MWC was about the emergence of private 5G: Mobile World Congress (MWC) was held in person this year following a two-year slough caused by the pandemic. Attendance was about 60% of 2019 levels, but the trends were similar. The author of this article … [Read more...]
Podcast: Explaining the IoT’s latest $11B deal
The industrial automation world got a jolt of news with Emerson combining some of its industrial IoT software businesses with AspenTech in an $11 billion transaction. We explain why the deal matters and what it means, before hopping over to discuss … [Read more...]
This factory is using AR to help with a hiring crunch
The "help wanted" signs scattered throughout restaurants, stores, and medical offices are becoming all too familiar these days. While economists can debate if that's because pay is too low or pandemic benefits are too high, the end result is the … [Read more...]
AR isn’t the next big thing; it’s a data visualization tool
I spent this morning watching a demonstration of Emerson's new augmented reality (AR) platform for its PlantWeb manufacturing software. During that demonstration, two things became very clear to me. One, COVID-19 could become the driving factor in … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Nov. 15, 2019
Amazon takes the smart speaker sales crown in Q3: Amazon Prime Day must have really helped to move Echo devices because, in the third quarter of this year, Canalys estimated Amazon shipped 10.4 million of them. That’s up from the 6.3 million Echo … [Read more...]