The Marseille Fos port in southern France is leading the new French Smart Port in Med initiative, with an ambition to “build the port of the future”. It has a focus on efficiency, innovation, and environmental sustainability The initiative has …
The Port of Marseille Fos is amping up its smart port strategy with new discussions with Orange about 5G, a developing relationship with IBM on blockchain, and a host of collaborations with local industry around port innovation, geared towards container …
South East Water is connecting digital water meters, sensors and acoustic loggers on underground mains water pipes to Vodafone’s NB-IoT network in the UK. The arrangement is part of a year-long trial of the technology to monitor and fix water …
Recent trials of industrial 5G at the Port of Hamburg have given the German port a lift, and clear designs about digital change. But it will count for nothing if the German telecoms industry cannot conjure rapid rollout of 5G …
Silicon Valley based industrial automation and robotics firm Fetch Robotics has raised $46 million in Series C funding. The new venture capital takes its total funding to $94 million to date. The money will go on international expansion, and new …
Ofcom will open up a large tranche of the UK airwaves for enterprises to deploy private and shared networks, dedicating the 3.8-4.2 GHz band for local deployments, requiring national operators to relinquish unused licensed spectrum to enterprises, and making available …
Cellular IoT technologies are expected to take the lion’s share of the low-power wide-area (LPWA) market, but it has been a bumpy start – outside of China, at least. Rival non-cellular technologies LoRaWAN and Sigfox have stolen a march in …
IoT provider Ingenu has relaunched with a ‘2.0’ message about the suitability of its low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology for sundry industrial sectors, with a platform-as-a-service offer and a number of contract wins in the Asia Pacific region. The San Diego …
For all the experience of LTE and excitement of 5G, the IoT market has been propped by low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies. The concept of smart-anything as the prerequisite for industrial change – in buildings, cities, manufacturing, logistics, agriculture – has …
In the end, it comes down to customer satisfaction – which, in the end, comes down to money. However you spin it, smarter industrial operations make better products, more efficiently, which raise customer loyalty, which makes business. The theory is …
Device availability, network flexibility, and technical features give LoRaWAN the edge on NB-IoT today, reckons Proximus. But competition between the two IoT technologies will grow closer, it expects. Meanwhile, Sigfox is missing in action, having apparently retreated from the kinds …
LoRaWAN supports a broad set of IoT applications, applicable to a wide variety of vertical markets. Below is a comprehensive list of 19 use cases, as provided by LoRaWAN provider Senet, which offers LoRaWAN infrastructure in 80 countries. Check out …
Cities must use all new mobility options, starting with shared and electric vehicles, if they are to decrease vehicle emissions by as much as 95 per cent by 2050. Focus on autonomous vehicles should come after immediate groundwork has been …
Restaurant chains Shake Shack, Five Guys and Hard Rock Café have deployed LoRa-based temperature monitoring systems in their commercial kitchens. UK firm CM Systems, a specialist in monitoring systems for food safety compliance, has transferred these chains, alongside regional brands …
Sigfox has said it will boost its so-called 0G network infrastructure six-fold in terms of capacity and features to serve as a cellular back-up network for an expanding customer base. It has also extended a key deal with Securitas Direct …
French IoT firm Traxens has followed up news of pending investment from shipping giant Maersk with the closing of a €20 million Series C round of investment funding. Traxens said the injection will go to scale-up of its smart containers …
Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) is a cellular-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology. Specified in Release 13 of the 3GPP in June 2016, it coexists with GSM and LTE in licensed frequency bands. NB-IoT is associated with simple sensor applications, which make up …
French IoT firm Traxens is poised to receive major investment from shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, alongside a big order for cellular cargo trackers. It has also been drafted into the new French Smart Port in Med initiative in Marseille as …
Australian internet-of-things (IoT) operator National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) has signed a strategic investment agreement with global energy and environment company Enzen Group. The $8 million deal is geared towards driving LoRaWAN adoption in Australia “at scale”. The pair said …
UK firm Telensa has struck a deal to provide smart controls to 15,000 LED street lights in the City of Dunedin in New Zealand. The arrangement is part of a deal by Spanish-owned, Australia-based infrastructure management company Broadspectrum to upgrade …
French IoT company Sigfox claims 6.7 million active devices in the field (“not counting proofs of concept, just commercial rollouts in diverse industries”), in 63 countries on five continents. It has set an ambitious (bonkers, surely?) target of one billion …
Sea ports have become a primary focus for the telecoms sector as it maps out potential customers for private communications networks, particularly as the industrial space at large hits upon the opportunity for new LTE and 5G networks to bring …
The rise of private industrial networking should be measured by the number of new networks, and network operators, and not by the number of cell sites, reckons Italy-based industrial networking specialist Athonet. Speaking at a MulteFire-sponsored panel session, chaired by …
Satellite connectivity, spurred by new projects from the likes of Amazon and SpaceX, will support 24 million IoT connections by 2024, bringing new competition to established IoT technologies like LoRa, Sigfox and NB-IoT. While the burgeoning IoT market scratches it …
Carmakers BMW, Hyundai, Nissan, Mitsubishi and Renault have joined with the likes of Deutsche Bahn, LG Electronics and Shell to pump $100 million into a new early-stage fund for innovation in the mobility sector. Israel-based venture capital fund Maniv Mobility …
