BROWSING: IoT

The big shake-up in the cellular IoT platform market (Reader Forum)

A new Position Paper from Transforma Insights analyses the substantial changes occurring in the Connectivity Management Platform (CMP) space, including the impact of unit economics on the approach of the various CMP vendors and the operators that use them. Until recently the Connectivity Management Platform...

‘The driver is not low latency’ – Airbus is positive, also cautious, on private 5G

Airbus listed the key benefits of private cellular networks, more or less in order, at Hannover Messe last week, and said, as it has before, that the initial business case hinges on coverage, mostly, in terms of both outdoor reach and indoor penetration. The...

Vodafone intros full private 5G managed service offer in the UK

Vodafone has launched an all-edge private 5G service offering in the UK for enterprise-geared on-premise cellular connectivity. The package, branded simply as Vodafone MPN (for mobile private network), offers standalone and non-standalone 5G (SA and NSA) radio (RAN) and core networks, plus system management,...

NB-IoT and LoRaWAN leave rivals for dust as LPWA-IoT jumps 23% per year

New research from analyst house Omdia says the number of low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT network connections will grow at a compound annual rate (CAGR) of 23 percent in the period to 2028, driven mostly by growth in NB-IoT and LoRaWAN technologies. NB-IoT and LoRa...

Soracom seeks to offer ‘cloud-agnostic, bearer-agnostic, hardware-agnostic’ IoT

KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom is partnering with US-based IoT platform provider Simetric to offer customers a single cloud management layer for their various IoT projects. Simetric offers management of IoT devices, connectivity, and applications in a “single pane-of-glass” platform. The Japanese firm said...

Quectel Master Class Series May 2023

In May we’re hosting Masterclasses on a range of subjects that help with IoT product design. We begin the month with our first in a four-part testing and certification series that will run throughout 2023.

Airtel secures contract for 1.3 million smart meters in India

Airtel said its NB-IoT platform is scalable to 5G Indian carrier Bharti Airtel announced its partnership with Secure Meters for the deployment of NB-IoT services that will power 1.3 million homes in Bihar state through a smart meter solution. Bharti Airtel noted that this deployment will...

“But I ordered a McCrispy…” – searching for 5G in the home of Industry 4.0

First impressions count – and the trains are late, the stairs are broken, and the food is wrong. This is not the fabled German efficiency we came here to discuss – and see projected into the digital age across 17 cavernous halls of the...

How are enterprises using MEC?

MEC is delivering low-latency, real-time enterprise applications As has been pointed out by operators on recent earnings calls, the market for advanced 5G-enabled services—things like mobile edge computing (MEC) combined with public and private 5G, and private 5G itself—has been slower to create revenues than...

“A small part of the complete network” – VW puts private 5G in its place

The truth about private 5G, certainly so far as Industry 4.0 goes, lies somewhere between the desperate excitement of MWC and the distracted indifference of Hannover Messe – and probably closer to the big German industrial show. This will be discussed in another piece,...

Taking a slice out of private wireless networks (Reader Forum)

Private wireless is quickly infiltrating enterprise networks everywhere. For the first time, companies now have direct access to new shared cellular spectrum, made available by the FCC and other telecom regulatory bodies around the world, to own and operate their own mobile networks. The big...

Siemens promises summer launch for OT-grade SME-friendly private 5G system

Siemens has said its new home-grown industrial 5G system will be available in the summer finally, with availability in Germany initially, followed by Brazil subsequently, and other European and global markets in line with demand. The Brazilian launch is made simple by the fact...

Unabiz signs with Actility to further converge Sigfox and LoRaWAN

Unabiz deserves credit; the Singapore-based IoT house, owner of the Sigfox technology for a little over 12 months, is doing what most of the IoT community has considered for some years to be a minimal requirement for massive IoT, and brought the tribal elders...

Qualcomm unveils new suite of processors for IoT

The new suite of products include the Qualcomm QCS8550, Qualcomm QCM8550, Qualcomm QCS4490 and Qualcomm QCM4490 processors Qualcomm Technologies announced new IoT solutions with the aim of expanding the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem and IoT use cases. The announcement was made at the Hannover Messe...

Betacom joins with Google, Ingram, Intel, Qualcomm to streamline private 5G

US network design and services firm Betacom has pulled a bunch of ecosystem partners together into a go-to-market club around its private 4G and 5G offer. The group – which numbers 15, and includes Google Cloud, Intel, Ingram Micro, and Qualcomm, among others –...

NTT deploys Cisco/Airspan private 5G system at RWTH university in Germany

The first fruit of NTT’s new tie-up with Cisco on private 5G; the pair have combined to deploy a private 5G network for research purposes at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) in Aachen, in Germany. It is that valuable thing for an industry looking...

Anterix taps Sequans for multi-band LTE module for private and public networks

Anterix, developing private cellular systems for the utilities industry in the US, has commissioned French IoT chip maker Sequans to develop a multi-band LTE Cat-4 module to work in 900 MHz spectrum, the 3.55-3.7 GHz CBRS band, as well as with public mobile operator...

Electronics makers lead the Industry 4.0 charge – ports and mines behind

Electronics and appliance manufacturers are leading the way for Industry 4.0 ‘maturity’, according to a new poll of 500 industrial companies by Nokia and ABI Research. Their research says that electronics and appliance manufacturers are marginally further along with their digital transformation than companies...

‘More than just connectivity’ – AWS rises above the private 5G hubbub

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will, at some point, replicate its managed private 5G service offering in global markets, it says. The product, currently limited to CBRS installations in the US, has underpinned 200-odd private cellular deployments so far – mostly LTE-based, mostly using componentry...

Capgemini to coordinate next-gen IoT project in Europe

Partners in this IoT project include ABB, Atos, Bosch, Ericsson, Sorbonne University, Aalto University and RWTH University French IT services firm Capgemini said it has been selected to coordinate the Next Generation IoT project in Europe as part of the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet...

Why IoT is an essential element in managing vehicle traffic (Reader Forum)

Managing traffic is a complex process, and the traffic management industry is expected to reach a market value of $6.66 billion in the coming year. To improve traffic management, businesses and construction companies must consider new technologies' value. So, what is IoT, and why is...

Ofcom opens review of UK spectrum regime for private and shared 5G

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has opened a six-week consultation with a view to open more cellular spectrum for shared and private usage. It said the success of its Shared Access Licence (SAL) framework, which opened four bands for a range of enterprise users in...

Cradlepoint buys cloud security firm Ericom to shore-up Ericsson enterprise 5G

Swedish vendor Ericsson has acquired secure access software provider Ericom Software via its US-based enterprise networking division Cradlepoint. The transaction, for an undisclosed sum, shores up Cradlepoint’s secure access service edge (SASE) and zero-trust offerings for hybrid 5G and wireline environments, the company said. New...

Using cloud-based IoT to boost school safety (Reader Forum)

The safety and security of students and faculty members must always rank as a top concern for educational organizations, but with national school enrollment numbers steadily increasing, security teams are frequently turning towards intelligent technology to best protect both people and property. Schools and educational...