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Puloli taps Qualcomm to expand private standalone NB-IoT offer for critical industry

US-based private NB-IoT network operator Puloli is offering IoT modules based on Qualcomm’s multi-mode 9205 LTE modem to critical industries, as part of its as-a-service industrial networking offer. Last July, San Francisco-based startup Puloli secured a minor 1 MHz paired chunk (2 MHz in total,...

Ericsson helps Atlas Copco Airpower to get ready for smart manufacturing

  Atlas Copco Airpower, a manufacturer of compressors, vacuum solutions, generators, pumps, power tools, and assembly systems is collaborating with Ericsson and Orange Belgium to ensure intelligent manufacturing with 4G and 5G technologies. The Atlas Copco Airpower factory in Wilrijk, Belgium, is one of the world’s largest manufacturing sites for both portable...

Singapore unleashes robot dog to prowl parks and warn about social distancing

Singapore is trialing the usage of a robot dog from Boston Dynamics to assist with social distancing measures in parks, gardens and nature reserves. The announcement by Singapore’s Smart Nation and Digital Government Group, which comprises its The Smart Nation and Digital Government Office (SNDGO)...

Consumer packaged goods industry is struggling with Industry 4.0, says report

Ninety percent of companies in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry are yet to leverage digital technologies at scale, and that even the best equipped of them are struggling to make their digital deployments pay. This is the conclusion of a new report from SmarterChains,...

Show and tell, knowledge transfer, quality assurance – three cases of industrial AR

Note, this article is taken from an editorial report on industrial AR, called Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers. The full report is available to download here.  Use cases for industrial AR are all variations on the theme of remote guidance. Whether...

Siemens spies ‘golden opportunity’ for industrial ‘leapfrog’ after Covid-19 crisis

German industrial giant Siemens has called for the planet to urgently prioritise digital technologies, of the type it is selling, in order to meet environmental and societal challenges, and to equip the economy with the working tools to better cope in mass-crisis scenarios, such...

Sidewalk Labs blames Covid economy for shock shutdown of $1bn Toronto venture

Sidewalk Labs, the smart-city side project of Google-parent company Alphabet, has pulled the plug on its controversial tech-fuelled urban re-development project in Toronto, blaming “economic uncertainty” brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The firm said the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis was felt in...

‘AR is more forgiving’ – HPE on connectivity and compute setups for industrial AR/VR

In research for a new report on industrial AR, Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Ian Henderson, chief technologist for manufacturing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to discuss the challenges with contemporary AR (and VR) setups in the industrial space. Here is the interview, in...

Bosch-led €9.5m research sets principles for 5G and ITS-G5 in V2X comms

A consortium of 16 industrial companies and research institutions have combined in a €9.5 million project to set out the “groundwork” for truck platooning with autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles, as the primary use case to establish usage of 5G and Wi-Fi in intelligent transport...

OSIsoft releases edge IoT software for remote monitoring of industrial assets

Industrial IoT data management firm OSIsoft has announced the general availability of its Edge Data Store software for remotely monitoring critical assets. The product, released from testing with limited customers, allows industrial operators to collect, store, and access data from assets and sensors in remote...

Industry 4.0 latest: 90% want private LTE and 5G, 75% will upgrade within two years

Almost nine in 10 manufacturing businesses in the world’s industrial heartlands want their own private LTE and 5G networks to drive forward Industry 4.0 initiatives and digital transformation. Three quarters are set to upgrade their communications networks in the next two years. Wi-Fi and...

Ubicquia acquires smart city platform CityIQ from GE Current

  U.S. firm Ubicquia, which specializes in smart streetlight and smart city platforms, announced that it has acquired CityIQ. Ubicquia is buying all CityIQ's assets, including technology, related patents and contracts with major customers and cities across the U.S. and Canada. CityIQ, owned by GE Current,...

Buvac resigns as Nokia’s enterprise chief as reshuffle and rumour continue

Nokia’s enterprise chief Kathrin Buvac has quit the Finnish vendor to take a role at another technology firm. Her departure, scheduled for the end of the month, follows on the heels of the announcement Rajeev Suri, the company’s president and chief executive, will also...

CIMCON adds road monitoring to smart city lights in Massachusetts town

CIMCON is adding road condition monitoring to its smart lighting deployments in the town of Spencer in the company’s home state of Massachusetts. Town officials have been looking to improve driver safety, meet state environmental guidelines, and reduce costs from ineffective road monitoring and maintenance....

Demand for LoRaWAN smart water networks rises in COVID-19 crisis, says Senet

Low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT technologies like LoRaWAN are proving their worth as connectivity technologies for smart water preservation and management during periods of change and crisis, including in the current COVID-19 crisis. Smart connectivity networks are enabling improved management of water and other utilities during...

Private 5G and edge AI will unlock ‘boundless XR’ for industry, says Qualcomm

Qualcomm has introduced the idea of extended reality (XR), combining and going beyond the disciplines of augmented (AR), virtual (VR), and even mixed (MR) reality technology. More than this, it is talking about 'boundless XR', which leverages industrial 5G and distributed AI, when powerful...

New editorial report out now: ‘Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers’

The trick with AR in industry is to keep lights on and services flowing even during periods of absence, as enforced in extremis by the new coronavirus pandemic. The kinds of remote assistance tools being offered by companies like Microsoft and PTC, and some...

Nokia keeps business on track with 19% enterprise surge on private LTE sales

Nokia’s enterprise business showed growth of almost 20 percent during the first quarter of 2020, compared with a year ago, on the back of continued sales momentum for private LTE networks to the industrial sector. The Finnish firm, in the process of fielding a hostile...

Federated Wireless Q&A: ’10 Gbps over Wi-Fi 6 or 5G – that’s the opportunity at 6GHz’

The decision last week by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to make 1,200MHz of spectrum in the 6 GHz band in the US available for unlicensed usage, covering low-power operations over the full allocation and standard-power devices in 850MHz of the band, is a...

Kudelski, CoreKinect launch tracking solution amid COVID-19 crisis

    The Kudelski Group, which specializes in digital security, and hardware designer and manufacturer CoreKinect announced the launch of a joint solution enabling hospitals, government agencies and non-governmental organizations to track key assets in the fight against COVID-19. In a release, Kudelski said it is providing...

Quarter of private LTE and 5G networks will be managed by smart cities in 2025

By 2025, almost one quarter (23 percent) of all private LTE and 5G networks will be deployed by smart cities, either at local or national government level. Other major industrial sectors to negotiate their own spectrum and manage their own wireless networks will be,...

Bosch ramps-up production after 17% COVID reverse with focus on efficiency, innovation

Bosch is preparing to ramp up production again after shutting down production at nearly 100 facilities globally in the COVID-19 pandemic, on the back of a 17 percent slowdown in March, a 7.3 percent fall in the first quarter, and a refusal to forecast...

Scottish island builds 5G-powered digital twin of smart energy system

The island of Orkney in Scotland has developed a 5G-powered digital twinning system to help residents participate in the delivery of its new energy network. Led by Heriot-Watt University’s Global Research, Innovation and Discovery (GRID) facility and supported by the Scotland 5G Centre, the project...

Dassault Systèmes supplies digital thread for rapid construction of COVID-19 hospitals

France-based industrial software provider Dassault Systèmes and China-based facilities management company Aden Group are combining their digital twin and modular architecture platforms to fast-track hospital construction. The arrangement is in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dassault Systèmes was involved with China’s Central-South Architectural Design Institute...