US-based Cisco Systems teamed up with eight Taiwanese partners to open a demonstration center for smart city applications and products in Taiwan, according to local publication DigiTimes.com. The US networking specialist is seeking to join forces with the Taoyuan City Government, Taoyuan Aerotropolis and Asia Silicon Valley Development Project to build an IoT R&D cluster…
Japan’s Softbank will plough artificial intelligence (AI) and internet-of-things (IoT) technologies into a burgeoning smart city project in Indonesia, after striking a deal with Jakarta-based conglomerate Lippo Group. The deal, with the Indonesian firm’s real-estate division PT Lippo Karawaci (LPKR), focuses on Lippo Village in Tangerang, a new town west of Jakarta. It envisions a…
Japan’s Softbank will plough artificial intelligence (AI) and internet-of-things (IoT) technologies into a burgeoning smart city project in Indonesia, after striking a deal with Jakarta-based conglomerate Lippo Group. The deal, with the Indonesian firm’s real-estate division PT Lippo Karawaci (LPKR), focuses on Lippo Village in Tangerang, a new town west of Jakarta. It envisions a…
Stephen Mellor picks up where he left off, and where we left him: the challenge with industrial IoT to gain widespread adoption is as much to do with interpretation as with deployment. Different industrial disciplines have different demands, even if they sometimes appear the same. Semantics come into play, he explains. “The language is different.…
A doctor in Rome has performed “major surgery” on a patient in an operating theatre in the city of Terni, 100 kilometres away, using virtual reality glasses and a 5G connection. The operation was live-streamed to 30,000 specialists and surgeons across the world. Actually, we should check the detail, as presented by Italian operator TIM.…
The Australian government is to use drones and analytics to monitor the decommissioning and revegetation of mining sites in the north of the country. The department for the environment and energy in Australia has appointed UK-based analytics firm Maestrano Group to equip drones with video analytics technologies to ensure former mining regions are returned to…
Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, has issued an executive order to hire a new ‘algorithms management and policy officer’ to bring transparency and order to the city’s use of data and analytics tools. The move comes after the city convened a task force around the use of automated decision systems (ADS)…
Telefónica has revealed a five-point reinvention plan to set it for “the next 100 years”; the strategy leans heavily into the digital transformation of industry and society, and sees the Spanish operator establish a brand new establish a brand new €2 billion digital change unit, called Telefónica Tech, selling cybersecurity, IoT and analytics, and cloud services.…
Will carriers be ousted, or forced to cede ground, in the enterprise market with the rise of private networking and the liberalisation of spectrum in the 5G era? Nokia thinks the existential threat to the operator community has been overplayed. “By and large, almost exclusively, the situation has been overstated and misunderstood,” said Houman Modarres,…
Japanese utility firm Nippon Gas (NICIGAS) announced plans to upgrade 850,000 gas meters with smart capabilities in 2020 using a retrofitted gas meter reader developed by UnaBiz and Soracom, the latter said in a statement. IoT connectivity provider Soracom highlighted that Space Hotaru, an original concept by Nippon Gas, is a reader that is “easily…
