Kovrr just released a report that estimates the potential for large insurance losses to the United States manufacturing industry due to industrial IoT cyber vulnerabilities that were discovered recently in VxWorks.
Cisco and Snam, Europe’s leading natural gas utility, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop joint research, development and innovation initiatives in the Industrial IoT sector.
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and the OpenFog Consortium (OFC) announced that they have agreed in principle to combine the two largest and most influential international consortia in Industrial IoT, fog and edge computing.
Altair Semiconductor, a provider of cellular IoT chipsets, announced today it has partnered with JIG-SAW Inc., provider of Auto sensoring and Auto Direction solutions for IoT, to develop LTE-enabled sensors for a variety of global industrial IoT applications.
Nokia turned the focus of 5G from pure technology development to skills, forging a partnership with an Australian university designed to boost knowledge of the technology by more closely integrating it with academic programs in the country.
Few enterprises are prepared to deal with the new cyber risks in the IoT world. Without a secured IT infrastructure that supports connectivity across the value chain, attempts to create the smart factory of the future will fail.
Industrial IoT: thyssenkrupp Materials Services has introduced a platform called toii that connects machines of different makes and ages and offers predictive maintenance capability for legacy systems.
Americans talk about the industrial internet of Things but in Germany it’s called industry 4.0. Whatever the label, it’s the catch-all for the future of industrial production. The automation and mass customization being delivered, combined with advances in artificial intelligence will have an enormous effect on decreasing traditional labor markets.
Honeywell and Aereon announced they will collaborate on solutions to help industrial customers boost the safety, efficiency and reliability of their operations by leveraging Honeywell’s Industrial Internet of Things ecosystem “INspire”.
APX Labs announced a partnership with VMware that delivers the first integrated enterprise solution for managing deployment and support for smart glasses.
Air France plans to create an RFID-based bag-tracking at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport by 2020. It will be one of the first airlines in the world to implement such a system.
Two of the largest operators in the world, China Telecom and China Unicom, agreed to team on building and maintaining China 5G radio access networks across the country.
A coalition of 50 U.S. attorney generals launched an investigation into Google’s business practices to determine whether it violated competition law.
ITU, The United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies, and Cisco have announced a Digital Transformation Centers Initiative aimed at equipping people with the skills needed to effectively participate in today’s digital society and economy.
Intel Company Mobileye, a developer of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), data collection and autonomous vehicle technology, selected Orange Business Services to provide IoT connectivity for its next generation product „Mobileye 8 Connect“ in Europe, US and Asia.
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