All this talk about a (industrial) revolution, and sometimes stuff gets left out. Scratching around for news last week, looking through half-written pieces from last year, this jumped out; about the Industry 4.0 market’s struggle to knock heads together in the name of ‘co-creation’,...
2020 has seen the greatest acceleration of digital transformation and automation in history. As the world looks to emerge from Covid-19, the reality that this will not be the last pandemic remains – and this means every person, company, and government must be better...
Nokia announced an agreement with Tideworks Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of Carrix, to deploy Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) at the Port of Seattle, Terminal 5.
The vendor said that deployment of Nokia’s digital automation service platform with LTE/5G private wireless networking will deliver...
Investments in shared and unlicensed LTE and 5G spectrum will reach $4bn by 2024, according to Dubai-based market intelligence outfit SNS Telecom & IT. The forecast comes on the back of broadening spectrum liberalisation in global markets in 2020, led by the CBRS scheme...
A year of unprecedented disruption and change has come to a close. Ahead lies an exciting 2021 when life will presumably get back to something like normal and long-pent-up economic energies should burst forth to drive economic expansion.
On the tech front, IoT will continue...
As part of a larger plan to build a smart factory, Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII) in Wisconsin worked with Airspan Networks to deploy a CBRS network over which all autonomous operations across the manufacturing campus will be managed.
After revealing its smart factory plans in...
US electricity and gas utility Ameren is to deploy a private LTE network in the 900 MHz band for customers in Missouri and Illinois. It is the first licence to be granted in the spectrum band by private networking firm Anterix, which holds the...
Abel Mayal, senior vice president of technology and marketing at Airspan Networks, offers six pointers on the year ahead for 5G networking developments in the broad enterprise sector.
1 | OpenRAN
OpenRAN has been the main talking point in 2020, but currently only one operator, Rakuten,...
As IoT deployments continue to scale and solution requirements become more predictable, the market will recognize the clear distinction between carrier-grade low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks and those that fail to meet carrier-grade specifications. This distinction will draw clear lines between commercial and consumer grade...
In 2021, increasing availability of 5G will provide the launching pad for manufacturing to truly evolve to Industry 4.0, the new industrial revolution that will push industries forward. Connected factories will move from isolated pilot programs and early test cases to truly integrated ecosystems,...
Jon Lewis, director of strategy at UK-based smart street lighting company Telensa highlights a dozen tech trends to watch for in the year ahead. Here goes...
1 | The ‘smart city’ becomes a reality
The idea of a smart city has been in the ‘trough of...
LTE-M added to 18,000 Vodafone Germany mobile sites
Germany carrier Vodafone Germany announced the activation of its LTE-M network to cover over 90% of the country, the telco said in a release.
The operator said it has upgraded 18,000 mobile sites in the past few weeks...
The Covid 19 pandemic has helped accelerate private cellular network adoption, and will continue to do so in 2021. But it has also highlighted a new digital divide (which is not going away anytime soon) between vertical sectors that have and have-not prioritized access...
2021 will be the year industrial IoT gets ‘massive’, when companies decide, after the impact of Covid-19, to make change, and to accelerate their digital transformation. In technology terms, a major driver of this ‘massification’ will be 5G, and in particular private deployments of...
From a global pandemic, and a run on certain goods (like toilet paper), to severe natural disasters and more, everyone can agree that nothing in 2020 went according to plan.
However, some of this disruption demonstrated the need for new technologies to solve for challenges...
As the curtain falls on 2020 and businesses take stock of a year defined by Covid-19, it is safe to say that IoT, one of the few big winners over the past year, is poised for even greater success in 2021. In fact, the...
U.K. Internet of Things (IoT) and smart city operator Connexin announced that it will expand its IoT network nationwide, providing carrier-grade roaming long range wide area networks (LoRaWAN) connectivity and infrastructure to customers all over the U.K.
“With a low cost wide-area networking solution becoming...
In the past few years, we’ve seen exponential growth in the adoption of industrial IoT devices and connections. This year, in addition to that surging growth, the Covid-19 pandemic has spurred organizations to accelerate their adoption of remote management for these deployments. Whether they...
While the Covid-19 global pandemic upended the world's expectations in 2020, fortunately, the technology industry has weathered the challenges as an essential component of daily life. Innovations in 5G and mobile edge compute (MEC) in particular continued to accelerate. Now enterprises have commercially available...
2021 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for 5G as cellular carriers ramp up deployment, new handsets enter the market, and consumers remain more dependent than ever on mobile devices amid an ongoing global pandemic. Additionally, the pandemic has driven a massive...
The hype around industrial 5G – the only 5G hype worth getting hyped about – has been knocked off course, after the 3GPP standards group said Release 17 of the 5G New Radio (NR) standard will not be completed until 2020, a year behind...
If there was ever a critical proof-point for the efficacy of IoT technologies, then this is it: the coordinated global shipment of coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccines. This is the moment, arguably, in late 2020, going into 2021, when the world’s gaze falls obliquely on the...
One thing that became abundantly clear during the Covid-19 pandemic was the importance of the supply chain throughout the enterprise. From the factory floor through distribution to retail stores and deliveries, there is an increased imperative to track and manage billions of items as...
Organizations have been increasing the rate at which they adopt IoT technologies in 2020 as a direct response to Covid-19, deploying remote management and secure connectivity of devices to enable new applications and services, remotely, or to improve data insights from remote, deployed sensors...
