ZTE and China Telecom assisted Australian firm Bluetron in commissioning what they claim is China’s first 5G Standalone site, which put 5G slicing, edge computing and smart manufacturing into trial to help Bluetron build a new 5G smart factory. In order to meet data requirements of industrial production, the Zhejiang Branch of China Telecom,…
Tech Mahindra and Cisco have come up with a new digital factory blueprint that puts 5G at the heart industrial operations. Tech Mahindra said the solution sets a model for IT-OT integration and security. The solution covers certain factory functions, including wireless networking on the shop floor, and networking connectivity and data integration between information…
Fifteen smart city networks and tech governance groups, representing 200,000 public and private sector organisations in the smart cities space, have joined together to establish global policy standards for the use of connected devices in public spaces. Their objective, they said, is to ensure cities do not open a “Pandora’s box” of technologies with their…
BehrTech, the Toronto-based startup in charge of the MIOTY low-power wide-area (LPWA) technolgy, has signed with industrial software company MAJiK Systems, from Ontario, to connect legacy industrial equipment with analytics software. BehrTech’s MYTHINGS-branded connectivity platform, for managing MIOTY-based sensors and connectivity, has been integrated with MAJiK’s data monitoring and analytics for programmable logic controllers (PLC).…
The Department of Water and Sewage (DAE) of Americana in São Paulo, Brazil, will deploy smart meters and management solutions from Itron to stem water losses from 80,000 water and sewage connections. It is also seeking to gain closer insight of the performance of its systems with the solution. DAE Americana reports losses of up…
Toronto-based BehrTech, licensee of the new MIOTY low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology, has come out swinging, it says, both as it gathers business from incumbent LPWA rivals and as it sets itself for a full tilt at the IoT connectivity market in 2020. The firm has opened an office in Asia Pacific a year ahead of…
Accenture recently entered into an agreement to acquire Nytec, a U.S.-based product innovation and engineering company. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Nytec is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington and has a team of 250. After closing, Nytec will become part of Accenture Industry X.0, which focuses on creating new types of products, services and experiences,…
ADLink demos how machine vision and edge compute drive efficiency and savings for palletization Virtually any company that makes, sells or transports goods spends time and money putting boxes onto pallets. While this function is easy to overlook, it’s currently a largely manual process that takes time, money while adding risk. However, as companies increasingly…
In a trio of announcements at Arm TechCon 2019 in San Jose yesterday (October 8), chip design company Arm walked the line on increasing flexibility and reducing fragmentation in the IoT space, as the rise of 5G and AI place ever-higher demand on compute power, hardware-software integration, and easy scalability. Most significantly, Arm is enabling…
Silicon companies Arm, Bosch, NVIDIA, and NXP Semiconductors have joined with car makers General Motors and Toyota and automotive suppliers Continental and DENSO in a new alliance geared towards ‘making fully self-driving vehicles a reality’. The new Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC) was announced at Arm TechCon 2019 in San Jose as a collaborative effort…
