IoT

Manufacturing has been one of the fastest-growing Internet of Things (IoT) adopters, experiencing some of the greatest levels of IoT investment last year, says Keith Higgins, VP of digital transformation, Rockwell Automation. According to IDC, discrete manufacturing US$119 billion (€107billion), process manufacturing $78 billion (€70 billion), transportation $71 billion (€64 billion), and utilities $61 billion (€55 billion) are spending the most on IoT solutions.

Carsten Funke (CF), pictured here, is the CEO for Picavi U.S.. Here he talks with manufacturing journalist Thomas R. Cutler (TRC) about improved productivity and efficiencies while maintaining employee safety as a COVID-19 return to work strategy.

Tech Mahindra Ltd, a provider of digital transformation, consulting and business reengineering services and Openet, a provider of the digital business support system (BSS) solutions, announced a global strategic partnership to enable digital transformation for customers globally. This partnership will leverage 5G and cloud technologies to accelerate digital transformation for communication service providers (CSPs).

In May 2020 Transforma Insights published the first iteration of its global IoT forecasts which predicted 24.1 billion connected devices generating US$1.5 trillion (€1.3 trillion) in 2030. However, the global picture belies a significant variation between regions. In particular, the vertical-specific opportunity is highly regionalised and growth in China will be driven by government policy more than organic adoption.

More than one in three executives in both the U.S. and China are seeing COVID-19 as an impetus to digitally transform their business. So say the authors of a new report published by Alameda, California-based Wind River.

Transforma Insights, led by veteran Internet of Things (IoT) analysts Jim Morrish and Matt Hatton, says it has established a new benchmark for global IoT forecasts, by publishing the first iteration of its “granular” Total Addressable Market (TAM) database based on analysis of hundreds of applications.

The rollout of 5G has been met with an element of scepticism. There are questions around whether the technology will deliver on expectations, concerns around security for both businesses and consumers and, although not proven, worries about potential health risks. Report by Rohit Gupta, vice president and head of Manufacturing, Logistics, Energy & Utilities, Europe at Cognizant.

A strategic partnership has been announced by Pod Group, a provider of platforms, software and connectivity services for the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected enterprises working with Expeto, a platform provider of disruptive cloud and edge IoT Connectivity technology.

Japan’s telco, NTT DoCoMo, shut down its NarrowBand-IoT (NB-IoT) network on March 31^st. Coming barely a year after NTT’s services were launched, Jeremy Cowan, editorial director of The Evolving Enterprise turned to industry watchers for their views on the decision and what lies ahead for NB-IoT.

Pathfindr, the asset tracking and IoT tech specialist, has developed a wearable personal safety device to assist workplaces in meeting social distancing protocols, as governments around the world introduce strict measures to limit the spread of Coronavirus.

IT monitoring specialist, Paessler AG has surveyed IT administrators worldwide, revealing that energy efficiency, sustainability and environmental concerns are high on the agenda for IT professionals.

IBM, at its Think Digital conferenceannounced new services and solutions backed by a broad ecosystem of partners to help enterprises and telecommunications companies speed their transition to edge computing in the 5G era. This effort combines IBM’s experience and expertise in multicloud environments with Red Hat‘s open source technology, which became part of IBM last year in one of the biggest tech acquisitions of all time.

It’s now 15 years since the term ‘big data’ was coined to describe the mass of information being collected by modern business operations, says Renat Zubairov, co-founder and CEO of elastic.io.

This year’s World Day for Safety and Health at Work will mean a lot more to most of us than it would have last year, says Bart Schouw, chief evangelist at Software AG. The pandemic has upended all walks of life, including global business across every industry.

Remember when there used to be C-level keynotes at conferences? I do, vaguely. One thing I remember well is a stream of CIOs and CTOs pitching their visions for digital transformation, automation, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, Big Data, Blockchain and sustainability.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) will transform the global economy and individual businesses through the proliferation of connected devices and innovative uses of data. So says Ken Figueredo, one of oneM2M‘s contributing members and Market Development consultant for Chordant Inc.

Internet of Things (IoT) vendors often tout the plug-and-play nature of their devices: Just connect it to the network and it starts reporting back the required data, says Yasser Khan, CEO of One Tech, Inc.

The world is facing a once in a generation crisis, its scale matched only by the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 to 1920. Citizens face huge restrictions on the way they live their lives, cut off from loved ones and their livelihoods threatened.

Ransomware remains the most common malware threat to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In the first half of last year alone, 61% of managed service providers (MSPs) reported attacks against their clients, sometimes multiple attacks in a single day.

It’s hard, if not impossible, to think of a time when more attention has been paid to healthcare, says Stefan Spendrup, VP of enterprise mobility northern and western europe atSOTI.In the UK, the government and the National Health Service (NHS) throw every resource possible at meeting the demands of caring for those struck down with COVID-19. But it’s also important to look at how general healthcare standards can be improved and made more efficient to ease the wider burden on care providers.

Most deployments of digital transformation (DX) technologies demonstrate a palpable lack of ambition, according to the results of a new study published by technology industry analyst firm, Transforma Insights.

Implementations of new technologies including artificial intelligence and Internet of Things continue to focus on simple projects that deliver quick returns based on streamlining internal processes, neglecting the truly transformational opportunities presented.

The technology industry has come to a precarious position. Although businesses today understand the importance of technology for achieving their objectives, they are also experiencing ‘digital transformation’ fatigue, says Abel Smit, sales director, data solutions & IoT at Tech Data.

Microsoft has IT business all over the globe. It is equipped with a comprehensive product portfolio ranging from Azure platform to Microsoft 365 Dynamics that cover a significant part of business applications.

IoT Now columnist Nick Booth imagines interrogating Eminelle, Renewtrak‘s smart new artificial intelligence automation.

A new study from Juniper Research found that the total number of IoT connections will reach 83 billion by 2024, rising from 35 billion connections in 2020. This represents a growth of 130% over the next 4 years. The research identified the industrial sector as a key driver of this growth. It forecast that this expansion will be driven by the increasing use of private networks that leverage cellular networks standards.

Visionstate Corp, has shipped its first Internet of Things (IoT) buttons to hospitals in Vancouver, BC, marking the initial deployment of the new technology developed by the Company.