BROWSING: Sensors

Swedish 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 company Geely, has been working with Luminar already on development and testing of LiDAR technology,...

Now 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 sorts of challenges IT organizations have overcome to get any truly remote management operational. Now...

The 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 a collaboration on an IoT solution designed to accelerate smart city projects focused on advanced...

Eleven-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 platform that offers interface units which enable wireless LoRaWAN connectivity for currently deployed but unconnected smart...

  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 the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) have designed a fleet of autonomous boats which could...

Orange 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 solution will help the Russian firm to optimize fuel consumption, analyzing weather and vessel position...

The choice between licensed and unlicensed low-power wide-area (LPWA) connectivity technologies is about use cases, concurred a panel of ‘internet of things’ (IoT) operators at LPWA World in London this week. But if both technologies fit, as they do in most cases, the choice...

AT&T and Honeywell announced they are collaborating to deliver internet of things (IoT) technology to aircraft and freight solutions in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa and Australia. AT&T said its global connectivity and IoT solutions combined with Honeywell’s technology offerings will help...

  The study highlighted that over 1 million farmers in the country have expressed interest in the implementation of IoT tools   Internet of Things (IoT) solutions are already being used by nearly 250,000 farmers across the United States, according to a recent study by agricultural technology...

Cisco appears to have found its rhythm in the enterprise IoT space by integrating communications technologies and data streams in its Kinetic platform for smart factories and smart cities. Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Bryan Tantzen, in charge of its manufacturing IoT business,...

  Data from the sensors is sent to Huawei's OceanConnect IoT platform through Telefonica’s network   Huawei, Telefónica Germany, and IoT provider Q-loud have jointly launched a smart meter proof-of-concept (POC) based on NB-IoT technology for Munich airport. The partners said that insufficient wireless signals in buildings and...

Telia says site sensors are connected to NB-IoT and LTE-M networks   Nordic operator Telia Norway has partnered with Norwegian firm Effera to develop digitalization solutions for the construction industry. The two partners said the new solutions will allow the efficient running of construction sites, with controls...

Integrated LoRa devices and RF tech make up smart water platform in California-based Semtech Corporation, a supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, announced that IoTsens, an Internet of Things solutions and services firm, has integrated LoRa devices and wireless radio frequency technology in...

Siemens said the digitization project will be fully completed by 2034   German technology powerhouse Siemens has won a contract worth a total of 800 million euros ($990 million) to digitize Norway’s entire railroad network. As part of the contract, the company will equip around 4,200 kilometers...

Leaders said projects based on CityVerve smart city incubator The Manchester City Council has selected three companies to carry out smart city initiative trials across the U.K. city. The new trial projects are being launched through CityVerve, which is Manchester’s smart cities demonstration platform. The...

The Nordic telecom group also joined a smart city initiative in Sweden to provide capabilities to test 5G and IoT Nordic telecommunications group Telia has launched a new smart traffic and urban planning solution. The service provider said the new tool identifies the movement patterns...

Goal is to align consumer and enterprise products to tell "IoT story of Google" Former Samsung CTO Injong Rhee, who joined the Korean tech giant in 2011, announced in a LinkedIn post that he has taken on the new role of entrepreneur-in-residence to lead Alphabet...

The sensors will be connected via NB-IoT and will allow users to see available parking spaces via an app German operator Deutsche Telekom started to install a new network of sensors on parking spaces in downtown Hamburg, in Germany. The telco said that these sensors will...

The smart factory, located in Sunnyvale, California, features fully automated production line Quanergy, a provider of solid state LiDAR sensors and smart sensing solutions has recently opened a smart factory in California to mass produce solid state 3D LiDAR sensors. Quanergy’s new smart factory, located in...

The processed meats producer implemented Cisco’s solutions at its new smart manufacturing facility in Burgos Campofrío Food Group, a Spanish producer of branded processed meats, is taking advantage of the smart manufacturing capabilities of its new production plant in Burgos, in Northern Spain. With a gross...

The Korean auto parts maker also aims to sell smart manufacturing technology to local and foreign auto parts makers in the future South Korean auto parts maker Hyundai Wia Corp, part of the Hyundai Motor Group, announced plans to implement smart manufacturing solutions in order...

The new generation of mobility called the Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved very quickly to become a ‘super brand’ covering not only mobility but smart cities, wireless meter reading and a host of other vertical market segments. IoT started as a simple, focused market...

The Canadian city aims to trial different smart traffic technologies during 12 months in order to replace its current traffic system The city of Toronto, in Canada, announced the launch of two smart traffic signal pilot projects which will be able to independently adjust to...

The French city has deployed a smart parking solution with Libelium’s technology while the U.S city has launched a smart parking app The smart parking industry continues to grow and has emerged as a major internet of things (IoT) use case that falls under the...