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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

Carahsoft and ChargePoint partner to provide electric vehicle charging solutions to the public sector

Reston, United States. 01 September, 2022 – Carahsoft Technology Corp., is partnering with ChargePoint, a electric vehicle (EV) charging network, to enable access to the ChargePoint portfolio of electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions to support the federal Government’s electrification plans, from agency fleet deployments to personal occupancy vehicles (POV). Under the agreement, Carahsoft will serve as a key distributor for ChargePoint, to the public sector through Carahsoft’s network of reseller partners, GSA Schedule, National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance (NCPA) and OMNIA Partners contracts. (more…)

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September 7, 2022

Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

EarthSense and Sandwell MB Council monitor air quality to encourage behavioural change

Following the challenge of improving air quality in Sandwell, and after receiving an air quality grant from the department for environment, food & rural affairs (DEFRA) in 2021, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council is using eight EarthSense Zephyr air quality monitors, its MappAir pollution model and MyAir public portal to deliver live air pollution data to faith centres and their communities. The services are being used by faith leaders to raise public awareness of air pollution in Sandwell and demonstrate how people can adjust their everyday behaviour to improve local levels.

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Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

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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September 6, 2022

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

The role of IoT in smart city initiatives

Just over 200 years ago, the global population was estimated to be around 1 billion. Current estimates now put that number at around 8 billion, with an additional 200 million expected to be added to that total by 2026. Increasingly, more and more of these people are choosing to live in urban areas, says Chris Bishop, sales director APAC & marketing director Ipsotek, an Atos company. (more…)

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September 2, 2022

Posted by: Shriya Raban

TomTom to power Hyundai Motor Group with maps and traffic

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1 September 2022 – TomTom (TOM2), the trusted geolocation technology specialist, announced that its maps and real-time traffic data have been chosen by Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) to support its entire vehicle lineup in Europe. Over the coming years, millions of HMG vehicles will come equipped with this technology as standard. (more…)

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Posted by: Shriya Raban

Ovilla, TX awards water AMI project to Smart Earth Technologies

Carlsbad, United States – Smart Earth Technologies has been selected as the competitive bid winner to deliver advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) to the City of Ovilla, Texas. SET’s software leadership and ability to deliver instant AMI without requiring construction and maintenance of a proprietary network significantly accelerates the City’s business case benefits. (more…)

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Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

107 scholarships awarded by MCI & SNDGG

Singapore – 107 recipients were awarded scholarships by the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) and its statutory boards; as well as the Smart Nation Digital Government Group (SNDGG). This is the first joint scholarship award ceremony by the MCI and SNDGG families, which are both under the portfolio of Minister for communications and information and Minister-in-charge of the cyber security agency and smart nation initiative, Josephine Teo. (more…)

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Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

SuperCom awarded $33mn National Electronic Monitoring contract of EU member country

Tel Aviv, Israel, 24 August 2022 – SuperCom, a global provider of secured solutions for the e-Government, IoT, and Cybersecurity sectors, is pleased to announce that it, together with its local partner, has been awarded an over $33 million (€33.05 million) contract by the national government of an European Union (EU) member country to deploy its PureSecurity Electronic Monitoring (EM) Suite for a domestic violence monitoring, GPS Tracking of offenders and home detention monitoring programme. (more…)

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August 29, 2022

Posted by: Shriya Raban