Nexia Home Intelligence is now compatible with Z-Wave multisensors that detect various inputs -- including light, vibration, motion, temperature and humidity -- and communicate with other smart products such as lights or video cameras, said Nexia parent company Ingersoll-Rand. A light sensor could turn on indoor lights when storm clouds reduce the amount of sunlight in a home, it said. Smart home systems are differentiated by their ability to integrate features and “seamlessly work together,” said George Land, head-Nexia Home Intelligence. The Z-Wave multisensors connect to Nexia and the product ecosystem through the Wi-Fi-connected Nexia Bridge, bringing all Nexia-compatible smart products together on one network, Land said. The bridge enables the user to wirelessly connect and control “hundreds” of Z-Wave smart home products through a Nexia account, it said.
PCIA used its comments on the FCC’s pending wireless competition report to warn that federal, state and local obstacles to deploying wireless facilities remain. “The Commission should continue to examine its regulations to facilitate the rollout of wireless broadband and advise other agencies on key steps to success, especially for facilities deployed on federal lands,” PCIA said. Just reallocating more spectrum for licensed use is not an answer without better deployment, PCIA said. “New spectrum, a necessary but finite resource with extended lag time from purchase to deployment, cannot alone handle this surge in traffic; infrastructure providers and carriers must deploy new cell sites to deliver the increased capacity consumers demand,” the group said. Writers Guild of America, West warned that the U.S. market remains highly concentrated. “AT&T and Verizon retain duopoly control of the wireless market with 66 percent of subscribers and 73 percent of low- band spectrum,” the guild said. “Although these two companies control two-thirds of the wireless market they continue to acquire spectrum.”
PCIA used its comments on the FCC’s pending wireless competition report to warn that federal, state and local obstacles to deploying wireless facilities remain. “The Commission should continue to examine its regulations to facilitate the rollout of wireless broadband and advise other agencies on key steps to success, especially for facilities deployed on federal lands,” PCIA said. Just reallocating more spectrum for licensed use is not an answer without better deployment, PCIA said. “New spectrum, a necessary but finite resource with extended lag time from purchase to deployment, cannot alone handle this surge in traffic; infrastructure providers and carriers must deploy new cell sites to deliver the increased capacity consumers demand,” the group said. Writers Guild of America, West warned that the U.S. market remains highly concentrated. “AT&T and Verizon retain duopoly control of the wireless market with 66 percent of subscribers and 73 percent of low- band spectrum,” the guild said. “Although these two companies control two-thirds of the wireless market they continue to acquire spectrum.”
PCIA used its comments on the FCC’s pending wireless competition report to warn that federal, state and local obstacles to deploying wireless facilities remain. “The Commission should continue to examine its regulations to facilitate the rollout of wireless broadband and advise other agencies on key steps to success, especially for facilities deployed on federal lands,” PCIA said. Just reallocating more spectrum for licensed use is not an answer without better deployment, PCIA said. “New spectrum, a necessary but finite resource with extended lag time from purchase to deployment, cannot alone handle this surge in traffic; infrastructure providers and carriers must deploy new cell sites to deliver the increased capacity consumers demand,” the group said. Writers Guild of America, West warned that the U.S. market remains highly concentrated. “AT&T and Verizon retain duopoly control of the wireless market with 66 percent of subscribers and 73 percent of low- band spectrum,” the guild said. “Although these two companies control two-thirds of the wireless market they continue to acquire spectrum.”
Nexia Home Intelligence is now compatible with Z-Wave multisensors that detect various inputs -- including light, vibration, motion, temperature and humidity -- and communicate with other smart products such as lights or video cameras, said Nexia parent company Ingersoll-Rand. A light sensor could turn on indoor lights when storm clouds reduce the amount of sunlight in a home, it said. Smart home systems are differentiated by their ability to integrate features and “seamlessly work together,” said George Land, head-Nexia Home Intelligence. The Z-Wave multisensors connect to Nexia and the product ecosystem through the Wi-Fi-connected Nexia Bridge, bringing all Nexia-compatible smart products together on one network, Land said. The bridge enables the user to wirelessly connect and control “hundreds” of Z-Wave smart home products through a Nexia account, it said.
Virgin America flights will offer digital music curated by iHeartRadio, parent company iHeartMedia said in a news release Tuesday. The partnership will integrate iHeartRadio-branded stations into Virgin America's seatback in-flight entertainment, and will also allow iHeartRadio-using travelers to continue listening after landing using their own computer or mobile devices, the release said. The service will start with six stations in different genres, the release said. Virgin America and iHeartRadio will announce several promotions in 2015 to introduce the iHeartRadio branded stations to passengers, the release said.
Virgin America flights will offer digital music curated by iHeartRadio, parent company iHeartMedia said in a news release Tuesday. The partnership will integrate iHeartRadio-branded stations into Virgin America's seatback in-flight entertainment, and will also allow iHeartRadio-using travelers to continue listening after landing using their own computer or mobile devices, the release said. The service will start with six stations in different genres, the release said. Virgin America and iHeartRadio will announce several promotions in 2015 to introduce the iHeartRadio branded stations to passengers, the release said.
M2M Spectrum Networks petitioned the FCC to initiate a rulemaking on allowing licensees of 900 MHz business/industrial land transportation (B/ILT) pool channels to serve other business clients without a waiver. “This rule is necessary to effectuate the flexibility to provide third-party services that the Commission meant to introduce to the band in 2004, but also husband that flexibility to serve the needs of businesses,” M2M said. The company warned there's a “cottage industry of licensees getting away with disregard for the current rule’s limitation by making inadequate disclosures or simply by pretending it does not exist.” The rule change would recognize how many companies really use the B/ILT channels, M2M said. “Many 900 MHz B/ILT licensees appear to provide for-profit service to third parties from the start despite never requesting authority to do so in an assignment or modification application and never requesting a waiver.” M2M said its parent Spectrum Networks Group identified 19 licensees that “do not appear to use, or intend to use, their B/ILT licenses for private internal communications.”
The FCC Public Safety Bureau approved a waiver allowing New Mexico to build out its public safety network using 700 MHz state channels under call sign WPTZ778, despite missing a filing deadline. FCC rules require states to certify by June 13, 2014, that they were providing or were prepared to provide substantial service to one-third of their population or territory. “New Mexico claims it missed the filing deadline because of a ‘management gap’ created by the departure of an employee responsible for managing call sign WPTZ778,” the bureau said Monday. “New Mexico also states that it is aggressively working to formulate a state-wide land mobile radio modernization plan in which the 700 MHz public safety band will play a key role.” The bureau said because the state now has the required equipment and is prepared to install it, granting a waiver “would not frustrate the underlying purpose of the rule.”
CBP has partnered with the United Kingdom's National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NaVCIS) and Border Force to block illegal vehicles imports. CBP, NaVCIS and the United Kingdom Border Force signed a Letter of Intent to exchange law enforcement information to prevent illegal vehicle trafficking, CBP said (here). “With this agreement, CBP and our partners in the United Kingdom set the stage to expand joint trade enforcement efforts into Europe,” said Brenda Smith, assistant commissioner for CBP’s Office of International Trade.