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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 predictive maintenance, line optimisation, and efficiencies around consumption of materials and energy. Speaking during a...

‘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 learning is limited in its current form, and the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ will slow...

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 own IoT platforms internally, smaller companies must seek specialist partners. At the same time,...

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 a number of the European telecoms giants, big cloud brands, and systems integrators scattered...

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 not just cement blocks anymore. They have become dynamic environments, capable of self-correction and...

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 World Congress, held in Barcelona between 25-27 October, have every reason to rejoice. The second...

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 today play a central role in processing the vast amounts of data produced by connected...

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 connected will generate massive volumes of data. Making sense of that data will be key...

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 of service (DDoS) attacks in the past few weeks, including one which took down Netflix,...

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 (IIC) was founded two years ago, few believed in the industrial IoT test beds the...

Nearly 9 out of 10 businesses unprepared for the industrial IoT

While a vast majority of business leaders expect the industrial IoT to become a reality very soon, only a minority are ready for it. The industrial Internet of Things (industrial IoT) or the fourth industrial revolution, defined by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as the...