of existing lighting infrastructure. In a flurry of …
Water utilities and LPWA networks to bring new growth in smart meter market
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailGrowth in smart meter shipments by water utilities during the next decade, alongside higher sales of smart gas meters, will offset a decline in smart electricity meters, which have underpinned …
