The biggest fragmentation in smart agriculture is with base-line connectivity, which establishes the platform for the analytics and automation tools that will change farming. “Connectivity is a neccessary evil,” says …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Connecting agriculture: LoRa, NB-IoT, LTE, and 5G – and the digital divide in smart farming (part 1) >
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">What is ENDC? >by Kelly Hillby Kelly Hill
When Sprint launches its 5G New Radio network — as it is expected to do this week — it will be unique in a number of ways. The mobile network …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Why farming needs 5G, and not just LoRaWAN and NB-IoT – an investor’s view, from NGP Capital >
Certain functions of smart farming will not work on low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, even while technologies like LoRaWAN and NB-IoT tend to support most smart agricultural technologies, as they exist …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Three Sweden leases public spectrum for private usage to stop spectrum carve-up >
Network operator Three has rented out 50MHz of its 2.6 GHz frequency holding in Sweden in bid to boost local industry and stop regulator PTS carving-up the 3.5 GHz band …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Federated Wireless looking to take SAS global after US commercialization >
Testing is ongoing in the United Kingdom and Federated is speaking with regulators in about 20 countries, CEO says ORLANDO–Federated Wireless, a driving force behind the pending commercialization of shared …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">John Deere talks computer vision and the ultimate in farm gadgetry >
People don’t get how sophisticated farmers are, says Lane Arthur, director of digital solutions at John Deere, the US maker of industrial equipment and machinery. “They don’t see the technology …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Making Industry Smarter Report Series: Agriculture & Farming >by Ben Stoneby Ben Stone
The digital transformation of the agricultural sector – a review of the strategies, technologies and stakes in play as farmers seek more sustainable and competitive ways to feed the world. …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">National Instruments White Paper: Build 5G Wireless Networks and Systems with Software Defined Radio >
Download the latest edition of NI’s Wireless Research Handbook, which includes research examples from around the world and across a wide range of advanced wireless research topics. This comprehensive look …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">ZTE opens cybersecurity lab in China >
Chinese vendor ZTE announced the launch of its first cybersecurity lab in Nanjing, China. ZTE said that the opening of this security lab will contribute with its goal of increasing …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">ZTE works with 40+ global operators for 5G cooperation and testing >
With the rapid growth of network traffic demand, the 5G commercialization process is also accelerating, and many operators around the world announced that they will launch 5G services in 2019. …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Ditching the high fibre diet: how a network-of-networks will help smart farming (Reader Forum) >by Reader Forumby Reader Forum
The pressure food producers face to digitally transform is mounting. With a rapidly growing population, farms find themselves at a decisive moment in their ability to continue to produce enough …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">The evolution of enterprise network connectivity: Here’s what the future holds (Reader Forum) >by Reader Forumby Reader Forum
The demands placed on today’s networks are higher than ever as employees now access an ever-increasing number of cloud-based and IoT applications. In fact, as more traffic travels over the …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">5G will hit the IoT market in late 2020 and struggle for years, claims report >
Next-generation 5G technology will only appear in the internet-of-things (IoT) market in late 2020, and struggle to find its mark in the space for years afterwards, according to a new …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Industry 4.0 Q&A: “Manufacturers already tried LTE and it failed miserably,” says KPMG >
How will incoming cellular technologies transform manufacturing, and spur its drive for smarter production? That is the question Enterprise IoT Insights put to both sides of the industrial divide in …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Ondas Networks aquires 700 MHz spectrum for private cellular in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico >
Industrial connectivity provider Ondas Networks, formerly Full Spectrum, has acquired 700 MHz spectrum to deploy private cellular networks for industrial users in the state of Alaska and the Gulf of …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Cellular IoT: An Opportunity for Billions of New Deployments >
“The Internet will disappear. There will be so many IP addresses, so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with, that you won’t even …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">GSMA says some 5G auctions are artificially inflating spectrum prices >
The design of some 5G auctions is artificially inflating prices or inefficiently distributing already scarce spectrum resources, industry association GSMA said in a release. “Auctions can and do fail when …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Editorial Report | Digital Factory Solutions Series – Industrial LTE and 5G >by Ben Stoneby Ben Stone
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 …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">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 …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Qualcomm Webinar: What new indoor opportunities will 5G NR mmWave bring? >
This year, our vision for 5G is finally turning into a commercial reality as global mobile operators and device manufacturers have started to launch commercial 5G NR networks and mobile …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">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 …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">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 …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">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 …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">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” …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">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 …