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Serverless automation using PowerShell preview in Azure Functions
As companies of all sizes move their assets and workloads to the cloud, there’s a clear need to provide more powerful ways to manage, govern, and automate their cloud resources. Such automation scenarios require custom logic best expressed in PowerShell. They are also typically executed either on a schedule or when an event happens like […]
City of Harrisburg and Telensa Trial Smart City Technologies Using Connected Streetlight Infrastructure
Pennsylvania capital piloting traffic analytics, air quality monitoring and smart waste sensor systems using Telensa’s connected street lighting system. Telensa, a world leader in smart street lighting and smart city data applications, today announced that it is working with the City of Harrisburg to trial smart city technologies featuring smart sensors for traffic, air quality […]
Arrow Electronics and IBM Aim to Reinvent Airport Operations with New IoT Solution
The Smart Airport Asset Management Solution, co-created with IBM, enables airport operators to improve the performance of escalators, moving walkways, baggage handling systems and potable water cabinets. Arrow Electronics today announced that it has launched the Smart Airport Asset Management Solution, an innovative IoT solution co-created with IBM. Based on an Arrow-designed and sourced set […]
GeoTraq Announces New Class of Mobile IoT Modules
GeoTraq Inc., a subsidiary of Appliance Recycling Centers of America, Inc., announced today the transition from GSM to LTE-M/NB-IoT connectivity, creating a new class of Mobile IoT modules. GeoTraq is developing a Tracker-Module for asset tracking and location-based services, along with a Sensor-Module used for remote monitoring. GeoTraq believes that the new ultra-small Mobile IoT […]
Azure Tips and Tricks – Become more productive with Azure
Today, we’re pleased to re-introduce a web resource called “Azure Tips and Tricks” that helps existing developers using Azure learn something new within a couple of minutes. Since inception in 2017, the collection has grown to over 200+ tips as well as videos, conference talks, and several eBooks spanning the entire universe of the Azure […]
An interview with Richard Larder, Head of Digital Innovation at Dyer Engineering
With the Internet of Manufacturing UK, taking place on the 14-15 September 2019 at Farnborough International Conference Centre, on the horizon, our team caught up with Richard Larder, the Head of Digital Innovation at Dyer Engineering. Why has IoT become so crucial to so many organisations? I see the operational insight, production efficiency gains and […]
SoftBank Corp. Develops Aircraft That Delivers Telecommunications Connectivity From the Stratosphere
New business to be launched through HAPSMobile Inc. SoftBank Corp. today announced the launch of a High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) business through HAPSMobile Inc., a joint venture between SoftBank and US-based company AeroVironment, Inc. With the aim of constructing a HAPS system that delivers telecommunications network connectivity from the sky for a global business, […]
5 Ways Blockchain Can Boost Economic Development
If there is one area where blockchain technology seems to have not only direct relevance but also an enormous potential, it is ultimately developmental economics. Because blockchain’s purpose is to remove the middleman in transactions, in other words removing the need for institutions, it seems particularly relevant to use blockchain in developing countries where institutions […]
Telia to connect close to one million NB-IoT electricity meters for ONE Nordic
Telia has signed a deal with ONE Nordic AB to connect approximately 900,000 electricity meters for Swedish electricity distributor Ellevio. The ten-year-deal is the largest to date using Telia’s recently launched Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) network. NB-IoT is a low-power-wide-area technology designed to deliver small amounts of IoT data on a massive scale. “ONE […]