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5G and MEC on the WING, as Nokia fuels carriers’ global Industry 4.0 push

Nokia’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 so-called Worldwide IoT Network Grid (WING) affords operators a way to offer cellular IoT services...

The edge gets smarter

  Progressive enterprises are pursuing software-defined Edge compute solutions with operating models powered by analytics, automation and machine communications to improve productivity, service-levels and cost structures. With hundreds of devices and sensors connecting to a network, wired connections are becoming expensive. At the same time,...

Nokia’s edge-based machine vision AI is put through its paces at Japanese rail crossing

Japan-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 Gakuenmae No.8 railroad crossingin Machida City, in Tokyo. It is using ‘scene analytics’ software from...

On-device AI is “new normal” – Arm claims mega-jump in edge AI with new chip combo

On-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 the latest in its Cortex-M line with a new micro neural processing unit...

HPE opens IoT development centre in India as part of $500m investment

Hewlett 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 a 20,000 square-foot campus, shared with a global engineering centre for its Pointnext Services division,...

Verizon and HERE join 5G, edge, mapping in new traffic collision avoidance system

US 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 to hone various consumer and industrial IoT use cases. The two companies are working, at...

FogHorn on 2020: The year edge-AI helps industry finally make sense of ‘things’

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...

ABI on 2020: 5G wearables, self-driving trucks, yadda yadda – what won’t happen in 2020

Analyst 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 Scrooge-like myth-busting is timely and much-needed, it says. “Knowing what won’t happen in technology in...

Intel sinks $2bn on Israeli deep learning firm to boost cloud and edge AI portfolio

Intel 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 artificial intelligence (AI) to cloud and edge based silicon, notably for enterprise and industrial...

Siemens to buy US edge software startup Pixeom to expand digital factory offer

Germany 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 for the original Raspberry Pi-based personal cloud platform back in 2014, offers a software-defined edge...

Vodafone selects Taoglas’ edge-compute antenna for Invent IoT development kit

Vodafone 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 create bespoke IoT solutions for industries such as agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare, energy and utilities, and...

VC briefs: HPE pumps Series C funds into ‘AWS-beating’ software-defined edge stack

California based Pensando Systems has received $145 million in Series C, led by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, to emerge from ‘stealth’ mode to launch its software-defined cloud-to-edge service stack.  The Series C round takes its total funding to $278...

Top tech for industrial intelligence – seven systems for factory AI

Factories are bringing intelligence to the production line in a number of ways. Most are focused on integration between machines on the factory floor and leveraging sensor data for actionable insights.  Texas-based software firm Epicor identifies certain examples: shop-floor scorecard systems for reviewing performance, touchscreen...

Industrial IoT Q&A: “AI insights can enhance ML models,” says FogHorn

California-based software developer FogHorn provides edge intelligence software for industrial and commercial IoT applications. The company has signed with auto-parts maker ADVICS to deploy its edge compute software to enable real-time analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) as part of its “smart factory transition”. It is...

HPE buys one-time startup wonder MapR to bolster edge-cloud AI portfolio

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has acquired the business assets of big-data firm MapR for an undisclosed fee. California based startup MapR had raised $280 million over eight rounds of funding, including from Google, since being established in 2009. The one-time star of the big...

AT&T and HPE team up on edge networking and hardware for industrial IoT

AT&T will work with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to help businesses harness edge capabilities. The two companies have agreed a go-to-market programme for the sale of edge connections and edge computing. They are targeting customers in retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and stadiums, in particular. AT&T’s...

#TBT: ‘E-Support’ and other relics of the early internet; 41 million TDMA/EDGE subs; Microsoft, Samsung work on Windows phone … this week in 2000

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! E-Support for e-commerce...

Should utilities be like Amazon and Netflix? The intelligent edge, and where it’s going (Reader Forum)

Why can’t utilities be more like Netflix or Amazon? It’s a question you see posed in a growing number of articles and analyst reports, arguing that utilities should be more customer-centric and quicker to adapt to new technologies. But I’ve got a different question for...

NTT bundles in FogHorn’s edge AI software to round out industrial IoT offer

Japanese telecoms giant NTT is working with California-based industrial IoT software developer Foghorn to deliver edge-based machine intelligence to industrial clients. NTT-subsidiary NTT Data, offering systems-integration and IoT consultancy services, has selected Foghorn’s Lightning software for its on-premise analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, which...

The journey to 5G: Technology and business practices for a disruptive new era

  5G is the first generation of cellular born in the cloud. Like electricity and water, cellular connectivity has become a commodity that’s an essential part of modern society, the medium that will allow innovation in real-time data environments. and its ability to innovate in real-time...

Editorial Webinar: AI and IoT at the cutting edge – when to move intelligence out of the cloud and closer to the action

Operational intelligence does not come just by connecting machines; it requires advanced analytics to sort the data and recommend a course of action. Many critical use cases at the edge can’t wait for the cloud. Instead, they demand insights and decisioning at the source,...

Report: AI and IoT at the edge – when to move intelligence closer to the action

For industry, many critical applications cannot wait for artificial intelligence (AI) in the cloud. Instead, they demand insights and decisions at the edge -- closer to the source, where the real action is. A new report by Enterprise IoT Insights considers the balance enterprises are...

Editorial Report: AI and IoT at the cutting edge – when to move intelligence out of the cloud and closer to the action

Operational intelligence does not come just by connecting machines; it requires advanced analytics to sort the data and recommend a course of action. Many critical use cases at the edge can’t wait for the cloud. Instead, they demand insights and decisioning at the source,...

Editorial Report: AI and IoT at the cutting edge – when to move industrial intelligence closer to the action

Operational intelligence does not come just by connecting machines; it requires advanced analytics to sort the data and recommend a course of action. Many critical use cases at the edge can’t wait for the cloud. Instead, they demand insights and decisioning at the source,...