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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...

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),...

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 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...

Vodafone's approach to the digital transformation of industry prioritises certain ‘vertical’ markets. Agriculture is not among them. Instead, it sees greater opportunity at group level in the automotive, insurance, buildings, logistics, and healthcare sectors. These offer “relevance and consistency” across geographic markets, it says,...

Three per cent of the world’s water is accessible freshwater. Of that, 70 per cent of the freshwater consumed is used in the agricultural industry – the largest consumer of water globally. Monitoring soil moisture allows farmers to make effective and smart irrigation decisions....

With populations in the developing world continuing to grow, the need to find new ways to satisfy increased demand for access to food has never been greater. In order to do this, fish farming, or ‘aquaculture’, is quickly becoming a serious contender for the...

The pressure food producers face to digitally transform is mounting. With a rapidly growing population, farms find themselves at a decisive moment in their ability to continue to produce enough food to meet rising demand. As with all sectors, technology is going to be...

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...

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...

How will incoming cellular technologies transform manufacturing, and spur its drive for smarter production? That is the question Enterprise IoT Insights put to both sides of the industrial divide in a new editorial report, called 'Industrial LTE and 5G: How Incoming Cellular Technologies Will...

Industrial connectivity provider Ondas Networks, formerly Full Spectrum, has acquired 700 MHz spectrum to deploy private cellular networks for industrial users in the state of Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as certain coastal counties in Texas and Louisiana. The deal, acquired by...

AT&T and San José, in California, have signed a deal worth an estimated $1 million to extend wi-fi coverage and build smart city infrastructure across 14 parks around the city. AT&T is also donating $200,000 to help stimulate community organisations to get citizens online AT&T...

Why can’t utilities be more like Netflix or Amazon? It’s a question you see posed in a growing number of articles and analyst reports, arguing that utilities should be more customer-centric and quicker to adapt to new technologies. But I’ve got a different question for...

Verizon has formally launched its narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) network in the US, offering an initial entry-level price plan of 50KB of data for $1 per month, shareable across NB-IoT devices on the same plan Verizon said its NB-IoT network, running in the guard band of...

Smart device hardware and software provider Thundercomm has partnered with Microsoft to launch an Azure IoT certified Thundercomm TurboX Asset Tag device. The asset tag device allows customers to locate, record and conduct data for asset tracking with on-demand frequency and low power consumption, Thundercomm said. The TurboX...

Srinivas Garigipati, chief technology officer for the manufacturing business group at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), talks with Enterprise IoT Insights about the impacts of incoming 5G technology on the broad industrial space, covering product manufacturing, and running through the entire supply chain. How much interest...

Antje Williams, Executive Programme Manager for 5G, Deutsche Telekom – “We have a huge divide at the moment in the industry, in the country, how operators can serve industries best. There are lots of complaints about how operators have served industry so far, which...

How will incoming cellular technologies transform smart manufacturing? In the first installment in a new series on smart manufacturing technologies, UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman looks at the role of LTE and 5G in the future of manufacturing.

The internet of things (IoT) is a game-changer for enterprises and consumers, making every day operations more efficient for organizations and individuals. As smart cities evolve, government agencies are prioritizing IoT initiatives, and deploying low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks to collect data, and using advanced...

Inside the factory of the future, everything will be fluid, except for the floors, walls, and ceilings. Industrial assets – machines, devices, and vehicles – will be animated by 5G technologies, and made intelligent by edge and cloud analytics, enabling factory owners to swap-around...

The industrial 5G market will benefit from the consumer 5G market, with network deployments starting in earnest in late 2019 and early 2020, as industrial devices take advantage of the muscular combination of connectivity, compute power, and security brought to bear in 5G smartphones....

Finnish vendor Nokia will build a private 5G test network for Chinese auto-maker FAW to spur digital transformation of its industrial machines and processes. The pair have signed a “strategic” memorandum-of-understanding to carry out joint research into “smart connected cars, industrial IoT, smart manufacturing...

Car maker Audi, like other giants of German manufacturing, is sitting on a tranche of vacant radio spectrum that has been liberated by the German telecoms regulator for test purposes ahead of its official release as an industrial band with the country’s wider 5G...