Sensors

Thanks to John Deere, this stoop-dwelling, turnstile-hopping New York City kid got to ride in her first tractor! Fortunately for everyone, I didn’t have to drive it. That’s because, with just a swipe on a smartphone app, the tractor takes …

Network design company iBwave Solutions has introduced new software to help US enterprises dovetail their local-area private Wi-Fi and LTE/5G designs in a single platform. The solution is geared for new private LTE/5G installations in CBRS spectrum in the US, …

If you wanted a signpost to where industrial 5G is today, you could do worse than consider a couple of pre-Hannover Messe announcements, from Nokia about integrating Wi-Fi into its private 5G system, and from Siemens, detailed below, about integrating …

Nokia has added Wi-Fi 6 and 6E to its seminal Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) private LTE and 5G networking product, available from the fourth quarter of 2022. DAC support for Wi-Fi is included for non-critical industrial applications, it said; the …

The LoRa Alliance has announced support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) over LoRaWAN, allowing developers to quickly and cheaply provision and integrate internet-based IoT applications on low-power LoRaWAN networks, and expanding the range of industrial markets and software applications …

Comcast-owned MachineQ has released a real-time location system (RTLS) for indoor asset tracking using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and LoRaWAN. The hybrid IoT solution appears to utilise BLE for indoor RTLS, enabling assets to be pinpointed at three metres, and …

Ericsson has restructured its business and management to reflect its new growth strategy, which hinges on private 5G and cloud services, and has set a group target of 15-18 percent EBITA margin “within two-to-three years”. The Swedish vendor said its …

Finns and Aussies have combined in a high-tech Industry 4.0 pact to… brew the perfect pint of beer (naturally). As part of its long running partnership with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), extended last year in a five-year research …

India is to say ‘no’ to direct spectrum allocations to enterprises for private 5G and Industry 4.0, as provisioned in most other major industrial markets, according to reports. Instead, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has recommended that leases …

Alif Semiconductor and Edge Impulse have claimed ‘dramatic increases’ in performance of machine learning in embedded systems through the combination of the former’s Ensemble family of microcontrollers (MCUs) and fusion processors with the latter’s ML development platform. The pair claimed …

California-based healthcare tech company Movano claims to have completed functional testing of the “smallest ever” mmWave sensor for non-invasive glucose and blood pressure monitoring. The firm said it has designed the new sensor from the scratch, as a proprietary wireless …

This is the introduction to a new report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard. To read more, download the report here, or click on the image above; a webinar on the same topic is also …

The ability of eSIM technology to deliver advanced security, seamless and flexible connectivity, and full end-to-end digitalisation – along with myriad other benefits such as greener supply chains – has long promised to transform the connected ecosystem. Trusted Connectivity Alliance …

The initial hype around smart cities has now passed, with applications moving beyond early pilots and proof-of-concepts into commercially deployed systems. There is one major factor present in all of those that have successfully made this transition – they are …

KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom, an investor in and collaborator with new Sigfox-owner UnaBiz, has expanded its partner network into the Americas and Europe, it has said, including via its UnaBiz partnership. The firm said its partner ranks have swollen …

UK satellite broadband provider Inmarsat, with a new line in narrowband satellite IoT and a new parent in wings in the shape of US counterpart Viasat, has introduced a collaboration and solutions marketplace for partners to support its own entry …

Ericsson has announced Norway-based Tampnet, a prime mover in the supply of private LTE and 5G networks, is using its IoT Accelerator platform for the management of industrial IoT sensors and monitoring equipment in the offshore oil and gas, wind …

Blue White Robotics, Federated Wireless, and Intel have announced work to adapt and connect existing farm equipment, notably tractors, at a California winery into autonomous production vehicles. The trio said the test project, which includes a private 4G/5G installation in …

Vodafone has launched a new ‘edge innovation programme’ (2.0) to offer enterprise customers and technology partners the chance to co-create new applications with on-premise edge and network-based edge multi-access edge compute (MEC) resources, as well as with standard centralise cloud …

Telefónica Tech, the enterprise solutions division of Spanish telecoms group Telefónica, has acquired Austria-based cloud solutions provider and enterprise software integrator BE-terna for up to €350 million, including potential earnouts. BE-terna specialises in driving digital transformation based mainly on Microsoft, …

US-based Federated Wireless, offering shared spectrum services in the CBRS band, has raised a further $14 million in Series D funding, to go with its $58 million Series D announcement in February. It brings its total Series D round to …

Note, this article is continued from a previous entry, under the title, The big 5G problem – not networks, not spectrum, but devices (Talking 5G Blues). Asimakis Kokkos, chair of the technical specification working group at MFA, interviewed below, appears …

Arm has issued a flurry of announcements related to its Cortex-M and Cortex-A processor families, restating its mission to “streamline” embedded computing for the IoT developer market. Among the new releases, the UK-based firm has launched a new top-of-the-line Cortex-M …

Belgium-based advanced analytics firm TrendMiner, part of German software vendor Software AG, has released an upgraded production client for industrial analytics in process manufacturing industries. The new TrendMiner release – literally, for mining analytics trends in time-series data – caters …

German airline services company Lufthansa Technik has introduced new condition monitoring tools for Airbus and Boeing operators, available with its AVIATAR digital platform. The new releases have come out of a year-long joint-project with United Airlines to combine their engineering …