HERE Technologies, the location data and technology platform, and Increment P, the Japanese digital map and location intelligence company, announced that Increment P is expanding the access to its comprehensive, high-quality location content and data sets available via the HERE Marketplace, in addition to what is already accessible to developers in HERE Workspace.
These data sets include Japanese road network data, detailed map data including building footprints, address data that corresponds to Japan’s unique address system, point of interest (POI) data and traffic information. In addition, Increment P provides information about upcoming road and city infrastructure changes (including newly created roads, street width changes, as well as new or closed buildings and facilities) which can be used by customers for local marketing purposes, city and real estate planning.
By offering its data on the HERE Marketplace and tapping into the extensive HERE location content ecosystem, Increment P is broadening its reach to customers worldwide, addressing the growing importance of location intelligence in today’s digitised and data-driven world to serve a variety of use cases across multiple industries.
“We will continue to provide access to our map data of Japan through HERE Workspace and contribute to improving the overall value of the HERE location platform by making our map data available for distribution to customers via the HERE Marketplace.
Our partnership with HERE provides us with access to enterprises around the world and will further stimulate the global demand for location-based services. We look forward to strengthening our cooperation with HERE as an important strategic partner,” says Takahito Aiki, president and CEO at Increment P.
“Our strong partnership with Increment P, established in 2017, has enabled HERE to provide the Japanese market with location-based products and services. By making Increment P’s data suite available to multiple industries and enterprises via the HERE Marketplace, both in Japan and overseas, we’re jointly expanding the boundaries of location technology and accelerating digital transformation for our customers,” says Akihiro Takahashi, vice president sales, Japan at HERE Technologies.
Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, expanded its family of 8.2mm creepage photocouplers with three new devices designed for operation in harsh industrial automation equipment, solar inverter, and EV charger operating environments.
Measuring a mere 2.5mm x 2.1mm in an LSSO5 package, the optical isolated IGBT drivers and intelligent power module (IPM) driver reduce PCB mounting areas by up to 35% compared with other devices on the market.
“Industrial equipment and green energy system manufacturers are currently facing two core challenges: Equipment needs to get smaller, requiring downsizing for factory floor efficiency and higher functionality equipment within the same board size, while at the same time, safety standards are getting stricter,” says Philip Chesley, vice president, industrial and communications business division at Renesas.
“Our expanded portfolio of small isolation devices offers customers greater layout flexibility with more options to enable longer secured creepage distance for high-voltage inverter control applications.”
The new RV1S9231A 2.5A output and RV1S9207A 0.6A output IGBT drivers and RV1S9209A active high output IPM driver come in low-profile LSSO5 packages with a 0.65mm pin pitch, deliver 5,000 Vrms isolation voltage, and support high temperature operation up to 125°C to withstand the harsh operating environments. The photocoupler trio also supports 200V and 400V systems with reinforced insulation to meet stringent industrial safety standards, adhering to the strict UL61800-5-1 standards for motor drive equipment.
Renesas has identified and created a system architecture for various applications where the RV1S92xxA family of products adds tangible value in the system. For instance, a new AC Drives / GP Inverters “Winning Combination” featuring the RV1S92xxA family of products enables customers to downsize their industrial equipment and inverter systems that meet UL61800-5-1 standard.
Renesas’ Winning Combinations are vetted system architectures made from mutually compatible devices that work together seamlessly. Renesas offers over 200 Winning Combinations for a wide range of applications and end products which can be found at here.
Availability
The RV1S9209A, RV1S9231A, and RV1S9207A photocouplers are available now from Renesas’ worldwide distributors. For more information on the broad optoelectronic portfolio, please visit here.
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Mobile Network Operator (MNO) Manx Telecom has relaunched its Global Solutions division under a new brand, OV, to serve the growing global IoT market along with its established global mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) and travel SIM business. The name OV is derived from ‘Of Vannin’, the ancient word for the Isle of Man where Manx Telecom is
Managing a mobile workforce from vehicles and trucks to equipment and drivers can present unique challenges for fleet operators.
While fleet tracking and management solutions have helped companies to make fleet operations safer and more efficient for years, today’s growing commercial and regulatory pressures are introducing new standards that require fleet owners to do even more, Jeff Clark, SVP of product management, CalAmp.
A growing emphasis on streamlining operations, improving decision-making, and increasing fleet safety is sending commercial fleets searching for new solutions that can give them more actionable fleet intelligence in real-time.
Integrated fleet and asset management solutions are a crucial part of this new drive for more intelligent fleets. Fleet owners need more actionable insights that put data into context and provide critical driver and vehicle performance information quickly, accurately, and securely, allowing managers to make more informed decisions.
By connecting the mobile workforce with vehicle intelligence, both private and public sector fleets can gain real-time visibility into vehicle status, health, and driver behaviour to improve safety, lower costs, and increase productivity.
Simplify fleet maintenance & resource utilisation
Improving operational efficiency empowers companies to do more with less or do much more with a little more. For field service businesses, vehicle utilisation can be a primary source of lost efficiency and a leading indicator of areas of improvement.
