Farmers have always been skilled at observing their environment: weather, soil, crop readiness and adjusting their planting, harvesting and other tasks based on measurements, conditions and forecasts. Here we look at a recent project to IoT-enable these traditional farming skills.

Over the last two decades, fleet management software has been steadily gaining popularity around the globe. According to the MarketsAndMarkets report the Fleet Management market is expected to reach US$27.9 billion by 2021.

When bosses at laundry company Berendsen UK say their biggest challenge is “speed of cycle”, they’re not referring to the giant washing machines they fill with one million bed sheets, pillowcases, tablecloths, napkins and towels every day.

Municipalities and public institutions are concerned about air, water, noise or lighting pollution in cities. In the last years, it has become mandatory through several international regulations to reduce emissions that could impact in the environment and also inhabitants lives.

Fuel delivery has always had some built-in inefficiency. Like most fuel and lubricant distributors, Retif Oil & Fuel followed a keep full model when restocking fuel tanks and was spending too much money topping off customer fuel tanks and making emergency deliveries. Without an accurate view of customer fuel stocks it was impossible to determine who needed fuel or how much they [...]

Designed to alert drivers when schoolchildren are present, especially in low-visibility conditions, school-zone flasher signals are typically updated manually at each school.

Isotrak is a provider of fleet management software solutions and systems integration to some of the largest Fortune 500 companies and to six of the top 25 largest food retailers worldwide. With its ATMSi transport management system, customers gain real-time visibility,

Workspace’s Metal Box Factory  redevelopment in London has achieved the top connectivity rating from the independent commercial connectivity accreditor, WiredScore for its investment in connectivity infrastructure and solutions.

Report Snapshot

Strategy Analytics has developed IoT market sizing and forecasts starting with a consistent definition for that market. The analysis examines the IoT market within the context of overall IT expenditures and the global economy. Beginning with an estimate of a market at $150 billion in 2016, IoT is projected to grow to $550 billion in 2025. While a far cry from some [...]

WHAT DOES LTE OFFER?

The M2M and IoT markets face substantial disruption as new network technologies come to market that offer widely different speeds and capacities. 2G cellular connections are starting to disappear in some markets as 2G networks are retired to free up spectrum for 4G – LTE – capacity. The sunsetting of 2G networks will necessitate substantial module or device [...]