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Siemens looks to speed up industrial IoT development

Siemens will work with an Austrian university to explore industrial IoT for manufacturing Siemens has announced a cooperation agreement with an Austrian university to research how 5G technology can support manufacturing production lines equipped with industrial IoT solutions. The German company and the AIT Austrian Institute...

Right now the path forward for MulteFire is IoT

Boingo Wireless CTO provides an update on CBRS, MulteFire Derek Peterson, chief technology officer of Boingo Wireless, sees unlicensed and shared spectrum as a major opportunity for the telecom industry. The combination of CBRS and MulteFire allows for new entrants into the cellular market and...

Vodafone launches NB-IoT project for smart meters

Vodafone will work with Veolia Energy to kick off a commercial NB-IoT initiative in the Czech Republic Vodafone Czech Republic and Veolia Energie have launched a commercial NB-IoT project to deploy smart meters. Under the NB-IoT initiative, a total of 1,000 smart meters will be connected...

Ericsson carrier partnerships highlight NB-IoT momentum

NB-IoT deployments in Saudi Arabia, Greece focus on enterprise and industrial use cases Narrowband-internet of things (NB-IoT) connectivity is one of the 3GPP standards for massive IoT support. While the IoT has a number of standard and non-standard access options, NB-IoT is seeing global momentum...

Exploring the role of contactless beacons in a smart city

AUSTIN, Texas--Smart city deployments come in many forms with one of the most simple methods of imbuing a physical object with connectivity and interactive access being a contactless beacon. Connecthings, founded in 2007, is looking to contactless beacons—think QR codes, NFC, Bluetooth—as a way to...

Telia launches new smart traffic solution in Finland

The Nordic telecom group also joined a smart city initiative in Sweden to provide capabilities to test 5G and IoT Nordic telecommunications group Telia has launched a new smart traffic and urban planning solution. The service provider said the new tool identifies the movement patterns...

How Microsoft is helping India clean up the Ganges river

Indian firm TechSpan is using the Microsoft IoT platform to monitor the quality of the water, among other parameters Microsoft IoT solutions are helping the government of India to clean up the Ganges, which has been the holy river of India for centuries. Stretching nearly...

Huawei completes C-V2X trial in Germany

Vodafone Germany and Bosch partnered on C-V2X trial Huawei, Vodafone Germany and Bosch have successfully tested the extended usage of cellular vehicle to everything (C-V2X) technology in combination with Bosch’s adaptive cruise control (ACC) driver assistance system. The partners said they have been performing trials of...

How smart cities ‘give back’ time to residents

Mobility, public safety, healthcare and other connected services will save residents of smart cities 125 hours per year, study says A new study produced by Juniper Research and commissioned by Intel takes at look at how internet of things technologies leveraged to create smart cities...

KT to use IoT to create smart soldiers and other tech for defense industry

The Korean telco will partner with compatriot defense firm Hanwha Systems South Korean telecom operator KT and compatriot aerospace and defense firm Hanwha Systems are set to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to start cooperation in applying internet of things (IoT) capabilities in the...

Sigfox adds new European market with IoT network in Switzerland

The IoT connectivity provider aims to cover 60 countries with its technology by the end of the year European firm Cellnex Telecom and Heliot, Sigfox's operator in Switzerland, have signed an agreement to rollout what it claims to be the first internet of things (IoT)...

Orange Business Services bringing smart city tech to Saudi Arabia

Under the new contract, Orange will provide ICT and smart city services to Jeddah Tower, the world?s tallest building French company Orange Business Services has signed a smart city consulting agreement with Jeddah Economic Company to design ICT infrastructure and smart services at the world?s...

Inside AT&T’s smart cities strategy

Officials focused on smart cities use cases as market, awareness matures Since launching its Spotlight Cities program in 2016, AT&T has moved from sponsoring pilot-type projects to working with municipal leaders on more large scale, paid engagements, according to Mike Zeto, general manager, AT&T Smart...

Telefonica and China Unicom to expand IoT offering

Under the new deal, enterprise customers of Telefonica and China Unicom will be able to offer IoT services in China, Europe and Latin America Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica and China Unicom have signed an agreement in the field of internet of things (IoT). Under the...

Cisco deploys IoT platform for Three Group in 12 markets

Ericsson has also announced a commercial IoT platform in Sri Lanka with Dialog Axiata Cisco and the Three Group have announced the global availability of the Cisco Jasper Control Center automated IoT connectivity platform for enterprise customers. The Three Group’s customers can now have access...

Telefónica and SEAT demo Industry 4.0 concept with 5G and blockchain

Furthering the Industry 4.0 movement, Telefónica has teamed up with car maker SEAT and car-parts maker Ficosa to showcase an IoT-based supply-chain and manufacturing concept for the automotive industry. The demo, one of many industrial IoT concepts from telecoms operators and vendors at Mobile...

Actility launches enterprise version of ThingPark platform for private LoRa networks

IoT connectivity platform provider Actility has released a slimmed-down version of its ThingPark solution for enterprise customers. ThingPark is the most widely deployed LoRa platform among operators of public LoRA networks. Actility announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona it had signed its fiftieth...

UK city of Bristol is named the smartest of them all

The city of Bristol, in southwest England, has been named the smartest of smart cities by the GSMA at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 in Barcelona. The mobile trade organisation noted its “focused, collaborative, and future-thinking approach”, as well as its robust communications infrastructure, well-established...

European LoRa roaming by year-end, as network deployments double

European LoRaWAN roaming will be completed by the end of the year, said the LoRa Alliance at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. European network operators Orange and KPN, in France and the Netherlands respectively, completed the first field tests of roaming between national LoRaWAN...

Smart cities offer brightest hope for carriers, says former AT&T chief

Glenn Lurie, the former president of AT&T Mobility, reckons smart cities are the single most promising new market for network operators. Lurie, now chief executive at US-based software provider Synchronoss Technologies, told Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona that network operators should reverse the decline in...

GE urges telcos to follow its lead on IIoT innovation

Telecoms carriers should urgently marry innovation with new working practices if they are to capitalise on the opportunity of the industrialised 'internet of things' (IoT), according to GE. Sue Siegel, the company’s chief innovation officer and chief executive of its business innovations unit, said at...

Cisco debuts global NB-IoT control platform; Ericsson nabs NB-IoT deal in Taiwan

Cisco has launched the first commercially available global narrow-band IoT (NB-IoT) platform, it said at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday (February 27th). Its Cisco Jasper Control Center for NB-IoT enables operators to manage their IoT networks and devices. China Unicom said early...

Ericsson and China Mobile to establish joint IIoT innovation lab

Ericsson and China Mobile have signed a strategic framework agreement at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona to collaborate on new enterprise and industrial IoT (IIoT) systems and services. The pair said they will build an ‘Industry IoT Cooperation Center’, as a crossover between China...

Telenor and Cisco to work with smart cities in Norway

Telenor and Cisco are to establish a “joint lab environment” to develop smart cities solutions for civic authorities and services providers in Telenor’s home market, Norway. Cisco said the project will build upon Telenor’s existing connectivity infrastructure, including its Wi-Fi, WAN and mobile networks in...