
Hugo Boss on how to make sewing machines sing – and see into the future
German fashion house Hugo Boss has been applying advanced analytics to its production plants in four ways, it told IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona last week. These variously cover …

‘Deep learning won’t work in the real world’ – open-source AI is the only way to ‘reason’, says Dell
Higher-order analytics tools are being embedded in the industrial space, as data science and data capture practices advance, and as compute power and wireless networking become more flexible. But machine …

SMEs can ‘punch above their weight’ with carrier-IoT as-a-service, says Vodafone
Small and medium sized enterprises can “punch above their weight” in global markets by taking IoT as-a-service from mobile operators. Where large organisations will go it alone, and develop their …

There are only three IoT use cases, and one doesn’t exist yet – simplicity, scale, and the state of ‘things’
IoT Solutions World Congress, in its fifth year (2019), has the whiff of MWC about it. It’s in Barcelona, at the same venue, and the faces are familiar — with …

Giving construction the IoT treatment could help save the planet (Reader Forum)
As our collective awareness of the environment continues to grow due to climate change, our surroundings and the way we interact with them are changing dramatically. Buildings and infrastructures are …

Key takeaways from IoT Solutions World Congress
Partnerships, ecosystems and platforms took center stage as the IoT industry gathered at IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona this week. The organizers of Internet of Things (IoT) conference IoT Solutions …

Smart cities a prime use case for fog computing
Industrial IoT 5G Insights discussed the emergence of fog computing with Cisco, Prismtech and the Open Fog Consortium at IOT Solutions World Congress. While cloud-centric Internet of Things (IoT) platforms …

IoT industry must be proactive about ethical data use
Panel discussion: the Internet of Things (IoT) industry has a unique opportunity to enforce ethical data use right from the start. The billions of things that are expected to get …

Microsoft launches security program for Azure IoT
Microsoft presented updates to its cloud-based Internet of Things suite, Microsoft Azure IoT, including a security program. Internet of Things (IoT) devices are under increased scrutiny following massive distributed denial …

Industrial IoT test beds in focus at IOT Solutions World Congress
A number of industry leaders at IOT Solutions World Congress highlighted the importance of industrial IoT test beds in making the Industrial IoT a reality. When the Industrial Internet Consortium …