BROWSING: IoT

NFV, SDN and cloud platforms are seen as key components of the Broadband Forum Broadband 20/20 initiative, with a focus on driving revenue. On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check we speak with Robin Mersh, CEO at the Broadband Forum, on how it expects its recently...

Microsoft/TomTom deal expected to allow developers to manage location-aware enterprise, mobile and IoT applications. Dutch firm TomTom and U.S. software giant Microsoft signed a partnership to bring enterprise-grade, location-based services to Microsoft’s Azure platform based on TomTom’s maps, traffic and navigation software. Under terms of...

IoT for Coca-Cola machine IoT software and services company Bsquare has been working with Coca-Cola since 2006, on a project that would become the Coca-Cola Freestyle, an "internet of things"-enabled drink dispenser. Bsquare first served as the lead systems integrator for the Freestyle machine, before...

BT Compute for SAP enterprise solutions to be available for European customers in early 2017. U.K. telco BT and T-Systems inked a collaboration agreement focused on the delivery of SAP cloud services. The agreement calls for BT to connect its customers to...

Driving adoption and ROI for the Internet of Things In the coming years, billions of cellular-connected devices ranging from learning thermostats and wireless security cameras to in-vehicle infotainment units and diagnostic sensors will join the booming Internet of Things. And, with standardization tracking for 2019...

IoT spurs growing accelerometer and gyroscope market The "internet of things" is helping grow the accelerometer and gyroscope market, which is expected to reach $3.5 billion by 2022, according to a new report from MarketsandMarkets. According to the report, "Accelerometer and gyroscope market by accelerometer type, gyroscope type,...

Google is giving developers a preview of a new "internet of things" operating system, Android Things, and plans to enable IoT updates directly from Google to improve security. Google launched the developer preview for the Android Things OS and said the solution already is supported by...

ZTE made the case to combine work on cloud and fog computing at recent ITU-T CTO event in Thailand. In a move to combine what it sees as similar technology attributes, ZTE offered up a support for combining work being conducted in cloud...

Greenwave Systems yesterday announced it integrated the Nuance Communications Mix voice and AI-powered natural language understanding (NLU) technologies as part of its AXON Platform for managed services. The solutions offered by the partnership will target networking and communications service providers with the hope of providing the ability to...

Standards challenges could impede the move towards 5G, though industry adoption of NFV and SDN could ease the transition. Across a broad spectrum of industries, businesses are pinning their hopes for the future on the “internet of things,” and who can blame...

As much as one-third of medication is unusable by the time it is supposed to be taken as a result of poor storage of temperature-sensitive medicines due to insufficient supply chain management and failure of patients to correctly store prescriptions, according to a case...

The millions of connected devices that make up machine-to-machine systems and are part of the "internet of things" need to be switched on, configured, provisioned for services, maintained, updated with software, recovered from error conditions, monitored, queried for data, repaired and taken off their...

The millions of connected devices that make up machine-to-machine systems and are part of the "internet of things" need to be switched on, configured, provisioned for services, maintained, updated with software, recovered from error conditions, monitored, queried for data, repaired and taken off their...

The Microsoft/KPMG partnership will target Indian organizations willing to implement IoT initiatives. Microsoft and auditing firm KPMG have established a strategic "internet of things" advisory partnership targeting the Indian market. The two firms plan to combine efforts to accelerate the digital transformation...

The two companies plan to jointly develop IoT solutions designed to improve safety for emergency services. Japanese ICT firm Fujitsu announced a strategic partnership with DHL Supply Chain U.K. to develop new services based on wearable technology and the "internet of things." Under...

As much as one-third of medication is unusable by the time it is supposed to be taken as a result of poor storage of temperature-sensitive medicines due to insufficient supply chain management and failure of patients to correctly store prescriptions, according to a case...

Japanese ISP Biglobe counts 2 million fixed broadband subscribers and 400,000 mobile customers. Japanese telecommunications company KDDI is set to acquire rival internet service provider Biglobe from Japan Industrial Partners for $694 million (80 billion Japanese yen). The deal is set to...

IBM goes all in with blockchain. IBM this week announced a blockchain ecosystem designed to help accelerate the creation of networks using the technology. The ecosystem program is designed for large-businesses, startups, systems integrators, independent software vendors and enterprise developers. To support...

Audi's Traffic Light Information technology enables a car to communicate with traffic light infrastructure in select cities across the United States. The car receives real-time signal information from advanced traffic management systems that monitor traffic lights via an onboard LTE data connection. When approaching a connected traffic...

Research firm TBR noted Microsoft and Salesforce are revenue leaders in the overall cloud space, while AWS is market leader in public cloud IaaS. Amazon Web Services may garner a significant share of the limelight when it comes to the growing cloud...

Audi's Traffic Light Information technology enables a car to communicate with traffic light infrastructure in select cities across the United States. The car receives real-time signal information from advanced traffic management systems that monitor traffic lights via an onboard LTE data connection. When approaching a connected traffic...

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is going directly after the "internet of things" market with this week’s release of Bluetooth 5, the newest version of the now ubiquitous wireless technology said to offer significant range, speed and broadcast message capacity upgrades. According to the release,...

Creating a connected city. Mississauga, Ontario, looked to Cisco Systems to help leverage the "internet of things" to improve services, reduce costs and drive efficiency with real-time data in the Canadian city. Mississauga’s population has grown to nearly 800,000 residents in recent years thanks...

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is going directly after the "internet of things" market with this week’s release of Bluetooth 5, the newest version of the now ubiquitous wireless technology said to offer significant range, speed and broadcast message capacity upgrades. According to the release,...