IT

Products are becoming more complex and unique, requiring significant changes to existing mass  production techniques. Global competition is pressing manufacturers to minimise or eliminate nonvalue – added activities and maximise uptime as well as reduce time-to-market in order to deliver  customised products that appeal to a wider customer base. Most of the advances in efficiency will come

Mobile mHealth devices present prolific opportunities across the board. However, it could be just a matter of time before a public data breach that rocks the industry – such as a massive identity theft or large-scale insurance fraud, reports Arif Mohamed for M2M Now.

Anna Vega discovers how women are contributing to the Internet of Things (IoT).

They say that the Internet of Things has a protocol problem. But the communications bottlenecks are nothing compared to when humans conspire to cock up

Eutech Cybernetic has chosen Orange Business Services secured Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Flexible Computing Express to host and manage iVivaCloud™, its innovative smart city service platform.

In a recent webinar for the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), Machina Research contributed to the presentations and discussions around the topic of “Putting the Industrial Internet to Work.” Shared here are some of those thoughts.

Nigel Chadwick is chief executive of Stream Technologies, provider of state-ofthe- art, end-to-end wireless network services for connected devices, globally. The company has recently launched IoT-X, a next generation connectivity enablement platform. As Chadwick tells M2M Now, Stream’s IoT-X is enabling network operators and multi-national organisations via creation of a fast expanding, value enhancing and unique IoT ecosystem spanning

Eurotech, has announced that they joined the Red Hat Partner Programme, becoming a Red Hat ISV Advanced Partner.

Lancope, Inc., has appointed long-time information security and risk management professional Andrew Wild as its new chief information security officer (CISO). Wild has spent over 25 years developing effective, customer-driven information security, incident response, compliance and secure networking programs for IT and security organisations including Qualys and EMC. He is also an expert in building

In the last post I discussed the growth in the fleet management and the wave of M&A (merger & acquisition) activity it seems to have triggered among the suppliers. But the turbulence in the fleet management market is not simply a game of musical chairs among the traditional specialists. Outsiders have also been buying into

Cubic Telecom, has announced that it has signed a global agreement with China Unicom, to provide machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions to enterprises across mainland China and Hong Kong.

Lantronix, Inc. has announced the launch of its new SLC™ 8000 – the industry’s modular console manager. Designed to reduce deployment and management costs and time by providing secure, centralised out-of-band management to most IT equipment, the new SLC 8000 can be expanded from eight to 48 ports. In a typical deployment, each port would manage one piece of IT

Sierra Wireless, has announced the launch of AirLink® Enterprise Connect, a first-of-its-kind bundled solution for retail and branch locations in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. AirLink Enterprise Connect provides everything an IT manager needs to get a branch location online and connected in minutes, facilitating mission-critical activities such as payment processing and inventory management.

European M2M platform solutions provider Wireless Logic has teamed up with Sierra Wireless to deliver a full ‘white label’ managed services and connectivity solution. As a manufacturer of 3G/4G/LTE modules, the collaboration with Wireless Logic will enable Sierra Wireless to roll out end-to-end hardware, software and connectivity solutions marketed through their distributor channels in the

1248 has announced the first ARM-powered®, standards-based, 6LoWPAN wireless access point designed to IoT-enable enterprise networks. HyperWeave provides full IP-to-the-edge connectivity from low power Internet of Things (IoT) devices to corporate and cloud networks. Developed in partnership with ARM, HyperWeave will be launched at this week’s ARM TechCon 2014 in Santa Clara.

Drones, also known as UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), previously used only by the armed forces or security forces, are becoming increasingly popular.  For example in France, after proving their use in farming, they are now gradually being adopted by an array of companies, including production companies.