5G and MEC on the WING, as Nokia fuels carriers’ global Industry 4.0 push
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNokia’s IoT roaming service, WING, now includes support for 5G networking and edge computing, as the Finnish vendor seeks to help mobile operators drive industrial change in global markets. Its …
Nokia’s edge-based machine vision AI is put through its paces at Japanese rail crossing
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailJapan-based train company and railway operator Odakyu Electric Railway is trialling machine vision technology from Nokia to improve safety at rail crossings. The firm has started testing at the Tamagawa …
On-device AI is “new normal” – Arm claims mega-jump in edge AI with new chip combo
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailOn-device AI on minuscule IoT units will be the “new normal”, said UK-based Arm, as it unveiled a 480-times boost in edge processing performance with two new chip designs, pairing …
HPE opens IoT development centre in India as part of $500m investment
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailHewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has opened a new ‘customer experience centre’ in Bangalore (Bengaluru), in India, to offer IoT solutions to customers and partners from across industries. The facility, on …
Verizon and HERE join 5G, edge, mapping in new traffic collision avoidance system
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailUS carrier Verizon and Dutch mapping company HERE are pairing 5G connectivity and multi-access edge computing (MEC) with location data and autonomous vehicle knowhow as part of a co-innovation exercise …
FogHorn on 2020: The year edge-AI helps industry finally make sense of ‘things’
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailOrganizations 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 …
ABI on 2020: 5G wearables, self-driving trucks, yadda yadda – what won’t happen in 2020
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAnalyst house ABI Research has pulled together its big guns in each vertical sector to consider how technologywill change things in 2020 – or, rather, how it won’t. Some seasonal …
Intel sinks $2bn on Israeli deep learning firm to boost cloud and edge AI portfolio
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailIntel has acquired Habana Labs, an Israel-based developer of programmable deep learning accelerators for data centres, for around $2 billion. The purchase will spur Intel’s efforts to bring increasingly advanced …
Siemens to buy US edge software startup Pixeom to expand digital factory offer
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailGermany industrial giant Siemens has announced a deal to acquire US startup Pixeom for an undisclosed fee, in a move to boost its industrial automation and digitalization division. Pixeom, responsible …
Vodafone selects Taoglas’ edge-compute antenna for Invent IoT development kit
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailVodafone has selected the Taoglas Edge hardware and firmware connectivity solution from Irish IoT antenna company Taoglas for its new Invent application development platform. Vodafone’s Invent platform allows enterprises to …
