Kirkland, United States – Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), a trade association that oversees Bluetooth technology, has announced the release of a wireless standard for the electronic shelf label (ESL) market. Until now, ESL systems have relied on proprietary protocols for wireless communication, presenting a potential barrier to global adoption. To address this challenge, leaders from the ESL industry teamed with the Bluetooth SIG to create a scalable, ultra-low power, highly secure ESL wireless standard based on Bluetooth technology. (more…)
February 14, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
New Delhi, India – Nokia has announced that it will extend manufacturing PON optical line terminals (OLTs) at its factory in Sriperimbudur near Chennai, India. The decision comes in response to increasing demand from local customers in India, as well as international markets. (more…)
February 13, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Lightweight electronics, meet the heavyweight champion for protecting your information: Security experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a victor in their program to find a worthy defender of data generated by small devices. The winner, a group of cryptographic algorithms called Ascon, will be published as NIST’s lightweight cryptography standard later in 2023. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Comcast accelerates the nation’s multi-gig deployment and announced that its latest Xfinity 10G network upgrade will be launched to 10 million homes and businesses by the end of this month. These locations now have the foundational network enhancements in place to begin deploying DOCSIS 4.0, setting the stage for the introduction of new symmetrical multi-gigabit internet options before the end of 2023 that can be delivered across existing networks with less cost. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Buckingham County Public Schools has announced a rollout of UV-C disinfection technology to keep students and faculty safer and healthier in partnership with biosafety technology company, R-Zero. The rollout is part of Buckingham’s continued commitment to improving student engagement and enabling a higher standard of protection in its school buildings. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Chicago, United States – UScellular is delivering a high-performance private cellular network solution to expand the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s (UWM) Connected Systems Institute (CSI) manufacturing research facility to include private 5G technology. With UScellular’s 5G private wireless network, the CSI research facility will connect their operations with 5G IoT sensors and controls. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
LiveOak Fiber, a regional service provider building and operating a broadband network, announces its intent to acquire Glynn and Camden counties fibre network assets from Alma Telephone Company (ATC) Broadband, a telecommunications company based in Alma, Georgia. (more…)
February 12, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Passengers will be boarding the world’s initial fully sized, self-driving bus service in Edinburgh from the Spring, after it was awarded a share of [£81 million (€91.31 million)] in joint UK government and industry support for self-driving transport technology. (more…)
February 11, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Digital cooperation capability from IOTICS is said to be enabling a decentralised data ecosystem for Britain’s Northern Gas Networks (NGN) Customer Energy Village. Northern Gas Networks has selected technology from IOTICS and architecture to enable a multi-party, cross-sector data ecosystem. (more…)
February 10, 2023
Posted by: Shriya Raban
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has announced that it has awarded 12 grants as part of the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Programme (CMC). (more…)
Posted by: Shriya Raban