Rockwell Automation and Microsoft have signed a new five-year deal to combine their expertise in operational and information technology (OT and IT), to deliver new edge-to-cloud IoT solutions that bring connectivity and intelligence for industrial transformation. The deal will focus, in a major way, on digital twin solutions. The pair said their collaboration will enable…
Software AG wants to make carriers the go-to agents for private 5G campus networks in ‘vertical’ spectrum, and the collective face for new 5G-geared industrial change. The Darmstadt based company, which positions itself already as the leading provider of IoT-based analytics and integration tools for the telco set, reckons mobile operators can position themselves as…
The Zigbee Alliance has started a new Europe-focused special interest group to promote the short-range technology in the European market. The group is chaired by Swedish flat-pack furniture company Ikea, which integrates Zigbee into its smart lighting products. The European group will also lead the work programme for the alliance’s Connected Home over IP project,…
Sigfox has made good on its promise to hit the magic dollar mark for asset tracking devices, and to shore up its position in the fragmented IoT networking space as the sector searches for ‘massive’ global scale. The France-based narrowband IoT networking firm, which had 16.2 million connections on its networks at last count, is…
Netherlands-based SHV Energy is to deploy smart meters and telemetry on its gas tanks in Europe and the US. The move is geared to improve asset management, supply-chain security, and truck routing, to reduce fuel costs and carbon emissions. The solution will use LTE-M and NB-IoT based airtime from France-based Orange, via its own operations…
BT and Toshiba have deployed an unhackable six-kilometre length of quantum encrypted fibre optic cable for transfer of highly sensitive data between different industrial facilities. It is the first deployment in the UK of a quantum-secure point-to-point fibre network, for sharing encryption ‘keys’ between locations using a stream of single photons. The new fibre network,…
BT and Toshiba have deployed an unhackable six-kilometre length of quantum encrypted fibre optic cable for transfer of highly sensitive data between different industrial facilities. It is the first deployment in the UK of a quantum-secure point-to-point fibre network, for sharing encryption ‘keys’ between locations using a stream of single photons. The new fibre network,…
Swiss Re and Hitachi are offering to insure industrial companies against business disruption from bad or back-firing algorithms in critical AI-controlled processes and operations. It is the first time enterprises have been offered insurance against AI. The arrangement is between the commercial insurance division of Swiss Reinsurance Company (Swiss Re), Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, and…
Digital twin and digital twin drive process improvement within and beyond a factory Digital transformation is a broad term that means many things to many people. But, at its core, digital transformation is a technology-enabled process that facilitates the capture and analysis of operational data, which is then used to inform process adjustments meant to…
If you miss the boat on IoT, you will miss the boat on business. That was the message from adopters of new IoT technologies, according to a Vodafone poll of enterprises in 13 markets. About three quarters (73 percent) of respondents reckon organisations that fail to embrace IoT will fall behind within five years. The…
