BROWSING: Smart Cities

Organizations will move IoT projects from proof-of-concept to proof-of-value Ramya Ravichandar, vice president of product management, FogHorn: “During proof-of-concept deployments in the last few years, many organizations have confirmed the benefits that IoT can bring to a wide variety of industries – and IoT spending is...

Steve Szabo, head of global products and solutions for IoT, Verizon Business: "Digital transformation is a hot topic, but it is not a new topic. And it is, itself, transforming. "In 2000, the degree to which a company could consider itself on a path to digital...

Semtech parterning with local government on LoRaWAN Semtech Corporation, a supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced that the Metropolitan Government of Seoul, in South Korea plans to deploy a new enterprise-grade citywide network for Internet of Things (IoT) applications based...

Note, this is an excerpt from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – co-creation, co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. Go here for the full report (free to download). The industry must go from proving technology...

Karl Bream, head of strategy and portfolio, Nokia Enterprise “The market is ripe as all sectors of the global economy are embracing digitalization and are beginning to tap into Industry 4.0 and automation. We are starting to see major technology shifts in areas such as...

Michael Kanellos, IoT analyst, OSIsoft: 1. IoT declares victory “IoT projects are often portrayed as the quickest way to get yourself fired with, allegedly, ‘close to three fourths’ of IoT projects failing. In reality, success is the norm. “Gartner’s Eric Goodness conducted a poll that 57 per...

Ericsson and Microsoft are pooling their cloud-based connectivity management and compute-and-analytics platforms, respectively, for connected vehicles. Ericsson will build its Connected Vehicle Cloud, which it claims connects around 10 per cent of the connected vehicle market, on top of the Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform (MCVP),...

French IoT firm Kerlink and Dutch systems integrator MCS have deployed a private LoRaWAN network at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. The network offers coverage in all public areas, including arrival and departure halls, lounges, piers, and shopping area. It also provides coverage in non-public areas...

UK smart lighting firm Telensa and Thailand-based lighting manufacturer LIGMAN have struck a deal to combine their offers in the Asia Pacific market. The pair will offer LED luminaires and wireless controls as a combined offer in the region. The deal – bringing intelligent control...

Phil Skipper, global head of IoT business development, Vodafone: “The key question is what will rise and fall in 2020, in terms of digital transformation for industry. At the end of 2019, low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies, mobile private networks, and mobile edge computing are all...

Peder Rand, product manager for cellular IoT, Nordic Semiconductor: “At the start of 2019 the only thing operating on cellular networks around the globe were mobile phones, plus a few hundred million 2G-based devices. Security alarms are an example of these, where cellular was used...

Alejandro Cadenas, IoT strategy manager, Telefónica: “Deployment of private networks is giving way to a radical change in industries, especially suited for campus-type industrial deployments like mines, ports, airports or manufacturing plants. Thanks to this connectivity technology, companies will work faster, safer and in a...

Nokia has won a tender with German rail company Deutsche Bahn to test and deliver standalone 5G for autonomous trains and rail operations. It will be the first time a standalone 5G system has been used for rail automation, said Nokia. The project, based in...

Nokia has said it is building a “strategic partnership ecosystem” to bring private LTE and 5G networks to industrial and government customers in Japan.  Spectrum for local LTE and 5G will be released in Japan at the end of 2019 for enterprise use. Nokia expects...

Liberty Lake based IoT provider Itron has signed a contract with Louisville Water Company, in Louisville, Kentucky, to replace around 280,000 water meters. Itron will install smart meters in their place, alongside a data management platform. It said the meters capture and communicate data around...

Firstly, that headline: too much? Perhaps, but let us make the case – and draw breath, for this may take some time. Industrial 5G is the only version of 5G that should be considered to be 'game-changing'. It is a phrase that is overused,...

Fingrid, Finland’s national transmission system operator, has appointed Nokia to build an IP/MPLS network to support the digital transformation of its national electrical grid.  Fingrid will use the network to operate 120 high-voltage substations and control 14,600 kilometres of power transmission across the country. The...

Japan’s Softbank will plough artificial intelligence (AI) and internet-of-things (IoT) technologies into a burgeoning smart city project in Indonesia, after striking a deal with Jakarta-based conglomerate Lippo Group. The deal, with the Indonesian firm’s real-estate division PT Lippo Karawaci (LPKR), focuses on Lippo Village in...

US-based Cisco Systems teamed up with eight Taiwanese partners to open a demonstration center for smart city applications and products in Taiwan, according to local publication DigiTimes.com. The US networking specialist is seeking to join forces with the Taoyuan City Government, Taoyuan Aerotropolis and Asia Silicon...

The Australian government is to use drones and analytics to monitor the decommissioning and revegetation of mining sites in the north of the country. The department for the environment and energy in Australia has appointed UK-based analytics firm Maestrano Group to equip drones with video...

Stephen Mellor picks up where he left off, and where we left him: the challenge with industrial IoT to gain widespread adoption is as much to do with interpretation as with deployment. Different industrial disciplines have different demands, even if they sometimes appear the...

Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, has issued an executive order to hire a new ‘algorithms management and policy officer’ to bring transparency and order to the city’s use of data and analytics tools.  The move comes after the city convened a...

Telefónica has revealed a five-point reinvention plan to set it for “the next 100 years”. The strategy leans heavily into the digital transformation of industry and society, and sees the Spanish operator establish a brand new digital change unit, called Telefónica Tech, which it...

Made in Germany, commercialised in Canada, sold everywhere on the planet: that's the recipe to make low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking, the backbone connectivity technology in the IoT space, finally deliver on its promise of industrial change on a massive scale. So says BehrTech, the Canadian...