Tag: Manufacturing
GE moves to automate industrial field service operations
During this week’s Minds+Machines conference in Berlin, General Electric (GE) made two announcements aimed at changing the nature of industrial field service operations.
As might...
Herman Miller launches connected office furniture range
Just when you thought everything that could be connected to the internet had already been connected, along comes the connected desk.
The Live furniture range...
Ford to open tech innovation hub in UK
Automotive company Ford is to open a new London office to focus on new technologies, including the potential development of driverless cars.
Ford of Europe,...
PTC offers free trial of ThingWorx Studio for augmented reality
PTC is offering companies a free trial of ThingWorx Studio, an augmented reality (AR) authoring and publishing toolset for industrial IoT (IIoT) environments.
ThingWorx Studio, which is...
IKEA to launch smart light compatibility with Alexa, Siri and Google
Furniture and home decor retailer IKEA has announced that its smart lighting range is about to get a whole lot smarter. The Trådfri product line...
Qualcomm launches mesh networking platform for home IoT devices
A new reference design from semiconductor and telecoms equipment company Qualcomm aims to help smart device manufacturers bring new products to market.
Qualcomm has unveiled its new...
Neo Technology CEO: Smart homes won’t work without smart data
In a contributed article for Internet of Business, Emil Eifrem, CEO and co-founder of graph database company Neo Technology, presents his vision of how...
Start-up of the month: Converge – automating industrial monitoring
Internet of Business chats with Raphael Scheps, CEO and co-founder of Converge, a London-based start-up that wants to help industrial organizations say goodbye to manual monitoring.
What does...
Google Cloud IoT Core gets NXP’s support
Dutch embedded application specialist NXP Semiconductors has this month noted that its Android Things platform now supports the new Google Cloud IoT Core.
A cloud service from Google,...
Smart factories to add $1,500bn to global economy by 2022, says...
Global consultancy and outsourcing company Capgemini has today released the findings from its Smart Factories Report.
The survey of 1,000 executives across six sectors, completed...
Imont: Has IoT broken the cloud business model?
Has IoT broken the cloud business model? Nigel Pugh, CEO at IoT software start-up Imont, believes there are issues that need to be addressed.
Pugh...
Start-up of the month: ShadeCraft solar-powers autonomous robotics
Internet of Business spends five minutes with Armen Gharabegian, founder of LA-based IoT start-up ShadeCraft, to discuss the company's solar-powered autonomous robot Sunflower.
What does ShadeCraft do?
ShadeCraft...