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Mobile connectivity will soon become frictionless and omnipresent, according to Cisco According to Bob Everson, global director of mobility and 5G at Cisco, the debate about whether 5G is truly here will come to a close in 2020, and we will "actually experience what it...

Digital technologies present many exciting opportunities for improving patient outcomes. Remote monitoring with medical sensors, shared access to patient records, personalized care plans, remote robotic surgery — and, the list goes on. However, something important is missing in many of these lists: rock-solid, secure (private)...

A doctor in Rome has performed “major surgery” on a patient in an operating theatre in the city of Terni, 100 kilometres away, using virtual reality glasses and a 5G connection. The operation was live-streamed to 30,000 specialists and surgeons across the world. Actually,...

Package delivery company UPS has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate a fleet of aerial delivery drones. The certification puts no limits on the size or scope of operations, and enables drones to operate ‘beyond visual line of sight’ (BVLOS)....

John Stephens calls out 5G for hospitals, manufacturing AT&T currently has its millimeter wave-based 5G service, dubbed 5G+, available in 21 cities with plans for 29 by year-end and nationwide coverage by mid-2020. As the build out continues, company Chief Financial Officer John Stephens highlighted...

VITAS also aims to use AT&T's 5G technology and Magic Leap headsets to help provide comfort for hospice patients   AT&T and end-of-life care provider VITAS Healthcare have jointly launched a study that intends to explore whether the use of 5G-based virtual reality and augmented reality...

  Rush said it expects to use AT&T’s 5G network as well as MEC technology  AT&T and Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center and the Rush System for Health are working together to bring the first standards-based, 5G-enabled hospital to the U.S. AT&T said that 5G technology will...

  IDC said global IoT spending will reach $745 billion this year   Internet of things spending in the United States is expected to reach $194 billion this year, according to a recent study by IDC. China will be the second-largest market for IoT, with annual spending of...

Even though it may seem like we are living in a completely connected world, we’re not. And, as the Internet of Things dramatically expands the number and scope of connected devices, the traditional communications connectivity model no longer delivers the kind of flexibility and...

Imagine a hospital in which wireless technology enables visitors, healthcare professionals and patients to roam anywhere throughout the facility, while providing continuous, accurate, and real-time monitoring. This vision can only become a reality through the integration of Wi-Fi technology as an integral part of...

At its ‘Business Summit’ in Dallas this week, AT&T put major focus on its LTE-M network. Use cases are multiplying, it said. “I hear about new possibilities every day. Use cases are taking off – from asset tracking to connected healthcare, vehicle solutions and more,”...

If you design IoT medical devices, you care about coexistence testing. EMI testing is essential, but it doesn’t guarantee your device will operate in the presence of competing signals. Watch Keysight’s webinar to learn how coexistence testing can make the difference between your device’s success...

Local authorities said LoRaWAN technology will enable the implementation of use cases, including digital water metering and waste management   NNNCo, the Australian firm building a national narrowband network in Australia for the internet of things, has signed a contract with the city of Gold Coast...

USF dollars eyed for telehealth "Connected Care Pilot Program" Last week the U.S. Federal Communications Commission opted to go forward with an exploration of allocating $100 million of Universal Service Funds to pay for what the body calls a "Connected Care Pilot Program" designed to...

Experiential consumerism is the term that describes the immersive experience that retailers are going to have to provide in the future to attract and woo customers. For some, older consumers, this can be described as the ability to try on a shirt in a store...

Remote monitoring a key broadband-enable telehealth application The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will meet on Aug. 2 and discuss potentially providing $100 million in federal funds to support up to 20 telehealth pilot programs designed to leverage broadband infrastructure to improve health care particularly...

Canadian IoT platform provider ThoughtWire has produced five new applications for building owners and healthcare providers to manage connected “people, systems and things”. ThoughtWire has introduced two new applications as part of its ‘smart building suite’ for operations performance management (OPM), and three for its...

The role of connectivity in healthcare applications has been growing exponentially in recent years and evolving to be a must-have feature in medical devices. According to Vodafone IoT Barometer report, global IoT adoption in the healthcare industry has increased from 19 per cent in...

Columbia’s research team is working at Verizon’s 5G incubator in New York Columbia University’s Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Laboratory is currently experimenting with virtual reality (VR) using pre-commercial 5G technology from Verizon to develop new telemedicine solutions. Trials are being carried out at they Alley,...

According to a new research, two thirds of healthcare workers have poor cellular coverage at work Small Cell Forum announced plans to work with the healthcare sector to support the deployment of small cells to address the risks of poor connectivity in the sector. According to...

IoT spans from consumer apps such as smart homes, connected cars and wearables, to industrial apps covering energy systems, agriculture, mining, transportation, healthcare and more. This complimentary poster maps the various wireless protocols being used and evaluated to build out the IoT infrastructure.

Scyfer has developed AI solutions for verticals including manufacturing, healthcare and finance U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Technologies announced the acquisition of Dutch firm Scyfer, an affiliate of the University of Amsterdam focused on machine learning techniques. Scyfer has built artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for companies worldwide...

Get ahead with the edge Internet-connected devices for phones, tablets, sensors, security cameras and vehicles have produced a mountain of data to mine and analyze. On a global scale, the cloud is an indispensable part of this process. Unfortunately, as the distance between the cloud...

Get ahead with the edge Internet-connected devices for phones, tablets, sensors, security cameras and vehicles have produced a mountain of data to mine and analyze. On a global scale, the cloud is an indispensable part of this process. Unfortunately, as the distance between the cloud...