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“Utilities don’t need AI yet – they just need better human access to data,” says OSIsoft

One key element that was skirted around in Enterprise IoT Insights’ recent report on digital change in the power sector: the nitty-gritty of data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). We referenced these as key disciplines – as the real art of digital change, in...

Nokia and Industry 4.0 country-mates seed private LTE/5G testbed for cargo ports

Three Finnish industrial-change specialists, including telecoms vendor Nokia, have banded together on a collaboration project to construct a private LTE test network for developing industrial IoT applications for shipping ports and terminals. Private networking specialist Ukkoverkot and port machinery maker Kalmar, owned by port automation...

Three key test cases for industrial 5G being explored by AT&T and Samsung

AT&T and Samung have revealed a number of initial use-case experiments for industrial 5G at the duo’s new ‘Innovation Zone’ within Samsung’s semiconductor factory on Austin, Texas. These include tests of robotics, industrial IoT, and mixed reality applications, allied to 5G, LTE and Wi-Fi...

Lufthansa Technik Group selects PTC’s IIoT, PLM platforms

Boston-based tech firm PTC announced that Lufthansa Technik Group has selected the Windchill Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the ThingWorx Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platforms as the core technology to digitally transform its product development and engineering processes. PTC said that the Windchill platform will serve as the engineering...

Ondas Networks aquires 700 MHz spectrum for private cellular in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico

Industrial connectivity provider Ondas Networks, formerly Full Spectrum, has acquired 700 MHz spectrum to deploy private cellular networks for industrial users in the state of Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as certain coastal counties in Texas and Louisiana. The deal, acquired by...

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...

Ericsson to open innovation, co-creation center in California

Ericsson announced the upcoming launch of Ericsson D-Fifteen, a new innovation and co-creation center at the company’s Santa Clara office, the vendor said in a release. The Swedish firm said that the new center will enable the company to bring multiple core capabilities together under...

UK aerospace firm tests Wi-Fi 6 in industrial 5G setup, with BT, Cisco, HPE, Intel

UK-based Mettis Aerospace, manufacturer of components for the likes of Airbus, Boeing and Rolls-Royce, is to test Wi-Fi 6 for connecting industrial machines and processes. The Wireless Broadband Alliance said the trials represent the first of Wi-Fi 6 for enterprise and industrial internet-of-things (IoT)...

Itron to deploy IIoT network in Australia to support smart lighting solutions

U.S. firm Itron, a technology company that specializes in products and services for energy and water resource management, VINCI Energies’ Electrix and Transport Canberra and City Services (TCCS) are working to create an industrial internet of things (IIoT) network to support smart lighting and...

New business opportunities in edge services through the StarlingX OpenStack project (Reader Forum)

The StarlingX OpenStack project, launched on May 21, 2018, was created to address the need for an open source software platform that enables telco-grade applications and services to be deployed at the network edge. It will comprise value-added services that enable highly reliable applications...

Editorial Report: Making Industry Smarter Series – From supply chain to demand chain

If the internet of things (IoT), utilising both low-power and high-bandwidth connectivity, establishes an architectural springboard for digital change, then AI provides the industrial elasticity that will make the market bounce. This report looks at how IoT and AI, combined, will make the demand...

Robots, robots, robots… and AI – How BMW is automating its supply chain functions

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘1.8k suppliers, 31m parts, 10k vehicles – How BMW is making sense of its supply chain’. Click here to go to the previous article.  But BMW’s major drive, to date, has been around automation. Indeed,...

Tenable caims first single view of cyber-risks across IT and OT

US cybersecurity company Tenable has updates its Teneable.sc solution to include a single view of cyber risks across both information technology (IT) networks and operational technology (OT). It claims it is the first to achieve this “integrated” risk assessment of both IT and OT...

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...

State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 4): Buying digital change

This article is the fourth instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine...

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,...

State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 3): Use case modelling

This article is the third instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine the...

State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 2): An alternative truth

This article is the second instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine the...

From coffee machines to paint shops: IIoT at the cutting edge – four Software AG use cases

As part of Enterprise IoT Insights' investigation into edge-cloud setups in industrial plants, we have unearthed a number of case studies showing how manufacturing companies and technology providers are collaborating to bring intelligence closer to the action. Here, we present four examples from Software...

State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 1): The hype and the glory

This article is taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine the expectations surrounding the IIoT movement (‘The...

Industrial Internet Consortium, OpenFog conclude merger process

The combined organization will focus on industrial, internet including the promotion of best practices for fog and edge computing The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and the OpenFog Consortium have concluded the details to combine the two consortia. Effective immediately, the organizations will work together under the IIC...

Oracle announces new version of Java Card to support IoT deployments

  The new release includes support for smart meters and industrial IoT as well as wearables and automotive   Oracle announced the general availability of Java Card 3.1, the latest version of its open application platform that is used to secure internet of things devices. Oracle said that...

Bsquare strengthens industrial IIoT capabilities with AWS

  Bsquare selected AWS as it preferred cloud services provider for its DataV suite   Industrial internet of things company Bsquare says it is collaborating with Amazon Web Services to meet the increasing demand for IIoT solutions. Bsquare has selected AWS as its preferred cloud services provider and...