Fleet operators can dramatically improve performance by tracking and monitoring their drivers, equipment, and vehicles in the field to use resources in the most profitable way possible. From fuel consumption to driver behaviour, fleet monitoring promotes an organised approach that improves efficiency and safety.
Fleet operators can leverage these insights to more effectively manage the maintenance needs of their entire fleet. Integrated fleet and asset management solutions deliver vehicle information such as direct odometre readings, fuel levels, service interval indicators, airbag status, oil pressure, and a variety of other metrics that allow minor maintenance issues to be identified before they turn into major repair jobs.
Improve driver behaviour and safety
It’s often said in business that you can’t manage what you don’t measure. In addition to vehicle and asset visibility, business managers and owners can implement smart solutions to achieve and ensure driver safety. An integrated fleet management system allows fleet managers to better understand what’s happening on the road with actionable insight through visual and inertial video triggers.
Actions such as speeding, harsh acceleration, frequent braking, harsh turning, and tailgating can be identified and used to proactively coach drivers to improve behaviour.
Another aspect of safety is preventing driver fatigue. Telematics paired with an Electronic Logging Device (ELD) can help fleet operators monitor Hours of Service (HOS) and prevent violations. These solutions accurately capture the number of hours a driver can be on-duty and off-duty per week, ensuring fleets stay compliant.
Fleet operators can also automate time and attendance by creating geofences around offices, delivery routes, and job sites. Drivers can be monitored in real-time, and managers can be alerted if any geofenced boundaries are crossed, providing an additional layer of visibility to driver behaviour, safety, and vehicle use.
By connecting technology, vehicles, and driver behaviour, integrated fleet management solutions allow for a more sophisticated and efficient way to monitor fleets, keep drivers safe, and increase productivity and profits.
Optimise fleet efficiency
An organisation’s success and profitability hinges on fleet efficiency. Unfortunately, many fleets have a lot of room for improvement due to outdated methods. Though many fleet managers still rely on outdated processes, like spreadsheets and paper processes, these solutions lack visibility and efficiency to manage their fleet operations.
Our society relies on modern technology to improve processes and stay connected with others. Leveraging technology to manage fleets produces the same results. With an intuitive fleet and asset management solution, managers can track every aspect of their fleet and make decisions based on real-time data, helping fleet efficiency by enabling communication, eliminating time-consuming data entry, and automating workflows.
Jeff Clark
Measuring metrics like utilisation, expenses, performance, and maintenance provides insight into what’s working and what needs improvement.
Adopting a fleet and asset management solution to manage a mobile workforce helps fleet managers identify areas for greater productivity, safety improvements, compliance solutions, and cost savings. Indeed, you don’t know what you can’t see.
Thankfully, these intelligent solutions enable comprehensive real-time visibility into vehicles, drivers, and related assets, providing fleet managers with actionable insights to increase fleet efficiency and improve operations.
The author is Jeff Clark, SVP of product management, CalAmp
With smart city and building technology on the rise to make our urban infrastructures data-driven, efficient and more liveable, there has been a focus on the place of video technology.
David Gregory, Northern Europe key account manager and smart cities expert at Milestone Systems reports that the uses of video and sensor tech go beyond security. Its efficiency for other purposes is growing due to new infrastructures and pressure on city services.
When developers invest in video and sensor technology for their smart buildings and cities, they have the potential to achieve so much more than simply protecting their assets.
Technological innovation has expanded the remit of what video technology can be used for and with the increased bandwidth that 5G gives connected devices, more and more interlinked devices can be added to the internet, known as the internet of things (IoT).
With this in mind, video technology can be used to monitor a vast variety of elements critical to a successful smart city or building. This can range from air quality measures and safety solutions, to the prevention of vandalism and autonomous cars and traffic management.
Investing in video and sensor technology to enact these types of controls enables those managing smart cities and buildings to act on societal changes in a new, much more effective way which is informed by accurate and real-time insights collected by video technology systems.
Video technology can plug into algorithms which feedback to other smart elements to make cities and buildings as efficient as possible. For example, using video technology in traffic management has a bigger, more positive impact on congestion reduction than building new roads.
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) can be embedded into transport infrastructure to improve mobility and safety. Cameras and sensors installed into roads and bridges will collect real-time traffic information which is then fed back to local government authorities who can analyse long-term traffic trends to inform decisions on strategic transportation plans. In addition to this, video technology can plug into electronic signs to manage processes such as the opening, closing and merging of lanes or changing speed limits.
Using video for surveillance can be controversial, none of us likes a camera in our face. The good news is that there are plenty of video tech solutions with the ability to anonymise data through metadata aggregation, privacy masking, data purging and much more, and thereby they can help keep people safe and cities run smoothly without compromising data privacy. Emphasising this is crucial to more public acceptance of video technology investment in smart cities, buildings or workplaces.
The author is David Gregory, Northern Europe key account manager and smart cities expert at Milestone Systems.
