The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has introduced a new pilot programme called Industry Connect Service (ICS) to connect enterprises seeking digital change with experts in the field. It works like a industrial IoT dating service to connect tech buyers with …
This interview, with Niall Strachan, director of product at UK-based Arm’s Pelion IoT business, is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – co-creation, co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. …
Phil Skipper, global head of IoT business development, Vodafone: “The key question is what will rise and fall in 2020, in terms of digital transformation for industry. At the end of 2019, low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies, mobile private networks, and …
Peder Rand, product manager for cellular IoT, Nordic Semiconductor: “At the start of 2019 the only thing operating on cellular networks around the globe were mobile phones, plus a few hundred million 2G-based devices. Security alarms are an example of …
Intel has acquired Habana Labs, an Israel-based developer of programmable deep learning accelerators for data centres, for around $2 billion. The purchase will spur Intel’s efforts to bring increasingly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to cloud and edge based silicon, notably …
Sven Hamann, Senior Vice President, Bosch Connected Industry: “Only the floor, the walls, and the ceiling are fixed; everything else is flexible and mobile, and adapts to customers’ orders in seconds. People remain at the centre of the action. This …
Alejandro Cadenas, IoT strategy manager, Telefónica: “Deployment of private networks is giving way to a radical change in industries, especially suited for campus-type industrial deployments like mines, ports, airports or manufacturing plants. Thanks to this connectivity technology, companies will work …
Note, this interview, with Greg Corlis, managing director for emerging technologies and national IoT leader, at KPMG, is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – co-creation, co-configuration, and how to bring industrial …
This article, in five parts, is continued from Step 1, about spectrum and regulation; this can be found here. 2. SPECTRUM / REGULATION Another crucial part of the jigsaw-roadmap – a clearing of the road, rather than a shortcut – …
Norwegian maritime group Wilhelmsen is deploying a LoRaWAN network at 2.4 GHz to bring connectivity to its operations at land and sea. It will offer connectivity to customers as well. The firm has struck a deal with Dutch LoRaWAN collective …
Nokia has won a tender with German rail company Deutsche Bahn to test and deliver standalone 5G for autonomous trains and rail operations. It will be the first time a standalone 5G system has been used for rail automation, said …
There was some head-scratching when French IoT operator Sigfox revealed a 2023 target of one billion connections. But there is no doubting the company’s canny ability to spot new IoT use cases, sometimes staring us in the face all along. …
The global manufacturing sector will spend over $1 trillion on smart software, hardware and services in 2030, almost quadrupling the $259 billion spend in 2019. The volume of wireless connections, including LTE and 5G, as well as low-power wide-area (LPWA) …
Sometimes content gets left on the cutting room floor, and sometimes it does not even make the edit. And often that content is excellent, and deserves a feature all of its own. This is a (delayed) retelling of a briefing …
Nokia has said it is building a “strategic partnership ecosystem” to bring private LTE and 5G networks to industrial and government customers in Japan. Spectrum for local LTE and 5G will be released in Japan at the end of 2019 …
The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) and the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) are looking to drive cooperation between operators and industries to capitalize on opportunities with industrial 5G. The pair have announced an agreement to …
Dutch firm NXP Semiconductors has completed the $1.76 billion acquisition of the wireless connectivity assets of Bermuda chip firm Marvell Technologies. The cash deal, agreed at the end of May, completed last week; it sees NXP augment its industrial IoT, …
Liberty Lake based IoT provider Itron has signed a contract with Louisville Water Company, in Louisville, Kentucky, to replace around 280,000 water meters. Itron will install smart meters in their place, alongside a data management platform. It said the meters …
5G will only gets its wings in 2023, or thereabouts, when its full functionality is revealed in a standalone version of the new radio (NR) standard. That is when it will take flight, and change the world – or, at …
Firstly, that headline: too much? Perhaps, but let us make the case – and draw breath, for this may take some time. Industrial 5G is the only version of 5G that should be considered to be ‘game-changing’. It is a …
Fingrid, Finland’s national transmission system operator, has appointed Nokia to build an IP/MPLS network to support the digital transformation of its national electrical grid. Fingrid will use the network to operate 120 high-voltage substations and control 14,600 kilometres of power …
Vodafone is embedding AWS compute and storage services at the edge of its 5G network in Europe, starting in the UK and Germany and rolling out to other European territories. IoT devices and developers will be able to take advantage …
France-based Orange has followed Spanish telecoms operator Telefónica to announce a major strategic overhaul that places analytics and automation, to underpin both internal efficiencies and external services, at the heart of its its operations. Orange, like Telefónica, said a major …
T-Systems, the digital services division of Deutsche Telekom, has introduced an on-premise edge cloud solution for lower-latency analytics and automation, and on-site data processing. Edge-based compute power offers advantages in terms of latency, compared with cloud based data processing. T-Systems …
Japan’s Softbank will plough artificial intelligence (AI) and internet-of-things (IoT) technologies into a burgeoning smart city project in Indonesia, after striking a deal with Jakarta-based conglomerate Lippo Group. The deal, with the Indonesian firm’s real-estate division PT Lippo Karawaci (LPKR), …
