When Jeremy Cowan, IoT Now’s editorial director & publisher, was asked to moderate and open the 7th IoT Forum CE (June 5th, Vienna, Austria) the brief for his presentation was “Industrial IoT: Where are we going?” By the time he’d finished drafting it, it had turned into “Where are we going wrong?” Here is his paper.

IROOTECH, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform provider in China, has announced plans to enter the European market with the global IIoT platform ROOTCLOUD. IROOTECH, a spin-off of Sany Group which is one of the leading construction machinery companies in the world, was founded in 2016.

Soracom, Inc., provider of the cloud-native platform for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced the appointment of Eugene Kawamoto as its CEO, Americas. Kawamoto, a veteran of Amazon Web Services, will direct expansion of the company’s footprint in the U.S., working with a growing staff that includes co-founder and CTO Kenta Yasukawa.

The growth of the edge computing market has been well-documented. BI Intelligence predicted that 5.6 billion Enterprise and Government IoT devices will be connected to edge devices by 2020 – up from approximately 15 billion today.

Teradata is claiming an industry first that brings the world’s most powerful massively parallel processing (MPP) analytic database to multiple public clouds, managed cloud, and on-premises environments.

Analytics solutions company, Teradata Corp., has announced new deployment options for Teradata Aster Analytics: Teradata Aster Analytics on Hadoop and Teradata Aster Analytics on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Police forces from LA and London to Moscow and Sydney are accelerating the use of body-worn cameras with over 1 million in use by 2021, said a new Beecham Research report published this week.

Exosite, LLC, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider, has launched Murano, a cloud-based IoT software platform to enable end-to-end ecosystem that helps customers develop and deliver connected products.

LogMeIn, Inc.’s Xively IoT division has released the next-generation of the Xively Connected Product Management (CPM) Platform.

Telenor Connexion has announced the expansion of its IoT solutions offering with the release of its new Big Data Analytics tool: ARTS (Advanced Real-time troubleshooting ToolSet).