Connected transport specialist sees 9 global trends in Internet of Things

If you were asked to name one industry vertical with a lot to gain from connecting its devices, analysing their data, then using these insights to create new services, what would it be? Smart cities? Manufacturing? Healthcare? How about transport? It’s benefited hugely over the years from machine-to-machine communications (M2M), particularly in vehicle telematics. But

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Multi-phase AI power chipset claims high efficiency and small total solution size

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. claims designers of high-performance, high-power artificial intelligence (AI) systems can now achieve highest efficiency (to reduce power cost and heat) and smallest total solution size with the MAX16602 AI cores dual-output voltage regulator and the MAX20790 smart power-stage IC.

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How connected technology is transforming the water utilities industry

Globally, smart metering is forecast to take off in the water sector. In total revenue terms, the smart share of AMI and AMR (advanced meter infrastructure & automated meter reading) has almost doubled from 28.2% in 2012 to 46.7% in 2020.

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Healthtech wearable glucose tracker Ultrahuman raises $17.5mn in series B funding

Ultrahuman, a metabolic fitness platform, has raised US$17.5 million (€14.87 million), as it aims to help more than a billion people in the world suffering from a metabolic health disorder. This brings the total funds raised so far to $25mn (€21.24 mn).

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RS Components and Zerynth’s IIoT workshop gives engineers a boost to Industry 4.0

RS Components, a trading brand of Electrocomponents plc, a global omni-channel provider of product and service solutions, is offering exclusive access to a hands-on workshop entitled ‘Edge Computing and Data Collection for Industrial IoT’. The workshop is delivered by IIoT platform vendor Zerynth via RS’ DesignSpark community webpage.

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IBM and Verizon create 5G Industry 4.0 testbed in Texas

Last year, IBM and Verizon announced a major collaboration to advance the era of 5G and edge computing in industrial operations, and just recently IBM’s CEO Arvind Krishna shared in his Mobile World Congress keynote address that IBM is working with Verizon to deploy a modern open hybrid cloud strategy across Verizon’s 5G network core and service orchestration

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Qatar Airways Cargo and WiseTech Global implement direct data connection

Qatar Airways Cargo, the air cargo carrier, and WiseTech Global, a provider of software solutions to the logistics industry, have commenced implementation of an extensive direct data connection between their global operating systems.

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AT&T and Kigen boost enterprise cellular IoT with SIM flexibility across LTE, LTE-M and NB-IoT

AT&T and Kigen are working together to help customers streamline their supply chains. They aim to reduce the time to market for enterprises who want to leverage SIM, embedded SIM (eSIM) and integrated SIM (iSIM) secured connectivity deep in their Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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IoT billing: When legacy isn’t the answer

Any conversation about enterprise software and its target functions (in this case billing) always comes in one of two flavours, theory, and practice. With revenues from traditional telco services eroding rapidly (for example look at the disruption of SMS revenue streams by WhatsApp), communications service providers (CSPs) are increasingly reliant on being able to move

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How to find genuine proposals for IoT product development

There is no doubt that poor requirement gathering leads to bad quality of products. If this holds true for a normal software project, imagine the importance of a critical space like the Internet of Things (IoT) that is a combination of multiple disciplines.

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IoT and blockchain – A paradigm shift

Data is the new source of developmental power today, in which good quality data represents big value. On the flipside, bad data is costing businesses 30% or more of their revenue. In fact, Gartner has found the average cost of poor data quality on businesses amounts to anywhere between $9.7 million (€8.22 million) and $14.2 million

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BT launches new managed security service to protect UK firms from cyber threats

BT‘s Enterprise unit launched its new Managed Security Service, to help UK businesses and the public sector better protect themselves from the escalating number and sophistication of cyber threats.

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Data visualisation, a graphical version of what your IoT and AI communicates

As Human beings, we are visual creatures. We tend to prefer visual information over words. Traffic signs have a visual element so you can quickly identify the sign shape and color to recognise the information before you can even read the words.

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eSync Alliance accelerates automotive OTA development with an SDK for member companies

The eSync Alliance announces the launch of its eSync Agent SDK, a new Software Development Kit (SDK) for the eSync Over-The-Air (OTA) platform. This new SDK makes it simpler and quicker to integrate electronic control units (ECUs), smart sensors and other edge devices in a vehicle with the eSync OTA data pipeline, thereby enabling automotive OEMs and

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Yokogawa active in lunar industry vision council and jointly submits plans to Japanese government

Yokogawa Electric Corporation reports that, as a participant in the Lunar Industry Vision Council, it has worked with other members from government, academia, and industry. The objective is to formulate a vision for a lunar industry, prepare a number of recommendations, and jointly submit them for the consideration of Inoue Shinji, Japan’s minister of State

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Average data breach cost now over $4mn, shows 10% growth

According to data presented by Atlas VPN, the average financial damages caused by a data breach increased by nearly 10% year over year to $4.24 million (€3.57 million)in 2021. This is the highest spike since 2015.

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