Smart aquaculture – and the Mexican method (Reader Forum)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailWith populations in the developing world continuing to grow, the need to find new ways to satisfy increased demand for access to food has never been greater. In order to …
Ditching the high fibre diet: how a network-of-networks will help smart farming (Reader Forum)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe pressure food producers face to digitally transform is mounting. With a rapidly growing population, farms find themselves at a decisive moment in their ability to continue to produce enough …
Nokia, TIM join agri-tech alliance to bring automation and intel to farmers in Brazil
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailFinnish vendor Nokia and Italian operator Telecom Italia have joined with six international agri-tech firms on a smart agriculture initiative, ConectarAGRO, that seeks to bring connectivity, automation and intelligence to …
New “deep-tech” VC fund goes all-in for digital change, security and… cowgorithms
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNew seed-stage private equity firm Ubiquity Ventures has made its first six investments in start-ups. Each of the companies selected for funding are in the industrial transformation or tech security …
Kerlink, IoT America target rural areas in the US with new IoT partnership
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailIoT America designs solutions for precision agriculture, livestock management and infrastructure monitoring French internet of things (IoT) specialist Kerlink and Internet of Things America (IoT America), a U.S. company dedicated to deploying …
Vodafone Idea, Genus Power to carry out NB-IoT PoC in India
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail Vodafone Idea said it is already testing automatic metering infrastructure at Genus’s R&D facility in Jaipur Vodafone Idea Business Services, the enterprise arm of Indian carrier Vodafone Idea, …
Ericsson maps cellular IoT to 5G, with new categories and solutions
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailEricsson has redefined its portfolio and vision for cellular IoT technologies in four categories, including two new segments for Broadband IoT and Industrial Automation IoT. It said the objective of …
10m factories, 3m warehouses, 50k mines – Nokia counts out its new industrial targets
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNokia’s biggest opportunity, it explains, is to go beyond its traditional customer base to serve industrial markets directly, with private networking solutions. The total market for private LTE, and later …
‘No future Elon Musks in IoT’, ‘no future in IoT without LoRaWAN’ – team LoRa plots next moves
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThis week, 1,500 business types from every-sized enterprise in the burgeoning IoT space will descend on Amsterdam in The Netherlands to chat LoRaWAN, the low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking technology that …
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., …
