Nokia is working with mobile operator Claro in Chile, a regional subsidiary of Mexican telecom group América Móvil, to equip South African mining company Gold Fields’ new Salares Norte mine with a private LTE network.
The new network will support remote-controlled trucks, excavators, drills, and...
Revenues from the sale of cybersecurity solutions in the IoT sector will jump to $16.8 billion by 2026, according to ABI Research, as the number of IoT connections nearly triples from 8.6 billion to 23.6 billion connections in the same period.
The growth forecast stretches...
Semiconductor firm STMicroelectronics (STMicro) has joined the burgeoning MIOTY Alliance, to promote the novel telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB) technology, commercialized as MIOTY, as an alternative to low-power wide-area (LPWA) protocols like LoRaWAN, Sigfox, and NB-IoT in the industrial IoT and smart cities markets.
MIOTY (a portmanteau...
5G and MEC allow healthcare data to be processed at a much higher rate
While IoT has become a household term, IoMT or the Internet of Medical Things, isn't as well known. IoMT represents a subcategory of IoT that encompasses the connections and devices within...
Local Japanese telco KATCH is looking to hoover up Industry 4.0 contracts among automotive and high-tech manufacturers in the Aichi Prefecture, in Japan, after apponting Finnish vendor Nokia and local systems integrator CTC to deploy a dedicated private 5G network in the region.
KATCH wants...
Électricité de France (EDF) has appointed Thales and Ericsson to design and supply private industrial-grade LTE networks at all of its nuclear energy sites in France. The company has 56 nuclear power reactors in the country, and the stated schedule is to connect “two-to-four”...
Vodafone has said it is to supply infrastructure and solutions, using cellular and IoT tracking and monitoring technologies, to support Covid-19 vaccine roll-out in Africa. Vodacom, the company’s operating company in Africa, is working with the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) on a ‘home-grown’...
This interview is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with commentary from the likes of Accenture, Appledore Research, EXFO, Nokia, Lufthansa Industry Solutions, Vodafone...
Siemens is to integrate Google’s cloud and analytics technologies with its factory automation portfolio. The pair said their offer will help manufacturing companies to move away from fragmented legacy software, and “bring AI/ML to the manufacturing industry at scale”.
Manufacturing companies continue to use legacy...
The DALI Alliance, the trade group representing the DALI smart-lighting interface, has released a new gateway specification to allow intelligent lighting fixtures to talk to Bluetooth mesh networks, and to share analytics across building management systems.
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the trade association...
Edzcom and Nokia are to build a private standalone (SA) 5G network for fellow Finnish firm Konecranes at the company’s factory in the municipality of Hyvinkää about 50 kilometres north of Helsinki.
Konecranes manufacturers and services cranes and lifting equipment. The company’s Hyvinkää facility is...
UK-based vehicle battery manufacturer Hyperbat has claimed a “world-first” industrial virtual reality (VR) solution for manufacturing using a private 5G network. It is working with BT and Ericsson on the network setup. Qualcomm is providing its Snapdragon XR2 platform into the VR headset, plus...
China-based IoT manufacturer Queclink is adding Sigfox-based IoT connectivity in its stolen vehicle trackers. The two companies have struck a deal to “uncover hidden potential of IoT”, they said, by launching more products with different form factors and applications.
Queclink has launched a new...
Deutsche Telekom has positioned itself as a system integrator (SI) in the emerging private 5G market for Industry 4.0, via a deal with AWS for managed edge infrastructure and services. It has also released a couple of all-in packages for factory and warehouse-based AI...
US manufacturing company Vision Metering is ramping up production of LoRa based smart energy meters connecting on LoRaWAN networks. The South Carolina firm claimed it has been “quickly onboarding” municipal utilities across the US and Latin America with its metering hardware and software at...
In a new Q&A report series, Enterprise IoT Insights talks with select industry leaders about how digital systems – including 5G, AI, IoT, and edge, plus other key technologies – are transforming industry. This report maps the vision, signs the obstacles, and charts a...
Nokia has teamed up with professional services consultancy Ernst & Young (EY) in Finland to help enterprises and mobile operators ”unleash the business potential” of ‘private wireless’ solutions, the umbrella term used by Nokia to capture a range of industrial networking technologies, but with...
Danish pump manufacturer Grundfos has given an initial thumbs-up to private factory-based 5G, after six months’ working with Swedish vendor Ericsson and local operator TDC NET on a test network at its production plant in Bjerringbro, north of Aarhus, in Denmark.
“We see 5G as...
Verizon has introduced a new ‘hyper-precise location’ (HPL) service that uses ‘real-time kinematics’ (RTK) to deliver satellite-based location with centimetre-level accuracy. The HPL service is available via Verizon’s ThingSpace’s IoT platform to business customers and application developers using its 4G and 5G cellular networks...
In a new Q&A report series, Enterprise IoT Insights talks with select industry leaders about how digital systems – including 5G, AI, IoT, and edge, plus other key technologies – are transforming industry. This report maps the vision, signs the obstacles, and charts a...
Ericsson using 4G/5G private networks to enable the Miner 4.0; Smart Mining Value Calculator pins TCO to return on five mining use cases
In its Connected Mining report, published in December 2020, and an accompanying deep dive webinar hosted earlier this year, Ericsson explored the...
US IoT provider Senet has struck a deal with Canada-based Lorax Systems, a safety and environmental solutions company, around utility monitoring against natural gas incidents. The companies have certified Lorax’s meter and service shut-off valves on Senet’s LoRaWAN network.
The integration provides utilities 24/7 monitoring...
5G+ is the network along with edge cloud, AI/ML, private networks, sensors and robotics
Sectors such as media, financial services, and e-commerce were able to more quickly pivot as the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the ebb and flow of global commerce because they were farther along...
Huawei Analyst Summit looks to "building a fully-connected, intelligent world"
At its annual analyst summit hosted in Shenzhen, Huawei executives considered the challenges and opportunities the ICT giant and the world will face over the next decade, including secular trends in population and energy consumption,...
