UK drone-port company expands focus to US East Coast after London property splurge
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailUK start-up Skyports is ramping up activity in the US as it seeks to establish an international network of helipads for flying taxis and drone deliveries. Skyports has so far …
Verizon leads fleet management systems market in the Americas
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailBerg Insights forecast a total of 16.4 million fleet management systems in the region by 2022 The number of active fleet management systems deployed in commercial vehicle fleets in North …
Maersk and IBM debut blockchain platform for global shipping industry
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailLogistics company Maersk and technology company IBM have introduced an open blockchain platform, called TradeLens, to digitise the global shipping trade. The pair said 94 organisations are already involved, or have …
Total, Sigfox launch solution to manage trailer fleets
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail The IoT-based fleet management solution was initially launched in France and will also be available in other European countries in the future French oil firm Total has joined …
“First of its kind” LoRaWAN IoT project launches in Montreal
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailLoRaWAN being leveraged for smart transportation The City of Montreal is turning to the Internet of Things (IoT) to digitalise its public transport, with the help of LoRaWAN networks. Working …
Cisco promises $100m for UK tech sector; partners with UCL for AI talent factory
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailCisco is to invest $100 million in the UK to help the UK government with its ‘industrial strategy’ to become a leading economy for emerging digital technologies, including artificial intelligence …
How IoT sensors are helping predict failures and faults on German roads
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailBy the Köln Ost junction on the A3 motorway in the North Rhine-Westphalia region in Germany, a group of engineers has mocked-up a 25,000 square-metre roadway network with a mash-up …
European cellular IoT market to grow 384% by 2023, but telcos warned of LoRa, Sigfox
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe European market for cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) communications will grow to 416.5 million connections by 2023, from 86 million at the end of 2017, according to ABI Research. This growth, …
The top 10 smart cities – ranked according to their applications and activity
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNew research by McKinsey Global Institute has evaluated the planet’s smartest cities on both their underlying infrastructure and their over-lying applications, and ranked them in order on both counts. Here, …
Volvo to launch mobility brand M in Sweden and US, backed by machine learning engine
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailCar maker Volvo is to launch a new mobility brand, M, starting in Sweden and the US in the spring of 2019. The new enterprise will offer personalised mobility services, …
