Note, for more on this topic, join the Enterprise IoT Insights webinar on Industrial 5G (From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard) on April 28, featuring speakers from ABI Research, MFA (MulteFire Alliance)/Nokia, Schneider Electric and Vodafone; check back here, also, …
Note, for more on this topic, and more on Schneider Electric’s private 5G story, catch Zach Nimboorkar on the Enterprise IoT Insights webinar on April 28 on Industrial 5G (From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard). He is joined by speakers …
Another challenge, apart from devices, with the mission to scale industrial 5G is with sales channels. Speaking a while back, following its “flagship” arrangement with system integrator Kyndryl for its various Industry 4.0 gear, Nokia says its strategy on private …
Singapore-based UnaBiz is the new owner of France-based ultra-narrowband IoT company Sigfox, the Commercial Court of Toulouse confirmed today. UnaBiz has acquired Sigfox SA, the primary technology company, and Sigfox France SAS, its network operator subsidiary in France. The deal, …
Note, for more on this topic, and to hear more from MFA and others, join the Enterprise IoT Insights webinar on Industrial 5G (From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard) on April 28 – also featuring speakers from ABI Research, Schneider …
Global revenues from IoT device management services will top $36.8 billion by 2026, according to ABI Research. The forecast represents a compound annual jump (CAGR) of 17.1 percent, from around $16.7 billion at the end of 2021. It said spiralling …
Yes, we have done the Leone analogy before, kind-of (see: 1NCE upon a time in America), but the original Spaghetti Western title works even better to tell the story, briefly, of how cellular IoT rode into town on a horse …
The Commercial Court of Toulouse in France has delayed its decision on the sale of Sigfox until April 21. The decision, originally scheduled for today (April 14), gives Singapore-based UnaBiz, the long-time front-runner to buy ailing IoT firm, another week …
France-based facility services company Derichebourg Multiservices has integrated 1,200 IoT sensors into the LED ceiling lights at its new headquarters in Créteil (pictured), near Paris. Data from the sensors will help the firm optimise its energy management at the site, …
Singapore-based UnaBiz, the front-runner in the race to buy Sigfox, has had its bid for the ailing French IoT firm blocked by the French Ministry of Economy, as political hyper-sensitivity around economic nationalism, and even protectionism, mounts ahead of the …
Bosch and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are combining on a new digital services platform for the logistics industry, to launch in Europe, India, and the US in late 2022. Bosch is in charge of the platform itself, developing and operating …
An Open Letter to Presidential Candidate Macron Subject: Resumption of Sigfox activity #SauvonsSigfox #ReviensLeon Presidential candidate Macron, You gave me a taste for politics. You have given me hope in a government with progressive values, capable of destroying dogmatic practices …
Lufthansa Technik, which has arguably set down the definitive private 5G deployment in the Industry 40 sector, has extended its private 5G network in Hamburg, Germany, to a second aircraft engine ‘overhaul workshop’, it has announced. The firm is now …
The Global Certification Forum (GCF) and the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) have signed a cooperation agreement to jointly investigate industrial 5G certification needs. The pair said they will share information on industrial IoT use cases and …
Ericsson is working with US real estate developer Hillwood to offer a tool for autonomous and connected vehicle companies to access “secure and constant” 4G and 5G connectivity at the Mobility Innovation Zone (MIZ) within the 27,000-acre AllianceTexas development in …
FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx, is working with California-based aerial cargo startup Elroy Air to launch test flights for autonomous drone cargo deliveries in 2023. The deal is billed as a “first of its kind agreement” in the US. …
An update on the Sigfox takeover, taken from largely from a report in La Tribune Toulouse, the local business paper in Toulouse, France, where the seven candidates offering to rescue the ailing French IoT firm had their bids reviewed at …
Annual shipments of Bluetooth devices will pass seven billion in 2026, according to the latest annual market update from the Bluetooth SIG (via ABI Research); the forecast number represents a seven percent CAGR jump on 2021, when 4.7 billion Bluetooth …
Custom-machine manufacturer MGA Technologies has engaged Finland-based industrial networking specialist Edzcom, owned by Spanish tower company Cellnex, to deploy a private 5G network from Nokia at its new MGA TechLab 4.0 in Lyon, in France. The network went live in …
LoRaWAN software and services provider Senet is working with IoT platform provider Dhyan Networks and Technologies to offer a ‘turnkey’ streetlight package for customers, to make it easy to add smart streetlights as an application on top of LoRaWAN networks. …
The Scotland 5G Centre (S5GC), a government-sponsored research centre with the universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, has opened new private 5G network testbeds in Aberdeen and Kilmarnock, in Scotland. The new additions take the total number of S5GC testbeds to …
Mobile operator Orange has reaffirmed its support for LoRaWAN in France “until at least 2027”, committing to maintain the non-cellular technology as a terrestrial IoT network with nationwide coverage in the country of its birth – even as cellular 5G …
Sigfox USA has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in a Delaware bankruptcy court, owing almost $150 million in unsecured debt. The filing, on March 31, is separate from its parent’s receivership and sale in France, which is set to conclude …
The first Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) in Africa has opened in Rwanda, with a focus on data governance, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning. It joins a network of 15 C4IR venues on four continents, and sets its …
As well as a new private 5G deployment in Hamburg for IT service provider Dataport, covered Wednesday (March 30), O2 Telefónica has confirmed a private 5G setup at the Helios Park-Klinikum, a private psychiatric and orthopedics hospital, in Leipzig. O2 …
