Press Releases

Vodafone adds first wearable products to ‘V By Vodafone’ range

Vodafone Group is launching the first wearable products in its “V by Vodafone” Consumer Internet of Things (IoT) range: “V-SOS Band by Vodafone”, an emergency alert wrist band designed by Vodafone; and the “V-Kids Watch by Vodafone” smartwatch. (more…)

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July 11, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Low awareness of ‘smart cities’ threatens innovation and adoption, research says

A research report published has revealed that, despite the many initiatives already in place, less than a quarter of UK consumers claim to be aware of the term ‘smart cities’.

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July 10, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Bayer Consumer Care AG licenses enterprise:inmation for the global digitalisation rollout

Bayer Consumer Care AG, one of the Consumer Health companies, has signed a global non-expiring licensing agreement to use the “enterprise:inmation” software of inmation Software GmbH, the technology provider in the field of global real-time information management in large-scale industry. (more…)

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July 9, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Smart city, smart energy and IoT leaders team up to unlock markets with launch of uCIFI Alliance

An international alliance of market leaders from across the smart city, smart energy and IoT network sectors joined cities and utilities in announcing they will develop an open source, multi-transport wireless networking technology and data model that will unlock these markets by eliminating the dependency on proprietary solutions. (more…)

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June 27, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Vasona Networks and F5 partner to scale virtual mobile edge computing deployments

Vasona Networks, Inc, which provides mobile edge solutions for better user experiences and network capital efficiency, announced a partnership effort with F5, which makes apps go faster, smarter and safer for the world’s service providers. The companies will work together to power virtual multi-access edge computing (MEC) deployments for mobile operators at scale. (more…)

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Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

IEEE adopts OpenFog reference architecture as standard for fog computing in IoT, AI and 5G

The OpenFog Consortium’s OpenFog Reference Architecture for fog computing has been adopted as an official standard by the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA). The new standard, known as IEEE 1934™, relies on the reference architecture as a universal technical framework that enables the data-intensive requirements of the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. (more…)

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Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Voice assistants used in smart homes to grow 1,000%, reaching 275mn by 2023, says Juniper Research

A new study from Juniper Research has found that the adoption of voice assistants such as Alexa and Google Assistant will be a key factor behind smart home growth, with 275 million voice assistant devices used to control smart homes by 2023. This is up from an estimated 25 million in 2018, a growth of 1,000%. (more…)

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June 26, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Strategic guidance from ABI on the 8 technologies that will transform manufacturing

In a recent report, ABI Research, a market-foresight advisory firm providing strategic guidance on the most compelling transformative technologies, outlines how technologies fit together with each other in Smart Manufacturing.

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June 21, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

SecuriThings unveils two-click deployment to protect IP cameras against growing hacker threats

SecuriThings, a provider of IoT security, has unveiled a new capability that enables system integrators to rapidly deploy the SecuriThings solution onto operating IP cameras for immediate monitoring and remediation. (more…)

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June 20, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Telcos say the IoT is underperforming, but Heppelmann tells us ‘IoT is working fantastic here!’

Why is it that some solution vendors ‘get’ the Internet of Things (IoT) and others don’t? Is it an understanding of what customers want? Jeremy Cowan is hearing conflicting messages as network operators admit IoT is failing to meet their expectations, while solution vendors say it works well. (more…)

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Posted by: Zenobia Hegde