San Jose, United States – Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), the nonprofit organisation, announced an expanded collaboration with the Linux Foundation (LF), leveraging hardware-software co-design strategy by establishing a framework for creation of joint-effort shared communities and coordinated deliverables. Adding to the collaboration announced in April 2022 for data centre switching efforts on switch abstraction interface (SAI) at OCP and SONiC at LF, the OCP and LF have established a new effort supported by Microsoft and Google called Caliptra, standardising implementation of silicon embedded hardware root of trust security.
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October 29, 2022
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Honeywell and Accelerator for America have announced the launch of the Honeywell Smart City Accelerator Programme to help cities strategically plan their futures and build capacity to fund transformational initiatives. Honeywell is engaging with five U.S. cities to provide in-kind support to accelerate progress on their smart city strategic planning. The cities are Cleveland, Louisville, Ky., Kansas City, Mo., San Diego, and Waterloo, Iowa. (more…)
October 18, 2022
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Dallas, United States – Motorola Solutions announced new public safety technology advancements that support a mobile-first approach to preparing officers with the information they need to make the best and safest decisions. These include a public safety application for Apple CarPlay to transform field operations, as well as the integration of video footage from emergency response drones and robots into CommandCentral Aware. Bringing video and information from a variety of field devices onto a single pane of glass in the command centre gives agencies the awareness and information they need to carry out their missions more safely and efficiently. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
San Francisco, United States – LF Networking (LFN), the de-facto collaboration ecosystem for open source networking projects, announced that it welcomes TELUS as a platinum member. The communications technology company joins 18 other global organisations as platinum members, all working to accelerate open source networking, collaboration and innovation that will ultimately transform the way we live and work -enabling a new era of smarter, sustainable technologies in key verticals such as agriculture, healthcare and manufacturing. (more…)
October 17, 2022
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Just 10 years ago, the smart home felt out of reach for most people it was expensive, complicated and intimidating to set up. Today, a lot has changed. The average household now has 25 connected devices seven times more than just five years ago and those devices have become a natural part of our everyday lives. Our homes automatically adjust to our preferred temperature, lights turn on and off with a simple voice command and our security cameras instantly alert us when something is amiss, says Rishi Chandra, vice president and GM, Nest. (more…)
October 11, 2022
Posted by: Shriya Raban
27 September 2022 – The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University is pleased to announce the creation of Open6G, a new US Department of Defense (DoD) supported industry-university cooperative research centre focused on future open, programmable, and disaggregated 6G systems. Open6G is led by an anchor award under the auspices of the Innovate Beyond 5G thrust within the 5G-to-xG Initiative, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Research and Engineering) (OUSD(R&E)). (more…)
September 30, 2022
Posted by: Shriya Raban
West Lafayette, United States – WaveLogix, a startup technology company that is commercialising an Internet of Things sensing system for infrastructure monitoring, has received a six-month SBIR Phase I grant worth [$255,996 (€255664.49)] from the National Science Foundation to develop its technology. (more…)
September 19, 2022
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
18 August, 2022 – Social Development and Human Security Ministry and dtac signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), forming a partnership to empower the indigenous peoples through digital and entrepreneurial training, with the aim to increase economic well-being and promote sustainable tourism. The pivotal partnership will primarily focus on 24 villages covering seven ethnic minority groups with outstanding products and will expand to cover 20 groups of indigenous peoples in three years. (more…)
August 24, 2022
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Richmond, VA. 18 August 2022 – Iteris, Inc., the world’s trusted technology ecosystem for smart mobility infrastructure management, has announced that it has been awarded a sub-contract by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) for connected and automated vehicle (CAV) related planning services, representing continued demand for Iteris’ specialised consulting services in a key geographic market. (more…)
August 22, 2022
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Smart factories are no longer science fiction, says I4MS – ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs, The European Commission initiative to digitalise the manufacturing industry. It reports that 5G technologies, smart sensors, artificial intelligence, additive manufacturing, and automation are now available and ready to transform European manufacturing’s small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into the most efficient, productive, and sustainable factories. (more…)
August 9, 2022
Posted by: Shriya Raban