NY, LA to lead smart city charge, as global market for civic tech nears $1bn by 2023
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe 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. …
Drugs, steel and tyres: Three ‘predictive quality’ use cases from Hitachi
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailHitachi 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 city
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailStockholm 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
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe 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
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailSwedish 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)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNow 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
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe 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
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailEleven-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
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail 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
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailOrange 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 …
