Energy sector urged to get behind LTE – first with carriers, then with licences

The energy industry should consider the LTE family of cellular technologies, including NB-IoT, LTE-M, and 4G and 5G, to spur their longer-term Industry 4.0 ambitions, according to analyst house Guidehouse Insights. The energy market must start experimenting with cellular right away, it says, with or without participation from carriers, and make bets on private spectrum…

Edzcom and Signify team up on private Li-Fi and 5G combo for industry

Finnish private networking and edge computing specialist Edzcom has signed a deal with Netherlands-based lighting company Signify to offer Li-Fi based solutions combining two-way wireless infrared and visible light connectivity for industrial IoT applications to its customers in the manufacturing, energy, oil and gas, ports and logistics, mining, and oil and gas industries. The arrangement…

TaoTronics TT-BH041 Bluetooth Headset Review

The TaoTronics TT-BH041 has a reasonably comprehensive control scheme. There are four buttons on the headset: a mic-mute button, volume controls, and a multi-function button. The latter is used to turn the headset on, pause and play content, and use all manner of call functions, including answering, rejecting, ending, transferring, redialing, and swapping between incoming…

LG GX Soundbar Review – RTINGS.com

The LG GX Soundbar has fair sound enhancement features. It has several EQ presets: ‘AI Sound Pro’, ‘Standard’, ‘Bass Blast’, ‘Music’, and ‘Movie’. The ‘AI Sound Pro’ feature, in particular, is advertised to optimize audio settings depending on the content you’re playing, but we don’t currently test this feature. There’s also a dialogue enhancement feature…

Ford, Bosch team with Detroit real estate firm Bedrock on automated valet parking

Vehicle maker Ford, automotive supplier Bosch, and property developer Bedrock are combining on a demonstration project in Detroit, Michigan, to automated valet parking, so vehicles drive and park themselves in an enclosed garage. The project, at Bedrock’s Assembly Garage in Detroit, is billed as the first “infrastructure-based [sensor-based] solution” for automated parking in the US.…