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The underlying advantage of IoT

I come from a family of wheat farmers in Selden, Kansas, USA, says The author is Christian Johan Smith, president and co-founder, TrackR. My relatives grew up manually harvesting wheat – cutting and bundling by hand – a process that was extremely tedious and labour-intensive. (more…)

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February 22, 2017

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Starhome Mach and Stream Technologies are assisting MNOs with the launch and acceleration of their IoT services

Starhome Mach, a global provider of mobile inter-carrier roaming, anti-fraud and IoT connectivity services, and Stream Technologies, a provider of IoT connectivity enablement, are assisting mobilenetwork operators (MNOs) with the launch and acceleration of their IoT services. (more…)

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February 21, 2017

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Smart home households will grow fivefold to 463m worldwide in 2021 for a CAGR of 39%, says Ovum

Ovum‘s new Smart Home Devices Forecast: 2016–21 found that the largest smart home markets will be China and the US, thanks to high availability of devices and greater consumer interest in smart home services and products. (more…)

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OpenFog Consortium releases OpenFog Reference Architecture for fog computing

The OpenFog Consortium has released the OpenFog Reference Architecture, a universal technical framework designed to enable the data-intensive requirements of the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. (more…)

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February 20, 2017

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SMEs awarded £50,000 to solve London problems including noise and safe cycling using IoT

Six small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from across the UK have been awarded a share of £50,000 (€58,000) funding by Future Cities Catapult, the UK Government-supported centre of excellence in urban innovation. (more…)

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With 7.3bn connected devices predicted by 2020 businesses must get secure, says Samsung report

A new report commissioned by Samsung which examines the impact that changes in society and technology will have upon the future of the workplace, reveals the stark challenge faced by businesses to create safe and secure ‘smart offices’ in a brave new working world – the ‘Open Economy’. (more…)

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IoT standard protocol reaches maturity, v1.0 of OMA LightweightM2M is approved by Board of Directors

The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) announced that the popular LightweightM2M (LwM2M) version 1.0 specification has moved from Candidate Release status to Approved Release status. (more…)

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February 17, 2017

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Consumer interest in telematics for stolen vehicle recovery remains strong, says Strategy Analytics

A survey from the In-Vehicle UX (IVX) group at Strategy Analystics has assessed consumer interest in telematics and remote vehicle management services. (more…)

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Remote patient monitoring revenues to reach €32.4bn in 2021, according to Berg Insight

Revenues for remote patient monitoring (RPM) solutions reached € 7.5 billion(US$ 8 billion) in 2016, according to a new study released by Berg Insight. (more…)

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Manchester’s smart city project that wants to be a blueprint for cities worldwide

CityVerve, is a UK government-funded smart city demonstrator based in Manchester. Here, Jeremy Cowan talks to Nick Chrissos, head of Innovation Technology, Cisco UKI — Cisco is one of the 21 organisations which are part of the CityVerve consortium — to get an overview of the CityVerve project (more…)

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