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MFA, the private networking alliance that emerged from the old MulteFire project, is ramping up activities with a bunch of new resources, including tools and guides, for industrial enterprises looking …

The other Industry 4.0 announcement from Nokia’s enterprise group this week, ahead of Hannover Messe USA next week, is about 5G devices, plus spectrum access and new dashboarding for private …

Nokia has released a couple of notable upgrades to its Mission-Critical Industrial Edge (MXIE) system to afford channel partners and enterprise customers the facility to host legacy non-cloud OT workloads …

Celona has introduced a new device certification scheme to reassure customers that certain user equipment will work without a hitch on its local-area (LAN) private LTE and 5G systems. The …

Some time back – actually months back, ahead of Hannover Messe 2022 – Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Sven Hamann, chief executive at Bosch Connected Industry to discuss the …

Snap IoT analysis just in from ABI Research; the US-headquartered firm has run the rule over the post-coronavirus market for IoT gateways and concluded, because of industrial IoT takeup among …

South Korean tech firm Samsung has announced a tranche of new private 5G deployments in its home country, including with three public sector agencies and two private sector hospitals. All …

NTT is making waves in the private 5G market right now; deals with BMW on a test installation at its production site in Dingolfing in Germany and with local airport …

More research from a private cellular network provider into the business value of private cellular networks says… private cellular networks rock, compared to enterprise Wi-Fi. Well, of course they do …

A California-based research firm, called TECHnalysis Research, has polled 400 US-based organisations either using or interested in using private cellular networks, and come up with a handy (regional-anecdotal) snapshot of …

Note, this article is continued from a previous entry, available here.  So what happens behind the ‘green curtain’, exactly? What is the trick that non-cellular IoT leader Semtech is looking …

As the modern-day enterprise continues growing in complexity, so too does the data used within it – both in nature and usage. This is especially true of businesses employing IoT …

Network design and services firm Betacom is helping logistics company Teltech Group to deploy a private LTE/5G network to automate its 200,000 square-foot warehouse in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area. …

Nordic Semiconductor has expanded its low-power IoT hardware portfolio to include Wi-Fi 6 connectivity. The Norwegian outfit has debuted its first Wi-Fi chip, the nRF7002, which it describes as a …

Paris La Défense, the major metropolitan business district in Paris, has called for applicants to run 5G neutral-host and use-case trials in 26 GHz mmWave spectrum at its site in …

Siemens said that Softdel’s EdificeEdge IoT Gateway platform is “ideal” for integrating siloed wireless IoT sensor systems in smart buildings   Siemens and Softdel announced a new partnership in which …

Amazon has signed a deal to acquire US smart-home brand iRobot, maker of the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, for $1.7 billion. The disc-shaped Roomba robot – which autonomously vacuums floors …

Siemens has completed its acquisition of US firm Brightly, a provider of cloud-based asset management and maintenance management software for buildings, and more broadly for built infrastructure. Brightly joins Siemens’ …

Well, it didn’t take long; “advanced talks” between Semtech and Sierra Wireless, as reported yesterday, have quickly concluded, with US firm Semtech confirming a deal to acquire its Canadian counterpart …

The latest release of the 5G New Radio (NR) standard has, at last, fixed a problem for cellular-based sensor comms with the emergence of a cut-down version of 5G for …

Sunderland City Council and the University of Sunderland in the UK have appointed BAI Communications (BAI), already engaged on a 20-year deal with the city council to build and operate …

Some new light on the murky, creeping digital change taking place in the automotive sector, long-considered the flashiest venue for Industry 4.0 (but highly secretive and deeply conservative), and specifically …

Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors is to work with Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) to jointly develop new compute and connectivity platforms for software-defined electric vehicles, offering varying degrees of autonomy. …

Note, this article is not about remote 5G surgery! A couple of press notes across the desk at Enterprise IoT Insights this week make a play of 5G security in …

US public LoRaWAN operator Senet has struck a deal with IoT network and analytics software outfit Iota Communications (IotaComm) to deliver LoRaWAN connectivity and IoT solutions in both 915 MHz …