The US Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) has set out plans designed to ensure the US gains, and retains, leadership in 6G cellular technology. ATIS describes it document Promoting US Leadership on the Path to 6G as “A call to action from the leading companies in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry […]
eSAT Global to provide IoT satcomms for Transport Genie
eSAT Global — a US company planning to use existing geostationary satellites to provide communication for IoT applications — has formed a partnership with Canadian company Transport Genie under which eSAT Global will provide connectivity for Transport Genie’s system for the monitoring of livestock in transit. Initially the two companies will conduct large scale field […]
NetFoundry enables Zero trust networking to Azure Edge Zones
‘Zero trust’ networking developer NetFoundry has announced software that can be deployed in Microsoft Azure Edge Zones to facilitate direct connections between businesses IT systems and their Azure Private Edge Zones without deploying extra network gear. The company has previously announced integrations for Azure, Azure Virtual WAN, and Office 365. NetFoundry says this capability is […]
Cisco upgrades IoT Control Center (Jasper)
Cisco has upgraded the Cisco IoT Control Center — formerly the Cisco Jasper Control Center renamed from the Jasper Control Center when Cisco acquired Jasper — with machine learning capabilities that it says will enable telco users of the service to offer their customers better management, billing and security of cellular IoT environments. Machine Learning […]
UK to legislate security for consumer IoT devices
The UK Government is to introduce legislation that, it says, will impose three rigorous security requirements on all consumer IoT devices. Specifically these are: All consumer internet-connected device passwords must be unique and not resettable to any universal factory setting; Manufacturers of consumer IoT devices must provide a public point of contact so anyone can […]
Cisco’s new IoT security offering spans OT and IT networks
Cisco has launched, at its EMEA Cisco Live! in Barcelona, an IoT security suite designed to provide visibility and analytics across IT and OT networks. Cisco says it has removed the complexity of a multi-vendor, multi-data, and multi-asset infrastructure to create simple IoT cyber security solutions that can be managed on any of Cisco’s gateways, […]
Pirelli’s smart tyre relays road conditions via 5G
Pirelli has demonstrated a car tyre that is able to monitor road conditions and transmit information on these via 5G to other cars in the vicinity. The demonstration was staged in conjunction with Ericsson, Audi, Tim, Italdesign and KTH at a 5G Path of Vehicle-to-Everything Communication event in Turin organised by the 5G Automotive Association( […]
Voluntary security assessment for consumer IoT devices
The UK’s IoT Security Foundation has formed a partnership with the IAMSE Consortium to develop a vendor self-assessment scheme for the security of consumer IoT products for the UK market. It says the scheme will provide a baseline which is both low cost and simple to implement for manufacturers. IASME has worked with the IoT […]
Chicago conference puts spotlight on 6G
What might well be the first conference focussed on 6G will take place in Chicago in June. With 5G barely off the starting blocks, 6G might seem a distant prospect, but research is already underway and coverage of the topic is increasing. The 6G Innovation and 5G Evolution Forum will be held July 14-15 2020 in […]
Digitally transform infrastructure, and win $50K
The Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub), a G20 initiative headquartered in Sydney, has launched InfraChallenge, an international competition to disrupt the infrastructure industry by funding digital transformation solutions. It is calling for digital innovations that can be applied to solve economic or social infrastructure issues and build momentum towards better infrastructure – such as how […]
