Telefónica Tech, the enterprise division of Spain-based operator Telefónica, has signed with IBM to develop AI solutions for enterprises in its home market. They will use the US firm’s Watsonx AI and data platform as the basis of all their work, which is to...
A trio of French tech and logistics firms have combined to develop a new tracking solution for the freight industry which uses both terrestrial and satellite IoT technologies. The consortium comprises private rail freight operator Europorte, owned by railway operator Getlink, which manages the...
Deutsche Telekom has made private 5G available in so-called millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum at 26 GHz for the first time in Germany. It claims the band allows for round-trip latencies of three to four milliseconds and download and upload data rates of more than...
Private network operator and industrial connectivity specialist Citymesh has deployed a private 5G network – or rather upgraded an existing private LTE network – at the Nobelwind wind farm in the North Sea, about 50 kilometres off the Belgian coast. The work is part...
Nokia has polled 100 industrial enterprises with their own 4G/5G networks and found that the business case for private cellular is universally good, it has said. More than this, the Finnish vendor claims its limited sample of early-adopters, randomly picked from across the industrial...
Airspan Networks, with $95 million in fresh equity funding, has said it has been selected by Boldyn Networks to supply the private radio network (RAN) infrastructure for the city of Sunderland’s smart-city 5G project in the UK. The US vendor’s AirSpeed 1900 outdoor small...
Aramco Digital, the digital technology services subsidiary of state-owned Saudi oil and gas company Saudi Aramco, has obtained a specialist licence to use the 450 MHz spectrum band in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to stand-up private enterprise networks of various sorts to support...
France-based satellite IoT startup Kinéis is to launch five nanosatellites from a launchpad in New Zealand on June 18, with another 20 to follow within eight months. The firm wants its new satellite constellation to provide global IoT connectivity for remote applications in the...
Paris is the smartest (capital) city in Europe, apparently. So says smart cities new research by Swedish real-estate tech firm ProptechOS, which has evaluated 23 European capitals on a number of tech-related scores, garnered from OECD ratings for civic ‘smartness’, and found the French...
Whatever happened to the concept of ‘smart cities’? We used to write about them all the time, but the whole discipline seems to have splintered in recent years into a myriad of public and private urban smart-infrastructure sub-sectors, mostly covering the creeping modernisation of...
Note, this is an edited transcript of the opening address at Private Networks Global Forum last week. The whole event is available for registrants on-demand, for free (follow link). But this text which also forms the introduction of the summary report about the event...
IoT network operator Sigfox South Africa has been awarded a major government contract to adapt or replace around 15 million water meters in the country with ‘smart’ connected metering devices. The tender, listed as RT29 in the National Treasury archives, closed in November. Sigfox...
The LoRa Alliance has expanded its certification scheme for LoRaWAN-based IoT devices to include Relay feature testing, and also authorised a new test lab in Brazil, its first in Latin America. The facility, in Atibaia, near São Paulo, is owned by German test company...
There was a good session last week at Private Networks Global Forum with Arvin Singh, head of global 5G solutions engineering at Verizon, and part of the US carrier’s global go-to-market team for private 5G. He was in conversation with Bruno Tomas, chief technology...
Sigfox-parent Unabiz reckons it can now deliver a 90 percent “success rate” with Wi-Fi positioning on Sigfox trackers thanks to the addition of some AI/ML trickery to its Wi-Fi scanning software. Sigfox operator KYOCERA Communication Systems (KCCS) has claimed a jump from 62 percent...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has integrated its Athonet private 4G/5G product, acquired early last year, with its Aruba enterprise Wi-Fi portfolio. It said it is the “only global enterprise infrastructure vendor to provide comprehensive Wi-Fi and private 5G solutions”, and the move makes it...
Home appliances manufacturer Haier Europe, part of the Fortune 500 smart-home division of China-based Haier Group, has appointed Orange Business to supply enterprise connectivity and IoT services, plus cybersecurity tools, to modernize and digitize its business operations in Europe, including its manufacturing and logistics...
Electricity company EDF has accelerated its private LTE rollout at nuclear power plants in France with Ericsson and Thales. The firm, which originally scheduled two-to-four networks per year when the project was announced in 2021, told Private Networks Global Forum this week that it...
Annual spending on private 5G networks will grow at a compound rate (CAGR) of about 42 percent between 2024 and 2027, accounting for nearly $3.5 billion by the end of 2027, according to new research from SNS Telecom & IT, based out of Dubai....
Taiwanese advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and private network provider Ubiik has convened a gang of chipset makers and module makers to develop a working supplier ecosystem around the new 1.8 GHz ‘utility’ band in Canada, reserved for power utilities. These include GCT, Semtech (Sierra...
Netherlands-based mobile operator KPN has launched a new edge 4G/5G product for large enterprises combining private and hybrid cellular, on-premise computing, and indoor localisation services. It is pitching the product, called simply KPN Campus, as a higher-performing local network infrastructure, which is “safe and...
Swedish industrial machine maker Atlas Copco has reopened a UK facility as a smart factory and innovation centre with a private 5G network from country-mate Ericsson, and a showcase and training hub for its tooling, assembly systems, and machine vision solutions. The firm has...
NTT has said it is pulling eight billion data points from 140 sensors on every car at the Indianapolis 500 race, taking place this weekend (May 26) in Indiana in the US, into its analytics platform to provide insights and content to 300,000-odd fans...
France-based low-power IoT specialist Actility, operating and selling LoRaWAN infrastructure, is working with Italian IoT provider Urbana Smart Solutions to “overhaul” and extend Italy’s IoT infrastructure. The deal will see Urbana manage the rollout of LoRaWAN infrastructure “throughout Italy”, and the integration of combined...
