Press Releases

US Department of Transportation awards HAAS Alert Contract to expand school bus V2X alerting

Chicago, United States – The United States Department of Transportation formally awarded HAAS Alert a Prime Phase II SBIR Contract this month to further improve school bus safety using C-V2X (cellular vehicle-to-everything) alert notifications. Working in coordination with subcontractors and researchers at USDOT Volpe Centre, the project will explore additional ways of enabling school buses to deliver real-time safety notifications to approaching vehicles through HAAS Alert’s Safety Cloud V2X platform, alerting drivers of students boarding or disembarking ahead. (more…)

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September 10, 2022

Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

Employability training academy launched to tackle national tech staff shortages

7 September 2022 — The Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data and artificial intelligence (AI) training, is expanding the content and reach of its MSc programmes. These will now include more specific employability skills training for students, to help address a shortage of qualified workers across the Scottish technology sector. (more…)

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September 9, 2022

Posted by: Shriya Raban

IoT experts connect in Lithuania for Telematics Vilnius 2022

On August 17 and 18, Lithuania staged Telematics Vilnius 2022, reportedly global IoT platform Wialon’s community event. The gathering saw more than 150 IoT experts from 51 countries come together to discuss telematics trends including fleet management, GPS tracking and IoT. The two-day event in Vilnius, said to be a booming global tech hub, as well as the Wialon headquarters, culminated in an award ceremony where Wialon celebrated its best performing telematics and IoT partners worldwide alongside the top ranking GPS hardware manufacturers. (more…)

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Posted by: Shriya Raban

AAEON and Cogniteam show modern robotics is all about integrations

Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 1 August 2022 – Removing the burden of robotic integrations, AAEON has developed robotics hardware that is ready for the Nimbus drag and drop platform. “Developers can choose the quality AAEON hardware that’s right for them and significantly cut development time,” says Dr. Yehuda Elmaliah, co-founder and CEO of Cogniteam. (more…)

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September 7, 2022

Posted by: Shriya Raban

AMTSO publishes guidelines for testing of IoT security products

San Francisco, United States – AMTSO, the cybersecurity industry’s testing standard community, announced it has published guidelines for testing of IoT security products. Comprised of input from testers and vendors, the guidelines cover principles for the testing of IoT security products providing recommendations on test environment, sample selection, testing of specific security functionality, and performance benchmarking for testers. (more…)

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Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

Avast commits to identity industry standards to enable global-scale digital trust

Avast, a global specialist in digital security and privacy, has joined the Trust Over IP Foundation (ToIP), the Decentralised Identity Foundation (DIF), the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and the FIDO Alliance. (more…)

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September 6, 2022

Posted by: Shriya Raban

DroneBlocks donates STEM drone Kit to villanova computing sciences programme

Austin, Texas, 30 August 2022 – DroneBlocks is proud to expand its relationship with Villanova University Alumnus and adjunct computing sciences professor Jim Solderitsch by donating 10 Tello EDU Drones and the DroneBlocks enterprise license to Jim’s Computing Science Course Curriculum. DroneBlocks is a popular STEM Education tool that teaches math, science, and computer coding through the use of classroom-friendly Drones. (more…)

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Posted by: Shriya Raban

Edison Interactive partners with HarperDB to deliver premier digital out-of-home content with zero latency

Denver, 30 August 2022 – Today Edison Interactive (EI), the specialist in connected device ecosystems, announced its platform’s content is now faster with nearly no latency thanks to a collaboration with distributed database platform HarperDB. This partnership enables EI to deliver its premium content to customers in hard-to-reach places with a reduced API call latency of ten milliseconds, a fraction of the previous time. (more…)

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Posted by: Shriya Raban

Siemens and Nissan collaborate to digitalise production lines for new crossover electric vehicle Ariya

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Posted by: Shriya Raban

Romania equips its prisons with body-worn camera technology from Motorola Solutions

Chicago, United States – The Romanian National Administration of Penitentiaries has signed a contract with Motorola Solutions to deploy 2100 body-worn cameras to enhance safety and security in all prisons across the country. The new cameras will be used by prison staff during guarding activities and prisoner transport to help deter and deescalate confrontations and collect video footage in the event of conflicts or emergencies. (more…)

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September 5, 2022

Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar