Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of AWS IoT SiteWise, a managed service that collects data from the plant floor, structures and labels the data, and generates real-time key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to help industrial customers make data-driven decisions.
AWS noted...
Ericsson is to deploy private LTE and 5G networks at three major Paris airports as part of a new contract with Groupe ADP (Aéroports de Paris) and Air France, as well as Groupe ADP’s digital tech subsidiary Hub One.
The Swedish vendor will install a...
Note, this article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, out tomorrow, on the combination of low-power short- and long-range communications technologies in hybrid IoT systems (see cover image below). Go here for the full report, which is free to download. The...
Note, this article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, out tomorrow, on the combination of low-power short- and long-range communications technologies in hybrid IoT systems (see cover image below). Go here for the full report, which is free to download;...
As much as 30 percent of the installed base of outdoor small cell networks and 71 percent of indoor enterprise systems in the next five years will be operated by new entrants to the cellular segment. This is the conclusion of a new market...
Accenture and the University of Aizu announced they will conduct a joint research project to develop what they claims will be the first standard API marketplace for smart cites in Japan.
The joint project also includes studies on how to utilize a Smart City operating...
Chip maker Nordic Semiconductor is combining low-power long- and short-range IoT connectivity technologies in hardware and software, at developer level, for solution makers to run the pair together in test applications.
Nordic has two hybrid IoT offers, in the form of its nRF9160 developer kit...
Orange Business Services, the enterprise services division of French telecoms firm Orange, has been appointed by New Zealand based infrastructure construction company McConnell Dowell to design a customised IoT system based on a private LoRaWAN network to enable its construction sites to collect and...
UK-based chip design company Arm is looking to hand control of its burgeoning IoT platform and data analytics businesses over to parent company Softbank, to distribute to “new entities”, in order to strengthen its focus on its core semiconductor business.
Japanese telecoms firm Softbank will...
Note, this article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, out tomorrow, on the combination of low-power short- and long-range communications technologies in hybrid IoT systems (see cover image below). Check back here for the full report (from July 9); a...
Swiss operator Sunrise Communications is using an “out-of-the-box” IoT back-end sales and management platform from Poland-based IT provider Comarch Telecommunications to underpin its IoT business. The Comarch bundle, also comprising IoT devices, will enable Sunrise to “store, sell, connect, monitor, and manage” its IoT...
AT&T and Accenture have teamed up on private cellular for US oil company Phillips 66. The trio are developing a bespoke industrial LTE and 5G setup for low-latency refinery automation and analytics, they said. The solution utilises AT&T’s public network and edge compute infrastructure.
The...
Finland has issued its first private cellular licence for industrial LTE and 5G at 2.3 GHz. State-owned energy company Fortum Power and Heat will use the licence at its power plant in Loviisa, on the country’s southern coast. Local transport and communications agency Traficom...
South Korea’s telecommunications operators have launched new smart factory solutions with the aim of helping manufacturers overcome the economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Korean news service Yonhap reported.
SK Telecom, the country’s largest mobile operator, released a subscription-based smart factory solution for small...
Danish pump manufacturer Grundfos is to replace wired connections with a private 5G network from Swedish vendor Ericsson and local operator TDC NET at its production plant in Bjerringbro, north of Aarhus, in Denmark. The project is a trial-run, with a view to a...
Autonomous NB-IoT platform harvests its own energy
HiSilicon, a chip manufacturer owned by Chinese vendor Huawei, and Dutch firm Nowi Energy showcased the second generation of their energy autonomous NB-IoT platform.
The companies explained that the device acts as a sensor hub which can transmit via...
Sometimes IoT technologies work better in concert. The standard model for IoT networks to combine two or more different connectivity technologies is when short-range wireless protocols are used in the sensors themselves.
Often, these short-range sensors utilise IEEE 802.15.4 based protocols such as Bluetooth Low...
US electronics distributor Avnet is selling IoT modules ready-bundled with cellular IoT connectivity following a deal with international carrier services company BICS.
Avnet’s semiconductor division, Avnet Silica, is offering IoT modules with embedded 2G, 3G, 4G, NB-IoT, and LTE-M connectivity via BICS’ global embedded-SIM (eSIM) solution,...
Real-time Bluetooth-based sports analytics is coming to football (soccer), says Finnish duo Wisehockey and Quuppa after putting their real-time locating system (RTLS) to the test in their home country.
Player and ball movements were tracked during a pre-season match between top-tier Finnish teams earlier this...
Germany-based industrial IT hardware company Phoenix Contact has produced the first industrial 5G router for private networks, using a 5G module from China-based Quectel, and with impetus and testing from Swedish telecoms vendor Ericsson.
The trio had collaborated from an early stage, they said, to...
Chipset makers Nordic Semiconductor and Qorvo have said they will collaborate on dual-mode IoT products running low-power short-range Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and ultra wideband (UWB) technologies, they have announced.
The deal follows Qorvo’s acquisition of Ireland-based UWB pioneer Decawave in February. Decawave produces UWB...
US carrier Verizon has joined with UK digital accelerator Digital Catapult to develop 5G solutions for retail. The pair will make use of Verizon’s new 5G Lab in London, opened in February, to offer startups a production house to test their 5G based innovations.
Companies...
Predictive maintenance, process automation focus use cases
Hitachi and Microsoft Corp. announced a multi-year strategic alliance to accelerate the digital transformation of the manufacturing and logistics industries across Southeast Asia, North America and Japan.
In a release, the partners said that the first solutions will be...
Swedish network vendor Ericsson is offering trial kits of private industrial 5G networks to enterprises via its mobile operator customers. It has confirmed Deutsche Telekom in Germany as its first operator partner to resell the test networks to local industry.
Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom already...
