Cisco and IBM are to collaborate to deploy IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence technology at the edge of IoT networks to provide analysis and insights into IoT generated data. IBM and Cisco say they have joined forces to offer a new way to produce immediate, actionable insight at the point of data collection for companies operating […]
Fog computing gathers momentum
The OpenFog Consortium, the body founded by Cisco in November 2015 to develop standards around edge computing (which Cisco refer to as fog computing), has formed an affiliation with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), garnered 17 new members, formed its first country team in Japan and released a white paper on an […]
Who are the real leaders in IoT?
Market research firm IoT Analytics produces a quarterly report ranking the top 20 IoT companies. Given how difficult it is to (a) define the IoT market and (b) corral a company’s IoT revenue/activities, that’s a pretty tall order. Nevertheless, it makes for interesting reading, and the company is unequivocal as to who the leaders of […]
IoT all the rage at Mobile World Congress
IoT announcements of all kinds emerged on the first day of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Here’s a summary of them. Singtel and Ericsson to trial NB-IoT Singtel and Ericsson has formd a partnership to ready Singtel’s LTE network to support the expected rapid growth of connected devices. The collaboration will start with a trial […]
Cisco launches Sydney IoT innovation centre
Cisco has formally launched the second of its two Australian IoT Innovation Centres, both of which were announced at Cisco Live! In Melbourne in March 2015. However it is a very different beast from what was foreshadowed in that announcement, with a much greater range of partners likely to make it much more effective. Cisco […]
IoT Talent Consortium aims to train one million IoTers by 2020
The IoT Talent Consortium, conceived at Cisco’s IoT World Forum in 2014 with the aim of boosting the IT talent pool and establishing formal qualifications for IoT skills, is gearing up for a formal launch early in 2016 with the aim of having a million learners by 2020. According to a membership presentation on its […]
IoT World Forum, Dubai, and the making of a smart city
It’s easy to see why Cisco chose Dubai as the location of its third IoT World Forum, following Chicago and Barcelona in 2014 and 2013 respectively. The city has a goal to be the world’s smartest city by 2020, and is under time pressure to make significant progress towards that goal. (Interestingly, and rather confusingly […]
Cisco and Princeton Uni form Open Fog Consortium
Cisco has formed the – ozymoronically named – Open Fog Consortium to garner wider support for its version of edge computing as applied to IoT networks. Founding members are ARM, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Microsoft and Princeton University, through the Princeton University Edge Laboratory. Helter Antunes, senior director of Cisco’s Corporate Strategic Innovations Group, has been […]
Australia leads global IoE reference architecture project
The Australian IoE community has kicked of a plan to develop an IoE reference architecture that will provide a practical framework for the implementation of IoE systems, and it has already garnered support for the idea from around the world. The planned architecture is an initiative of Peter Klement, a business technology consultant who, along […]
Could South East Queensland become the world’s first smart region?
Cisco has released a study into the application of smart city technologies and systems to South East Queensland, saying the area has the potential to become the world’s first smart region, adding 30,000 jobs and $10b to its economy “in the coming years”. The report, South East Queensland: A Smart Region, does not detail how […]
