Federated Wireless has announced it has secured $13.7 million in additional Series C funding from existing investors Allied Minds and Pennant Investors. The funding will accelerate its partnership with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure to offer connectivity-as-a-service, which has seen most business in the industrial IoT space. It will also provide a new pathway…
The Zigbee Alliance and the Digital Illumination Interface Alliance (DiiA), the organisation for DALI lighting control, are working together to bring further standardisation and system interoperability to IoT-based luminaires in the smart lighting space. The pair said the collaboration will help realise the benefits of combining wired DALI lighting-control with wireless Zigbee-based IoT networks. They are…
Digi International has released a new line of cellular routers for critical infrastructure and intelligent traffic system applications. The company said it wants to be the “IoT connectivity player of choice”. The firm said it is working to “align” enterprise customers and IoT solutions in the of public safety, transportation, smart cities, and retail. Its…
Everguard.ai, a developer of AI-based worker safety solutions, announced that it has joined the Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program from Qualcomm Technologies. The Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program is designed to connect cities, municipalities, government agencies, and enterprises with an ecosystem of providers to help deliver greater efficiencies, cost savings, safety, and sustainability. Program…
Digi International has released a new line of cellular routers for critical infrastructure and intelligent traffic system applications. The company said it wants to be the “IoT connectivity player of choice”. The firm said it is working to “align” enterprise customers and IoT solutions in the of public safety, transportation, smart cities, and retail. Its…
Research firm Strategy Analytics has worked through a detailed example of an industrial maintenance and repair operation that leverages augmented reality (AR) technology. The result is impressive: a return of 42.3 percent on the initial investment, and payback in a little over three years. The exercise makes use of an ROI calculator tool, developed by…
Research firm Strategy Analytics has worked through a detailed example of an industrial maintenance and repair operation that leverages augmented reality (AR) technology. The result is impressive: a return of 42.3 percent on the initial investment, and payback in a little over three years. The exercise makes use of an ROI calculator tool, developed by…
The City of Las Vegas is to pay $1.58 million over five years for a range of camera-based artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to automate the enforcement of parking and traffic regulations. Australian AI provider SenSen Networks has won the five-year contract, which covers the purchase of two vehicle-mounted mobile parking enforcement units, and licenses for…
This article continues from here. It is an excerpt from a full report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is available to download (for free) from here. Other entries in the…
Danish engineering firm Danfoss is piloting a private LTE network at its factory in Vaasa, in the northwest of Finland. It is working with Finnish systems integrator Etteplan, which has partnered with country-mates Nokia and Edzcom on the project. The pilot started in January, and runs for 12 months. Etteplan is handling network design, base…
