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Telia Sweden builds 5G network at uni grounds to test industrial IoT and AI

Swedish operator Telia is to build a university-based 5G network for research and testing of industrial uses of high-bandwidth low-latency cellular connectivity. The 5G network will be located at Mid Sweden University, a Swedish state university in the middle of Sweden, with campuses in the...

Smart farming Q&A: “Farmers are in-the-know about their assets”, says ABI Research

Two million farms and 36 million cattle will be connected to the internet by low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, and other technologies, by 2024. This is the calculation from analyst house ABI Research, in a new report that considers the opportunity for internet-of-things (IoT) technologies in field...

Amazon, Comcast, NXP, Schneider develop Zigbee interoperability updates

The Zigbee Alliance is coordinating efforts from the likes of Amazon, Comcast, Landis+Gyr, NXP, Osram and Schneider Electric to make smart home and IoT products easier to develop, deploy, and sell across ecosystems. The new All Hubs Initiative, driven by a Zigbee Alliance workgroup, is...

Ericsson inks deal with Vietnam to boost Industry 4.0 adoption

The government of Vietnam has signed an agreement with Ericsson through which the latter will help accelerate the adoption of Industry 4.0 in the Asian nation, the Swedish vendor said in a release. According to the Brookings Institute, Vietnam exported $ 45 billion worth of...

Why farming needs 5G, and not just LoRaWAN and NB-IoT – an investor’s view, from NGP Capital

Certain functions of smart farming will not work on low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, even while technologies like LoRaWAN and NB-IoT tend to support most smart agricultural technologies, as they exist today. LTE and even 5G networks are required to provide total coverage of fields, in...

Rogers announces plans to launch NB-IoT network in Canada

Canadian telecoms operator Rogers announced plans to launch narrow-band internet of things (NB-IoT) technology in the country, the carrier said in a release. The telco said that NB-IoT will allow IoT devices and sensors to send and receive small amounts of data over long distances, with very...

UK based Port of Tyne introduces smart-lighting across entire site

UK firm Telensa is to provide smart outdoor lighting, bringing remote control and energy savings, at the Port of Tyne, in the northeast of England. The Port of Tyne, one of the UK's major deep-sea ports, is a trading centre for a diverse range of...

Maersk invests in smart cargo monitoring firm Traxens

French-based smart cargo monitoring specialist Traxens announced that Danish conglomerate Maersk has become one of its key shareholders, holding a similar stake to the company's two other main investors, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and CMA CGM. Maersk is a Danish business conglomerate with activities...

This hard land: From cotton gin, to combine harvester, to computer vision (by way of The Boss)

Farming is hard. It always has been. There is a song called This Hard Land by Bruce Springsteen, rock’s great chronicler of every-day struggle in modern America, which captures something of the labour and luck of working the land. “Mister, can you tell me...

Germany earmarks £1bn for national 2019/20 AI funding

The German government has swelled its 2019 funding for artficial intelligence (AI) to €500 million and promised a further €500 million in 2020. The country wants to ensure advanced analytics and automation tools are in the hands of it entire industrial sector, it said....

Three Sweden leases public spectrum for private usage to stop spectrum carve-up

Network operator Three has rented out 50MHz of its 2.6 GHz frequency holding in Sweden in bid to boost local industry and stop regulator PTS carving-up the 3.5 GHz band for private usage. Three Sweden has struck a deal with Finland-based “micro-network” operator Ukkoverkot to...

5G Automotive Association tests C-V2X technologies in Berlin

The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) carried out a live demo of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology in Berlin, the entity said in a release. During the demo, 5GAA members including BMW Group, Daimler, Deutsche Telekom, Fraunhofer Institutes FOKUS and ESK, Ford, Huawei, Jaguar Land Rover, Nokia,...

Philly gets smart with Cisco and CIMCON; AT&T IoT VP joins CIMCON

The city of Philadelphia in the US is deploying lighting, sensors, and networking technologies from Cisco and CIMCON Lighting as it seeks to be “one of the leading smart cities in the United States”. The new NearSky lighting platform from CIMCON, running lighting controls, air...

IBM puts farm data and weather data into AI mixer to sharpen-up agriculture

IBM has released a set of analytics tools that combine weather data and farm data in its Watson machine-learning engine to give farmers insights about planning, plowing, planting, spraying and harvesting. IBM’s new smart farming solution, announced as an expansion of its Watson Decision Platform...

John Deere talks computer vision and the ultimate in farm gadgetry

People don’t get how sophisticated farmers are, says Lane Arthur, director of digital solutions at John Deere, the US maker of industrial equipment and machinery. “They don't see the technology they are using,” he says. In January, John Deere showed its new S-770 combine (pictured),...

IoT comes to gridiron: Siemens touches-down with the Jacksonville Jaguars

Siemens will bring internet-of-things (IoT) technologies and solutions to the home stadium of the Jacksonville Jaguars, the American fooball team, based in Jakcsonville, Florida. The German firm has signed a deal with the Florida gridiron team to deploy its MindSphere IoT platform as part...

Two million smart farms, 36 million smart cows by 2024, says new report

Two million farms and 36 million cattle will be connected to the internet by low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, and other technologies, by 2024. This is the calculation from analyst house ABI Research, in a new report that considers the opportunity for internet-of-things (IoT) technologies...

MediaTek launches IoT program to foster AI-enabled chipset platforms

Taiwanese semiconductor maker MediaTek  announced an IoT program to bring a series of AI-enabled chipset platforms to companies that want to innovate and develop products across the IoT space, the company said in a release. The platform, based on open and industry standard software and hardware,...

Arm ramps up Pelion IoT proposition with work-space analytics tool

Arm has launched a work-space analytics tool, Space Analytics, to give property managers of coworking spaces, commercial offices and hotels a view of the utilisation and availability of offices and hospitality spaces. Space Analytics is part of its Pelion Smart Spaces portfolio, running...

Global IoT connections to reach 50 billion by 2030: study

The number of devices connected to the internet is expected to reach 50 billion worldwide at the end of 2030, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics. The study also reported that global IoT connections will reach 38.6 billion by 2025. Last year, there were 22...

DHL debuts drone deliveries in China, with 5kg cargos and automated loading

German logistics company DHL has launched its first drone delivery solution for last-mile deliveries in urban areas of China, starting with flights in Guangzhou, the port city northwest of Hong Kong on the Pearl River. DHL Express has signed a partnership with Cinese drone company...

US and UK cities double-down on smart-city lights and lighting controls

Two new announcements this week, by cities both sides of the the Atlantic, make clear, again, the case for smart street-lighting is undeniable. In the US, the city of Syracuse in New York State has teamed with the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to...

Audi to launch vehicle-to-infrastructure service in Europe

Audi will be introducing a vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) service dubbed “Traffic Light Information” in the European market in July, the German carmaker said in a release. Initially, Audi will network new models with the traffic lights in Ingolstadt, Germany, while further European cities will follow from 2020...

5G will hit the IoT market in late 2020 and struggle for years, claims report

Next-generation 5G technology will only appear in the internet-of-things (IoT) market in late 2020, and struggle to find its mark in the space for years afterwards, according to a new report from analyst firm Berg Insight. As late as 2023, just three per cent...