Hardly any company can avoid digital technology. SMEs in particular are not as good at driving forward the digitalization of their business. This is shown by a recent study of 2000 companies by Ernst & Young. One of the reasons: the shortage of skilled workers.
read more...With Thingstream, a new player is entering the highly fragmented market for IoT connectivity. It uses the existing GSM infrastructure, which is available almost everywhere in the world, in combination with the MQTT-SN standard.
read more...Real-time radio location solutions
Greater efficiency in production and logistics through precise positioning: Siemens acquired Agilion on March 29 with this goal in mind.
read more...Voice assistant / artificial intelligence
Apple has appointed an artificial intelligence expert from Google to a management position: John Giannandrea will head up the development of artificial intelligence at the iPhone company in future, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook in an email to his employees.
read more...Ecom, a Pepperl+Fuchs brand, presents the Loc-Ex 01 Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons for ATEX/IECEx zone 1 and Loc 01 for non-hazardous areas, specially developed for industries with extensive factory premises or potentially explosive atmospheres.
read more...Festo has given an outlook on its digitalization activities: In addition to bionics projects, the company will be presenting a self-learning workstation for human-robot collaboration at the Hannover Messe 2018.
read more...Industrial Internet Consortium
Dr. Stan Schneider, Managing Director of Real-Time Innovations (RTI), has been elected Vice Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC).
read more...Remote maintenance / remote control
For free-moving mobile cranes, the power supply must be ensured onboard - for example in the form of a battery container. The IoT edge gateway and connection to the cloud open up new possibilities for monitoring this around the clock.
read more...Hilscher has edge gateways of different performance classes in its range. Product Manager Armin Beck explains why a Raspberry Pi variant is now rounding off the lower end of the spectrum.
read more...The pub/sub extension of the OPC UA specification has not yet been released when OSADL presents an OPC UA demonstrator at embedded world, which includes both a pub/sub implementation and the connection to a TSN link. Carsten Emde on the background.
read more...What options for IoT connectivity are currently available in the manufacturing and industrial environment to implement big data applications? Computer & AUTOMATION has compiled a selection of current products from this area in a series of images.
read more...In terms of newly installed nodes in factory automation, Industrial Ethernet has overtaken traditional fieldbuses. This is the conclusion of the latest study by HMS Industrial Networks on the market share of industrial networks.
read more...Siemens is expanding its industrial communication portfolio with the Scalance XB-100 unmanaged industrial Ethernet switches, which feature a wide range of ports and connections.
read more...Fraunhofer IML is using Logimat to present the latest developments in material flow and logistics: These include IoT-enabled pallets, an IoT service button and a Hololens application.
read more...For Sigfox, there should no longer be any blank spots when it comes to the Internet of Things: Low-flying satellites now ensure connectivity in remote areas.
read more...eks Engel has developed the e-light 1000XS-G and e-light 1000XS-GP Ethernet media converters specifically for industrial applications such as networking machines or connecting IP cameras.
read more...Numerous managers and media decision-makers from the electronics industry met again this year for the traditional Media Summit at embedded world.
read more...MSC Technologies and Avnet Integrated will be merged and will operate globally as Avnet Integrated in the future.
read more...NürnbergMesse - the organizer of embedded world - has announced the winners of the Embedded Awards 2018. In the categories 'Hardware', 'Software' and 'Tools', it honors particularly innovative products and developments.
read more...The Ko²SiBus research project aims to develop new methods for the cost-effective monitoring of data lines in running industrial plants. On February 21, representatives of the consortium met to exchange information.
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