Alejandro Cadenas, IoT strategy manager, Telefónica:
“Deployment of private networks is giving way to a radical change in industries, especially suited for campus-type industrial deployments like mines, ports, airports or manufacturing plants. Thanks to this connectivity technology, companies will work faster, safer and in a...
Note, this interview, with Greg Corlis, managing director for emerging technologies and national IoT leader, at KPMG, is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, called 'Crossing the IT/OT divide – co-creation, co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale'. Go...
WING provides managed service for global IoT network
Finnish vendor Nokia has inked a contract with Brazilian telecommunications operator TIM to provide Internet of Things (IoT) services to its enterprise customers in Brazil, the former said in a release.
TIM is fully owned by Italian telecommunications...
AI-based machine health solution provider Augury announced that it has received an investment by Qualcomm Ventures, with the aim of accelerating the transformation of the industrial sector.
Qualcomm Ventures said it had identified Augury as a leader in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) based...
Norwegian maritime group Wilhelmsen is deploying a LoRaWAN network at 2.4 GHz to bring connectivity to its operations at land and sea. It will offer connectivity to customers as well.
The firm has struck a deal with Dutch LoRaWAN collective The Things Industries (TTI), the...
Nokia has won a tender with German rail company Deutsche Bahn to test and deliver standalone 5G for autonomous trains and rail operations.
It will be the first time a standalone 5G system has been used for rail automation, said Nokia. The project, based in...
There was some head-scratching when French IoT operator Sigfox revealed a 2023 target of one billion connections. But there is no doubting the company’s canny ability to spot new IoT use cases, sometimes staring us in the face all along.
The firm has just announced...
The global manufacturing sector will spend over $1 trillion on smart software, hardware and services in 2030, almost quadrupling the $259 billion spend in 2019.
The volume of wireless connections, including LTE and 5G, as well as low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies and Wi-Fi, will spiral...
Nokia has said it is building a “strategic partnership ecosystem” to bring private LTE and 5G networks to industrial and government customers in Japan.
Spectrum for local LTE and 5G will be released in Japan at the end of 2019 for enterprise use. Nokia expects...
The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) and the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) are looking to drive cooperation between operators and industries to capitalize on opportunities with industrial 5G.
The pair have announced an agreement to “jointly shape and promote” industrial...
Dutch smart lighting solutions provider Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, announced that it installed Interact Industry in the newly developed warehouse facility of Pilkington Automotive in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
The Dutch firm said that this cloud-based, wireless connected lighting system is specifically designed for warehouses and manufacturing...
Dutch firm NXP Semiconductors has completed the $1.76 billion acquisition of the wireless connectivity assets of Bermuda chip firm Marvell Technologies.
The cash deal, agreed at the end of May, completed last week; it sees NXP augment its industrial IoT, automotive and communication portfolio with...
Italian road operator Autostrade per l'Italia (ASPI) is launching a new real-time infrastructure monitoring and management system using IBM’s artificial intelligence-based (AI) Maximo software platform.
The new digital platform will integrate inspection, structural monitoring and maintenance activities to allow for continuous monitoring of critical infrastructure...
Liberty Lake based IoT provider Itron has signed a contract with Louisville Water Company, in Louisville, Kentucky, to replace around 280,000 water meters.
Itron will install smart meters in their place, alongside a data management platform. It said the meters capture and communicate data around...
U.S. IoT company Senet has inked a partnership with Zenseio, an IoT system integrator specializing in embedded technology, sensors and telemetry devices for the agriculture and industrial markets, the former said in a release.
As part of this technology partnership, Senet has certified the Zenseio...
Firstly, that headline: too much? Perhaps, but let us make the case – and draw breath, for this may take some time. Industrial 5G is the only version of 5G that should be considered to be 'game-changing'. It is a phrase that is overused,...
Fingrid, Finland’s national transmission system operator, has appointed Nokia to build an IP/MPLS network to support the digital transformation of its national electrical grid.
Fingrid will use the network to operate 120 high-voltage substations and control 14,600 kilometres of power transmission across the country. The...
Vodafone is embedding AWS compute and storage services at the edge of its 5G network in Europe, starting in the UK and Germany and rolling out to other European territories. IoT devices and developers will be able to take advantage of single-digit millisecond latencies,...
France-based Orange has followed Spanish telecoms operator Telefónica to announce a major strategic overhaul that places analytics and automation, to underpin both internal efficiencies and external services, at the heart of its its operations.
Orange, like Telefónica, said a major part of its future growth,...
T-Systems, the digital services division of Deutsche Telekom, has introduced an on-premise edge cloud solution for lower-latency analytics and automation, and on-site data processing.
Edge-based compute power offers advantages in terms of latency, compared with cloud based data processing. T-Systems said its new platform, called...
Japan’s Softbank will plough artificial intelligence (AI) and internet-of-things (IoT) technologies into a burgeoning smart city project in Indonesia, after striking a deal with Jakarta-based conglomerate Lippo Group.
The deal, with the Indonesian firm’s real-estate division PT Lippo Karawaci (LPKR), focuses on Lippo Village in...
US-based Cisco Systems teamed up with eight Taiwanese partners to open a demonstration center for smart city applications and products in Taiwan, according to local publication DigiTimes.com.
The
US networking specialist is seeking to join forces with the Taoyuan City
Government, Taoyuan Aerotropolis and Asia Silicon...
Siemens has followed country-mate Bosch to apply for spectrum licences in the 3.7-3.8 GHz band in Germany. The firm will seek to manage its own LTE and 5G networks in at least six ‘digital’ factories, it is understood.
Klaus Helmrich, chief executive of the company’s...
A doctor in Rome has performed “major surgery” on a patient in an operating theatre in the city of Terni, 100 kilometres away, using virtual reality glasses and a 5G connection. The operation was live-streamed to 30,000 specialists and surgeons across the world.
Actually,...
