BROWSING: IoT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DviQBe6P0rA A talk about the smart city with Ericsson's Beverly Rider AUSTIN, Texas--In a big-picture talk about the smart city on Monday, Beverly Rider, vice president of enterprise IoT and smart cities for Ericsson, spoke to RCR Wireless News at Galvanize in Austin, Texas. Rider began the discussion...

American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network Moonshot Roundtable: Overcoming barriers to progress in cancer research The American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network Moonshot Roundtable met in Austin yesterday to speak about overcoming barriers to progress in cancer research. Panel member Nadia Morris, head of innovation...

IoT dev kit is available for North America, Europe U.S. signal semiconductor provider Semtech Corporation announced the availability of a new LoRaWAN-connected IoT development kit from Spanish wireless hardware and software manufacturer Libelium and Swiss start-up Loriot. Semtech said that this new kit will allow designers to...

APT launching the new IoT platform in Taiwan Taiwanese telecommunications operator Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) launched an internet of things (IoT) dual-network multi-platform, called Gt Smart Life. APT said the necessary research and development of the new IoT platform took approximately two years. The Asian telco said that...

The dangers of an insecure IIoT system Wired detailed the frightening consequences of vulnerable computer-based systems in its 2008 article Industrial control systems killed once, and will again, experts warn. With the expansion of “smart devices” into the automobile and medical industries, those predictions are more...

'Extremely high frequency' means extremely fast 5G speeds Millimeter wave spectrum is the band of spectrum between 30 GHz and 300 GHz. Wedged between microwave and infrared waves, this spectrum can be used for high-speed wireless communications as seen with the latest 802.11ad Wi-Fi standard (operating at...

5 things to know today... 1. Nokia moved one step closer to relaunching its smartphone brand with news that Pekka Rantala will become CMO at the company that has licensed the Nokia brand. Rantala is a Nokia veteran who also has served as CEO of...

Wireless Infrastructure Association president discussed the role of infra in keynote at Wireless Connect conference Jonathan Adelstein, president of the Wireless Infrastructure Association, discussed the role of infrastructure in delivering 5G and internet of things during a keynote speech at the Wireless Connect conference in...

"Extremely high frequency" means extremely fast 5G speeds Millimeter wave (mmWave), also known as extremely high frequency (EHF), is the band of spectrum between 30 gigahertz (GHz) and 300 GHz. Wedged between microwave and infrared waves, this spectrum can be used for high-speed wireless communications as...

Mobile connectivity and tapping into IoT are mission-critical for public safety and first responders It’s the age of the always-connected first responder. Police and fire departments, as well as emergency medical services, harness the “internet of things” daily to put new tools in the hands...

Challenges and considerations of IoT testing Internet of things (IoT) vulnerabilities and their potentially catastrophic results make it imperative that IoT devices go through rigorous testing before seeing the light of day. But testing the security, performance, connectivity, and a number of things for millions of...

Energy management use cases Our current energy management systems are inadequate. Atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are estimated to reach almost 685 parts per million (ppm) by 2050, well above the concentration level of 450 ppm required to have at least a 50% chance of...

Background on water management By 2050 the world’s population will reach 9.7 billion and 11.2 billion by 2100, according to the United Nations. Unfortunately, only 3% of the world’s water is fresh and two-thirds of that small percentage is not accessible. With increased use of water pollutants...

What is lights out manufacturing? "Lights out" manufacturing is the term used for a manufacturing process where factories run fully autonomously, without any human intervention. The term is quite literal, with production occurring free of human necessities like lighting or heating, ventilation and air conditioning...

What is lights out manufacturing? "Lights out" manufacturing is the term used for a manufacturing process where factories run fully autonomously, without any human intervention. The term is quite literal, with production occurring free of human necessities like lighting or heating, ventilation and air conditioning...

The internet of things network currently covers 360 cities China’s second largest mobile operator China Unicom ended the first half of 2016 with more than 20 million internet of things connection, after a net addition 10.5 million connections during the period, local press reported. The Chinese operator...

RIO DE JANEIRO – Payments using near field communication technology have been a promise for a while, but until now no application has been popular or good enough to replace plastic cards. With about 4,000 points of sale equipped with NFC, Visa is using the Rio...

Smart city connectivity is expanding to water utilities looking to ensure safe drinking water for citizens We may not think about it every time we turn the faucet on, but it takes a very complex infrastructure to provide safe drinking water to a population. Water utilities...

5 things to know today... 1. AT&T's IoT business has won a high profile healthcare customer. Biotricity, a publicly traded maker of wearable technology for medical diagnostics, has chosen AT&T as its network provider. The company is preparing to launch a product called bioflux, which...

Control and savings with building management systems Building management systems are the backbone of smart buildings. They are the systems put in place to allow building owners and tenants to monitor, maintain and manage the mechanical, electrical and electromechanical functions within a structure. BMS deployment usually...

Control and savings with building management systems Building management systems (BMS) are the backbone to smart buildings. They are the systems put in place to allow building owners and tenants to monitor, maintain and manage the mechanical, electrical and electromechanical functions within a structure. BMS...

The Italian telco will develop the waste management project with two other companies Italian mobile operator TIM and AlmavivA, with Agriconsulting, won a tender organized by the Ministry of the Environment for the deployment of a waste management system geared toward waste tracking. The agreement, worth...

Does continued growth of the IoT open up cybersecurity concerns for building automation? Every day when we arrive at the office we take some things for granted – the lights will be on, the heat or air conditioning will be working and the building entry...

What is massive MIMO? Before going into “massive MIMO,” a potential enabler of 5G, it is important to understand the technology behind the traditional, smaller scale MIMO (multiple-input/multiple-output). MIMO deployment uses multiple antennas that are located at both the source (transmitter) and destination (receiver). Those...