Precision’s AI-powered drones to reduce farm chemicals
A Canadian firm that wants to use AI-powered drones to slash the use of herbicides in row crop agriculture has just raised $20 million in seed funding. Investment in [...]
Hitachi acquires fatigue wearables firm Wenco
Hitachi mining software subsidiary Wenco International has acquired Australian industrial wearables firm SmartCap Technologies Pty. Based in Brisbane, Australia, SmartCap assesses real-time fatigue levels and monitors for oncoming micro-sleeps [...]
ifm starter kit for Industry 4.0
German industrial sensor and software firm ifm electronic has issued a starter kit for Industry 4.0 designed to make it easier for firms to begin to build Industrial IoT [...]
Seeq AWS integration for Industrial Analytics
IIoT analytics specialist Seeq Corporation has launched an AWS service that makes analysing industrial and manufacturing data with AWS analytics simpler and faster. The Seeq AWS Glue integration for [...]
Hexagon opens Smart Manufacturing Centre in Singapore
Swedish industrial software developer Hexagon has opened a Smart Manufacturing Innovation Centre in Singapore. The centre provides a test-bed for advanced and autonomous manufacturing hardware and software. Hexagon’s Singapore [...]
Nokia 5G private wireless for Japanese manufacturing
Japanese telecoms operator KATCH has picked Nokia to deliver industrial-grade stand-alone 5G private wireless networking to manufacturing and industrial businesses throughout Japan’s main manufacturing region. The Aichi Prefecture is [...]
Ford cuts manufacturing time with AI powered robotics
Ford Motor Company has achieved a 15 percent cycle time improvement in manufacturing at its Livonia Transmission Plant in Michigan through the implementation of AI-enabled industrial robotics. The new [...]
AeroFarms builds world’s largest Aeroponic Farm in Virginia
Vertical farming specialist AeroFarms has broken ground in Virginia on the largest planned indoor vertical farm in the world. The ground breaking ceremony of the new aeroponic farm in [...]
HORSCH and Trimble to build farm autonomy
German farm equipment maker HORSCH and US agtech firm Trimble are collaborating to develop autonomous agricultural machinery and workflows. The collaboration extends beyond autonomously controlling machines, such as the [...]
Bentley adds real-time IoT sensor data to iTwin platform
Engineering software firm Bentley Systems has acquired IoT software specialists sensemetrics and Vista Data Vision. The acquisitions will add real-time IoT sensor data to the Bentley iTwin platform. Users [...]
Combinatorial Analytics for Crop Yields
Combinatorial analytics platform PrecisionLife has launched an agriculture-focused spin-out Synomics. The spin-out will develop and market applications of the PrecisionLife combinatorial analytics platform to improve health and yield of [...]
Raspadskaya installs Orange IoT to improve Coal Quality
Russian coal mining company Raspadskaya has deployed an Orange Business Services IoT solution at its Russian coal preparation factory. The system is minimising the risk of mixing different grades [...]
