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Siemens intros edge IT control system to replace myriad OT hardware; Ford to deploy

Siemens has introduced a new on-prem software-based Industry 4.0 ‘workstation’ to replace all the traditional hardware paraphernalia that has built up in factories to control and automate machines and processes, including physical programmable logic controllers (PLCs), conventional human-machine interfaces...

5G/Wi-Fi, IT/OT in Industry 4.0 – it’s all way too simplistic, says Cisco

It seems like you can have the same conversation about Industry 4.0 whether AI is presented as the big kahuna in the tech-mix or hardly mentioned at all, like the elephant in the room. This conversation with Cisco, taped...

Abeeway takes Sequans NB-IoT/LTE-M module for new industrial IoT tracker

Actility-owned IoT asset tracking provider Abeeway is using the Monarch 2 GM02S module from Sequans for cellular IoT connectivity in the new version of its Abeeway Compact Tracker, according to the French IoT chipmaker. The Abeeway product uses the...

Private cellular IoT to reach 108m factory connections by 2030

There will be 108 million IoT connections on private LTE (4G) and 5G networks in the manufacturing sector in 2030, according to a new forecast from ABI Research. Manufacturing will be the biggest market for private 5G-IoT, it said....

Private 5G – hype versus reality (regarding a mess of market forecasts)

Note, this article forms the intro section to a new editorial report from RCR Wireless about ‘private 5G – hype versus reality’. The full report is available to download for free here. It might be taken, as well, with...

Qualcomm readies ‘micro-power’ Wi-Fi system and ‘AI-ready’ IoT platforms

Qualcomm will also expand its portfolio to address the safety, operating environment and mechanical handling requirements for industrial grade solutions Qualcomm Technologies has released a “breakthrough micro-power” Wi-Fi system-on-chip (SoC) for battery-powered IoT, plus new “AI-ready” IoT and industrial platforms...

Ignion intros AI tool to speed-up IoT designs in digital twin platform

Embedded World 2024, Nuremberg: Barcelona based IoT antenna company Ignion has launched a new “AI-powered” antenna integration platform called Oxion to further shorten the design time for wireless IoT devices. The new service integrates “proprietary algorithms” from local Barcelona...

Myths and legends – three lies the private 5G sector tells

Or three lies it has told, and is being forced to take back.  Ask Future Technologies – which appears, directly or indirectly, to have its fingerprints across every-other big private 5G deployment in the US – about the hype in...

Twinned, tweaked and optimized – five principles of good private 5G design

As we heard last week, good 5G is bad 5G without careful network design – especially with private 5G in complex enterprise venues. This was the line from Nazim Choudhury, director of market development at Canada-based iBwave Solutions, which...

Boldyn to provide 5G, private networks to ASM Global’s venues

Boldyn's neutral host DAS, Wi-Fi and private network solutions will enable ubiquitous 5G connectivity throughout ASM venues ASM Global and Boldyn Networks announced an extension of a previous partnership with the aim of providing 5G, next-generation Wi-Fi and private networks...

Cisco and Kajeet combine cellular and Wi-Fi in managed enterprise IoT service

Managed enterprise IoT provider Kajeet has a deal to integrate its Sentinel platform with Cisco’s cellular gateways and mobility services platform. The pair hailed it as a “strategic partnership”; they also said in a statement they had only “initiated...

Kagan: How Wi-Fi, Private Wireless, FWA can use coopetition to win

Coopetition is when competitors work as partners and both win Over the years, we have been watching the wireless and telecom industry change and expand into new technologies like Private Wireless, Wi-Fi 7 and FWA. Plus, other new tech like...

Qualcomm Webinar: How proximity and AI are redefining mobile experiences

Mobile devices are at the center of most loved experiences – using them to game, to collaborate, and everything in between. This webinar will discuss next-level connectivity with the recently announced Qualcomm® FastConnect™ 7900 Mobile Connectivity System featuring ground-breaking...

Future Technologies sells $14m of private 5G to US energy sector in 12 months

Evidence, or indication at least, that the burgeoning market for private networks in Industry 4.0 is as much about local knowhow and boots-on-the-ground as it is about global corporate reach; busy US-based system integrator Future Technologies has just stuck...