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Students Collaborate on Innovative Solutions Using the Internet of Things Aggies Invent is known for bringing together a unique group of students and mentors for an innovative 48 hours. The most recent event, Aggies Invent: Internet of Things, did not disappoint.  In addition to students from the Texas A&M University College of Engineering, five engineering […]

February 22, 2017 3:15 PM SAN DIEGO – Thousands of streetlights around San Diego are being replaced in the next couple of months with brighter, more energy efficient versions that will cut costs and improve public safety. The money the city saves will then go toward a revolutionary new partnership with general electric called “current”.

Yokogawa’s view of a connected industrial plant, as described in a white paper on process automation and the Internet of Things. (Image courtesy Yokogawa Electric Corporation.) Yokogawa Electric Corporation, an electrical engineering and software company also involved in industrial automation, will collaborate with four technology providers to develop an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) architecture.

In my last column, the takeaway sentence was: “We need to focus on our only assets, our people, to do our job.” This issue, I’d like to talk about “Their people;” the people who live and work in the connected environments our industries are helping to create. Satisfaction and Productivity of corporate assets — “their

REUTERS/Rick Wilking Verizon on Wednesday said that it will start offering “pre-commercial” 5G service to certain customers in 11 US cities sometime in the first half of 2017. The affected cities include Dallas, Denver, Houston, Miami, Atlanta, Seattle, Washington D.C., Sacramento, Ann Arbor, Bernardsville, NJ, and Brockton, MA.  Verizon says it will choose customers for its