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  The?Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC)?has announced the winners of its?smart buildings challenge, which is aimed at helping digitalize the smart buildings industry. The winners of the challenge were announced at?Bosch …

Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), Bosch Group, and ZF Friedrichshafen Group have joined the steering committee for the Open Manufacturing Platform (OMP). BMW Group and Microsoft are already on board as …

Nokia has struck a deal with Indian operator Bharti Airtel to offer private LTE and industrial AI to enterprises in the manufacturing and distribution sector. The pair said their partnership …

Swedish operator Telenor has tied-up with country-mate Ericsson to sell the vendor’s pre-packed private LTE and 5G to factories and warehouses. It is the first operator to sign as a …

German car giants Volkswagen and BMW have confirmed massive Industry 4.0 investments, and firmed up their interests in private industrial 5G as a means to factory automation and slicker production. …

By 2025, 5G connections should cover 40 per cent of Europe’s workforce, 70 per cent of its industrial sites, and 80 per cent of its main logistics routes. This was …

  Network performance company Infovista and in-building wireless planning company iBwave Solutions are joining forces to address the worldwide demand for end-to-end 5G networks, both companies said in a statement. …

Industrial IoT’s biggest problem? The fear of failure in a risk adverse industry. So says Ericsson, which recommends a two-pronged approach to spur takeup among overly-cautious manufacturing companies. The first …

Deutsche Telekom has public-private ‘campus’ networking setups with various customers, offering a kind of proto-slicing, as a precursor to industrial 5G. It has so far announced deals with German lighting …

  Mitsubishi Electric announced that it has developed a technology for controlling in-building mobile robots used for cleaning, security, delivery and guidance, as well as next-generation electric wheelchairs. The company …

CK Hutchison, owner of the Hutchison telecoms group in Asia and Three (3) mobile brand in Europe, has opened a centre of excellence to provide bespoke private LTE and 5G …

  Johnson Controls, a global provider of solutions for smart buildings, recorded revenues of $2.17 billion in its North America building solutions segment in fiscal Q1 2020, slightly up compared …

The LoRa Alliance set out its stall at The Things Conference, an annual LoRaWAN meetup in Amsterdam, with an agenda to make the IoT market simpler for developers, device makers, …

The Freshwave Group, a new UK network provider, is seeking to combine telecoms expertise and real-estate savvy to plug coverage gaps in public mobile coverage with shared and private networking. …

UK regulator Ofcom is proposing to make 500MHz of contiguous spectrum in the lower 6 GHz band available for unlicensed indoor Wi-Fi and low-power outdoor Wi-Fi usage. It has also …

  Next-generation smart building solutions are forecast to generate over US$2 billion in software and services revenues by 2026, according to a new report from global tech market advisory firm …

    South Korea has launched a smart building technology project to bring more innovation to construction sites with an overall investment of 200 billion won ($173 million) within the …

The smart home market in Europe continued to grow in the third quarter of 2019, reaching almost 23.8 million units, an increase of 18.1 per cent compared to the same …

Spending on factory data applications will grow from $18 billion in 2019 to just over $27 billion in 2024, a rise of 50 per cent in the period, according to …

The Irish government has unveiled a five-year Industry 4.0 strategy to help manufacturing firms to respond to technological change.  The plan, announced last month, includes €23.5 million of funding for …

As the headline suggests, this analysis should be seen in context. It offers only rapid arithmetic around the World Economic Forum’s (expanding) list of ‘lighthouse’ factories, which claim the most …

  U.S.-based company Igor and France-based Conectis, a subsidiary of Rexel, announced a partnership to improve access to smart building technology throughout western Europe. Effective immediately, Conectis customers can acquire …

Bosch wants to be an “innovation leader” in AI, it told CES last week. The German industrial giant, one of the manufacturing sector’s most outspoken champions of industrial 5G, is …

  Brisbane Skytower, the tallest building in this Australian city, relied in Huawei and Honeywell for the provisi?n of a Passive Optical LAN (POL) solution to achieve a smart network …

  ABB Electrification business has recently opened its new center of expertise in London to accelerate the adoption of smart electrification solutions in the U.K. and Europe. ABB said that …