The two companies are teaming up to grasp new business potential in the fast-growing market for private 4G and 5G mobile networks. The rising demand for private cellular network solutions comes as industries and enterprises increasingly need advanced digitalization to …
LoRaWAN will work in the 2.4 GHz spectrum band, also occupied by Wi-Fi and Bluetooth systems, to enable LoRaWAN-based IoT devices to work globally at the same frequency for the first time, without needing to switch between sub-GHz bands in …
The Freshwave Group, a new UK network provider, is seeking to combine telecoms expertise and real-estate savvy to plug coverage gaps in public mobile coverage with shared and private networking. It is targeting enterprises and cities, as they seek to …
Brazilian telecoms regulator Anatel has approved local energy distributor Neoenergia to operate a private LTE network in the 3.5 GHz frequency. It will be the first private LTE network in Brazil, and the first for smart electric grids in Latin …
Waterfront Toronto, in charge of the $1 billion redevelopment of Toronto’s waterfront neighbourhood, has extended the deadline on whether to move forward with Google sister company Sidewalk Labs’ proposal for the smart city enclave. The board of Waterfront Toronto has …
UK regulator Ofcom is proposing to make 500MHz of contiguous spectrum in the lower 6 GHz band available for unlicensed indoor Wi-Fi and low-power outdoor Wi-Fi usage. It has also revealed plans to release an additional 18GHz of Extremely High …
A consortium of technologists, industrialists, and academics have joined a new European working group to develop and demonstrate a new ‘beyond-5G’ system for private networks, integrating 5G, Wi-Fi, and LiFi technologies, and managed through AI based autonomic networking. The 30-month …
How does a mobile operator, in the business of airtime subscriptions, go beyond selling straight connectivity? Because this must be the goal, and the measure of ambition. There is no future in SIM cards, as we have argued – especially …
The first “neutral aggregating platform” for tracing the provenance of goods in the supply chain has launched, pulling together and making visible data from sundry blockchains. The World Economic Forum described it as a “self-service track-and-trace” blockchain platform at its …
After leading the early automation revolution at the beginning of the 20th century, manufacturers are once again seeking a technological edge. A whopping 72% of manufacturing companies plan to significantly increase investment into digitization efforts in 2020. These manufacturers’ combined …
Most people in Britain would support regulated usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, for critical services and industrial enterprises, according to a report by Vodafone. Eighty per cent of the British public would support their adoption if better …
The World Economic Forum has zeroed-in on skills and training as it seeks to put the world right in Davos this week. It has launched a programmer, Reskilling Revolution, to provide one billion people with better education, skills and jobs …
ABI Research has poured water on the idea Wi-Fi 6 will gain mass adoption in the IoT space in the near-term. It has also said a few dominant chipset vendors will squeeze out new entrants in the IoT market, that …
Telecoms operators must do more than just sell connectivity. It is a maxim that gets repeated, often, and always – and one that, in the end, becomes more like a stick to beat them with than a code of survival, …
The smart home market in Europe continued to grow in the third quarter of 2019, reaching almost 23.8 million units, an increase of 18.1 per cent compared to the same quarter a year ago. Amazon usurped Google in the period …
Spending on factory data applications will grow from $18 billion in 2019 to just over $27 billion in 2024, a rise of 50 per cent in the period, according to analyst house ABI Research. The industrial and manufacturing sector is …
The Irish government has unveiled a five-year Industry 4.0 strategy to help manufacturing firms to respond to technological change. The plan, announced last month, includes €23.5 million of funding for the Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR) Centre, a joint initiative between …
As the headline suggests, this analysis should be seen in context. It offers only rapid arithmetic around the World Economic Forum’s (expanding) list of ‘lighthouse’ factories, which claim the most success with digital change. It considers the available data (the …
This article, in five parts, is continued from Step 2, about spectrum and regulation; Step 2 can be found here. “Once frequency usage fees have been clarified – a significant detail required for investments in industrial 5G – nothing will …
Bosch wants to be an “innovation leader” in AI, it told CES last week. The German industrial giant, one of the manufacturing sector’s most outspoken champions of industrial 5G, is seeking to mainline data in its products and factories, and …
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has opened a new ‘customer experience centre’ in Bangalore (Bengaluru), in India, to offer IoT solutions to customers and partners from across industries. The facility, on a 20,000 square-foot campus, shared with a global engineering centre …
China-owned Volvo Cars is working with China Unicom to develop 5G based communications between cars and infrastructure in China. The two companies have agreed to work together to research, develop and test automotive applications of 5G and emerging vehicle-to-everything (V2X) …
Twenty one of Europe’s capital cities are to participate in a new initiative to accelerate development and delivery of “high impact” digital services. The two-year scheme, by Bloomberg Philanthropies, will see cities receive technical help, access to city leaders, and …
Siemens and Arm have struck a deal around computing and sensor design for connected and autonomous vehicles, to help the automotive industry develop more complex platforms for in-car and between-car connectivity. The work to redefine vehicles within intelligent and interconnected …
The World Economic Forum has named 18 new factories, mostly from Asia (and mostly in China), as part of its ‘global lighthouse network’ of advanced manufacturers. They join the existing roster of 26 factories. All of the sites have been …
