Qualcomm has hailed the progress with cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology in recent months, including with certification of seven products using its own Qualcomm 9150 C-V2X chipset.
C-V2X is a global solution for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and V2X communication, standardized in 3GPP. It is designed to enhance...
Around 40 per cent of organizations are deploying IoT solutions already and a further 22 per cent planning to deploy in the next two years. But the rate of adoption is slower than expected, according to open-source IoT group the Eclipse Foundation.
The same percentage...
Canada-based firm Siyata Mobile announced the commercial launch of the company’s flagship Push-to Talk LTE Uniden UV350 in-vehicle cellular IoT device in partnership with Verizon.
The UV350 provides its enterprise customers with a dedicated in-vehicle Push-to-Talk (PTT) cellular solution built for the specific requirements of commercial vehicles. Features such...
An IoT sensor platform has helped a team of geologists from York University in Canada and the University of Zurich in Switzerland to monitor the stability of the terrain over the tomb of the 18th dynasty of pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings...
Cellular is the best connectivity technology for smart street-lighting in cities, reckons Netherlands based lighting company Signify. The rise of ultra narrowband (UNB) for outdoor smart lighting in cities, popularized by UK rival Telensa, will not cut it, the company has said.
Proprietary UNB-based technologies,...
The city of Stockholm in Sweden is to deploy a software platform from Itron to manage its streetlights, according to the US-based industrial networking company.
Itron has signed a contract with Stockholm to deploy its Streetlight.Vision (SLV) platform. SLV delivers asset management, analytics and control...
Nokia has installed a private LTE network in an underground mine belonging to NORCAT in Ontario, in Canada. The work has been carried out with Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (CENGN).
NORCAT is a technology and innovation centre headquartered in Sudbury, in...
Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona in February is the major venue and the key date for the telecoms industry. Yes, the cards have been dealt, but the show works as a useful barometer of its high mood. It kick-starts the season, effectively, after...
IoT connections will reach almost 25 billion globally by 2025, up from 12 billion in 2019, according to a new report by the GSMA.
“The business case for IoT is shifting from just connecting devices to addressing specific problems or needs with solutions to collect,...
The city of Sunderland in the UK is looking to establish a ‘strategic consortium’ and procure a “strategic delivery partner” to establish the country’s first city-owned ‘neutral host’ network for 5G and fibre. It wants to lease space on the network to mobile operators...
This year’s Hannover Messe trade fair, arguably the second biggest event for the telecoms market in Europe, has been postponed until July.
Deutsche Messe, which runs the show, made the announcement today (March 4), to put the event back by two months on account of...
The US arm of T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom’s digital services division, is bundling LoRaWAN connectivity plans and hardware offers from US-based Senet with its own IoT platform.
Senet said it had struck a deal for T-Systems to resell its network connectivity plans and IoT solutions with...
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has announced a new testbed to show the feasibility of adapting LTE for the urban rail sector. The new project is being led by Huawei, alongside the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT).
The testbed will evaluate usage...
Connectivity has been the main blocker for industrial IoT, and not the fragmented hardware and software markets. So says Federated Wireless, one of the companies pioneering usage of private LTE and 5G in the CBRS band in the US.
The firm has announced “one-click” CBRS-as-a-service...
Deutsche Telekom has installed a dual-slice private LTE ‘campus network’, hived off its public LTE network, at a BMW plant in Leipzig. Ericsson has supplied the networking gear for the project.
The German operator said the deployment marks its fourth such campus installation. It has...
Amsterdam-based Ingy has confirmed it is using wireless mesh protocol Wirepas as the foundational technology for its smart lighting offer, and the key component to scale smart lighting for hundreds of thousands of nodes in single networks buildings, including in offices, warehouses, hospitals, and...
Cisco is working with Oxford University spin-out company Oxbotica on a UK trial to explore how autonomous vehicles can securely and automatically share data via public Wi-Fi hotspots.
The idea is to utilize public Wi-Fi infrastructure to support their access to data, as autonomous vehicles...
Sprint announced collaborations with Swiss operator Swisscom and Nordic carrier Telia to extend the Sprint Curiosity Internet of Things (IoT) platform to Europe.
Sprint said that thanks to this new deal, Swisscom and Telia Company customers will now be able to better serve their customers...
More detail has emerged about the private industrial 5G operations Lufthansa has pegged to its new holding in the 3.7-3.8 GHz spectrum in Germany, with Vodafone emerging, as well as Nokia, as early partner for the German airline’s technical services division.
Separately of Nokia’s proclamation...
US-based industrial networking company Itron has signed with local electricity provider Borås Elnät in Sweden to swap-in 46,000 smart electric meters and layer-in sensors and analytics across its grid infrastructure.
Borås Elnät operates in the city of Borås in Västra Götaland County, in Sweden. Itron...
Irish postal company and fleet operator An Post Mails & Parcels (An Post) has contracted Irish Sigfox operator VT Networks to equip and monitor “several thousand” roll cages and containers for parcel processing and distribution.
The state-owned logistics firm said the move, to embrace connected...
Note, this story has been referenced and updated in a new post, Lufthansa doubles-down with second private 5G trial – with help from Vodafone, which can be found here.
German airline Deutsche Lufthansa (Lufthansa) has gained a spectrum licence for operating private LTE and...
A band of research organizations and industrial companies have formed the MIOTY Alliance to promote telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB), commercialized as MIOTY, as an alternative low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology to the likes of LoRaWAN and NB-IoT in the industrial IoT and smart cities markets.
MIOTY (a...
Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN group The Things Network (TTN) has instructed the IoT community at large to draw strength, as a collective working with open technologies, from its apparent weaknesses as a "vulnerable" loose-knit faction locked in innovation projects.
Wienke Giezeman, co-founder and chief executive at TTN,...
