BROWSING: Enterprise

Telit said that the new Irvine office will also serve key projects and customers in the region   Global IoT specialist Telit announced the opening of its new global corporate headquarters in Southern California. The new office is located in the City of Irvine, in Orange County’s technology...

The deployment of the 5G private network will enable the port and its customers to take advantage of advanced technology such as IoT and AI   The Port of Tyne, in the UK has partnered with BT to install a new 5G Private Network as well...

Google Cloud has followed hyperscale mega-rivals Microsoft and AWS into the private 5G market with a bunch of specialist vendor and channel partners, starting with Betacom, Boingo Wireless, Celona, Crown Castle, and Kajeet. It said it is offering “turn-key” private 5G with the option...

Hyundai Motor plans to operate an initial demonstration service for internally selected personnel   Hyundai Motor Group announced it will pilot a RoboRide car-hailing service in Gangnam district, in Seoul, South Korea, utilizing IONIQ five battery electric vehicles (BEV) with in-house developed level 4 autonomous driving...

More operator-bashing this morning at a two-day Informa event in London (Private Networks in a 5G World, June 14 and 15); the opportunity to take cellular into enterprise premises is “fading away” from them, remarked Pablo Tomasi, principal analyst at Omdia, kicking-off the conference...

IDC noted that the largest share of IoT spending this year is expected to be in the manufacturing and resources sector   Enterprise IoT spending in Europe is expected to reach $208 billion in 2022, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things...

The new facility will be located at the Rockwell Automation Seoul office   Industrial automation specialist Rockwell Automation recently announced the opening of its Customer Experience Center (CEC) in Korea at the Rockwell Automation Seoul office. The newly opened center consists of five zones where customers can experience...

This is a rehash (and extension, in the end) of a previous post, to an extent; but it distils the message from before, and says there are sure signs, at last, that the private cellular market, covering localised installations of enterprise-geared 5G, nominally, has...

Quectel, Fibocom, Sunsea AIoT, Thales and Telit, hold 68% of the cellular IoT modules market in terms of revenues last year   European IoT analyst firm Berg Insight reported that annual shipments of cellular IoT modules reached 428 million units in 2021, an increase of 39%...

Finland-based Edzcom and Netherlands-based Signify have entered a partnership to build a private smart-city 5G and IoT network using street-lighting and other road infrastructure for the city of Tampere, in Finland. The network, which is to be deployed and densified in quick-time by Edzcom...

Siemens has acquired UK-based industrial IoT firm Senseye for an undisclosed fee. Senseye, founded in 2014, provides analytics-based (“AI-powered”) predictive maintenance solutions for industrial machines, offering ways to manage and reduce unplanned downtime and to boost productivity and sustainability. The firm, headquartered in Southampton, was...

Global cellular IoT provider 1NCE has confirmed a long-trailed deal with Softbank, a major investor already in the firm, to release equity to the Japan-based carrier in return for exclusive distribution rights in Asia Pacific. Softbank will sell 1NCE in 19 markets in the...

For many years the telco industry has focused on charging by the byte. Online charging systems have been optimized mainly to monetize consumers’ use of data. But now it is time to think beyond the byte. With 5G, industry discussion has shifted to deploying...

It is a partnership of industrial-minded telco country-mates that effectively helped to build the early private LTE and 5G market, with joint references in a number of key installations in Europe over the last five years, notably in the ports and mining sectors; now...

Turkcell will start providing 5G-ready private connectivity to its enterprise customers in the logistics sector with the support of Ericsson Private 5G solution   Turkcell and Ericsson said they have successfully performed a 5G industrial use case demonstration of a safe crossing for Autonomous Mobile Robots...

Consolidation in the satellite IoT space, already, and again; Swiss satellite IoT operator Astrocast has agreed a deal to acquire busy Dutch industrial IoT scale-up Hiber. Astrocast, with a network of 12 nanosatellites as it stands, has a stated plan to have 20 in...

Time to set the record straight on cellular 5G and Wi-Fi 6/7, a panel of Industry 4.0 luminaries suggested at Private Networks Forum (PNF) a couple of weeks back; these technologies are not, and never will be, mutually exclusive, it implied. They will not...

Three technology partners, one private network and robot tractors: At a U.S. smart vineyard, these were the seeds of success for a precision agriculture use case. Intel, Federated Wireless and Blue White Robotics discussed the partnership and the particulars during a session of the recent...

Nokia noted the solution includes the Japanese model of FastMile 5G Gateway, which was developed especially for local 5G use cases in Japan   Nokia announced that NS Solutions deployed Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) and 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) technology as part of a...

Is Industry 4.0 really driving long-term change in how businesses operate? Sean Caragata, global industry director for industrial and critical infrastructure at Cisco, says yes, giving a number of case studies during a session at Hannover Messe 2022. Caragata notes that manufacturing leaders and their...

Private cellular network specialist Athonet has opened a 5G lab in the heart of London’s financial district dedicated to the financial-tech (fintech) scene. The initiative signals the Italy-based firm’s decision to move in earnest into the finance sector, by offering private 5G as a...

The first shot of blue sky in the murky Sigfox firmament? Maybe, just – even despite mutterings of discontent from the old guard and warnings of difficulty for the new regime. A press announcement, proclaiming the “first one-millionth” Sigfox tracker for European postal services,...

French energy firm Engie is using Google Cloud AI to predict wind energy power commodity prices, the company said.

Anritsu and Tech Mahindra have joined forces to launch an IoT Experience Lab at Tech Mahindra's Fremont, CA facility. IoT device manufacturers can use the lab to test 5G devices used in emerging IoT use cases, as well as validate device performance and design. "The...