Boldyn Networks and Kingston Council have partnered to roll out a smart infrastructure pilot across the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom. The project will deploy smart columns to boost mobile connectivity, improve council services and enhance public safety and has been awarded £250,000 (€288057.50) of funding by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). (more…)
September 21, 2023
Posted by: Shriya Raban
NETGEAR Inc., has introduced Nighthawk Tri-Band Mesh Wi-Fi 6E System (MK93S), engineered for mesh Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) range and performance. The system, consisting of a router and two satellites, delivers 50% improved Wi-Fi performance over previous model and speeds up to 5.7Gbps (gigabytes per second). With quad-core 1.7GHz (gigahertz) processor and recent Wi-Fi 6E tri-band technology, it offers less congestion, ultra-low latency, and more bandwidth. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Accenture Federal Services has won a $25 million (€23.36 million) digital transformation prime contract to modernise operations for Air Force Sustainment Centre (AFSC) including each of three air logistics complexes (ALCs) at Tinker Air Force based in Oklahoma, Robins air force base in Georgia, and Hill air force base in Utah. Using an approach that includes cloud, edge computing, and industrial internet of things (IIoT), Accenture Federal Services is creating IIoT enterprise platform for AFSC’s technology hosting environment for NextGen automation, a programme commonly referred to as ATHENA. ATHENA is central to air force’s plan to create “digital depot”, and modernise AFSC operations. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
KBR announced that its commercial cloud and mission service platform, KBR Vaault, has been prioritised for Federal Risk and Authorisation Management Programme (FedRAMP) Joint Authorisation Board (JAB) authorisation process. KBR’s integrated technology solution is one of six products currently prioritised for JAB authorisation as a part of FedRAMP, a joint US government effort to provide cost-effective and risk-based cloud services. (more…)
September 18, 2023
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Molex has released a report that highlights opportunities and obstacles facing product design engineers as the future of connectivity continues to unfold. The report, “Predicting the Connectivity of Tomorrow: Innovations Driving the Connected World,” offers insights into changing future connectivity, which is poised to unlock product creations. (more…)
September 15, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has announced public release of Get Ready for Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) 7: Applying new capabilities to the key use cases, a report that explores how this technology will change the way people worldwide live, work and play. Based on the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) 802.11be (extreme high throughput) standard, Wi-Fi 7 has a variety of advanced capabilities. These will improve existing use cases or enable recent ones that are not possible with existing wired and wireless technologies. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Kobai, has announced collaboration with Databricks. With this collaboration, joint customers can leverage insights of knowledge graphs with scalability and power of Databricks lakehouse platform. Kobai’s saturn platform is embedded directly in data layer, allowing organisations to query data without moving it from lakehouse, with W3C (world wide web consortium) and lakehouse open standards providing complete interactivity. (more…)
September 13, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Iridium Communications Inc., announced that Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group (XCMG), will deploy Iridium IoT (internet of things) services on its global fleet of heavy equipment, starting with excavators and expanding to loaders and crane trucks as needed. XCMG will utilise Iridium’s global network to maintain critical connectivity with their heavy equipment in main locations including Australia, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Central Asia. (more…)
September 12, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
ReposiTrak has welcomed one of California’s large regional, self distributed grocery chains to ReposiTrak traceability network. Implementation is underway for chain’s 200 retail locations and 200 suppliers. They prepare supply chains for compliance with FDA’s FSMA food traceability 204 regulation using easy-to-adopt, low-cost solution that’s backed by industry. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
SES-imagotag and Lapeyre announce deployment of VUSION IoT Cloud platform and electronic shelf labels (ESLs) across 132 stores in France. VUSION platform will enable Lapeyre to address its needs for displaying customer information in-store. This range of ESLs and cloud-connected solutions developed by SES-imagotag will allow Lapeyre to deploy in real time prices and technical specifications of products offered in its stores. (more…)
September 11, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar