Tag: Manufacturing
Machine vision: a bird’s-eye view of the smart factory
In a contributed article for Internet of Business, Jonathan Wilkins, marketing director at EU Automation, a supplier of obsolete industrial parts, discusses the role of...
Intel and Bosch team up to monitor air pollution
Air pollution is a big topic at the moment, with key global cities taking steps to address the issue, such as banning cars from...
Bosch makes historic investment in IoT with new wafer fab
German engineering company Bosch has placed a big bet on the future value of the IoT, with a €1 billion investment to build a...
IoT malware doubled in 2016, says report from Kaspersky
The amount of malware targeting IoT devices more than doubled in 2016, according to a report by IT security company Kaspersky.
Researchers there set up...
Start-up of the month: IoTium – time for network-as-a-service
Internet of Business speaks with Ron Victor, CEO and founder of network-as-a-service provider IoTium, about how a new way to acquire network infrastructure could...
Asavie CEO: Faster prototypes will lead to accelerated IoT adoption
Internet of Business speaks to Asavie CEO Ralph Shaw on the company's goal of helping manufacturers get their products IoT-connected – quickly, simply and...
IoT spending to reach $1.4 trillion by 2021, says IDC
In the latest update to its Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things Spending Guide, research company IDC has forecast that worldwide spending on IoT will...
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...