Sprint: ‘IoT is three simple letters, but it is an incredibly complex beast’ The Sprint IoT Factory, an online marketplace for easy-to-manage IoT solutions launched in May 2018, wasn’t closing as many sales as the site traffic suggested it should be. Sprint’s Head of Product & Solutions Ricky Singh said in an interview that it started to…
Most people in Britain would support regulated usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, for critical services and industrial enterprises, according to a report by Vodafone.Eighty per cent of the British public would support their adoption if better safety, security and monitoring measures were in place. The number is higher, at 86 per cent,…
Telecoms operators must do more than just sell connectivity. It is a maxim that gets repeated, often, and always – and one that, in the end, becomes more like a stick to beat them with than a code of survival, as they fail over and again to lead with digital innovation. There is an argument…
Telecoms operators must do more than just sell connectivity. It is a maxim that gets repeated, often, and always – and one that, in the end, becomes more like a stick to beat them with than a code of survival, as they fail over and again to lead with digital innovation. There is an argument…
Nvidia, Verizon using GPUs to run edge AI for real-time service enablement As 5G continues to be refined through the 3GPP-led standardization process, consumer-facing benefits will morph into bespoke enterprise services that add low latency and high reliability to enhanced mobile broadband. In order to reap the benefits of real-time decision making supported by 5G,…
Spending on factory data applications will grow from $18 billion in 2019 to just over $27 billion in 2024, a rise of 50 per cent in the period, according to analyst house ABI Research. The industrial and manufacturing sector is seeking to upgrade software systems as new sensing and analytics technologies emerge. Investment will go…
The Irish government has unveiled a five-year Industry 4.0 strategy to help manufacturing firms to respond to technological change. The plan, announced last month, includes €23.5 million of funding for the Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR) Centre, a joint initiative between Enterprise Ireland and the IDA, the government departments responsible, respectively, for economic development and inward…
Autonomous fleet control, remote health monitoring, smart traffic control and the use of digital twins for smart buildings are all among the applications called out by Derek O’Halloran, the World Economic Forums’ head of digital economy and new value creation, in blog posted ahead of the event this week in Davos, Switzerland. All of these…
As the headline suggests, this analysis should be seen in context. It offers only rapid arithmetic around the World Economic Forum’s (expanding) list of ‘lighthouse’ factories, which claim the most success with digital change. It considers the available data (the location and ownership of factories) from this research, and crosses the results with wider economic…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has opened a new ‘customer experience centre’ in Bangalore (Bengaluru), in India, to offer IoT solutions to customers and partners from across industries. The facility, on a 20,000 square-foot campus, shared with a global engineering centre for its Pointnext Services division, is part of HPE’s $500 million investment into India, announced…
