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Sigfox Germany has expanded its product portfolio with the introduction of a range of sensors from Finnish IoT firm Connected Inventions. The new range includes sensors for monitoring dust, temperature, …

German car giant BMW will invest €30 billion in “future-oriented” technologies during the next five years. The group has confirmed it will expand a blockchain pilot for purchasing front lights …

CBRE?s Property Management Team and proptech company Negawatt Utility have announced a strategic partnership with the goal of delivering building management and energy saving technologies to buildings in Hong Kong. …

Nokia and industrial firms partner to develop new building data-based applications Finnish companies KONE, Nokia, YIT, Caverion, Halton, Netox and VTT have founded an ecosystem known as KEKO, with the …

Smart building efficiencies continue despite building closures ABB Electrification has announced a number of measures to support its customers through the crisis caused by the widespread of the COVID-19 virus …

Estonian tech company Ninja Solutions transformed an office building in capital Tallinn into a contactless mode, the firm said in a release. The doors and elevators of the building are …

The hottest new digital tech in the automotive space is not the electrification or automation of vehicles. It is not, actually, sensors or analytics in production facilities. Instead, it is …

Nokia has reduced lead times for base station prototypes at factories in Finland and India by 50 per cent with the use of augmented reality (AR) for training on its …

Private industrial 5G will be at the heart of manufacturing production from 2021, Siemens has said, as the industrial giant continues to move ahead with test networks at its electronics …

UK firm Telensa is combining indoor and outdoor smart lighting controls into a single management system with certain customers in the UK, the company has said. The projects, with unnamed …

An Australian consortium has secured government funding for up to AUD28 million ($16.3 million) to carry out an initiative seeking to transform how buildings are designed and manufactured in Australia. …

Canadian company mCloud Technologies, which provides asset management solutions, announced that it is embedding advanced sensing technology from NYCE Sensors into its AssetCare solutions for Smart Facilities. NYCE Sensors focuses …

With the roll-out of 5G networks, the shrinkage of radio cells, and challenge to negotiate cell sites, lighting infrastructure presents a valuable opportunity for city operators and building owners to …

Microsoft announced the rollout of a digital twin of its new regional headquarters at Frasers Tower in Singapore, in collaboration with Bentley Systems and Schneider Electric.  ?The workplace of the …

The vertical farming industry in its infancy, with most practitioners stuck in hobbyist production. But the fragile case for growing food in warehouses – automated and dynamic local production, using …

Deutsche Telekom expects, in most cases, to manage private networks for enterprises, even if they are deployed in privately-owned spectrum, which is not licensed directly by the operator itself. Following …

Cellular is the best connectivity technology for smart street-lighting in cities, reckons Netherlands based lighting company Signify. The rise of ultra narrowband (UNB) for outdoor smart lighting in cities, popularized …

Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona in February is the major venue and the key date for the telecoms industry. Yes, the cards have been dealt, but the show works …

  ABB has agreed to acquire Irish company Cylon Controls to increase its presence in the smart building segment, the company said in a release. The acquisition enhances ABB Electrification …

Deutsche Telekom has installed a dual-slice private LTE ‘campus network’, hived off its public LTE network, at a BMW plant in Leipzig. Ericsson has supplied the networking gear for the …

More detail has emerged about the private industrial 5G operations Lufthansa has pegged to its new holding in the 3.7-3.8 GHz spectrum in Germany, with Vodafone emerging, as well as …

Note, this story has been referenced and updated in a new post, Lufthansa doubles-down with second private 5G trial – with help from Vodafone, which can be found here. German …

  The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) announced $74 million for 63 selected projects to research, develop, and test energy-efficient and flexible building technologies, systems, and construction practices to improve …

  A recent study carried out by Johnson Controls found that 75% of surveyed organizations across the U.S. plan to increase their investment in energy efficiency, renewable energy and smart …

Huawei said today at a London launch event for new 5G gear that it would prefer to go via the operator community to serve the Industry 4.0 movement, using slices …