12 February 2019

Latest Telecom Sector News

IBM and SweetSense using blockchain to stop groundwater drought

(North America): IBM research arm and SweetSence (sensor tech provider) will use the blockchain and internet of things (IoT) to stop droughts of groundwater in California. The focus would be to regulate the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Furthermore, the project would also use IoT sensors for transmission of water extraction data to satellites and stored in IBM’s cloud-based platform. This will enable farmers to observe utilisation of groundwater through a web-based dashboard as well as trade water credits with other farmers through blockchain.

Ericsson and Intel align on cloud infrastructure development

(North America): Ericsson and Intel have formed a multiyear collaboration, which will focus to combine Ericsson SDI Manager software and Intel Rack Scale Design to form infrastructure management platform to help improve distributed cloud, 5G and Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV). This shared innovation will be applied on Ericsson hardware platforms and likely to be on Intel’s server products.