
AT&T, Cisco, Microsoft back new Dallas tech incubator to bring IoT, AI to smart cities
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailA new smart cities incubator has been launched in the Dallas Fort Worth region. It will focus on smart cities related technologies. Big-name collaborators on the project include AT&T, Cisco, …

Telensa intros smart city platform to tackle cost and trust issues with urban data
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailUK smart street lighting company Telensa has launched an open data platform for smart cities to collect, protect, and make use of urban data. The city of Cambridge in the …

Microsoft inks agreement to open AI, IoT lab in Shanghai
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail The new facility is expected to be inaugurated in April this year Microsoft has signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation to locate its new artificial intelligence and internet …

Mastercard’s sweet 16: Smart ‘cities’ set up new urban knowledge exchange
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailMastercard has confirmed 16 ‘cities’, or rather urban centres, as founding members of its City Possible programme, convened to foster public-private collaboration in the smart cities space. The ‘cities’, varying …

Why any developer can leverage artificial intelligence (Reader Forum)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailArtificial intelligence is a technology that presupposes the advents before it and builds upon them to create an invention of endless applications and limitless possibilities. AI is, in no uncertain …

Platform provider Particle intros new IoT developer kits, Microsoft IoT coding studio
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPlatform provider Particle has released a round of new internet-of-things (IoT) developer tools and an IoT app design programme based on Microsoft’s coding studio. Particle’s IoT platform underpins offerings from …

Sensors, data and control: How the cannabis industry got high (tech) with IoT
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailCannabis growers, like other agriculturalists, are turning to internet-of-things (IoT) technologies, essentially comprising sensor devices and data analytics, to bring new efficiencies to their operations, and improve yields and profits. …

Nokia offers CityIQ platform from GE to cities in Canada; DimOnOff and Microsoft team up
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNokia is to offer GE’s CityIQ platform technology to municipalities in Canada to repurpose outdoor street lighting into digital infrastructure, and help with common challenges like parking and traffic management, …

PTC tops three separate polls of the leading industrial IoT platforms
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNeedham-based industrial software maker PTC has come top in a series of reviews of industrial IoT (IIoT) platform providers. Its ThingWorx proposition has been consistently identified by analysts in 2018 …

GE to integrate Predix with Azure, co-develop IIoT solutions with Microsoft
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailGE Digital will integrate its Predix portfolio with Microsoft Azure’s cloud capabilities, and standardise its Predix solutions on Microsoft Azure, it has announced. GE and Microsoft said they will also …