ABB has inked a contract with Singaporean shipyard Keppel Offshore & Marine to enable autonomous tug operation in 2020, the company said in a release. Under the terms of the agreement, ABB, in collaboration with Keppel O&M’s technology arm, Keppel Marine and Deepwater Technology (KMDTech), will jointly develop the technology for autonomous vessels and retrofit…
Digging for gold. The digital transformation of the metals and mining sectors – a review of the strategies, technologies and stakes in play as the mining industry seeks more sustainable and competitive ways to dig for gold and other everyday treasures. UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman dives deep into the technology making ‘vertical’ industry…
A new global alliance has been established by ABB and Microsoft, alongside a cross-section of industrial technologists, to tackle cybersecurity threats to operational technology (OT), as it is increasingly connected to IT systems in order to drive new analytics and automation technologies. The new group, called the Operational Technology Cyber Security Alliance (OTCSA), will deliver…
NVIDIA has announced a combination of edge computing and 5G networking innovations around its graphics processing unit (GPU) technologies, to drive scale of artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), and 5G applications. Its new NVIDIA EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform is geared for rapid-fire data analytics to support artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT),…
The MulteFire Alliance has announced the launch of its MulteFire 1.9 GHz certification programme, to ensure devices conform with its MulteFire 1.1 specification. The 1.9 GHz certification will test eNodeB devices in the 1.9 GHz band in Japan, verifying that devices can effectively interoperate and communicate via LTE. The programme is open to MulteFire Alliance…
Israeli firm Altair Semicondictor will embed ‘cloud location over cellular’ (C-LoC) software into its ALT1250 dual-mode NB-IoT and LTE-M chipset. It has worked with C-LoC technology firm Polte Corporation on the initiative. Altair claims the ALT1250 dual-mode cellular IoT chipset is the market’s smallest, enabling module sizes of less than 100 square millimeters, and also…
California based Pensando Systems has received $145 million in Series C, led by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, to emerge from ‘stealth’ mode to launch its software-defined cloud-to-edge service stack. The Series C round takes its total funding to $278 million, after an earlier founder-led series A round of $71…
Golf club Haga Golf in Oslo, Norway has selected Orange Business Services to implement Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to help make its golf course management smarter, the latter said in a release. The Orange IoT solution will support the transformation of costly, labor-intensive greenskeeping duties and ensure optimal course conditions throughout the season, the…
Cities are set to be able to run smart city applications in CBRS spectrum contained on street-lighting poles, after streetlight networking provider Ubicquia announced it is adding CBRS functionality to its Ubimetro-branded small cells. The addition of support for IoT, LTE, and 5G networks running in the newly available 3.5 GHz CBRS band will help…
The policy is the technology and the technology is the policy. That is the truth of city governance in the digital age, says Gartner. Any government services delivered at scale are underpinned by various technologies, it says. The challenge is to get these technologies right; failure to do so will undermine service, policy, and government…
