Video IoT World Hackathon: Father, daughter help team Smart Ag develop winning smart-farming solution 15th May 2019 Priya Kshirsagar (left) and her father, Sudhir Kshirsagar, of team Smart Ag talk about the smart-farming solution that they helped develop during a 48-hour period this week to win the hackathon contest conducted this week at the IoT World event in Santa Clara, Calif. The Smart Ag design would let farmers low-cost, low-power Internet […]
News Backhaul problems, disjointed recovery efforts key causes of ‘unacceptable’ extended wireless outages after Hurricane Michael, FCC report says 10th May 2019 Many wireless customers in the Florida Panhandle ‘unnecessarily’ lacked communications for days in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael last fall, because some carriers lacked resilient backhaul and failed to coordinate restoration efforts with utilities, clean-up crews and other carriers, according to an FCC report released yesterday. “Three key factors—insufficiently resilient backhaul connectivity, inadequate reciprocal roaming […]
Video Kymeta: Ben Posthuma outlines how satellite service can help public safety, autonomous vehicles 9th May 2019 Ben Posthuma of Kymeta talks about the company’s satellite service, which delivers broadband signals to vehicles equipped with a flat antenna, as a complement to terrestrial 4G or 5G wireless broadband for public-safety or critical-infrastructure entities in rural locations today. In the future, Kymeta could serve as a similar connectivity complement to mass-market vehicles like […]
News AT&T launches narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) as complement to LTE-M for Internet of Things connectivity 6th May 2019 AT&T recently launched narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) service to support the simplest sensors—typically using little bandwidth and power—with potential price targets of $5 per NB-IoT module and data plans of $5 per year, according to a company official. Internet of Things (IoT) pundits have long projected that billions of devices would be connected to fuel an […]
News Motorola Solutions execs cite ‘strong’ LMR demand, company’s diversified portfolio 3rd May 2019 Demand for mission-critical land-mobile-radio (LMR) systems continues to be “strong,” but Motorola Solutions’ offerings extend well beyond this traditional core to sectors like dispatch, video, analytics and software suites, company CEO Greg Brown said today. During the company’s first-quarter earnings call, Brown noted that he expects software and services to account for “about one-third” of […]
News Newscan: Drones, supercomputers and sonar deployed against floods 1st May 2019 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Drones, supercomputers and sonar deployed against floods San Francisco teams with Uber, location tracker on 911 call responses Californa bill would stop data throttling during emergencies Denver cops launch sticky GPS trackers in pilot program CLTC wants return of raided 911 funds, infrastructure money in Guam FirstNet on […]
News Potential $2 trillion infrastructure initiative could be a vehicle to help fund NG911 deployment 1st May 2019 Democratic congressional leaders met with President Donald Trump today and expressed optimism about a potential $2 trillion infrastructure bill that would include funding for broadband—the type of massive spending bill that some public-safety officials have said is needed to fund nationwide deployment of next-generation 911 (NG911). After meeting with Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) […]
News Southern Linc offers ‘Basic MCPTT’ and ‘High Performance MCPTT,’ shuts down legacy iDEN system for LTE 30th April 2019 Southern Linc—the southeast U.S. regional carrier that also provides communications for the Southern Company utility—is leveraging its 800 MHz LTE network to provide two flavors of mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) service to customers, according to Southern Linc officials. Southern Linc was long known for its iDEN network, but the carrier recently completed a transition to LTE that […]
News Ubicquia adding cameras, mics, edge processing in new Wi-Fi cells for smart cities, 5G roadmap for small cells 24th April 2019 Ubicquia, a maker of small-cell technologies that plug into streetlights, plans to integrate camera, microphones and Qualcomm edge processing in upcoming Ubicell devices that provide Wi-Fi coverage, as well as 5G support for its Ubimetro small cells, according to CEO Ian Aaron. Modern wireless-broadband standards like 4G/5G LTE and Wi-Fi promise blurry-fast speeds, but they […]
News Newscan: Firefighters had a secret weapon when Notre Dame caught fire: A robot named ‘Colossus’ 18th April 2019 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Firefighters had a secret weapon when Notre Dame caught fire: A robot named ‘Colossus’ How French firefighters used drones to tackle the Notre Dame blaze Craftsmen built Notre Dame eight centuries ago. Now it may be up to robots to save it A Chinese company develops firefighting drone […]
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