Business & Markets

As Mobile World Congress in Barcelona draws near again, you know that 5G will be on people’s lips. So Jeremy Cowan of IoT-Now.com asked Chris Pearson, president of 5G Americas to shed some light on what the advent of 5G will mean to all of us.

Gemalto, the provider in digital security, announces its new Subscription Management​ Discovery Service solution. This initiative sets new standards of freedom for all users of eSIM-connected devices, such as smartwatches, tablets, connected PCs and many more.

Stadium Group, a supplier of wireless solutions, power products, human machine interface solutions and electronics assemblies will be showcasing design-led technologies developed for the global healthcare markets at MD&M West, Anaheim, California, North America’s largest annual event for medtech manufacturers.

PTC announced that Colfax Corporation, a globally recognised manufacturing and engineering technology company, has selected the ThingWorx® Industrial Innovation Platform powered by Microsoft Azure to align its Internet of Things (IoT) efforts and increase the pace of development.

Addressing delegates at the Network Centric Warfare Conference in Rome, Rajant Corporation CEO, Robert Schena, stressed that wireless mobility is the key to ensuring secure military communications.

Airgain, Inc. a global provider of wireless connectivity platforms announced a new multi-year partnership with McLaren Technology Group. Airgain will build on its expertise in high performance antenna systems to drive technological advances within the automotive sector.

A new study from Juniper Research has found that global retailer spending on AI will reach $7.3 billion (€5.87 billion) per annum by 2022, up from an estimated $2 billion (€1.61 billion) in 2018, as retailers target new avenues to increase personalisation of the customer experience.

Interoute, the global cloud and network provider, has announced the launch of new services in São Paulo, Brazil. The site is Interoute’s first in South America, and will deliver a range of connectivity solutions in collaboration with local partners, as well as host a new Interoute Virtual Data Centre (VDC) zone.

The fourth industrial revolution is well underway and as state-of-the-art technology drops in price, many more industries are benefiting from smart factories. As a recent PwC survey found 72% of companies expect to achieve advanced levels of digitisation by 2020, the reach of these technologies is only set to increase in 2018.

HUBER+SUHNER, the manufacturer of components and systems for optical and electrical connectivity products, is set to present its latest solutions for digital system testing at this year’s DesignCon exhibition in Santa Clara.

According to Statista, there were 453 million connected wearable devices worldwide in 2018, a figure thatis predicted to increase to 593 million this year. While, unsurprisingly, the market is currently dominated by smart watches, you may be surprised at the benefits wearables 

The growing importance of Collaborative Working as business discipline is recognised by the publication by ISO Geneva of the International standard for Collaborative Business Relationships in March 2017.

“Smart cities are cities that utilise the Internet and Digital Technology to enhance the quality of life, performance of services and reduce costs by optimising energy consumption. The focus is on creating a framework with good connectivity and access to real time information for setting up an efficient management system that establishes a relationship between

Renesas Electronics, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced 38 new microcontrollers (MCUs) in its RX130 Group. The new MCUs extend flash memory size to 256 KB, 384 KB and 512 KB, and increase package size up to 100-pins to provide higher performance and compatibility with the RX231/RX230 Group of touch MCUs.

Pendo Systems, led by industry veteran Pamela Pecs Cytron, announced their intention to target the Insurance sector with their Pendo Machine Learning Platform (PMLP). With advanced machine learning capabilities at its core, the Pendo Machine Learning Platform is a unique data management and intelligence platform, providing exploration, discovery and analysis capabilities across multiple disparate sources

Huawei signed a mutual co-operation agreement with UnionPay International with the aim of working together to promote the globalisation of Huawei Pay and to accelerate its roll-out worldwide in order to provide a better mobile payment experience for Huawei mobile device users.