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 locomotives for TRAXX Africa. As the company explaines, in the press note they published in their official webpage, "the majority of the locomotives are being built at Transnet Engineering´s plants in Koedoespoort, Pretoria and Edwin Swales in Durban".Siyabonga Gama, Chief Executive Officer of Transnet Group, attended the opening ceremony, during an event held in Isando, Johannesburg. Mr Siyabonga Gama appointed that "Bombardier´s production facility was an integral...
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 meet the specific needs of the mining industry. A sector requiring robust equipment with excellent ergonomic conditions that is capable of operating in hostile environments. Bearing in mind the special characteristics that the equipment in the mining sector needs to have, Ikusi has incorporated the LED panel option into its remote control devices, offering a high degree of robustness and customization. The panel of the IK3 and IK4 transmitters can have a maximum of 12 LEDs to get feedback in a simple and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 globallyFor two days the Spanish capital will also be the Global Data capital of the world. Policy makers and Public Sector Information holders, private companies,...