With smart city and building technology on the rise to make our urban infrastructures data-driven, efficient and more liveable, there has been a focus on the place of video technology.
Peter Greener, key account manager at Milestone Systems reports that the uses of video and sensor tech go beyond security. Its efficiency for other purposes is growing due to new infrastructures and pressure on city services.
When developers invest in video and sensor technology for their smart buildings and cities, they have the potential to achieve so much more than simply protecting their assets.
Technological innovation has expanded the remit of what video technology can be used for and with the increased bandwidth that 5G gives connected devices, more and more interlinked devices can be added to the internet, known as the internet of things (IoT).
With this in mind, video technology can be used to monitor a vast variety of elements critical to a successful smart city or building. This can range from air quality measures and safety solutions, to the prevention of vandalism and autonomous cars and traffic management.
Investing in video and sensor technology to enact these types of controls enables those managing smart cities and buildings to act on societal changes in a new, much more effective way which is informed by accurate and real-time insights collected by video technology systems.
Video technology can plug into algorithms which feedback to other smart elements to make cities and buildings as efficient as possible. For example, using video technology in traffic management has a bigger, more positive impact on congestion reduction than building new roads.
Peter Greener
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) can be embedded into transport infrastructure to improve mobility and safety. Cameras and sensors installed into roads and bridges will collect real-time traffic information which is then fed back to local government authorities who can analyse long-term traffic trends to inform decisions on strategic transportation plans. In addition to this, video technology can plug into electronic signs to manage processes such as the opening, closing and merging of lanes or changing speed limits.
Using video for surveillance can be controversial, none of us likes a camera in our face. The good news is that there are plenty of video tech solutions with the ability to anonymise data through metadata aggregation, privacy masking, data purging and much more, and thereby they can help keep people safe and cities run smoothly without compromising data privacy. Emphasising this is crucial to more public acceptance of video technology investment in smart cities, buildings or workplaces.
The author is Peter Greener, key account manager at Milestone Systems.
Nokia announced the deployment of multiple AI use cases delivered over public cloud, through collaboration with Microsoft.
By integrating Nokia’s security framework with Microsoft Azure’s digital architecture, communications service providers (CSPs) can securely inject AI into their networks nine times faster than using private cloud and scale fast across their network. AI use cases are essential for CSPs to manage the business complexity that 5G and cloud networks bring, and will help accelerate digital transformation.
Nokia AVA AI as a service allows CSPs to deploy AI use cases quickly and securely, completing data set-up in four weeks. By integrating Nokia’s security framework with Microsoft Azure’s digital architecture, deployment is much faster while concerns around data sovereignty and security are eliminated and global regulations respected. Azure’s platform enables Nokia’s AI deployments to be delivered fast and enables CSPs to scale fast across multiple clusters.
After the initial data set-up, CSPs can deploy additional AVA AI use cases within one week and ramp-up or ramp-down resources as needed within one day across multiple network clusters. The Nokia security framework on Azure ensures data is segregated and isolated to provide the same level of security as a private cloud.
Australian mobile operator TPG was the first commercial adopter of Nokia AVA AI on public cloud, using a local instance of Microsoft Azure. This means TPG can deploy and scale additional AI use cases fast and has been able to optimise network coverage, capacity and performance, for instance by:
Detecting network anomalies with great accuracy.
Reducing radio frequency optimisation cycle times by 50%, allowing them to be performed more frequently and at lower cost.
Decreasing CO2 emissions by eliminating drive-testing.
Declan O’Rourke, head of radio and device engineering TPG, says, “Nokia’s AVA AI as a service utilises artificial intelligence and analytics to help us maintain a first class, optimised service for our subscribers, helping us to predict and deal with issues before they occur.
Friedrich Trawoeger, vice president, cloud and cognitive services, Nokia says, “CSPs are under constant pressure to reduce costs by automating business processes through AI and machine learning. To meet market demands, telcos are turning to us for Telco AI-as-a-Service and this launch represents an important milestone in our multi-cloud strategy. Operators can achieve significantly faster implementation times and can access a library of AI use cases remotely to improve network performance, lower costs, and reduce environmental impact at the same time.”
Rick Lievano, CTO telecom, media & communications, Microsoft says, “Nokia AVA on Microsoft Azure infuses AI deep into the network, bringing a large library of use cases to securely streamline and optimise network operations leveraging open source compliant services managed by Microsoft Azure. Nokia AVA is a clear proof point that public clouds are ready to help service providers drive AI closed-loop automation while increasing speed, agility, and scalability.”
Extreme Networks, Inc., a cloud-driven networking company, has announced a public beta of ExtremeCloud IQ CoPilot, a subscription level available within the ExtremeCloud IQ platform. CoPilot is designed to deliver explainable artificial intelligence (AI) insights for IT network administrators, enabling them to quickly resolve well-known but highly complex issues. ExtremeCloud IQ CoPilot is relentlessly calibrated
Renesas has identified and created a system architecture for various applications where the RV1S92xxA family of products adds tangible value in the system. For instance, a new 
