Welcome to the IoT Evolution Week in Review, my friends. This week, we’ve been talking about Smart Homes, Smart Agriculture, Smart City, and Smart technological improvements. Let’s get into it, shall we?
In our lead story, the U.S. FCC has launched a new Web portal to allow radio spectrum researchers to apply for an experimental license for 5G spectrum projects, and the first to get one is New York University. The new application system is designed to reduce barriers to experimentation for universities, research laboratories, healthcare institutions, and manufacturers with demonstrated experience in radio frequency technology, and provide an overarching licensing program for innovative entities to rapidly acquire specific experimental licenses on an ongoing, as-needed basis in designated campus areas.
We had a great guest post from Jason Porter, VP, Security Solutions, AT&T, who wrote about how cybersecurity threats in the IoT are much bigger than any single organization. At RSA 2017 and Mobile World Congress, while technology companies were focused on delivering new solutions to help mitigate security vulnerabilities or reduce potential threats, he identified three themes resonating across both conferences.
And now, the news: At the moment, there are more than 250 smart cities projects in progress all around the world, according to recently released numbers from Navigant Research, and everyone expects that number to increase significantly over the next several years. CommScope, a global infrastructure solutions company for communications networks, has announced that it has become a Lead Partner of the Smart Cities Council with the goal of helping transform cities into Smart Cities and support the growth of digital technology and intelligent solutions.
Sensify Security, a company that delivers intelligent IoT security services at the edge to help customers find visibility, control and automation capabilities in industrial cybersecurity operations, has joined the OpenFog Consortium with the goal of helping to establish global security and privacy requirements for Fog Computing.
It’s well-recognized that cellular connectivity is an extremely versatile tool in the hands of an IoT implementer. But what, exactly, can it do for a business, and how can it best be used? To answer some of those questions, Get Wireless, Sierra Wireless and IoT Evolution will jointly host a new webinar, “Top 5 considerations for LTE in your business.”
Farmnote Holdings, an IoT solutions provider for dairy and livestock farming, has procured a new investment of 500 million yen, or about $4,580,000, in funding from four companies: Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations, the Norinchukin Bank and Sumitomo Corporation.
Over the last few years, I have seen some major trends forming across nearly every vertical in the consumer and industrial spaces, and these trends looked like they were pointing toward a future where the IoT would indeed be improving the lives and living conditions of people all over the world, and so I decided to begin writing a book in order to look for patterns in those trends. That book, published recently, is called “IoT Time: Evolving Trends in the Internet of Things.” In a new weekly series, we’ll be previewing chapters for you to read in the hopes that you’ll like enough to read the whole thing.
On the IoT Time Podcast, I sat down with Dave Murray, Head of Thought Leadership, BPI Network, about a study newly release by BPI that indicates that although enterprises see the value of IoT in the industrial space, the IIoT is lagging in adoption.
There’s plenty more to read, listen to and watch, so visit us on IoT Evolution World for all the IoT news, my friends. Now is the time to put into your calendar the next IoT Evolution Expo, to be held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Also, please get in touch with us when you have stories. As always, if you have questions, comments, complaints or compliments, please send them to me, editorial director Ken Briodagh at [email protected] or on Twitter @KenBriodagh.
