News & Event Coverage

Earlier this year, Transforma Insights undertook a survey of 1,100+ enterprises in the US and Europe, asking about their buying behaviour and vendor preferences cellular IoT connectivity. As part of that survey, we asked respondents which connectivity providers they were …

The smart logistics operation at China-based retail giant JD.com “makes Amazon look primitive”, reckons regional English-language title The Asia Times. Certainly, its warehousing and fulfilment business, JD Logistics (JDL), caught the attention of the industrial tech media this summer when …

ABI Research noted that revenues from 5G network slicing deployments in APAC will grow from $151 million in 2022 to $12 billion by 2028   The deployment of 5G private networks in Asia Pacific is expected to reach revenues of …

Want to know how to scale private 5G across manufacturing plants and manufacturing applications? Well, European aviation and aerospace manufacturer Airbus knows how. Of course, if you have followed the Airbus story in these pages, or caught its feature presentations …

The Société du Grand Paris (SGP), the state owned industrial company responsible for the Grand Paris Express metro project, has appointed Nokia to deploy a private 5G macro network across four new lines and 68 new stations in the French …

Google Cloud and KORE have signed a multi-year go-to-market alliance to pair the former’s data analytics capabilities with the latter’s IoT connectivity services. KORE suggested it is the “first time” that Google Cloud will offer an IoT platform and IoT …

Singapore-based UnaBiz, owner of the Sigfox technology, has completed a Series B funding extension worth $25 million, to take its total Series B investment, initially pegged at $25 million in late 2021, to over $50 million. The new funding comes …

Ericsson has agreed to sell its IoT business, including its IoT Accelerator connectivity management platform and Connected Vehicle Cloud platform, to California-based IoT provider Aeris. The Swedish firm said its IoT business, expected to post net sales of SEK 0.8 …

There is an argument, gathering popularity, that the IoT market has grown up; that IoT just works, well enough, at last – so that technology is no longer the start-point for a conversation with industry about digital change. Instead, a …

Under the terms of the deal, the Indian telco will deploy its proprietary IoT platform ‘Airtel IoT Hub’   India’s largest telecom operator, Bharti Airtel, announced that it has won a contract to provide a cellular IoT solution for TP …

Last month, the CBRS community in the US made a swift counter-strike, in the form of a joint letter to the FCC and NTIA, against a report by telecoms lobby group CTIA that said private and shared cellular is bad …

A panel session at Private Networks European Forum last month put the spotlight on the discipline of network and system management, specifically, where traditional mobile operators are increasingly facing-off with rival factions in the developing Industry 4.0 supplier market. These …

Siemens has worked with Qualcomm to deploy an indoor private 5G network in CBRS spectrum at Siemens headquarters in Chicago, with a view to test and develop solutions to automate building functions and services. The private 5G trial network is …

Nokia is to deploy a private LTE network at the Port of San Antonio in Chile, the country’s main maritime port, handling almost 50 percent of the country’s import and export trade. The Finnish vendor was selected by the port …

Berg said that the number of active fleet management systems in North America had reached 13.7 million at the end of last year   The number of active fleet management systems deployed in commercial vehicle fleets in North America is …

Australian supermarket chain Coles is running track-and-trace of its poultry supply chain, based on an IoT tracking and monitoring solution by pallet pooling company Loscam and local Sigfox operator Thinxtra. The pair has attached sensors to 4,500 poultry ‘bins’ (containers) …

There was a good panel session, yesterday (November 29; see cover image, available on-demand), on IoT tracking in the supply chain, which brought insightful content and commentary from leading IoT outfits DeltaTrak, Telit, and Unabiz, plus from analyst house ABI …

Qualcomm, BMW Group, Valeo and Ericsson also took part in the 5G SA automated driving tests    Deutsche Telekom, BMW Group, Valeo, Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies announced what they claim is the world’s first demonstration of automated driving application supported …

Australia-based semiconductor company Morse Micro, developing Wi-Fi HaLow for low-power mid-range IoT solutions, has quickly followed a AUS$140 million ($94m) Series B round in September with a further AUS$30 million ($20m) in Series B funding. The new funds, presented as …

Australian outfit Konvoy Group started three years ago, in the summer of 2019, as a keg rental business, offering logistics support to craft brewers in its home country. It has, in the meantime, expanded its services portfolio, launched in international …

The move is part of China’s broader initiative to widen the application of 5G industrial internet to boost the domestic manufacturing sector   The government of China has granted the first 5G private network license in the country to Commercial …

Japanese company Fujitsu is taking part in this 5G initiative   A consortium of Japanese organizations has developed open source software for private 5G networks, claiming to domestically produce a low-cost 5G core (5GC) network which brings down the cost …

France-based virtual operator Transatel, busily offering somehow-unfashionable local MVNO and MVNE services in Europe for two decades already, has a second (actually, third and fourth) life, suddenly, in the global IoT game – which has become even racier in recent …

At the end of 2021, the EU + UK region had nearly 163 million smart electricity meters   More than 56% of the electricity customers in European Union and the United Kingdom (the so-called EU27+3) had a smart meter at …

Both firms will bring secured Edge Cloud services backed by IBM Cloud Satellite to end customer   Colt Technology Services and IBM have launched a joint lab environment to help customers adopt Industry 4.0 technologies in the manufacturing value chain. …