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Peachtree Corners enhances safety with Juganu’s smart city lighting

Peachtree Corners has announced a collaboration with Juganu. Juganu’s smart city lighting solutions will be deployed within the Curiosity Lab ecosystem and at City of Peachtree Corners Town Centre. This marks Juganu’s first full smart city lighting deployment in the United States. (more…)

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August 21, 2024

Posted by: Magda Dabrowska

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Veea and Tecno deploy Niagara software infrastructure in transit system

Veea has partnered with smart buildings firm Tecno Buildings on the initial commercially deployed use of the Containerised Portable Niagara (CPN) software framework in a mass urban transit system. Veea collaborated with Tridium to develop CPN and is a Tridium partner deploying containerised Niagara at the network edge that helps remove wired connectivity in greenfield and brownfield deployments.

Using the Veea Edge Platform, Tecno Buildings has deployed a pilot program revolutionising how IoT (Internet of Things) data is collected in an urban mass transit system. Tecno Buildings has installed VeeaHubs with CPN at select stations throughout a major urban subway network in Latin America to wirelessly monitor and gather systems data. The move focuses on smart building connectivity experts validating how CPN and LoRaWAN (long-range wide area network) networking revolutionise IoT data collection for improved subway system maintenance and energy consumption.

“The Veea Edge Platform is living up to its stellar reputation for flexibility and ease of deployment in edge-based functionality,” said Alfredo Melnick, founder and general director of Tecno Buildings. “We’re delighted to have Veea as a strategic partner. Veea’s smart edge solutions reduce installation complexity and offer competitive advantages that we can share with our end customers. We look forward to many successful deployments in additional project rollouts.”

The subway pilot program intends to demonstrate that combining the Veea Edge Platform running CPN within a LoRaWAN will reduce energy consumption costs while providing proactive and predictive maintenance alerts for unplanned system downtime.

“It is fantastic to see this deployment of Containerised Portable Niagara on Veea’s Edge Platform in such a unique setting,” said Michael Youngs, global sales director for OEM at Tridium, an independent business entity of Honeywell International. “Tridium values the Veea team and their ability to find innovative use cases for CPN. The transportation network deployment demonstrates a winning combination of containerised Niagara framework on Veea’s Edge Platform and Tecno Buildings design skills. Running Niagara at the edge will reduce downtime and costs for the transportation hubs and allow for use case expansion at the same locations to address other needs.”

The Tridium Niagara Framework is a comprehensive software infrastructure that serves as a central console for connecting real-time operational data to the people and systems that manage workflows in smart buildings, data centers, industrial processes, smart cities and other aspects of business enterprises. With CPN running on VeeaHub products, the Niagara Framework benefits from the full range of wired and wireless networking solutions to connect to electro-mechanical systems onsite, while offering easier installation and maintenance as well as reliability afforded through network redundancy. 

The Veea Edge Platform enables building managers and property developers to experience more efficient deployments, higher speeds and lower latencies with more networking options, wide range of expansion options, less downtime, and significant cost savings, along with the simplicity of remote management and monitoring of IoT devices.

“We couldn’t ask for a better strategic partner in Latin America than Tecno Buildings, with their laser focus on smarter buildings and more sustainable construction,” said Allen Salmasi, chairman and CEO of Veea. “It’s exciting to see our Veea Edge Platform demonstrate the world’s first-ever transit system use case for Containerised Portable Niagara. Veea with CPN has the potential for enabling transformative solutions for a variety of edge use cases in all types of environments requiring reliable monitoring and control of the infrastructure with more options for network connectivity, onsite and remote management, streamlined predictive maintenance and improved energy consumption.”

The two companies are also collaborating on a project extending Niagara Framework beyond buildings, recently installing outdoor VeeaHubs with CPN and LoRaWAN technology at a coastal resort to reduce energy consumption and enable more efficient control of water levels.

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August 13, 2024

Posted by: Anna Ribeiro

City of Lakeland adopts Iteris for smart mobility and safety initiative

Iteris announced its selection by the City of Lakeland, Florida to provide smart mobility infrastructure management technologies to support the city’s Intersection Crash Avoidance Safety Program (iCASP). The initiative will help improve safety at high-impact intersections. 

“We’re thrilled to be supporting FDOT and the City of Lakeland in their Intersection Collision Avoidance Safety Program,” Kevin Exner, regional vice president at Iteris, said in a Wednesday media statement. “This is not only an excellent chance to carry on with our extensive work in the Florida market, but it also combines two of our greatest passions at Iteris: the advancement of ITS infrastructure and the enhancement of road user safety.

The project includes the deployment of Vantage Next, Iteris’ next-generation video detection system and VantageLive!, an easy-to-use, web-based data service that allows users to view activity at their intersections by automatically collecting and analysing vehicle, bicycle and pedestrian data, removing the need for manual, costly data collection efforts. These technologies will enable FDOT and the City of Lakeland to proactively prioritise easy-to-implement red light running countermeasures with the Red Protect safety feature.

Lakeland will also utilise BlueTOAD roadside units at select intersections. BlueTOAD combines real-time and historical Bluetooth detection with vehicle-to-everything (V2X) interconnectivity to enable various connected vehicle applications as well as to provide synchronisation with transportation agency travel-time and performance measures-based systems.

Vantage Next, VantageLive! and BlueTOAD are key components of Iteris’ ClearMobility Platform, the world’s most complete solution to monitor, visualise and optimise mobility infrastructure continuously. The platform applies cloud computing, artificial intelligence, advanced sensors, advisory services and managed services to help ensure roads are safe, travel is efficient and communities thrive.

