Press Releases

Open standards-based Silver Spring platform to connect 28,000 more London smart street lights with urbancontrol

Silver Spring Networks, Inc. is to deploy its Starfish™ platform-as-a-service (PaaS) across the City of London and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. This adds to the previously announced London deployment in the City of Westminster. (more…)

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August 10, 2017

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India to see world’s largest IoT network

HPE and Tata Communications in India are about to rollout the world’s largest IoT network connecting 2,000 communities and 4 million people. This comes after successful trials in Bangalore, Delhi, and Mumbai which improved the lives of millions by creating better water quality and public safety systems. (more…)

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Easy access to LPWA technologies for smart cities in India provided by Atoll Solutions and u‑blox

u‑blox, a provider in wireless and positioning modules and chips, and Atoll Solutions Pvt, an IoT gateway platform, sensor node and wireless module provider, announce the availability of an IoT starter kit based on LTE Cat M1 and Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) modules from u‑blox. (more…)

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August 9, 2017

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Internet of Things and the role for 5G in connected vehicles

Connected cars are set to become a huge industry over the new few years; estimates of the number connected cars that will to be on the roads by 2020 vary from 250 million to 381 million, and research by the Global Mobile Suppliers Association points to that number increasing to 527 million by 2025. (more…)

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Senate’s IoT Cybersecurity Act requires US government to invest only in ‘secure’ solutions

As we reported on August 2 (US senators planning bill to ‘secure’ the Internet of Things but users are a weak link, say experts), US senators are demanding tougher security for the Internet of Things (IoT). Under draft legislation called the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act, smart devices would have to meet basic standards to be used by government departments. (more…)

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August 8, 2017

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An enterprise without borders: Solving the disconnect with connected platforms

Business leaders have more progressive expectations than before. Their forward-looking business goals call for integration with new capabilities and technologies — from artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) to bots and cloud services. (more…)

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Data integration and management for utilities: The whats and whys

In the first blog in this series written for utilities, we wrote about the importance of leveraging data to the success of Internet of Things (IoT) and digital transformation strategies and we established that deploying the right technology in this area of business was a vital component of digital success. (more…)

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Tantalum Corp and SAP agree to deliver one-click parking payments for connected car drivers

Tantalum Corporation (Tantalum) announced an agreement with SAP to integrate SAP® Vehicles Network into Tantalum’s Pay.Car end-to-end payment platform for connected cars, making it easier for motorists to find and pay for services with just one click. (more…)

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August 7, 2017

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IoT software RFPs, vendor validation to be unveiled by IoT M2M Council

The IoT M2M Council, with 25,000 members, the fastest-growing trade association in the IoT sector, has announced a program to verify that IoT software platforms comply with open-source benchmarks that it has established. (more…)

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Solving the software problem: How industrial OEMs can go to market faster with a smart connected IoT solution

Demand for IoT products continues to grow at a rapid pace. For industrial OEMs, building a secure connected solution involves considerable resources and time – and building a smart connected solution can be even more complex, even while doing so can deliver substantial long-term business value in benefits (more…)

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