Partner content IoT’s role in wildfire detection 13th October 2021 In 2020, wildfires in California burned more than 4 million acres, killing 33 people. Already this year, wildfires have burned more than 2 million acres and claimed the lives of three people, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Across the United States, 58,950 wildfires burned 10 million acres in 2020, according […]
Partner content Where e-SIMs meet cloud-based platforms 13th October 2021 Connected and autonomous vehicles need a way to connect to a mobile network. Ericsson predicts that all the manufactured vehicles will be cellular-enabled by 2025, “leading to an enhanced driving experience made possible by innovative connected services, like assisted driving and better infotainment”. Being cellular-enabled will require the vehicles to have e-SIMS to connect them […]
Partner content Green waste-management solution lets Miami DPW managers monitor dumpster levels from afar 13th October 2021 By now, everyone has heard of smartphones, smart televisions and smart home appliances—but what about smart dumpsters? A sustainable waste metering pilot program launched in Miami will see city dumpsters equipped “with rugged smart cameras that take photos of the inside … to measure how much and what types of waste are present,” according to a statement […]
News Newscan: ShotSpotter sues Vice Media over gunshot-detection claims 13th October 2021 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations ShotSpotter sues Vice Media over gunshot-detection claims CISA finalizes guidance for securing federal networks for remote users Baltimore schools monitoring student laptops for suicide risk Motorola makes billions from delays to new emergency-services radio network Boeing satellite plan advances to FCC vote 25% of all U.S. critical infrastructure […]
Video Wi-Fiber: Adair Grover outlines uses of private wireless broadband for communities 12th October 2021 Wi-Fiber CEO Adair Grover discusses the various use cases that municipalities and other entities can realize by implementing private wireless broadband within their jurisdictions. Not only can these private networks be deployed relatively quickly, but the ability to leverage LTE over CBRS spectrum means that the systems can support prioritization and quality-of-service functionalities that […]
Partner content North American orgs hit with an average of 497 cyberattacks per week 11th October 2021 New data released this week confirms what numerous others have reported as a massive surge in attacks against organizations worldwide since the COVID-19 pandemic forced dramatic changes to workplace and operational environments. A recent analysis of threat activity by Check Point Software Technologies shows that the average number of weekly attacks on organizations globally so far […]
Partner content UCLA develops human-powered medical wearables 11th October 2021 Soft sensors for medical wearable devices could soon generate electricity using the motions of the human body. A soft, flexible self-powered bioelectronic device that converts human body motions into electricity has been created by a team of bioengineers at the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The magnetoelastic generator […]
Partner content As cybercrime increases, local governments face uphill battle in hardening digital defenses 11th October 2021 What would a small community do if its school district’s network was attacked by ransomware? What about if a municipally managed wastewater treatment plant in a rural county was shut down by a digital onslaught initiated by organized cybercriminals operating a continent away? With cyberthreats increasingly targeting municipal frameworks, these are the types of questions that constituents should be […]
News NENA’s latest version of i3 standard receives ANSI accreditation 8th October 2021 NENA: The 911 Association yesterday announced that the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) fully approved the third—and latest—version of i3, the IP-based NENA standard for next-generation 911 (NG911) networking and core services. Earlier this year, the fact that ANSI had not approved Version 3 of the i3 standard was a point of contention, because legislation […]
Partner content This is Smart Cockpit calling Ground Control: Inside Airbus’s conversational artificial intelligence (AI) 7th October 2021 At the virtual track of the AI Summit, part of the jam-packed London Tech Week, an Airbus data scientist outlined conversational AI’s enabling role in the digital transformation. Airbus has managed to train conversational AI using domain classification techniques, data content and interaction models. Once trained, the software has underpinned efforts to create dashboarding & visualization […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 1 22nd April 2024
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