Sony Semiconductor Israel has released a new cellular IoT chipset for NB-IoT networks. The firm’s low-power Altair ALT1255 chipset is designed for LTE Cat NB2 devices, running the Release 14 version of the NB-IoT protocol. It is geared for low-power …
Shipping ports can make money back on key private 5G-based automation systems in less than two years, reckons Ericsson, and make valuable gains (178-percent returns) within five. The Swedish vendor has worked with Germany-based industrial IoT provider ifm electronic, along …
The European Commission has published a major review of funding for 5G-based and 5G-related industrial transformation, including €10 billion of new public-private partnership (PPP) funding to drive the region’s digital and green agendas, and a series of “ambitious” recommendations to …
The commercial real estate (CRE) market is in dire straits, and desperate for change. It was up the creek already, even before Covid-19 forced the current, holed the boat, and swiped the paddle. And even if the latest IoT tech …
IoT connectivity provider Wirepas has closed a monster-sized deal with smart lighting provider Ingy for 100,000 units of its mesh networking solution, to be combined with Ingy’s indoor lighting control solutions. It is the biggest smart lighting deal to date …
Ondas Networks has announced a deal with systems integration firm Rogue Industries to sell its mission-critical IoT platform to US government and defence markets, including for military drones and unmanned aircraft. The company said the pair will “leap-frog over commercial …
Smart traffic management systems will save cities $277 billion by 2025, by reducing traffic congestion. The figure is a rise of 55 percent on the 2021 savings forecast, of $178 billion in 2021. Traffic emissions will be reduced alongside. The …
(Am I really going to write this?) 6G is a trillion dollar opportunity, apparently. So says the headline in a PR missive about a new report from research firm IDTechEx, making a stab at forecasting the next generation of mobile …
The low-power wide-area (LPWA) end of the IoT sector is characterised by the capabilities and limitations of its main connectivity technologies. But this is wrong. These technologies – the likes of LoRaWAN, Sigfox, and NB-IoT – should not be so …
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) in Coventry in the UK, established by the UK government as an independent research and technology organisation for academia and industry, is to be equipped with a private 5G network for manufacturing companies to test …
Private cellular network vendor Druid Software has announced new distribution deals for its private LTE core networking solution in the US with Nebraska-based network engineering firm Pierson Wireless and Ohio-based network distributor Winncom Technologies. Both firms will sell the Irish …
Sigfox co-founder and chief executive Ludovic Le Moan has stepped down from the French IoT firm with immediate effect. He has been replaced by Jeremy Prince, who has served as president of the company’s US operations since March 2019. Le …
Trade fair operator Deutsche Messe has secured a private 5G licence from German network agency BNetzA for the Hanover fairground in Germany, home to Germany’s flagship Industrie 4.0 event. It has recruited Germany-based carrier Deutsche Telekom to set up “one …
US carrier Verizon has signed a deal to acquire Austrian industrial robotics software company Incubed IT (stylized as incubed IT) for an undisclosed fee. Its rationale is to complement its industrial 5G and edge compute portfolio, and spur its drive …
Spending on big data and analytics in the oil and gas industry is increasing at a rate of about 75 percent per year, as companies rapidly dispense with in-house IoT management to go with big cloud providers instead. Analyst house …
Vodafone is launching a higher-accuracy GNSS-based positioning technology for enterprises to remotely track vehicles, machines, and devices to within 10 centimetres, compared to around three metres with standard satellite systems. It is using an assisted GNSS system, which introduces various …
Mobile operator COSMOTE has deployed the first LTE-based private campus network in Greece for smart manufacturing, it has announced. The new deployment, at a production facility belonging to Greek solar thermal manufacturer Calpak, uses a localised chunk of licensed spectrum …
The UK divisions of Spain-based mobile operator Telefónica and Italy-based aerospace manufacturer Leonardo have announced a deal to collaborate on private 5G for Industry 4.0, including for the “high-pace” manufacturing of the “next-generation” Tempest combat aircraft system, a joint defence …
Volkswagen Group is to build a cloud-based ‘automated driving platform’ on Microsoft Azure to accelerate development of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving functions for group car brands. Developers of vehicle-based IoT systems will be able to work …
Sigfox is to migrate its entire IoT infrastructure to Google Cloud, the company has said. Until now, Sigfox has managed its core network infrastructure and data services from its own headquarters, in Toulouse in France. The move represents a major …
Telefónica is working with Mavenir and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer managed IoT connectivity to industrial, manufacturing, public sector, and automotive customers anywhere in the world using the former’s cloud-based packet core solution over the latter’s cloud infrastructure. The …
Nokia has a new arrangement with a government affiliated telecoms research centre in Brazil to develop solutions for industrial and municipal IoT using open RAN (O-RAN) based 5G networks. The Finnish operator is working with Brazil’s Telecommunications Research and Development …
The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has sharpened industrial appetites for private LTE and 5G based networking solutions, with the market growing in the face of global economic crisis in 2020 by more than seven percent. So says US-based analyst group Mobile …
Swedish carrier Telia is offering an eSIM-based solution it reckons can save companies about 28 percent on the cost of global IoT roaming. The product allows users to remotely select local SIM profiles in “over” 10 countries on four continents, …
Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom are bundling private cellular and edge computing into an integrated ‘campus’ networking package for enterprises globally. The pair are offering the same in Germany, already; their new deal extends to a global market. Ericsson is providing …
