SHANGHAI, CHINA / DAVIS, CA, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) - The ZigBee Alliance, a non-profit association of companies creating, maintaining and delivering open, global standards for the low-power wireless Internet of Things (IoT), today announced that Huawei — a leading supplier of ICT solutions — has joined the ZigBee Alliance at the Promoter level and accepted a [...]
NEW YORK, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – With no shortage of technological breakthroughs affecting businesses today and many more on the horizon, how can C-suites develop effective emerging technology strategies? For its new report, Tech breakthroughs megatrend, PwC evaluated more than 150 technologies globally and developed a methodology for identifying those which are most pertinent [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Uplus, one of Korea’s big three telecommunications companies, has launched an IoT helmet designed to help mitigate the risks and dangers laborers are exposed to at construction sites. According to LG Uplus, the helmet is equipped with an LTE modem, camera, LTE-based communications module, and a GPS chip, [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, on Thursday said it plans to jointly develop network servers and other devices with European firms for a low-power Internet of Things (IoT) technology. The planned cooperation with European firms, which included France’s EGM and CEA that support the LoRa technology [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a Hyundai Research Institute report entitled ‘The Trend of Promising Industries Related to Internet of Things (IoT)’ revealed on July 12, the global IoT market is expected to swell from $300 billion in 2015 to $1 trillion by 2020, with 28.8 percent annual growth. For South Korea, experts foresee [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top conglomerate Samsung Group said Tuesday that its future technology will center on artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT). Of 32 research projects spearheaded by the group between 2014 and 2016 which are aimed at accelerating technology innovation, six were related to AI, the [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (SKT), Korea’s leading network operator, launched a nationwide Internet of Things network Monday that uses its LoRa (long-range) network exclusive to IoT communications. This is the first time for a country to establish an IoT-exclusive nationwide network with a single control center. With the new system, a wide [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Last year, hackers took over a Jeep Cherokee travelling on a highway in the United States. They breached the vehicle’s Uconnect system from some 15 kilometers away with a single laptop, controlling everything from the car’s air conditioning system to the windshield wipers. The age of the Internet of [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean telecommunication companies, such as SK Telecom (SKT) and KT, are rushing to establish IoT (Internet of Things) communications networks. The competition is expected to heighten with relaxed government regulations regarding these new types of networks. Although IoT features multiple-connected objects, the volume of data transferred between objects is relatively [...]
TOKYO, JAPAN, Apr. 11 (Korea Bizwire) - Ricoh today announced the second annual developers contest soliciting applications for apps and gadgets that utilize the RICOH THETA camera, which can take 360-degree, fully spherical images, or videos, in one capture. Registration will be open April 1, 2016 through August 10, 2016. Those registered have until August [...]