Solar energy harvesting for IoT is moving from hobbyists and makers to mainstream professional IoT applications. The driving factor is the sustainability of the business model. For growing applications in agricultural monitoring and asset tracking, the main reasons for using…
Smart Cities
5G Smart Pole Standard Promotion Alliance for joint deployment in Smart Cities
ASRock Industrial is set to partner with 5G Smart Pole Standard Promotion Alliance to jointly deploy 5G smart poles as core infrastructure and foundational “nucleus” in smart city developments. Along with strong support from the Taiwanese government, many renowned Taiwan-based manufacturers and…
Smart water manages consumption and detects real-time leaks
The world’s population is expected to pass the 9 billion mark by 2050, resulting in a 35 to 60% increase in water demand for domestic consumption, agriculture, industry and power generation. Robeau’s team has been working for two years on…
Making sustainable cities the future
There’s zero doubt that human-induced climate change is edging us ever-closer towards an environmental tipping point. Despite the much-anticipated discussions focused on decarbonisation policies at COP26, and warnings by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), much work still needs…
LoRaWAN smart street-lighting systems
On the heels of launching its newest LoraWAN gateway called iStation, Kerlink (AKLK – FR0013156007), a specialist in solutions dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), partnered with CITiLIGHT, the leading smart-lighting solution provider in India, to collaborate and deploy…
Edge AI computer for Smart City applications
Axiomtek – a provider of research, development, and manufacturing of innovative and reliable industrial computer products of high efficiency – is pleased to announce its partnership with leading AI chipmaker Hailo to launch the RSC100, an ARM-based edge AI computer (also…
IoT trends to watch out for in 2022
COVID-19 has dramatically accelerated digital transformation in many critical sectors, including logistics & supply chain and healthcare. As a result of these changes, security took centre stage in 2021, a priority that will remain in 2022 along with sustainability and…
SaskTel advances partnership with eleven-x to enable smart city initiatives
Supplier of wireless smart city solutions, eleven-x, has announced it is extending its partnership with SaskTel to optimise information and communications technology networks in Saskatchewan. Under the multi-year agreement, eleven-x will continue to manage and operate SaskTel’s network of LoRaWAN…
What are smart grids?
Traditional power grids, as most of us understand them, were designed towards the end of the 19th century. We spoke to the EVP for Global Power Products Division at Schneider Electric, Rohan Kelkar, who gave us an introduction to smart…
Top 20 sustainable smart cities
Research conducted by Disruptive Technologies has revealed Copenhagen to be the most sustainable smart city in the world, based upon a range of parameters. Oslo and Zurich were ranked second and third respectively. The research took into consideration a range…
