BROWSING: Sensors

Motor company Ford is using body tracking technology on the production line at its engine assembly plant in Valenica, Spain. It is the same technology professional sports people use to perfect their techniques and replicate moves for video games. Employees at Ford’s plant in Valencia...

A study by the German Academy of Science and Engineering, known as Acatech, provides the most sophisticated blueprint yet for smart manufacturing, and a methodology for companies to rate their industrial transformation. Acatech's Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index was written for manufacturing companies, specifically, but...

Itron said it is seeing a high level of interest from customers for the firm’s new smart gas and water meters   U.S. firm Itron, which focuses on technology solutions for energy and water water resource management, is on track to complete the full integration of...

Itron said the deployment of sensors and software-as-a-service will allow the city of Pearland to improve delivery of water to the city’s 120,000 customers   U.S. firm Itron, a technology company that specializes in products and services for energy and water resource management, will install its...

In the first phase of its Air Map Korea project, the telco has installed monitors at 1,500 telecom sites Korean telecom operators KT has been using technologies such as the internet of things (IoT) and big data analytics to monitor and analyze air quality 24...

The city of Newcastle in the UK will procure a “technological partner” after the summer to set down the infrastructure to help it develop its connectivity and sensor capabilities and make it the “UK’s leading smart city,” it has said. Cisco appears to be...

In 2017, a natural gas leak was detected six kilometres off the coast of Nikiski in Alaska. The leak impinged on a critical habitat for endangered beluga whales. The Alaskan authorities sought ways to assess and manage the leakage, and its impact upon the...

  The demo of C-V2X direct communication technology utilized vehicles from multiple auto manufacturers The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), together with the BMW Group, Ford Motor Company, Groupe PSA  and Qualcomm Technologies, have carried out what 5GAA claims to be Europe’s first live demonstration of cellular...

In the final instalment in our industrial IoT trilogy with Hitachi, Greg Kinsey, in charge of the company's digital transformation business, says innovation is not available to pre-order and take-away, and the Japanese firm has set up like a Michelin-starred industrial consultancy to transform...

Singapore's industrial development agency JTC has appointed engineering group ST Engineering to build an open smart city platform for its green-field Punggol Digital District (PDD) project, a new tech hub in the north of the city-state, being constructed as a showcase for its Smart...

The problem with smart cities is no one wants to pay for them. That’s the challenge for Manchester, now, having just completed a ground-breaking two-year smart-city pilot, CityVerve, which appears to have much to recommend it, but nothing to prove it. CityVerve was designed...

New research by McKinsey Global Institute has evaluated the planet’s smartest cities on both their underlying infrastructure and their over-lying applications, and ranked them in order on both counts. Here, we consider the fist of these measures - the top 10 smart cities, globally,...

Taiwanese telco will deploy 5G base stations and smart sensors in streetlights and traffic signals   Taiwanese telecommunications firm Chunghwa Telecom signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Taipei city government for the development of smart city applications and internet of things (IoT) infrastructure in...

University students win a Thrive X prize for IoT beekeeping concept that helps beekeepers SALINAS, Calif. — A team of engineering students from Santa Clara University was honored by Thrive X at the recent Thrive AgTech demo day for their labor-saving beekeeping concept that uses the...

As we have seen already, through separate discussion of Hitachi’s approach to ‘predictive quality’ and ‘dynamic scheduling’, the digital transformation of industry is multi-faceted. There is a third way, apart from managing defects and bottlenecks, for industrial operatives to set about this change, the...

The market value for environmental gas sensors will be worth more than $3 billion by 2028, according to a new report from market research company IDTechEx. Most growth will come from internet-of-things (IoT) applications in smart cities, smart homes, as well as running on...

On January 16, 2017, the Arroyo del Medio river, north of Buenos Aires in Argentina, broke its banks, forcing three quarters of the village of La Emilia to evacuate their homes. This was after local authorities had already constructed retaining dikes to avoid flooding,...

San Jose-based ADLINK has said its MXE-110i industrial ‘internet-of-things’ (IIoT) gateway has been selected by Michelin and Softbank as part of the first tyre monitoring system to be deployed in Japan. Michelin’s cloud-based ‘tyre pressure monitoring system’ (TPMS) features sensors that monitor air pressure and...

There are three strands to industrial transformation, reckons Hitachi Vantara, the digital change unit of Japanese hardware and software maker Hitachi. The point is to eliminate, or at least manage and reduce, downtime, bottlenecks, and defects. Greg Kinsey, the firm’s vice president, wants to deal...

To understand visual fog computing, it is important to first understand fog computing. Let’s take a look at how the physical world connects to the cloud. Think of the physical world at the bottom of a pyramid, and the cloud as the top. At the...

The 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. A new report by BCC Research claims cities in North America will dominate, notably...

Hitachi 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 you could predict and prevent production bottlenecks? What if you could predict and prevent...

Stockholm 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 2020 funding stream, the biggest innovation fund in Europe, with €80 billion allocated through...

The 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 program designed to identify and support early-stage startups with focus on smart connectivity. The initiative is being...