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Ericsson extends SIM management to Cradlepoint units, simplifies IoT airtime

Eighteen months after its acquisition of Cradlepoint, Ericsson has integrated Cradlepoint's NetCloud platform with its own IoT Accelerator platform and extended SIM management to Cradlepoint’s LTE and 5G routers and adapters. The move allows enterprise connectivity providers on the Ericsson portal to provide enterprise...

Boingo joins Qualcomm’s smart cities gang, ‘streamlines’ enterprise IoT on private 5G

US private networks and small cells provider Boingo Wireless is working with Qualcomm to “streamline” IoT deployments for enterprise customers, it has said. The Los Angeles firm has joined Qualcomm’s ‘smart cities accelerator’ programme, and is offering integrated Qualcomm-based IoT solutions with its own...

Nokia signs DAC sales deals with Alibaba, Atos – as private 5G shifts up a gear

Nokia has announced go-to-market deals for private LTE and 5G with the cloud division of Chinese web giant Alibaba and with French cloud services company Atos. Both companies will integrate and resell its Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) private wireless solution, which is driving much...

Vodafone Business launches MyFarmWeb service in Europe

Vodafone Business takes on precision agriculture Vodafone Business announced that it piloting a new service that could accelerate the digitization of farming across Europe by providing farmers with a mobile app linked to agricultural IoT sensors. Five European pilot farms in Germany, Ireland, Italy and Spain...

Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Nokia, Qualcomm issue tech blueprints to spur private 5G

MFA, formerly the MulteFire Alliance, has released a set of ‘technology blueprints’ for industrial 5G networks and devices to help enterprise users, device makers, and application developers select key 3GPP features for their specific 5G private network deployments and solutions. The new work was...

Druid Software integrates Polte positioning tech into private LTE and 5G networks

Core network provider Druid Software has partnered with IoT positioning firm Polte to bring the Texas firm’s ‘cloud location over cellular’ (C-LoC) tech to private LTE and 5G networks, and also to enterprises tracking business assets from private onto public LTE and 5G infrastructure. Druid...

TrakAssure and Wyld combine on satellite-based LoRaWAN for supply chain tracking

UK-based (Sweden-owned) IoT connectivity specialist Wyld Networks and US-based IoT solution provider TrakAssure have announced the first fruit of their joint labour, also with LoRaWAN system provider Senet and satellite operator Eutelsat, to deliver a “first-to-market” terrestrial-and-satellite IoT solution for the supply chain industry....

More mobile, more tech, more IoT coming to retailers, survey finds

The past 18 months have seen a surge in increased digitalization of the retail shopping experience, according to a new survey from Verizon and market research firm Incisiv -- but The report said that there has been a "rapid acceleration in shoppers' digital adoption and,...

Atos announces construction of Industry 4.0 plant in France

  French IT firm Atos recently launched its "Factory of the Future" project in Angers, France, the company said in a release. With this new factory, Atos said it aims to improve the quality of life at work for its employees, while meeting the "highest technological...

HPE intros private 5G with home-made core and third-party RAN (Airspan to start)

Following Cisco’s soft-launch at the start of the month – and also leapfrogging it with an immediate commercial release – rival IT vendor Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced a new private LTE and 5G system for serious-minded enterprise usage, including in the prized...

Sigfox tracker-maker ZeKat buys IoT vendor ffly4u, signs with satellite provider Kinéis

The (real) IoT market is both highly fragmented and deeply incestuous. This is not news, of course; it is to be expected for a market that is competitive and collaborative at the same time, and which coalesces systematically and regularly around new innovations. It...

Busy UnaBiz buys Netherlands-based IoT tracking firm Sensatag

IoT solution provider UnaBiz has acquired Sensatag, a five year-old Netherlands-based provider of low-power industrial IoT tracking solutions, for an undisclosed fee. Sensatag has a decent line in Sigfox trackers; Singapore-based UnaBiz, meanwhile, is also in the running to buy Sigfox, as final bids...

IoT in the healthcare industry (Reader Forum)

The merge of technology and healthcare has never been more needed. The pandemic showed the world how urgent it was to update the global medical practices and make medical help more feasible for everybody. Now technology is taking over the healthcare sector for good. The...

Hybrid IoT by vertical market – and how Sidewalk and Helium have blurred the lines

Note, this article is taken from a new editorial report from Enterprise IoT Insights, Hybrid Low-Power IoT – How The IoT Industry Is Balancing Function And Efficiency. The report is available here, or by clicking on the image at the bottom of the page....

Kyndryl, Softbank strike partnership for digital transformation in Japan

Kyndryl's Japanese subsidiary has announced a strategic partnership with Japanese telco SoftBank, which focuses on multi-cloud enablement, systems integration and 5G networking to "drive digital transformation projects" for Japan-based customers, the two companies said in a release. Under the terms of the deal, Kyndryl and...

Federated Wireless raises $58m in Series D round, restates mission to scale private 5G

US-based Federated Wireless, offering shared spectrum services in the CBRS band, has raised $58 million in Series D funding. The new investment will go to accelerate growth in enterprise markets, it said, with a major focus to “simplify” and “democratise” private LTE and 5G...

KORE in double swoop to buy twin New York healthcare IoT specialists

IoT provider KORE has acquired Business Mobility Partners, a T-Mobile airtime reseller in the US with a focus on the digital healthcare market. It has also acquired fellow New York-based firm SIMON IoT, based out of the same Westbury address as Business Mobility Partners,...

Cellnex aims to cover 80% of Ireland with IoT network by end-2022

  Telecommunications infrastructure operator Cellnex said it is targeting 80% coverage of Ireland with its national Internet of Things (IoT) network by the end of this year. Through its partnership with Everynet, Cellnex aims to bring a new nationwide low power wide area (LoRaWAN) network to...

T-Mobile US, Deutsche Telekom launch global IoT offering

  T-Mobile US and Deutsche Telekom launched T-IoT, a new enterprise solution for global IoT connectivity, platform management and support. In a joint statement, the companies said that the new offering will be available across 188 destinations, on 383 networks worldwide. The companies also noted that many...

UK enterprises look to 5G to alleviate Covid-19 business pressures: EY

  UK enterprises are looking to 5G to help alleviate immediate business pressures brought by the COVID-19 pandemic and related global events, according to a new study by EY. The EY Reimagining industry futures study revealed that 80% of respondents say the impact of the global...

Backers back, bidders talk – the latest in the Sigfox saga as sale deadline looms

Last update from us on the Sigfox “soap opera” (someone else's words), almost / perhaps, before the credits roll at the end of next week on its latest tangled episode (or the whole tragic series) – and as Enterprise IoT Insights breaks from straight...

Telefonica unveils solution for autonomous drone fleets

  Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica and partner Unmanned Life have designed a new solution for managing autonomous drone fleets from a single centralized platform to carry out security, surveillance, event verification and critical infrastructure maintenance tasks. Telefonica said that this innovation will be presented during this...

Hitachi Energy intros industrial 5G routers for cities, factories, utilities

The energy division of Japanese industrial conglomerate Hitachi has launched a new line of 5G-enabled routers for smart cities, oil and gas, mining, manufacturing, and utility customers. Its upgraded TRO600 series routers work in hybrid 5G systems, attaching to private and public cellular infrastructure,...

Nokia and Kyndryl combine on private networks and edge compute for Industry 4.0

Network vendor Nokia is working with New York-based managed infrastructure services provider Kyndryl, separated from IBM late last year, to jointly sell and develop private networking and edge computing solutions for the Industry 4.0 market. The partnership has emerged from a joint private 5G...