Utilities

You’ve hit a big roadblock in your quest to design the ultimate battery-powered connected technology: Your device works perfectly, but it only works for half a day before running out of electricity.

High price tags continue to put smart homes beyond the reach of most home owners and many who can afford to pay are not been sold on the benefits, according to a report from Beecham Research released today.

There are concerns, especially in the European market, that not enough progress is being made in the roll-out of smart metering by utilities. Here, Jeremy Cowan, editorial director of IoT Now & VanillaPlus talks to Jerry Chase, CEO of Bsquare.

A European vendor of connected-vehicle applications like Nissan Smart Car app in Middle East, and KIA Remoto app in Russia, announced the launch of a self-driving car solution with a neural network trained through computer games as well as real-life examples.

Read any tech blog today or check out the hottest technology showcases worldwide, and you can feel the buzz around the latest advancements in two key consumer-tech industries – automotive technology and wearables.

HOW SMART ENERGY HELPS COMPANIES MAKE MONEY AND IMPROVE COMPLIANCE Smart energy relies on Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to address the challenges that people and businesses across the world face as energy supply transitions from fossil fuel and nuclear power reliance to new and renewable sources of energy. In many markets, change isn’t happening

Cisco and VimpelCom Group, a global provider of telecommunications and digital services headquartered in Amsterdam and serving over 200 million customers, announced that VimpelCom has selected Cisco Jasper to be the Smart Connectivity management platform across its network operator properties globally.

ZTE Corporation, an international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, announced that the company has joined Avanci.

Qualcomm Inc’s has subsidiary Qualcomm Technologies is introducing the Snapdragon™ 600E and 410E processors, for embedded applications in many verticals such as digital signage, set-top-boxes, medical imaging, point of sale systems, industrial robotics, and other Internet of Things (IoT) related applications.

With its Remoto telematics solution, the global connected car software and hardware vendor Bright Box offers a comfort tool for vehicle manufacturers, dealers and car owners.

An open ecosystem offers several benefits to smart home market participants, says Thomas Rockmann, VP of Connected Home, Deutsche Telekom AG.

There are significant challenges facing the smart home market, and perhaps the most visible is being caused and perpetuated by market fragmentation, says Thomas Rockmann, VP of Connected Home, Deutsche Telekom AG.

Netclearance, a smart beacon technology provider, has announced the launch of its latest beacon: the mBeaconVend.

The connected home may seem like common currency now – in 2016 we’re looking at an unprecedented increase in both acceptance and actual hardware running ‘in the wild’ – but the road here has been a long one.

Dialog Semiconductor plc, a provider of highly integrated power management, AC/DC power conversion, solid state lighting (SSL) and Bluetooth® low energy (LE) technology, has announced the launch of SmartBond™ DA14681, the world’s most integrated single-chip solution

Part One of this article focused on the need for a clear, defined strategy when adopting an IoT system, which is something that has to come from C-level management. The early role of IT is to ensure that the appropriate technology and architecture decisions are made.