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T-Mobile US unveils IoT developer kit

T-Mobile’s IoT developer kit includes a complete software development kit (SDK), built on the Zephyr Real-time Operating System   T-Mobile US announced the launch of its first IoT developer kit, which will enable developers to connect to the carrier’s network and create connected IoT solutions. The kit...

Soracom claims five million IoT connections (a million in 2022), applies to list on TSE

KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has claimed its five-millionth IoT connection, citing strong uptake in the energy, retail, healthcare, agriculture, and consumer electronics industries. The figure represents an advance of one million global connections in less than a year; the firm passed four million,...

Spectrum, systems, slicing – five key challenges to bring private 5G to the masses

A session at Private Networks European Forum (PNEF) last month considered the challenges, and broader cultural shift, to bring ‘private 5G to the masses’. Koen Mioulet, secretary at the European Users Wireless Enterprise Network Association (EUWENA), and Maria Cuevas, networks research director at UK-based...

‘America’s inventive spirit at its finest’ – CBRS model must be extended, says industry

Twenty-six organizations and alliances in the US with active interests in private and shared cellular for enterprise usage have jointly written to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to hail the “success” of the Citizens Broadband Radio...

Itron announces smart water metering deployment in Singapore

The smart water metering rollout will connect some 300,000 Itron residential and C&I smart water meters to the existing network   Industrial IoT provider Itron, which specializing in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solutions for utilities, announced that Singapore’s national water agency, PUB, is leveraging SP Group’s...

Skyworks, Sequans combine on “smallest” LTE-M and NB-IoT system-in-package

Semiconductor firm Skyworks Solutions claims to have produced the world’s smallest dual-mode cellular IoT system-in-package (SiP) solution. The US outfit partnered with IoT chip and module maker Sequans Communications on the product, numbered SKY66431, to combine the France-based firm’s Monarch 2 modem with its...

Federated Wireless and AWS kick off private 5G channel deal with Cal Poly installation

Federated Wireless is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) on a private cellular deployment with California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) to support the university’s new ‘5G innovation network’, geared to “accelerate” adoption of edge and cloud IoT networking and AI analytics for public...

A message to enterprises about private 5G* in manufacturing – just do it

Note, this article is taken from the intro/outro sessions at 5G Manufacturing Forum, hosted by Enterprise IoT Insights and RCR Wireless. It is a summary, a ramble, and a call-to-arms – which attempts only to say that industrial 5G is a developing standard, which...

BT-led consortium secures financing for infrastructure drone project

BT noted that the project will demonstrate value in three use case areas for ports and highways, including port operations and management, marine operations and highway safety and defect inspections U.K. carrier BT said that the government committed to provide financing for a project in...

Betacom strikes deal with Qualcomm on private LTE/5G design and management

Network design and services firm Betacom has struck a channel sales deal (“integrated delivery model”) with Qualcomm whereby enterprise customers in the Industry 4.0 space will be able to link Betacom’s private 5G network design and management service with Qualcomm’s RAN automation and management...

Ignion intros digital-twin prototyping for IoT devices with up to five radios

Barcelona-based antenna company Ignion has launched a digital-twin prototyping tool for IoT devices with up to five radios. The latest version of its Antenna Intelligence Cloud (AIC) product, which ostensibly removes the need to start with a physical prototype, supports design simulations of IoT...

Supply chain scale-up project44 bags $80m from Maersk, others – takes value to $2.7bn

A sure sign of spiralling interest in asset tracking; US supply-chain software outfit project44 has raised an $80 million funding round led by UK-based investment company Generation Investment Management and Denmark-based A.P. Moller Holding, the investment arm of A.P. Moller Maersk, and parent of...

How Wi-Fi 6 and MU-MIMO are driving commercial wireless (Reader Forum)

Wi-Fi has transformed our homes and workplaces by enabling device mobility and IoT applications. Since the introduction of Wi-Fi 6 in 2019, communities and enterprises have used it to support a host of applications. Wi-Fi 6 incorporates a number of enhancements that have made...

Qualcomm and Renault boost collaboration to target SDV platforms

The new automotive platforms would be based on Snapdragon digital chassis solutions from Qualcomm Technologies   Renault Group and Qualcomm Technologies announced that the companies intend to further expand their technology collaboration, aiming to deliver a centralized compute architecture for Renault’s next-generation of software-defined vehicles. Known as...

Reasons to track – eight percent of goods, 3.6 percent of profits vanish in supply chain

Eight percent of stock in the supply chain, between production and consumption, never even arrives – mostly because it either spoils in transit (4.3 percent) or is discarded as surplus (3.4 percent). This failure of stock preservation and demand forecasting (“overproduction”) in the supply...

Federated eyes role as 6 GHz spectrum coordinator, signs with Wi-Fi 6E suppliers

Federated Wireless has been conditionally approved as an automated frequency coordination (AFC) system operator by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to go alongside its role as gatekeeper for CBRS spectrum access for private cellular deployments in the US. The firm has already struck commercial...

SK Telecom unveils strategy to become an AI company

Last year, SK Telecom rearranged its business into five different groups, namely fixed and mobile telecommunications, media, enterprise, AIVERSE (AI+Universe), and connected intelligence   South Korea’s largest telco, SK Telecom, aims to become an artificial intelligence (AI) company, the telco’s CEO Ryu Young-sang said during a...

Telecom Infra Project readies blueprint for cheaper, scalable cloud-native private 5G

The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is to release a “blueprint”, it says, for how to deploy “cost-effective and scalable” cloud-native private 5G networks, based on an initial trial of a 5G-connected computer vision application led by Telefonica. Rakuten Symphony, Tech Mahindra, and NTT Data...

Fujitsu tests private 5G for equipment inspection, remote recovery at data centres

Japanese IT firm Fujitsu is to start testing private 5G for equipment inspection at its major data centre in Yokohama, in the Kanagawa prefecture, as a springboard to drive “operational resilience and process automation” in the broader data centre market. The Fujitsu project, to...

New private 5G use-case shock! Paper manufacturer Holmen Iggesund gets smart

Okay, so not a new use case, as such; it is just another connectivity-in-manufacturing case. But still, it is process manufacturing… at a giant paper mill! Swedish pulp and paperboard company Holmen Iggesund has commissioned local system integrator Combitech to deploy a private 5G...

OneLayer opens private 5G network security lab – to stay “ahead of the bad guys”

Israeli private cellular security startup OneLayer has opened a network security lab in Tel Aviv for telecoms and security companies to test threats to private LTE and 5G networks, currently rolling out in enterprises across the globe. The firm has invited solution providers to...

From a standing start in Texas – the story of Dow Chemical’s multi-site private LTE push

US system integrator Kyndryl has published a nice-looking blog post, complete with videos, on its headline work, announced at the start of the year, to deploy private LTE for Michigan-headquartered Dow Chemical Company, manufacturer of plastics, chemicals, and agricultural products. The post puts focus...

Public LoRaWAN arrives in the Great Lakes – for regional IoT water management

US LoRaWAN specialist Senet has been recruited by US engineering firm LimnoTech to deploy a public LoRaWAN network across the Great Lakes region of the US, providing connectivity across area wetlands, parks, coastlines, rural and urban areas, and open waters. The work is part...

Market for cellular IoT gateways and routers rallies after (and despite) Covid impact

New research from analyst house Berg Insight says the market for cellular IoT gateways and routers was worth $1.15 billion in 2021, with 4.5 million units shipped in the year, representing robust sales growth of 14 percent. Market demand has recovered, and then-some, following...