Smart technology is helping users to manage irrigation more efficiently

Plants need water, whether it’s a green golf course, a wiry vineyard, or waving fields of wheat. Landscape managers and farmers must irrigate their plants, but due to worldwide climate change,

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Today is Internet Day – How are you celebrating?

Who knew? Today Saturday, October 29 is Internet Day. Well, Gemalto for one knew, and here two of their leading lights reflect on where we are now with the challenges facing the Internet of Things.

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Vayyar advances smart home solutions and applications with its powerful 3D imaging sensor technology

Vayyar Imaging, the 3D-imaging sensor company whose technology makes it possible to see through objects, liquids, and materials, has announced the availability of its award-winning 3D sensor technology for the Smart Home market.

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Smart farming must step up to the plate to meet global challenge, says Beecham Research

The development of smart farming and precision agriculture must accelerate rapidly and learn lessons from smart city projects if it is to meet the challenge set by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation,

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Gooee and Leedarson form smart strategic alliance

Gooee, an enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) platform designed for the LED lighting sector, has signed a partnership agreement with Leedarson, an original equipment and device (OEM/ODM)

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Affixing the ‘smart’ adjective: Standardisation and data in smart transport

The Internet of Things (IoT) makes many promises; a more cohesive society, greater understanding of existing technologies and vows of a better, easier life. But as more and more ‘things’ become ‘smart’ are technology providers really ready to follow up on such grand gestures?

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Advantech partners with Intel, Microsoft, ARM and IBM to process IoT solutions from device to cloud

Advantech, has announced at its Embedded IoT Partner Summit that it is collaborating with Intel®, Microsoft, ARM, and IBM to create Internet of Things (IoT) solutions that cover the span from device to cloud services.

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Ekholm calls for ‘courage and reinvestment’ as he is named Ericsson’s new president and CEO

Ericsson‘s (NASDAQ:ERIC) Board of Directors has appointed Börje Ekholm as the company’s new president and CEO, with effect from January 16, 2017. Ekholm will also remain a member of the Board of Directors of Ericsson.

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Scotland broadens IoT roll out with four new networks

Businesses, public sector organisations, and communities in Aberdeen, Dundee, Paisley, and Orkney will benefit from state-of-the-art connectivity, with the launch of new Internet of Things (IoT) networks in each location.

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Three companies collaborate to extend Renesas Synergy secure IoT platform based on new ARMv8-M architecture

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Express Logic, Inc., provider of royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), and IAR Systems, embedded development tools provider, has announced their collaboration.

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Qualcomm focuses on IoT as it agrees to buy chipset maker NXP Semiconductors for US$47bn

Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) and NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) have today announced a definitive agreement, unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies, under which Qualcomm will acquire NXP for a share price valuing NXP at US$47 billion.

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Tibbo unveils TPS-based office aircon controller application

Air conditioning (AC) is a consumptive business while air conditioners are costly to run. AC systems in general, and older ones in particular, do not have any temperature feedback. You set the temperature on your remote,

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Advanced analytics drives crew efficiency

According to statistics from the European Wind Energy Association, 12,800 MW of wind power capacity was installed and grid-connected in the EU during 2015 – more than any other form of power generation.

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Surge in demand for IoT skills in the UK over the last 12 months, Gemalto analysis shows

Gemalto has found that the number of postings in the UK for positions requiring skills in Internet of Things (IoT) related technologies has increased by 70% over the past year, rising 120 places in the ranking of IT jobs.

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Mobile e-commerce businesses to enhance platforms through IoT and predictive analytics

With the growth of mobile e-commerce, the number of online communication channels and the volume of customer data is multiplying, prompting software developers to design platforms that can collect and analyse data from all channels.

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Common enterprise IoT devices are hackable in less than three minutes, says ForeScout

ForeScout Technologies, Inc. an Internet of Things (IoT) security company, has released a new IoT Enterprise Risk Report, led by an ethical hackers, Samy Kamkar.

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