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Ericsson and Capgemini combine to drive private LTE and 5G deals for operators

The two companies are teaming up to grasp new business potential in the fast-growing market for private 4G and 5G mobile networks. The rising demand for private cellular network solutions comes as industries and enterprises increasingly need advanced digitalization to ensure their competitiveness. Telecoms vendor...

LoRaWAN enters 2.4 GHz – plus new space race, network sharing, embedded security

LoRaWAN will work in the 2.4 GHz spectrum band, also occupied by Wi-Fi and Bluetooth systems, to enable LoRaWAN-based IoT devices to work globally at the same frequency for the first time, without needing to switch between sub-GHz bands in roaming.  That is the proposal,...

Verizon, Honeywell help utilities to accelerate deployment of smart meters

Verizon has inked an agreement with Honeywell with the aim of helping utilities speed up the deployment of new communication-enabled, intelligent sensors and controls for the smart electric grid, both firms said in a release. Under the terms of the agreement, Verizon will integrate its...

New UK player seeks to broker shared and private networking for enterprises, cities

The Freshwave Group, a new UK network provider, is seeking to combine telecoms expertise and real-estate savvy to plug coverage gaps in public mobile coverage with shared and private networking. It is targeting enterprises and cities, as they seek to leverage new data traffic...

Cisco intros new IoT security architecture

  Cisco introduced an IoT security architecture that provides enhanced visibility across both IT and IoT environments, and protects processes, the networking company said in a release. Cisco said its new solutions enable the collection and extraction of data from the IoT edge, so organizations can...

Nokia reaping benefits of its own smart factory technologies

Connected Nokia factory in Oulu sees 30% productivity gain Nokia has been bullish on using LTE and 5G to power private networks for industrial verticals like mining, shipping and manufacturing. As the network infrastructure vendor works to sell its vertically-tailored solutions through carrier customers and...

Nokia’s private LTE smart-grid gig in Brazil gets green light from regulator

Brazilian telecoms regulator Anatel has approved local energy distributor Neoenergia to operate a private LTE network in the 3.5 GHz frequency. It will be the first private LTE network in Brazil, and the first for smart electric grids in Latin America. Finnish vendor Nokia secured...

Decision on Sidewalk Labs delayed as Toronto seeks public review

Waterfront Toronto, in charge of the $1 billion redevelopment of Toronto’s waterfront neighbourhood, has extended the deadline on whether to move forward with Google sister company Sidewalk Labs’ proposal for the smart city enclave. The board of Waterfront Toronto has extended the consultantion period from...

UK to release 6 GHz and 100 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi in smart homes, offices, factories

UK regulator Ofcom is proposing to make 500MHz of contiguous spectrum in the lower 6 GHz band available for unlicensed indoor Wi-Fi and low-power outdoor Wi-Fi usage. It has also revealed plans to release an additional 18GHz of Extremely High Frequency (EHF) spectrum, above...

Nokia CEO calls for the Fourth Industrial Revolution to be green

5G linked to increased economic productivity, industrial efficiencies and operator sustainability, Nokia CEO says Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri has regularly discussed how 5G can enable the digitalization that underpins the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In keeping with the theme of the recent World Economic Forum--"Stakeholders for...

Bosch, Ericsson, Telefónica to develop AI control system for private LTE and 5G

A consortium of technologists, industrialists, and academics have joined a new European working group to develop and demonstrate a new ‘beyond-5G’ system for private networks, integrating 5G, Wi-Fi, and LiFi technologies, and managed through AI based autonomic networking. The 30-month project, called 5G-CLARITY, has been...

Orange: Connectivity is 5% of Industry 4.0 spend – we’d rather talk apps and services

How does a mobile operator, in the business of airtime subscriptions, go beyond selling straight connectivity? Because this must be the goal, and the measure of ambition. There is no future in SIM cards, as we have argued – especially as technological innovation higher...

Supply chain unites behind neutral platform to aggregate and augment blockchain data

The first “neutral aggregating platform” for tracing the provenance of goods in the supply chain has launched, pulling together and making visible data from sundry blockchains. The World Economic Forum described it as a “self-service track-and-trace” blockchain platform at its general meeting in Davos this...

Qualcomm and Audi announce initial C-V2X deployments on Virginia roadways

Qualcomm, together with Audi of America and the Virginia Department of Transportation  announced plans for initial deployments of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communication on northern Virginia roadways. In a press release, Qualcomm said that this technology will be provided by using the same portion of the...

XR for the enterprise – Accenture and Qualcomm debut hospitality offering

IHG piloting XR Event Planner for sales enablement, remote collaboration We've all attended corporate events hosted in hotel meeting rooms but perhaps we overlook the hotel staff, event planners and third-party vendors that worked for months on selecting lighting, tablecloths, room layouts and so forth....

Sprint on IoT: ‘Three simple letters, but… an incredibly complex beast’

Sprint: ‘IoT is three simple letters, but it is an incredibly complex beast’ The Sprint IoT Factory, an online marketplace for easy-to-manage IoT solutions launched in May 2018, wasn’t closing as many sales as the site traffic suggested it should be. Sprint’s Head of Product &...

Does AI need to be regulated? Views from the World Economic Forum

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already being used in a variety of applications, including automated analysis of video captured by security cameras or to assess the quality of items moving down a manufacturing line, for instance. But with converging technological trends, particularly 5G and pervasive...

Brits back drones for emergency services, environmental monitoring, says Vodafone

Most people in Britain would support regulated usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, for critical services and industrial enterprises, according to a report by Vodafone. Eighty per cent of the British public would support their adoption if better safety, security and monitoring measures...

Davos calls for Reskilling Revolution, as 75% of manufacturers can’t fill roles

The World Economic Forum has zeroed-in on skills and training as it seeks to put the world right in Davos this week. It has launched a programmer, Reskilling Revolution, to provide one billion people with better education, skills and jobs in the face of...

More industrial Wi-Fi 6, fewer IoT platforms, new mMTC entrants – it ain’t gonna happen

ABI Research has poured water on the idea Wi-Fi 6 will gain mass adoption in the IoT space in the near-term. It has also said a few dominant chipset vendors will squeeze out new entrants in the IoT market, that low-power wide-area tech standards...

Edge, AI, IoT and 5G: Enterprise and operator opportunities

Nvidia, Verizon using GPUs to run edge AI for real-time service enablement As 5G continues to be refined through the 3GPP-led standardization process, consumer-facing benefits will morph into bespoke enterprise services that add low latency and high reliability to enhanced mobile broadband. In order to...

Why 5G doesn’t amount to a hill of beans, and it is not enough for operators

Telecoms operators must do more than just sell connectivity. It is a maxim that gets repeated, often, and always – and one that, in the end, becomes more like a stick to beat them with than a code of survival, as they fail over...

Davos upgrades street lighting system with Signify

  Smart lighting specialist Signify is helping the city of Davos, in Switzerland, in achieving its sustainability goals as it upgrades both Davos’ streetlights and the lighting of the city’s Congress Center to energy-efficient LEDs, the firm said in a release. This week, Davos will host...

Amazon trumps Google in smart home sales; smart lighting tops growth forecasts

The smart home market in Europe continued to grow in the third quarter of 2019, reaching almost 23.8 million units, an increase of 18.1 per cent compared to the same quarter a year ago. Amazon usurped Google in the period as the top tech...