The only way for operators to generate more revenue is to take more risk. The promise of 5G networks is in selling augmented connectivity solutions to enterprises, and not to consumers. But the operator community must guarantee 5G services, offered …
Verizon and Honda are testing how new edge-based 5G could ensure reliable connectivity between road infrastructure, vehicles, and pedestrians. The pair are working at the University of Michigan’s Mcity, a test bed for connected and autonomous vehicles, on the project, …
US energy company Consolidated Edison (Con Edison) has deployed a total of four million smart gas modules and electricity meters across its service territory in New York as a part of its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) project with Itron. The …
Brussels Airport has announced it has successfully tested drones for inspections and surveillance using its private 5G network, installed by network vendor Nokia and network operator Citymesh. Local air traffic control and management company Skeyes has also been involved in …
The new version of the Zeetta Networks platform, which provides a dashboard for managing multiple private enterprise networks, as a “single pane of glass”, has already been tested as well in “large scale” smart city initiatives in the UK, including …
Verizon has signed its first European private 5G contract, in a deal with Associated British Ports in the UK. The US firm has been appointed to deploy private 5G at the Port of Southampton. Nokia is providing the networking infrastructure, …
Hitachi is to acquire Silicon Valley-based digital engineering services company GlobalLogic for $9.5 billion. The firm will be integrated into the Japanese firm’s Hitachi Vantara unit; its digital engineering capabilities will “strengthen” its Lumada industrial IoT platform, the company said. …
Arm has unveiled its first new architecture in a decade to raise performance and security in the “next 300 billion Arm-based chips” to be delivered to the market over the coming decade. The firm said the new Armv9 architecture, replacing …
Sweden-based IoT operator Netmore Group, new parent of Nordic IoT Networks, has said it is building a nationwide LoRaWAN network in Ireland, starting in Dublin. The rollout is part of the company’s international expansion strategy. The company has been active …
Nokia has deployed an NB-IoT network for mobile network operator Saudi Mobily in the 800 MHz band in Saudi Arabia. The pair said they have connected more than 4,000 sites, with radius coverage of 20 kilometres per cell. The software …
Chinese manufacturer Wasion and French IoT software provider Acklio have introduced an electricity meter supporting Device Language Message Specification (DLMS) communications over low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking protocol LoRaWAN. The release follows the publication late last year by the LoRa Alliance …
This conversation will form part of the narrative in the forthcoming Enterprise IoT Insights report on industrial 5G SLAs, out at the start of April (to be available here). A webinar on the same subject is available here, with panellists …
Sweden-based Telia has launched a private LTE and 5G network solution for enterprises in Norway using its licensed spectrum, otherwise used for its public network services. It follows the launch of the same service in Sweden in September. Telia is …
Finnish industrial networking specialist Edzcom has deployed private 5G networks at shipping terminals in Mussalo and Hietanen in Kotka for Steveco, Finland’s largest port operator. Italy-based Athonet has provided the core network and connectivity platform. The two sites in Kotka, …
Norway-based telecoms group Telenor has reorganised its regional and international IoT portfolios under a single brand moniker, Telenor IoT. The company has devised a new “operating model” to go alongside, the company said, to synchronise product development, improve technical support, …
As promised last week, in an op-ed write-around of the same conversation, here is the full interview with Phil Skipper, group head of IoT business development at Vodafone, on the subject of industrial 5G performance KPIs and management SLAs – …
Barcelona-based IoT antenna company Fractus Antennas has rebranded as Ignion. The company has reissued its mission statement, to establish its proprietary off-the-shelf multiband ‘virtual antenna’ chip technology as a driver for faster, cheaper IoT development, and a spur for ‘massive’ …
Nokia has integrated a spectrum access and radio sensing mechanisms into its private LTE and 5G offer for priority and general access users in the CBRS band in the US. The Finnish firm has partnered with Virginia-based Key Bridge Wireless …
The only way for operators to generate more revenue is to take more risk. The promise of 5G networks is in selling augmented connectivity solutions to enterprises, and not to consumers. But the operator community must guarantee 5G services, offered …
The only way for operators to generate more revenue is to take more risk. The promise of 5G networks is in selling augmented connectivity solutions to enterprises, and not to consumers. But the operator community must guarantee 5G services, offered …
Network slicing – across the radio, the transport, and the core network – is coming to both private LTE and private 5G setups, Nokia has said. The Finnsh vendor is trialling its new slicing functionality with a trio of mobile …
US-based Federated Wireless has watched at close quarters as US enterprises have piled into the CBRS band to deploy private LTE and 5G networks. Here, Deepak Das, in the company’s CTO office, describes the unfolding landscape, as enterprises put cellular …
Australian network operator Telstra is to deploy weather stations on its NB-IoT network infrastructure in Queensland, in the northeast of the country, in order to create a hyper-local weather data and forecast system for farmers in the region. The pilot …
This is a summary of a conversation with Vodafone’s group head of IoT business development, Phil Skipper. The interview will be published in full next week; the below works as a teaser, and a rejoinder to a piece published last …
Software AG and SAP have announced a deal to offer the former’s TrendMiner industrial analytics software on the latter’s industrial cloud platform for Industry 4.0 operations. The pair said factories can use TrendMinder as a self-service tool to bring new …
