The Canadian company opens the new Johannesburg site to produce MITRAC high power propulsion equipment for TRAXX Africa locomotives Bombardier, one of the most important rail technology manufacturers will open, in October, its new South African production plant and headquarters. This commitment to the African country is the result of the contract for supplying electric... Read more »
Month: September 2016
Ikusi attends Minexpo to showcase its remote control offer for the mining industry
The equipment with LED panels constitutes a proposal tailored to the sector. Ikusi will be attending to visitors at stand 24723 in the South Hall From 26 to 28 September Ikusi will be participating in a new edition of Minexpo at Las Vegas to present to the market its offer of remote control devices designed to... Read more »
CPaaS.io, an EU-Japanese Collaborative Project on Smart Cities
The collaboration between the European Union and Japan has inaugurated a new episode in the history of the economy with the aim of boosting the smart cities A new platform that links technologies like the Internet of THings (IoT), Big Data and Cloud with Open Government Data (OGD) and Linked Open Data, is the new project of... Read more »
How is impacting the urban sprawl on our life quality and on the environment?
The European Environment Agency (EEA) and the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) published a report, on last June, that explains the impact of the urban sprawl on the environment and on our lifes That the urban sprawl has negative effect on the environment and on the quality of life of the European citizens is something that... Read more »
ORMAZABAL SUPPLIED TO OVER 3 GW WIND POWER INSTALLATIONS WORLDWIDE IN 2015
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in Paris during November 30th to December 12th 2015, which later announced the targets for the greenhouse gas emissions by aiming to control the climate change within the 2 oC trajectory. The wind energy has been strategically applied in many countries as one of the... Read more »
Internet of Things World Forum date will be announced by September 15
One of the most famous IoT forum is moving to the first half of 2017, and soon, by September 15, we´ll discover the date of the summit The event, sponsored by Cisco, has been celebrated before in cities like Dubai, Barcelona or Chicago, but, due to some problems we don´t exactly know, 2016’s summit has... Read more »
Günther H. Oettinger: “5G is not about the telecom industry, it´s about the whole economy, the whole society”
The European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society presented the EU plan about 5G and digital economy Today, in Velatia Networks, we carry you what the European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, Günther H. Oettinger, said recently about the oportunity that the 5G could represent for the European economy and society. Take a look to... Read more »
Günther Oettinger: “Europe needs a 700,000 million euros investment in digital infrastructure”
The European Commissioner boosts the idea of investing in a core field to be competitive with Silicon Valley and the Chinese digital industry The digital industry will be a mainstay in our future economy. That´s the idea that the European Commissioner Günther Oettinger explained the last Thursday. In the case that Europe can´t develop fiber-optic networks... Read more »
The Future of the Digital Society , 21st – 22nd September 2016, London
The english capital will house the 2nd edition of a summit about the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem and its impact on the digital society “An extensive analysis of the Smart City landscape, and in-depth focus on the drivers, hurdles and opportunities for different stakeholders within the ecosystem”, this is the way the organization describes this... Read more »
Madrid Open Data, October 6-7, 2016 Global goals, local impact
The 4th edition of this conference, that will take place in Madrid for two days, has the aim of stimulating the progress of open data globally For two days the Spanish capital will also be the Global Data capital of the world. Policy makers and Public Sector Information holders, private companies, startups and freelancers, activists,... Read more »
Ferrovial has been selected to upgrade Denver Airport’s main terminal
Ferrovial Airports heads consortium selected to enter into negotiations for the Great Hall terminal project at Denver International Airport. The final terms of the project will be negotiated by the airport and the consortium over the coming months. Ferrovial Agroman will head the construction work that would eventually be included in the concession contract .... Read more »
IKUSI IMPLEMENTS ITS INTEGRATED SECURITY MANAGEMENT PLATFORM ARMADILLO AT THE LISBON AIRPORT
Vinci Airports, the Portuguese airport concession awardee, has entrusted Ikusi with a global security project integrating and interconnecting its different subsystems (CCTV, FAS and ACS) for single-platform management – a solution that increases airport security levels with a minimal impact on its operative processes and, as a result, on passenger satisfaction. The solution implemented by... Read more »