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Installed base of smart waste sensors to reach 1.5m units globally in 2023

  The installed base of smart waste sensors is expected to reach 1.5 million worldwide in 2023, compared to 379,000 in 2018, according to a recent study by IoT research firm Berg Insight. The Swedish firm highlighted that the smart waste sensors market is forecast to...

Continental announces smart city and transportation hub in Michigan

  Continental announced its Smart City Mobility and Transportation Hub in Auburn Hills, Michigan, the firm said in a release. The company highlighted that the center of this Smart City Mobility and Transportation Hub are two intersections made intelligent with Continental sensors and intelligent software integrated...

Signify installs smart lighting system at automotive facility in Germany

Dutch smart lighting solutions provider Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, announced that it installed Interact Industry in the newly developed warehouse facility of Pilkington Automotive in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The Dutch firm said that this cloud-based, wireless connected lighting system is specifically designed for warehouses and manufacturing...

Orange Business Services deploys IoT for golf club in Norway

Golf club Haga Golf in Oslo, Norway has selected Orange Business Services to implement Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to help make its golf course management smarter, the latter said in a release. The Orange IoT solution will support the transformation of costly, labor-intensive greenskeeping duties and ensure...

Cisco, Connexin deliver UK’s first purpose-built Smart City Operating System

The Smart City Operating System will turn the city of Hull into a programmable city Hull, a city located on England’s north-east coast, will become the first city in the U.K. to establish a purpose-built Smart City Operating System (OS). Using an internet of things...

Department of Homeland Security kicks off smart city trial in St. Louis

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has launched a smart cities technology integration pilot in St. Louis, Missouri, in collaboration with both the city and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Through this smart city pilot, taking place at T-REX, the downtown St....

Ericsson, Telia deploy IoT network at Ericsson’s Tallinn plant

Swedish vendor Ericsson and Nordic-based service provider Telia have brought automated guided vehicles, augmented reality (AR), and a huge number of sensors to life at Ericsson’s manufacturing facility in Tallinn, Estonia, via a dedicated cellular network. The Tallinn supply site is one of Ericsson’s largest manufacturing...

Signify launches new smart pole with IoT apps, connectivity

Dutch lighting company Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, has launched a new smart pole dubbed BrightSites, the firm said in a release. The new BrightSites smart pole accommodates a wide variety of IoT applications, connectivity, cameras and environmental sensors as well as controllable high-quality energy-efficient LED lighting, the company...

Deutsche Telekom, Nokia test 5G for industrial use at the Port of Hamburg

German carrier Deutsche Telekom, Nokia and the Hamburg Port Authority have tested new features of 5G technology in a test bed installed at the Port of Hamburg. From January 2018 to June 2019, the approximately 8,000-hectare site served as a test bed to trial 5G applications for industrial...

Port of Rotterdam to use smart container to collect key data globally

The port of Rotterdam, one of the largest ports in Europe, has kicked off a project in which a smart container will be traveling around the world in a two-year data-collecting mission. During this journey, the container – which houses an array of sensors...

Smart farming Q&A: “Farmers are in-the-know about their assets”, says ABI Research

Two million farms and 36 million cattle will be connected to the internet by low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, and other technologies, by 2024. This is the calculation from analyst house ABI Research, in a new report that considers the opportunity for internet-of-things (IoT) technologies in field...

London to use sensor-equipped school backpacks to monitor air quality

The trial stipulates that 250 children will carry the sensors during a week   London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan launched an air quality monitoring trial in which 250 children attending primary schools will carry special backpacks with air quality sensors on their journey to and from school. This...

BT deploys 1,000 IoT-based smart lockers across the UK

  The smart lockers allow firms with large field engineering teams to gain more efficiency   BT’s supply chain business, Final Mile, said that it has deployed 1,000 smart delivery lockers across the UK. Following a number of customer contract wins, the U.K. carrier said that the business...

Ameren Missouri launches smart energy plan

  As part of the $5.3 billion initiative, the company aims to add more than 800,000 smart electric meters through 2023   Utility provider Ameren Missouri announced the company’s Smart Energy plan, which includes more than 2,000 electric projects over the next five years that will modernize the...

IBM and partners use Blockchain, IoT to combat drought in California

IBM , TFT and SweetSense are piloting technologies to accurately monitor and track groundwater use in Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta The Freshwater Trust (TFT), together with IBM Research and SweetSense, a provider of low-cost satellite connected sensors, are partnering to pilot technologies which can...

The device manager: Quarterback of the IoT stack (Reader Forum)

What does football have to do with the internet of things? More than you know It’s Sunday. NFL football is on our TV and the word for the week in my wife’s photography club is anthropomorphism. NFL football is all about quarterbacks. The pundits obsess or rave...

Bell, IBM collaborate in smart city program in Canada

The city of Markham is partnering with Bell to provide an advance solution featuring interconnected IoT applications   The Canadian city of Markham has launched its smart city accelerator research program in partnership with Canadian carrier Bell. The program will deploy Bell's smart city platform, which includes...

C Spire targets partnerships to boost precision agriculture business

The carrier carried out a precision agriculture trial in Mississippi last year as part of the firm’s Tech Movement initiative Regional carrier C Spire, which is headquartered in Ridgeland, Miss., aims to partner with farmers and smart equipment firms to provide network and information technology...

SK Telecom secures contract to deploy 5G-based smart traffic system

  The Korean telco will initially deploy 2,000 5G sensors developed by Samsung Electronics South Korea’s largest carrier, SK Telecom, was awarded a contract to deploy 5G infrastructure to support a smart traffic system in Seoul, local press reported. Seoul’s cooperative-intelligent transport system (C-ITS) project has a...

Hexagon strengthens smart factory strategy via acquisition

  The Swedish company acquired Etalon, a German provider of equipment calibration solutions   Swedish digital solutions company Hexagon has boosted its smart factory capabilities via the acquisition of Etalon, which provides equipment calibration solutions. Etalon’s solutions continuously monitor and initiate compensation of machine tools, measuring machines, robots...

Audi’s Autonomous Intelligent Driving unit partners with Luminar

AID expects to launch fully autonomous vehicles in 2021 U.S. company Luminar announced its collaboration with Autonomous Intelligent Driving (AID) to provide the LiDAR technology and accelerate plans towards AID’s first fully autonomous deployments in 2021. AID, a wholly owned subsidiary of Audi AG, is the...

NNNCo deploys IoT network for Australian cotton farmers

  The company said the IoT network will cover some 3 million hectares across Australia   Australia’s National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo) and Goanna Ag announced the rollout of a publicly available LoRaWAN internet of things network for smart irrigation management solutions to Australian cotton growers. The network...

Las Vegas inks smart city deal with NTT Group

  Las Vegas said that it aims to deploy smart city solutions under this agreement by mid-2019   The state of Nevada, city of Las Vegas and Japan's NTT Group have reached an agreement to advance and accelerate smart technologies, following a smart city proof-of-concept initiative that...

Semiconductors: Bosch claims to be outpacing rivals in race to bring intelligence to vehicles

Bosch discusses automotive opportunity during Electronica 2018 In 2016, every newly registered vehicle globally had nine Bosch chips on board, on average, the German manufacturer told Electronica 2018 in Munich last week. The multiplicity and value of the chips in vehicles is only spiralling upwards,...