Deutsche Telekom’s IT and cloud services division T-Systems has teamed up with robot maker and automation specialist KUKA to offer a combined Industry 4.0 package for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector. The pair have compiled a ready-to-go bundle of industrial IoT services, specifically to go with KUKA robots. Targeted at SMEs…
Ericsson has revealed the first product off the production line at its new Texas-based 5G-geared smart factory has been delivered, to US operator Verizon. The item, itself, is notable: a millimeter-wave ‘street macro’ solution, presented as “key” to Ericsson’s 5G strategy in North America. But the subtext looks interesting, too: a cellular vendor making radio…
Swiss engineering conglomerate ABB has released an analytics software and services suite to combine data from information and operation technology (IT and OT). The new ABB Ability Genix product “collects, contextualizes, and converts” data from across industrial operations and engineering functions, along with enterprise-based IT disciplines, the company said. It reckons most industrial companies only…
Chinese city Xi’an has selected Hikvision for the deployment of an intelligent traffic management system, the latter said in a release. “Xi’an’s city walls make it impossible to increase the size of the urban area. So it was only through technology that we could allow the modern city to grow and develop,” said Lihu Ma, the Project…
Chinese city Xi’an has selected Hikvision for the deployment of an intelligent traffic management system, the latter said in a release. “Xi’an’s city walls make it impossible to increase the size of the urban area. So it was only through technology that we could allow the modern city to grow and develop,” said Lihu Ma, the Project…
Digital twin growth led by automotive, energy and manufacturing sectors At a high level, the goal of investing in the internet of things is to capture and analyze data from the physical world–machines, people, products, nature, everything–in pursuit of process efficiencies. For a manufacturer, for instance, connecting a factory with sensors can help managers quickly…
Gain Critical Insight If you lack insight into critical power analysis data, you cannot make confident decisions such as design and cost trade-offs. A water meter manufacturer used Keysight’s event-based power analysis software to gain better insight and reduced its development and test time by two months. It also extended its design’s battery life to…
UK IoT networking company Wyld Networks has launched a Bluetooth and Wi-Fi based mesh solution to connect sundry consumer and enterprise devices together as a mechanism for localised content marketing, access control, and social distancing. The firm said its new Wyld Mesh and Wyld Fusion networking solution and content delivery platform is designed for consumer…
A three-year industrial research project in Germany into how to bring safety and intelligence to next-generation transport systems has concluded the only way to is to combine IoT sensors, edge computing, and 5G connectivity in streetlighting infrastructure. The €5.5 million MEC-View project was commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi),…
Health tech startup Upstream Health has developed a low-cost IoT monitoring solution with the UK-based Thingstream division of IoT module maker U-Blox (branded ‘u-blox’) to help with remote care of elderly patients in their homes. The new solution could save the healthcare sector, with 250 million in home care globally, over £10,000 per patient over…
