Blogs

Digital twins: The fast track to increased productivity

Digital twins are not a new thing. Companies have been using a virtual representation of a physical asset for years, but it’s only with the Internet of Things that they’ve become truly accessible and cost-effective. (more…)

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January 24, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

The Internet of Energy has much to gain from embedded SIM, says Beecham Research

New embedded SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) technology could play a major role in accelerating the development and adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) applications in the energy sector such as smart metering, demand response, (more…)

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January 23, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

EIT Digital begins work on Hadoop open source product and start-up to take innovation to market

EIT Digital the European open innovation organisation has launched a new Innovation Activity* called HopsWorks to work on a next generation Hadoop open-source software framework for distributed storage and processing of very large data sets. (more…)

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January 20, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

There’s a fragmented choice of wireless technologies for low power, wide area IoT

The telecom industry is good at generating confusion, says freelance IoT and communications writer, Bob Emmerson. LTE Cat-1 services are being launched in the States but not NB-IoT (LTE Cat NB1 is the official term), which only arrives in 2018. (more…)

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Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

Ericsson signs agreement China Mobile to cooperate on the Internet of Things

Ericsson and China Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. have signed a strategic agreement to cooperate on the Internet of Things (IoT). The deal is part of China Mobile’s Big Connectivity strategy, under which the operator expects to serve 200 million connected devices by 2017. (more…)

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January 17, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

ETSI launches new group to improve smart city interoperability

ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, has created a new Industry Specification Group on cross-sector Context Information Management (ISG CIM) for smart cities applications and beyond. (more…)

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Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

The impact of wearables and connected devices for developers – Part 1

The use of wearable and connected devices is increasing in popularity and frequency in the enterprise. These new classes of devices present a variety of benefits – from creating new business opportunities and increasing work quality and productivity, to solving problems that span across physical and virtual work scenarios. (more…)

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January 12, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

Three reasons you need ITAM for the Internet of Things

It was 1984, and I was off to the only movie theatre in the town where I lived. The movie was called Terminator and although it was science fiction, the story line had an eerie ring of truth. It was about intelligent computers rising and rebelling against its human progenitors. (more…)

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January 11, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

Gooee enters South American market in IoT lighting partnership with Brazil’s Lumicenter

Smart lighting start-up Gooee, creator of the first ‘full stack’ cloud-based platform that connects lighting manufacturers to the Internet of Things (IoT), has extended its international reach to South America. (more…)

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January 10, 2017

Posted by: Avadhoot Patil

RPMA technology coming to Europe in 2017

RPMA (Random Phase Multiple Access) LPWAN (low power wide area network) technology was designed from the bottom up to optimise wide area connectivity for Machine-to-Machine and Internet of Things (M2M and IoT) devices. (more…)

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Posted by: Avadhoot Patil