Vodafone has built an NB-IoT prototype that allows appliance manufacturers to notify consumers of faulty or dangerous electrical goods, and shut them down remotely if needed. It is targeted as a smart ‘product recall system’ for manufacturers, mostly, of white …
AT&T has released an LTE and LTE-M gateway device to backhaul data from IoT sensors over cellular in global markets. The new solution, presented by AT&T as a ‘guardian device’, integrates silicon, software, and cloud services from Microsoft Azure. It …
Ten new manufacturing sites have joined the World Economic Forum’s ‘global lighthouse network’ of Industry 4.0 leaders. It takes the total number of smart factories in the network to 54. The new joiners include factories owned by Alibaba, Unilever, Renault, …
A new €2 million open networking testbed has been unveiled in Ireland, for leading researchers in the field to collaborate with industry on 5G wireless radio, optical fibre, and data centre initiatives, and for Irish and European-led research into next-generation …
US LoRaWAN provider Senet has secured a $16 million funding round to accelerate the deployment and densification of its LoRaWAN network in the US to support utility and municipal network builds. The round was led by venture capital firm Fisk …
Finnish telco Elisa has turned a mass-produced tractor into a “5G remote-controlled work machine” that can carry out tasks that would otherwise put human lives at risk. The work follows a deal with tractor maker Valtra, signed earlier this year, …
Amazon has selected LoRa for its new Sidewalk wireless networking platform, running in 900 MHz spectrum, according to Semtech. Camarillo-based Semtech hailed its technology’s move into the consumer space. At the same time, Nordic Semiconductor, Silicon Labs, and Tile have …
Ericsson has signed off a $1.1 billion deal to purchase US-based Cradlepoint, which provides LTE and 5G wide-area networking (WAN) for the emergency services sector, office and retail spaces, and IoT manufacturing market. The Swedish vendor pitched the deal squarely …
Sigfox has sold its wholly-owned Germany narrowband IoT network to Sigfox operator Heliot Europe, which has been acquired as part of the same deal by Luxembourg-based venture capital firm Cube Infrastructure Managers. No fee has been mentioned. The arrangement puts …
German pair Bosch and SAP are working to develop a “digital industrial standard” to govern the exchange and usage of company data along the value chain. The partnership holds special promise for the manufacturing industry, and particular for automotive manufacturing, …
The National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore Technologies (ST) Engineering have signed a $6.6 million deal on a multi-year research programme to build a “people-centric smart future” for Singapore. A press statement from the pair says the research is …
Spanish IoT company Libelium has expanded its singular focus on IoT hardware to embrace wider IoT system integration, solution provision, and consultancy. The company has updated it corporate logo and website to go with the shift in its core business …
Swiss energy management company Landis+Gyr has signed with UK-based Vodafone to connect smart meters and smart grid applications to 400-odd mobile networks in 180 countries using Vodafone’s network and roaming partnerships, as well as its IoT device management and services …
Nokia has integrated key industrial IoT capabilities into its as-a-service edge networking solution for on-premise private LTE and 5G. These include high-end machine learning analytics and high-precision BLE-based positioning, plus simpler integration with Microsoft Azure IoT cloud modules and pre-engineered …
The IoT market for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services will reach $1.09 billion in 2020 and grow to about 10-times the size, to $10.6 billion, by 2026, according to market advisory firm ABI Research. The massive growth …
The technology and government sectors both love an acronym, but FUDGE-5G? Really? It seems a stretch; a random mnemonic to brand a rather complex-sounding EU innovation initiative. The project’s full name is ‘Fully Disintegrated Private Networks for 5G Verticals; just …
FedEx has introduced a new Bluetooth based asset tracking system in time for anticipated shipping of COVID-19 vaccines, as well as for other emergency pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. Customers in the aerospace and retail sectors will also be able to …
Deloitte and Wichita State University are building a new 60,000-square foot (5,500 square metre) smart factory showcase facility on Wichita State’s Innovation Campus, already sponsored by Deloitte, to include a full-scale production line, along with a partner space and lab …
Peachtree Corners in the US, playing home to a live smart city testbed, has now installed 5G-enabled traffic monitoring video sensors. The city has signed with Bosch to deploy video-based analytics to manage driverless shuttles, remote-controlled e-scooters, and regular vehicles. …
Italy-based core network vendor and private network pioneer Athonet has released its open 5G core network on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enable mobile carriers, radio vendors, and enterprises to deploy and experiment with working private 5G networks just by …
The US government is to invest $1 billion into a dozen new research and development (R&D) institutes to stimulate the economy with homegrown artificial intelligence (AI), quantum information science (QIS), 5G communications, and other emerging technologies. The mission is to …
US-based IoT provider Ubicquia has closed a $30 million Series C funding round with new investment from Florida-based Fuel Venture Capital, as well as existing investors. The investment is focused on “accelerating” Ubicquia’s small cell and smart grid product offerings, …
Traditional network operators, as well as network vendors, do not have the in-house expertise to serve the enterprise market with industrial-grade private LTE and 5G networking. They need hand-holding by market specialists, in the form of enterprise customers and system …
Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) has started on a four-year project to construct a digital twin of its Pulau Bukom petrochemical manufacturing site in Singapore. On completion in 2024, and in pilot between times, the virtual replica of the Pulau Bukom …
Mercedes-Benz (Daimler) has opened the doors of its new 5G-connected €730 million Factory 56 facility, part of a €2.1 billion “future-oriented” car plant and the administrative area in Sindelfingen, in Germany. The highly-digitised Factory 56 facility, networked by Telefónica Germany …
