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 …
Actility brings “pinpoint” accuracy to LoRa based tracking of supply-chain assets
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailActility has struck a deal with mapping and location company HERE Technologies to integrate HERE’s positioning capabilities into its own LoRaWAN management platform. It means internet-of-things (IoT) users can “pinpoint” …
Blockchain for the supply chain: great in theory, hard in practice, says food industry
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe practicalities of implementing decentralised blockchain governance, and the fear it raises within the supply chain about a lack of control, remain major stumbling blocks for the technology, said a …
AT&T takes WING with Nokia IoT network to offer global services and slicing
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAT&T has agreed with Nokia to use the Finnish vendor’s ‘worldwide IoT network grid’ (WING) to offer enterprise customers global IoT connectivity. Nokia’s WING service covers core network, dedicated IoT …