During CEBIT 2018, Huawei unveiled several of its latest IoT and AI products designed to help enterprises create ‘intelligent’ transformation.

Huawei’s President of Global Marketing, Qiu Heng, delivered a keynote speech in which he spoke of how the IoT and AI are enabling businesses to connect the physical and digital world.

The company’s OceanConnect IoT platform has been upgraded to support connected cars systems.

Huawei highlights four key elements of its IoV (Internet of Vehicles)...

Canadian IoT company SensorUp, which led the development of the Open Geospatial Consortium SensorThings API standard specification, has raised $2 million in a seed funding round organised by Vanedge Capital.

The accumulated funds will be utilised to expedite the go-to-market campaign of their award-winning SensorThings Cloud service and create new data-driven IoT business solutions for smart cities, first responders, and field service.

SensorUp adheres to key standards that make its software future-proof,...

802 Secure has outlined the present state of the IoT network security in its new infographic detailing how ‘shadow IoT/IIoT’ devices are exposing enterprise networks and information to security risks.

The key statistics presented in the "IoT Cloud Security Report 2017" infographic explicitly spotlights the greatest IoT risks and threats having a negative impact on enterprises. The report highlighted that all enterprise environments had rogue consumer IoT wireless devices on their...

According to the latest Automation Readiness Index, the US is behind eight other countries when it comes to being prepared for advancements such as AI and the IoT.

The study, published last week, ranked 25 of the world’s advanced economies in how well they’re preparing their workforce for automation.

Here are the top 10 rankings:

• South Korea

• Germany

• Singapore

• Japan

• Canada

• Estonia

• France

• UK

• US

• Australia

The US is often seen as a leader in areas such as AI, so it may be a surprise to see it ranked below many other countries. While it may be ahead in terms of innovation, the study highlights more needs to be done to prepare the workforce.

The researchers broke the study down into three main categories to assess the countries’ overall ranks. They were: Innovation Environment,...

In Chinese culture, eight is considered the luckiest number; this is because its pronunciation “ba” sounds like “fa” – the word for prosper, wealth or fortune. It is also an auspicious number for the internet of things (IoT). This is because, if you want to prosper using IoT to drive innovation, there are eight key aspects that really matter.

A modular and future-proof IoT platform

In order to make the most out of IoT, it is important to be sure that your business' IoT...

In the Industrial IoT world, we often hear comments like “Let’s make our existing machine or tool connected, and later we will find the way to create value or monetise it”, or “we need more and more data so we can solve business problems”. Is this approach enough? Is it a good idea to start the thinking process from connecting the products and collecting huge amounts of data?

In the Industrial IoT space, data and IoT teams face challenges which have many similarities. This...

Secure edge-to-enterprise IoT connectivity provider Electric Imp’s IoT platform will now offer Azure-based managed services to speed up IoT deployments on public and private clouds after the two companies announced a partnership.

The new offering, widens the IoT connectivity provider’s cloud options to include a public impCloud on Azure, allowing existing as well as fresh Microsoft customers to implement Azure-based IoT solutions.

Hugo Fiennes, CEO and co-founder of Electric Imp, said: “With...

At the end of 2016, when Maciej Kranz, vice president at Cisco, released Building the Internet of Things, a personal ambition had been achieved. Not so much to become a bestselling author – although the book made it onto the New York Times list – but to impart more than a decade’s worth of experience and help organisations get going on their IoT journey.

Speaking to Kranz at the time – when he was interviewed as the cover star of the...

Intel is to sell Wind River, provider of Industrial IoT (IIoT) and embedded software, to global alternative asset firm TPG.

The independent firm will continue to be led by Wind River president Jim Douglas alongside his existing executive management team, with Douglas saying the move will establish Wind River ‘as a leading independent software provider uniquely positioned to advance digital transformation within critical infrastructure segments.’

Intel had paid $884 million for Wind River

A new collaboration between FogHorn Systems and Intel-owned Wind River will see the integration of FogHorn’s Lightning edge analytics and ML platform with Wind River’s software products to advance IIoT.

As part of the collaboration, announced a week after a partnership with Google, both parties have agreed to combine the FogHorn platform with Wind River software including Wind River Helix Device...