IoT

Royal Philips, has announced that the City of Los Angeles (LA) will become the city in the world to control its street lighting through an advanced Philips management system that uses mobile and cloud-based technologies. The new technology confirms LA’s Bureau of Street Lighting as in next generation LED street lighting with a new solution

Insulin Angel, the smartest medication tracker and commercial product using the relayr stack, has launches on Indiegogo.

Vehicle fleet management in Switzerland: Managed Mobility AG is a joint venture in which Sixt Leasing and Swisscom Managed Mobility –a Swisscom business unit – each have a 50% stake. The launch of Managed Mobility AG sees the introduction of a specialist for all issues relating to fleet management and vehicle fleet optimisation. The new

The Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 are currently top of the list for both the digital economy and traditional industrial sectors. Indeed, localisation technology has become essential for either of these realms. In an interconnected world, constant and reliable localisation is crucial to the communications taking place among countless “things”. Satellite navigation is thus

Australia has set an ambitious national target to integrate smart energy by 2020. Australia’s annual electricity demand grew consistently during the period 1999 to 2009 by 2.5%. Experts believe that, Smart Grid systems produce multiple utilities and benefits. The overall societal benefit of their proposed Smart Grid strategy is 2 billion dollars over 15 years.

GreenPeak Technologies, the industry leading Smart Home semi-conductor/system company, and ZTE Health, a member of the world wide ZTE Group, have signed a partnership agreement to develop Smart Home applications and to provide smart solutions for the world’s aging population.

HX360 has announced the four companies selected as finalists in the HX360 Innovation Challenge competition. These companies, selected from an original field of eighty-three entries, will present their solutions live before a judging panel of senior health system executives, HIT executives and venture capitalists during the Innovation Challenge programme at the HX360 inaugural event. The four

The market for automotive machine-to-machine (M2M) communications is accelerating into an era of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) links, car sharing schemes powered by location-based apps, Fit-It-Yourself car telematics enabling usagebased insurance (UBI), and over-the-air (OTA) updates. Jeremy Cowan reports.

Sweden-based HoistLocatel has announced its intention to acquire Swisscom Hospitality Services to create the European powerhouse in the provision of technology solutions to the Hospitality and Healthcare industries. The resulting company, Hoist Group, is set to become the European for convergent IP solutions in these sectors with a strong North American presence.

Until manufacturers can put aside their own interests and start working towards a standardised operating system for all devices, rather than simply those of their own creation, the Internet of Things (IoT) will remain out of reach. So says Nicolas Graube, fellow at CSR and one of the speakers at the Future of Wireless International

Who could fail to be excited by commanding an army of machines

OCEASOFT, a provider of sensor-based solutions for monitoring environmental parameters, has announced a unique, single-use temperature-tracking tool whose measurements can be read through isotherm wrapping or container walls via smartphones and tablets using Bluetooth technology.

Locamation B.V. is pleased to announce that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Liaoning Construction of Power Transmission & Transformation Project Co. Ltd. (Liaoning) during an official ceremony in Shenzhen, China. The MoU confirms their exclusive cooperation for the supply of substation automation and smart grid technology for the Shenzhen Low Carbon

The City of Santa Fe recently chose Badger Meter’s BEACON smart water meter solution, for full installation across all their water meter endpoints, including both residential and commercial customers. The foundation for the project is a cellular-enabled smart meter, which can be installed and immediately used for the utility’s smart water network applications. The contract

Vodafone customers will soon be able to add bank cards to their Vodafone Wallet and use smartphones to pay for goods and services at contactless terminals, it was announced. Following new agreements with Visa and Carta Worldwide, bank card payments via Vodafone Wallet will be enabled in European markets from the second quarter of 2015

Developing a synchronous, duplex, low-power and long-range M2M wireless network option for multiple applications and markets.