Hitachi, Microsoft partner for manufacturing and logistics digital solutions
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPredictive maintenance, process automation focus use cases Hitachi and Microsoft Corp. announced a multi-year strategic alliance to accelerate the digital transformation of the manufacturing and logistics industries across Southeast Asia, …
Machine vision: IoT at the edge in action
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailADLink demos how machine vision and edge compute drive efficiency and savings for palletization Virtually any company that makes, sells or transports goods spends time and money putting boxes onto …
Maersk backs India trucking platform, as maritime sector spies $38bn in digital change
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailDigital transformation of the global maritime freight industry is gathering pace. A new report claims digital change in the shipping industry will expand in value-terms by around 10 per cent …
Volvo Trucks unveils autonomous transport solution
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail Volvo Trucks announced that its electric, connected and autonomous vehicle Vera will form part of an integrated solution to transport goods from a logistics centre to a port terminal …
Nokia intros IoT starter packs for operators to target agriculture, livestock, logistics
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNokia has introduced four ready-made IoT packages to help mobile network operators go after the agriculture, livestock management, logistics, and asset management markets. Its new IoT packages – available “off-the-shelf” …
Sensing and sense-making: Seven key supply chain technologies
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailI read it somewhere, and it made sense; the application of new digital technologies in the global supply chain is about two critical functions – ‘sensing’ and ‘sense-making’, where the …
China to build 150 automated and intelligent smart logistics hubs by 2025
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailChina is to build 30 logistics hubs during the next 12 months and 150 in the following five years as part of a major expansion and transformation of its supply …
Dell EMC and Nokia to lead smart city collective on barge project in Delft
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe City of Delft, in the Netherlands, has appointed Dell EMC and Nokia as the leading parties in a public-private partnership to introduce semi-autonomous barges on the city’s underused canals …
Three market / application use cases for LTE-M (as prescribed by AT&T)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAt its ‘Business Summit’ in Dallas this week, AT&T put major focus on its LTE-M network. Use cases are multiplying, it said. “I hear about new possibilities every day. Use cases …
LTE-M and NB-IoT will carry 75% of asset tracking by 2023, claims report
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailCellular low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks running on LTE-M and NB-IoT technologies will account for three-quarters of the installed base of asset trackers in 2023, according to new research. These will …
