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Industry 4.0 Q&A: Industrial 5G will cause “waves of disruption,” says TCS

Srinivas Garigipati, chief technology officer for the manufacturing business group at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), talks with Enterprise IoT Insights about the impacts of incoming 5G technology on the broad industrial space, covering product manufacturing, and running through the entire supply chain. How much interest...

Iteris secures smart traffic contract in Texas

Iteris, which specializes in applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, announced that it is one of two firms to be awarded the Texas Department of Transportations (TxDOT) Wave 2 Austin District Traffic Signal Timing indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. Iteris said that the three-year contract has...

Industrial LTE and 5G network management: Whose line is it anyway?

Antje Williams, Executive Programme Manager for 5G, Deutsche Telekom – “We have a huge divide at the moment in the industry, in the country, how operators can serve industries best. There are lots of complaints about how operators have served industry so far, which...

Editorial Report | Digital Factory Solutions Series – Industrial LTE and 5G

How will incoming cellular technologies transform smart manufacturing? In the first installment in a new series on smart manufacturing technologies, UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman looks at the role of LTE and 5G in the future of manufacturing.

Digital Factory Solutions Report Series: 5G Connectivity

How will incoming cellular technologies transform smart manufacturing? In the first installment in a new series on smart manufacturing technologies, UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman looks at the role of LTE and 5G in the future of manufacturing.

IBM, Arrow Electronics launch new IoT-based solution for airports

Arrow Electronics announced that it has launched the Smart Airport Asset Management Solution, an IoT solution co-created with IBM. Based on an Arrow-designed and sourced set of IoT sensors and gateways, the IBM Watson IoT Platform, and IBM Maximo Enterprise Asset Management software, the new IoT-based solution will provide...

Smart city evolution – The need for speed (Reader Forum)

Smart cities and 5G are two of the hottest topics in tech today, and maybe the hottest topics in wireless tech (if IoT is considered a subset of one or both of these).  But what is a smart city and how does 5G play...

Siemens and HP join on 3D printing for Industry 4.0; sign up VW, Land Rover

HP and Siemens have combined to offer an “integrated” additive manufacturing solution for manufacturing companies, with the likes of VW and Jaguar Land Rover in the wings. The initiative, drawing on Siemens’ digital factory offer and HP’s additive printing systems, notably its new Jet Fusion...

Smart city case study: How Calgary deployed its own LPWA network to build smart city apps (Reader Forum)

The internet of things (IoT) is a game-changer for enterprises and consumers, making every day operations more efficient for organizations and individuals. As smart cities evolve, government agencies are prioritizing IoT initiatives, and deploying low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks to collect data, and using advanced...

Pacific Power to deploy 22,000 smart meters in Oregon

Pacific Power announced it is in the process of deploying smart meters for corporate and residential customers to replace aging electric meters in Easter Oregon. The firm said that about 22,000 new meters will be installed in Adams, Arlington, Athena, Boardman, Echo, Enterprise, Helix, Hermiston, Imnaha,...

Fold-away factories and modular assembly: Two visions of industrial 5G, one dream of digital supply

Inside the factory of the future, everything will be fluid, except for the floors, walls, and ceilings. Industrial assets – machines, devices, and vehicles – will be animated by 5G technologies, and made intelligent by edge and cloud analytics, enabling factory owners to swap-around...

Orange agrees €515m deal for Dutch firm SecureLink to bolster cybersecurity offer

SecureLink is one of the largest independent cybersecurity services providers in Europe, with 660 staff and 14 offices in the region, including in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the UK. Founded in 2003, and owned by Investcorp, SecureLink recorded revenue of €248m...

5G for the Middleprise: What do building owners need to know?

For the last several years, market momentum has pushed 5G technology into the mainstream—at least kind of. Per Qualcomm, “5G is designed to be a unified, more capable platform that will not only elevate mobile broadband experiences, but also support new services such as mission-critical communications and the...

Ericsson opens global AI accelerator hub in Montreal

Ericsson announced the inauguration of its Global Artificial Intelligence Accelerator (GAIA) innovation hub in Montreal, Canada. The Swedish company said that its new innovation hub will focus on research and development in artificial intelligence and automation. Ericsson said its Montréal GAIA will create more than...

Revealed: The seven most data-savvy cities and city mayors in the US

Seven US cities have been recognised for their use of data to solve local issues and improve lives. Kansas City, Louisville, and Washington ranked highest of the seven. Arlington, Memphis, Philadelphia, and Scottsdale were also commended. Bloomberg Philanthropies, the city-focused charity set up by Michael...

Samsung, KT to launch NB-IoT service through public safety LTE network in Korea

Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics and compatriot carrier KT announced the a new partnership to deploy what the companies claim is the world’s first Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) service through a public safety LTE (PS-LTE) network, Samsung said in a release. The NB-IoT service...

Google-led smart city project draws civic backlash in Toronto

Eighteen months ago, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and leaders of Google-parent Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs announced the planned $1 billion redevelopment of Toronto's Quayside area. The idea was kit the area with smart city solutions covering everything from energy use to transportation, all...

Qualcomm: Industrial 5G will start late 2019, taking its cues from consumer 5G

The industrial 5G market will benefit from the consumer 5G market, with network deployments starting in earnest in late 2019 and early 2020, as industrial devices take advantage of the muscular combination of connectivity, compute power, and security brought to bear in 5G smartphones....

Telit works with Deutsche Telekom to accelerate nuSIM initiative

Global IoT firm Telit announced it is currently working with partner Deutsche Telekom on the nuSIM initiative. The nuSIM initiative takes a new approach to IoT system design by moving the subscriber identity module’s (SIM) functionality to the cellular chipset, Telit said. The IoT device has the mobile operators’...

UK mulls security ratings and immutable passwords for IoT devices

The UK government has set out a plan to secure and protect consumer IoT devices from cyber attacks. It is considering a mandatory labelling scheme to rate the security of IoT devices, and inform consumers how secure their devices and appliances really are. It is...

Early-stage funds dominate in Q1, with $100m+ deals and strong backing for IoT

Early-stage funds accounted for 77 per cent of the total deal volume and 26.4 per cent of the total deal value during the first quarter, with strong continuing interest in both IoT and AI, and several major deals topping £100 million. In total, 1,333 seed...

Nokia lines up private 5G test network for Chinese auto-maker FAW

Finnish vendor Nokia will build a private 5G test network for Chinese auto-maker FAW to spur digital transformation of its industrial machines and processes. The pair have signed a “strategic” memorandum-of-understanding to carry out joint research into “smart connected cars, industrial IoT, smart manufacturing...

Audi: ‘Could a carrier run our 5G network? Why not? Everything’s on the table’

Car maker Audi, like other giants of German manufacturing, is sitting on a tranche of vacant radio spectrum that has been liberated by the German telecoms regulator for test purposes ahead of its official release as an industrial band with the country’s wider 5G...

The IoT is inherently fragmented–what does that mean for enterprise?

VMware takes open, interoperable approach to enterprise IoT LAS VEGAS--The proliferation of internet of things devices will create the data enterprises, regardless of vertical focus, need to gain operational efficiencies and realize new revenue opportunities. But the IoT is marked by a deep level of...