Finnish telecoms company Elisa is supporting the digital upgrade of around 100 factories owned by US consumer goods company Procter & Gamble, following an initial rollout of IoT monitoring and insights at 10 sites.
The partnership, which has been openly discussed by Elisa on...
This is just the beginning, says the Industrial Internet Consortium. Preoccupations with technology are only ever fleeting. The stakes are higher; the future is still being mapped out. 5G – so what? Who cares, really, so long as it works? Connectivity is a utility...
Higher-order analytics tools are being embedded in the industrial space, as data science and data capture practices advance, and as compute power and wireless networking become more flexible. But machine learning is limited in its current form, and the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ will slow...
Korean carrier KT Corp. and compatriot shipbuilding conglomerate Hyundai Heavy Industries Group announced a collaboration to jointly develop advanced smart factory solutions based on 5G, Korean news agency Yonhap reported. In May, the two companies had inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to join...
Small and medium sized enterprises can “punch above their weight” in global markets by taking IoT as-a-service from mobile operators. Where large organisations will go it alone, and develop their own IoT platforms internally, smaller companies must seek specialist partners.
At the same time,...
Between them, US telecoms operator Sprint and Swedish telecoms vendor Ericsson claim considerable experience in the IoT space. The variety of IoT use cases is vast, and ever-growing, they say. Just look at their websites to see their enterprise IoT stories stacking up. But...
Microsoft and Nokia are offering a private LTE and IoT bundle for operators and enterprises. UK based BT is the first operator to resell the package, offered as a managed service.
The arrangement, which sees the Microsoft’s Azure based cloud and analytics offered with...
Nokia is to equip a major state-run industrial training facility in Brazil with 5G and AI to accelerate Industry 4.0 skills, trials, and deployments in the region.
The Finnish vendor will deploy connectivity and analytics solutions at the country’s National Service for Industrial Training (SENAI-SP)...
Korean telecommunications company KT announced plans to invest 300 billion won ($257 million) over the next four years to become an artificial intelligence (AI) company, Korean press reported.
The Korean telco also said it aims to hire nearly 1,000 specialists in the AI field with the...
IoT Solutions World Congress, in its fifth year (2019), has the whiff of MWC about it. It’s in Barcelona, at the same venue, and the faces are familiar -- with a number of the European telecoms giants, big cloud brands, and systems integrators scattered...
Microsoft has added a rush of new capabilities variously to its IoT development platform and its IoT cloud platform to simplify and scale IoT deployments.
It has added a number of features to its IoT Central app development platform. The platform is designed to make...
Deutsche Telekom has launched a blockchain marketplace for German enterprises. The new German blockchain ecosystem (GBE) will enable customers to “map” different applications using blockchain.
The service, from Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems, will allow businesses to map a product's entire supply chain in a distributed...
French IoT firm Traxens has joined the Port of Rotterdam’s new smart container project, Container 42. It will provide the sensors in the container, to measure various physical and environmental impacts, as the container makes its way around the world in a bid to...
Verizon has installed millimeter wave 5G at Corning’s fibre optic cable factory in Hickory, North Carolina. The pair will build a “factory of the future” to take “massive steps forward in robotics and automation”.
At the same time, Verizon has announced it has added Dallas,...
Seven mining and metals companies have joined a World Economic Forum initiative to design and deploy blockchain solutions for the whole industry.
The seven founding companies are Antofagasta Minerals, Eurasian Resources Group, Glencore, Klöckner & Co, Minsur, Tata Steel, Anglo American/De Beers (Tracr). The group...
Germany industrial giant Siemens has announced a deal to acquire US startup Pixeom for an undisclosed fee, in a move to boost its industrial automation and digitalization division.
Pixeom, responsible for the original Raspberry Pi-based personal cloud platform back in 2014, offers a software-defined edge...
A new global alliance has been established by ABB and Microsoft, alongside a cross-section of industrial technologists, to tackle cybersecurity threats to operational technology (OT), as it is increasingly connected to IT systems in order to drive new analytics and automation technologies.
The new...
NVIDIA has announced a combination of edge computing and 5G networking innovations around its graphics processing unit (GPU) technologies, to drive scale of artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), and 5G applications.
Its new NVIDIA EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform is geared for rapid-fire data...
Sierra Wireless has released its new Octave IoT platform, first announced in June as an integrated offer with Microsoft’s Azure IoT cloud solution. It claims the platform is "unique" as the only ‘full-stack’ IoT package on the market, combining hardware, connectivity, and management software...
The mining industry continues to recruit operators and vendors to deploy new industrial LTE and 5G networks on the promise of industrial change. Here is a summary of recently announced deployments.
1 | Minera Las Bambas, Peru
Minera Las Bambas in Peru, the ninth largest copper mine...
Private networks and cellular IoT will be keys for operators to unlock $700 billion of new revenues from industrial 5G services community in the next decade, as industrial sectors look to drive digital change on cellular networking, reckons Ericsson. But operators must redefine their service...
The steady liberalisation of radio spectrum for private and shared usage in various markets, along with the growing realisation among traditional network operators that their licensed spectrum mat be better used for dedicated applications in under-covered locales, means the industrial set has a number...
1 | Anglo American, Capcoal coal mine, Queensland, Australia
British mining company Anglo American has just started work in Australia on what it envisions as “one of the most technologically advanced underground mines in the world”. It is pumping $226 million into the expansion of...
Tech Mahindra and Cisco have come up with a new digital factory blueprint that puts 5G at the heart industrial operations. Tech Mahindra said the solution sets a model for IT-OT integration and security.
The solution covers certain factory functions, including wireless networking on the...