The City of Lakeland initiated this project due to a high number of crashes attributed to red lights running in certain high-impact intersections throughout the city. The deployment of Iteris’ advanced technologies at 19 of these intersections is expected to increase safety for Lakeland’s travelling public.

In March, Iteris announced that it had been awarded a contract by the Virginia Department of Transportation to implement a statewide smart mobility initiative.

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August 8, 2024

Posted by: Anna Ribeiro

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Actelis Networks secures initial order for hybrid-fibre solution in German city

Actelis Networks has announced that it has received an initial order, as part of a larger project, to provide a municipal utilities company in a major German city, with its hybrid-fibre networking solution. The order was placed by a local partner of Actelis in Germany. (more…)

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July 1, 2024

Posted by: Magda Dabrowska

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Schneider Electric launches SMART Buildings Division in Canada

Schneider Electric is transforming its Digital Buildings business in Canada with the launch of the SMART Buildings Division. This evolution marks a move to deliver comprehensive solutions and services that support building owners and operators in achieving their decarbonisation and sustainability goals. (more…)

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June 26, 2024

Posted by: Magda Dabrowska

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Sinclair Digital partners with Environments for smart building solutions

Sinclair Digital, a provider of advanced network solutions for hotels, commercial buildings, warehouses, offices and schools, has announced a partnership with Environments. This collaboration will integrate Environments’ Elevated building systems AI and IoT platform into Sinclair Digital’s AGILE-CORE family of DC Microgrid building network and infrastructure products.

Enhancing AGILE-CORE with Elevated building systems

AGILE-CORE is a comprehensive platform designed for safe power distribution, automation, control and management, making buildings smarter, more resilient and more energy-efficient. The integration of Environments’ Elevated building systems and IoT software platform will further enhance AGILE-CORE, providing unprecedented smart building solutions.

A future-ready smart building solution

Luis Suau, the chief business officer at Sinclair Digital, said, “Our AGILE-CORE distributed networking technology can power, communicate with and control most building infrastructures, such as lighting, shading, security cameras and access control, as well as occupant devices like laptops, tablets and phones. In the future, it will support larger devices, including appliances, HVAC systems and EV charging stations, which already use DC power internally.”

The Elevated software platform offers a wide array of IoT integrations and technologies for comprehensive climate control, health and security measures, empowering users to fully optimise their spaces. The combined AGILE-CORE and Elevate solution will set a new standard in smart building AI solutions.

Plug-and-play solutions for electrical contractors

Sinclair Digital’s AGILE-CORE architecture provides pre-packaged systems that combine Fault Managed Power (FMP), PoE and USB power infrastructure. These plug-and-play solutions are tailored for Electrical Contractors, Lighting Agents and Specifiers, using Sinclair Digital’s extensive design/build installation expertise.

For additional product and sales inquiries, please email info@sinclair-digital.com.

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June 18, 2024

Posted by: Magda Dabrowska

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Iteris and Sumitomo Electric partner to boost U.S. pedestrian safety

Iteris and Sumitomo Electric Industries (SEI) have announced a partnership that will bring the Sumitomo Pedestrian Detection sensor to the U.S. market, a technology that has enhanced pedestrian safety across Japan. (more…)

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June 12, 2024

Posted by: Magda Dabrowska

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Sisvel launches campaign to simplify IoT patent licensing

Sisvel has launched a new informational campaign that will help IoT device makers navigate the legal issues involved in implementing the NB-IoT and LTE-M standards and understand the simple, efficient solutions created by industry to ensure the continued growth of these technologies. (more…)

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June 5, 2024

Posted by: Magda Dabrowska

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Peachtree Corners integrates Nx Go solution in IoT Control Room

Peachtree Corners has announced that enterprise video software powerhouse Network Optix has partnered with Curiosity Lab and has integrated its Nx Go solution, tailored for traffic infrastructure, into the city’s “IoT Control Room”. This marks the first time that the company’s technology has been deployed as a full solution in the U.S. (more…)

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May 22, 2024

Posted by: Magda Dabrowska

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Cornerstone and Signify partner for smart city solutions

Cornerstone partners with Signify to inflence street lighting with 5G and IoT connectivity. Cornerstone’s approach recognises the growing demand for digital connectivity in UK cities, and this partnership aims to provide an innovative solution to address this need by using existing infrastructure. By integrating Signify’s luminaire technology into lamp heads on streetlights, Cornerstone will build an Outdoor Neutral Host platform to enable connectivity in urban environments discreetly and efficiently, allowing communities access to public networks.

“This partnership is yet another example of our evolution towards neutral hosting and smart city solutions,” said Nick Spedding, a new business manager at Cornerstone. “We’re committed to bringing connectivity to urban and dense urban areas across the UK where currently connectivity is not in place or limited, enabling access to public networks is at everyone’s fingertips.”

Cornerstone’s role as a neutral host in this partnership underscores its commitment to enabling connectivity deployment across diverse urban landscapes. The first project under this partnership will be deployed across three cities, laying the foundation for future expansion and innovation in the field of smart city infrastructure.

“This collaboration with Cornerstone marks an exciting opportunity to converge the strengths of two industry leaders,” said Khalid Aziz, the SVP and managing director of the BrightSites Business Unit at Signify. “By harnessing the power of 5G and IoT through our street lighting solution, we are illuminating streets and paving the way for a more connected and sustainable future.”

With the project set to launch within the next 10 weeks, both companies are poised to lead the market in driving innovation and progress across the UK.

For media inquiries or further information, please contact Lydia McGurin at lydia.mcgurin@cornerstone.network.

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May 13, 2024

Posted by: Magda Dabrowska