How IoT-enhanced warehouses are changing the supply chain management – Part 3

IoT-based warehouse management, like any other emerging technology, also comes with a few challenges/drawbacks of its own. This is why, despite all the advantages and acceptance by the likes of Amazon, Ocado, and Alibaba, many 3PL companies are still hesitant to adopt this technology,

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Which industries will be the winners in the IoT revolution and why?

Industrial IoT has developed closely alongside consumer IoT goods and now is here to change the industrial applications as we know. Big data will become reality when all device parameters will be accessible 24/7, says Vizma Bramane of Aranet – SAF Tehnika.

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Siemens drives digital transformation in buildings with acquisition of Enlighted Inc.

Siemens Building Technologies Division is acquiring Enlighted Inc., a provider of smart IoT (Internet of Things) systems in buildings, headquartered in Silicon Valley. The company is a successful player in the smart building industry, bringing an advanced digital sensory system to market.

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u-blox introduces LTE Cat M1 and NB-IoT multimode module with quad band 2G fallback

u-blox, a provider in wireless and positioning modules and chips, announced the SARA-R412M, an LTE Cat M1, NB-IoT, and quad band 2G (EGPRS) module with worldwide coverage. Measuring just 16 x 26 mm, the module is the world’s smallest to provide both LTE and quad band EGPRS support in a single design.

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Smart sensor market revenue will reach $81.99bn by 2024, says Esticast Research and Consulting

The report “Smart sensor market by Product (Image, Touch, motion, temperature, pressure, positions), Industry Trends, Estimation & Forecast, 2016-2024”, says the global smart sensor market was valued at $20.75 billion (€17.29 billion) in 2016, and is projected to reach $81.99 billion (€68.31 billion) by 2024, growing at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 18.9% from 2017 to

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Multi-connectivity IoT gateway UTX-3117 for IoT applications launched by Advantech

Advantech, an embedded computing provider, announces its latest IoT gateway aimed at empowering industrial IoT solutions by UTX-3117 fanless & extended-temp embedded box.

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What is the ‘First Receiver’ concept? Is it the ultimate IoT deliverable? Part 1

IoT is progressing faster than many could have imagined so we shouldn’t be surprised when it throws up a new term. I came across the “first receiver” when reviewing a book titled “The Future of IoT” that outlined and then explained the concept in detail, but it took a while before the penny finally dropped.

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Cloudy with a patch of fog – the retail response to IoT

The rapid rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) is causing a shift in many industries – no more so than the retail industry where it is fast shaping the way businesses and customers interact.

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With money pouring in, are security and RoI concerns keeping IoT in the hype zone?

Valued at one trillion dollars, the global Internet of Things (IoT) market continues to garner keen interest from innovators, receiving a record $1.4 billion in venture capital in 2016. But barriers to its adoption in the enterprise seem to keep the sector in the hype zone,

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Panasonic Automotive and Qualcomm to launch an in-vehicle infotainment system

Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, a Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, (Panasonic Automotive), and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, are working together to develop an Android-based in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system.

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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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Smart Home contends with smorgasbord of platforms and technologies

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.

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The smart city has already begun

Half of all humanity now lives within an urban environment.

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Better than a crystal ball

Service providers can’t know the future so it must be made easy to add and integrate new features. David Friedman, co-founder and chief executive of Ayla Networks, tells M2M Now why it’s time to stop attempting to re-invent the wheel, endlessly writing specific software for specific applications and devices, and instead turn to easily-configurable, end-to-end platforms that can scale up massively as M2M

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Opower announces next generation of customer engagement platform, Opower 5.5 Flex

Opower, has announced major enhancements to its technology platform through the release of Opower 5.5 Flex. Built upon investments made earlier this year, Opower 5.5 Flex enables more than 95 utilities worldwide to meet rising customer expectations.

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ACAL BFI and Sangshin Elecom extend pan-European relationship to include humidity sensors

Acal BFi, have extended their pan-European relationship with Sangshin Elecom to include the company’s miniature range of resistive and capacitive humidity sensors.

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