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Nozomi Networks and Yokogawa Electric expand partnership for cybersecurity services

Nozomi Networks has announced it has extended its partnership with Yokogawa Electric Corporation to address global demand for managed security services and solutions designed to holistically satisfy the unique OT and IoT cybersecurity requirements of process manufacturers. Yokogawa will offer Nozomi Networks’ advanced solutions for OT and IoT visibility, network monitoring and threat detection to customers worldwide as part of Yokogawa’s OpreX Managed Services. Yokogawa will also resell standalone solutions from Nozomi Networks to customers who manage their security programs in-house. (more…)

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March 28, 2024

Posted by: Magda Dabrowska

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Tele2 and foodora introduce 5G-connected drone deliveries in Sweden

Tele2 AB (“Tele2”) and the q-trade platform foodora have announced that they will launch food deliveries using IoT and 5G connected drones. The deliveries will be made wherever possible to the customers’ property or garden and lowered with a cable from the drone, with the first deliveries taking place already in the spring on Värmdö, outside Stockholm. (more…)

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March 14, 2024

Posted by: Magda Dabrowska

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Yale launches ‘Smart City Engineering with IoT’ course

The Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science has launched a new, forward-looking course, Smart City Engineering with IoT, in response to the burgeoning urbanisation trends in the U.S. and around the globe. With the urban population in the U.S. projected to reach 89% by 2050 and urban areas contributing significantly to the national GDP, the course aims to provide students with an understanding of the technological advancements driving the evolution of ‘smart cities’. (more…)

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January 12, 2024

Posted by: Magda Dabrowska

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Mobile robots revolutionise apple harvesting for fruit farmers

KUKA, in collaboration with the Upper Bavarian company digital workbench, launched a cooperation at Agritechnica, a trade fair for the agricultural sector in Hanover, Germany. The primary objective of the collaboration is to boost assistance with the deployment of a mobile harvesting robot to support fruit farmers during the apple harvest.

“Both companies are contributing one of their most innovative new developments for automation in fruit growing to this cooperation,” Josef Schmidt, a founder and managing director of digital workbench gmbh, said. “With KUKA, we have an absolute specialist with many years of experience and sophisticated know-how in the field of robotics at our side. The result is a practice oriented collaboration that will provide us with many valuable insights for our next development steps with regard to automation in fruit growing.”

Schmidt added that “In the future, we want to test and further develop the interaction of our equipment and exploit synergies, especially with regard to apple cultivation. We are very much looking forward to this.”

Two KUKA small robots from the KR AGILUS series are mounted on the new Tipard 1800 multi-carrier platform from digital workbench.  In a pilot project that has been running since 2020, KUKA is already testing a customised version of the small robot specifically for apple harvesting. With a vacuum suction cup combined with artificial intelligence and vision technology, the extremely manoeuvrable precision artist has been used in harvesting test runs.

Compared to a conventional gripper, the vacuum suction cup can distribute the pressure more evenly over the surface of the apple and thus avoid unwanted pressure points. Cameras recognize important parameters such as ripeness, condition and size and, of course, the position of the apple. The carrier platform presented at the trade fair impresses above all with its high performance and almost endless multifunctionality. In addition, the Tipard 1800 takes digitization and automation to a whole new level.

Harvesting robots provide support where skilled workers are lacking 

In future, the robot arms will move autonomously across the fruit fields in specific practical projects. The mobile and smart automation solution of the two cooperation partners will then be used where previously harvesting machines with several harvesting assistants were used.

“We assume that harvesting robots will be used more and more in the future,” Alois Buchstab, a vice president at KUKA Business Development, said. “The technology still needs to mature for large-scale use and the plantations also need to be planted in such a way that the harvesting robot can work efficiently.”

The aim is to work with a digital workbench to develop a robot system that makes the most difficult tasks in agriculture easier. An automatic apple harvesting system that does not damage the crop is an important development in an industry that is dependent on seasonal labour. For KUKA and digital workbench, the key therefore lies in automation.

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November 23, 2023

Posted by: Anna Ribeiro

PCTEL announces new Edge Sensor platform for industrial IoT

PCTEL, Inc., a provider of wireless technology solutions, has announced its new Edge Sensor platform. The Edge Sensor is an integrated, flexible antenna plus sensor solution focused on reliable and improved edge connectivity and sensing for harsh industrial IoT (Internet of Things) applications such as smart utilities, agriculture, mining, and industrial process automation. (more…)

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July 24, 2023

Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

Moxa joins Avnu Alliance to advance industrial automation with time-sensitive networking

Taipei, Taiwan – Moxa Inc., a provider in industrial communications and networking, announced that it has joined Avnu Alliance, an industry forum driving deterministic capabilities into open, standards-based networking as a promoter member to advance time-sensitive networking (TSN) ecosystem interoperability. Moxa’s joining shows promise, focusing on working on a truly unified and high-performance network infrastructure that permits all types of traffic to coexist for real-time communication, low latency, and high-reliability requirements in diverse applications. (more…)

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June 13, 2023

Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

u-blox, GMV partner to develop market-ready end-to-end safe positioning solutions for ADAS

Thalwil, Switzerland – u-blox, a global provider of positioning and wireless communication technology and services, and GMV, a provider in safe positioning systems, have partnered to provide ready-to-use functional safe positioning solutions. (more…)

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November 22, 2022

Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

Global automakers select HERE to deliver drivers validated speed limit data across EU

The European Union’s (EU) Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) regulation is in effect, and global automakers have chosen the ISA Map from HERE Technologies to comply with the mandate. (more…)

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October 25, 2022

Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

Increasing funding in research and a network launch to drive the 5G technology market

The ongoing research in industrial fields and advances in radio technologies have fuelled expansion of the 5G technology market. Additionally, the recent growth of the 5G technology market has been fuelled by factors such as an increase in internet users, a large amount of data generation and transmission in the industrial and IT sectors, and workplaces that are becoming more digitally advanced, says Pradip Shitole, team lead in digital marketing at Market Research Future. (more…)

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August 1, 2022

Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

AI-powered Ericsson Performance Optimisers network performance and automation, rolled into one

Ericsson Performance Optimisers is a suite of AI-powered applications, that analyse the CSPs’ Radio Access Network (RAN) to proactively provide mobile network optimisation recommendations and resolve specific network performance issues. (more…)

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April 27, 2022

Posted by: Shriya Raban