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Lexmark chases $50bn opportunity with launch of new IoT services business

Print services company Lexmark has launched a new IoT portfolio for manufacturing companies to monitor usage of their connected devices in-market, and provide their customers with a platform of analytics-based maintenance and service solutions. The company put the total market opportunity, for industrial IoT...

Semtech hails new ‘zero-maintenance, zero-carbon’ energy-harvesting LoRa solution

Semiconductor maker Semtech has announced a new LoRa-based solution, combining a power-efficient microcontroller and an edge tracker module, that harvests ambient energy from the environment to preclude the need for a battery completely. The California-based firm called the solution “maintenance free” and “zero carbon”,...

Massive IoT starts to come online as NB-IoT roaming and billing get sorted, says BICS

International cellular provider BICS has said it has NB-IoT roaming coverage in a dozen countries, with new NB-IoT deals being signed at a faster rate than on LTE-M, and a loose target of “more than 20” NB-IoT roaming contracts by the year-end. The Belgium-based...

Landis+Gyr buys meter maker Luna, as part of busy spree in AMI and EV sectors

Landis+Gyr has acquired Turkey-based smart meter maker Luna Elektrik Elektronik for a “high double digit million dollar fee”, it said. It is the latest in a string of deals for the Swiss energy management company in 2021, in both the smart metering and electric...

Bosch and Capgemini strike deal on Industry 4.0 software and services

Bosch and Capgemini have struck a deal to develop Industry 4.0 software and services to help with the digitization and sustainability of industrial production plants, and to drive sales of both. The pair will collaborate around Bosch’s Nexeed system for industrial software, offered by...

Everynet and American Tower set sights on nationwide LoRaWAN in Spain

Netherlands-based LoRaWAN operator Everynet has partnered with tower company AT España, a subsidiary of American Tower, to expand its public network footprint in Spain. Through last year, Everynet deployed LoRaWAN networks in Madrid and Barcelona. It is working “synergically” with AT España, it said,...

MTS launches LTE/5G private network for Russian mining company

MTS first announced plans to build the private network using Ericsson Dedicated Networks solution in October 2020 Russian operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has launched the country’s first commercial 5G-ready private network for gold and silver producer Polymetal International plc. at the Nezhdaninskoye gold deposit in...

5G manufacturing use case spotlight: Collaborative robotics

Singtel said that the emergence of 5G will make robot use in manufacturing faster and more efficient without the heft or limitation of cables

Thread vs Bluetooth: The IoT battle of low-power protocols (Reader Forum)

  The war of Internet of Things (IoT) connections is here. Following years of trial and error to connect battery-based devices with Wi-Fi — the ubiquitous yet power-sucking internet access method preferred around the world — the market is finally embracing low-power radio internet protocols. However,...

Truphone hooks-up with Sony and Kigen on global iSIM for NB-IoT and LTE-M

Truphone has combined with chipset maker Sony Semiconductor Israel and SIM specialist Kigen on an integrated SIM (iSIM) solution for global IoT deployments. Altair and Kigen have worked separately to offer a proprietary version of iSIM technology for remote provisioning of cellular IoT devices...

US IoT firm Ubicquia secures $25m debt to scale supply, launch in Europe and Asia

US-based IoT provider Ubicquia has entered a new $25 million debt and working capital facility with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The facility will be used to accelerate growth, facilitate larger supply chain commitments and manage working capital requirements driven by increasing orders from OEM...

A rock and a hard place – how NB-IoT finally escaped the long shadow of 5G (and 2G)

Massive IoT? What a joke. Except no one in the business of massive IoT is laughing, because no one has given up on it. And because everyone is too busy trying to make it work. For the cellular industry, that means getting NB-IoT (and,...

Enterprise IoT adoption jumps to 84% on Covid-19 disarray – across choice sectors

Corporate adoption of industrial IoT has spiralled upwards in the wake of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, according to new research from Inmarsat. The UK satellite comms provider said 84 percent of global companies, across various industrial sectors, are accelerating IoT in response to challenges...

Hard lessons for private 5G as ‘light-speed’ market ‘fractures between hype and reality’

The chair’s address ahead of an afternoon session on private 5G networks at 5G World in London today (September 22) brought some perspective. The market promises so much but the promise gets over-hyped, said Pablo Tomasi, principal analyst for private networks at Omdia. There...

Vilicom taps Athonet for private LTE/5G core network at Moray East windfarm in UK

Athonet has confirmed it is providing UK-based cellular system integrator Vilicom with the core network for its new private LTE installation at the Moray East windfarm off the coast of Scotland. The Moray East setup is billed as the first off-shore private LTE network....

5G is all about consumers / 5G is all about enterprises – it’s all the same, says Vodafone

In the end, 5G is all about the consumer. Except it is not; most of the innovation will come in the enterprise space. That appeared to be the conclusion of a panel session at 5G World in London today, which represented a first foray...

Cisco provides ‘5G-like’ private network for first driverless car race at Indy Speedway

Cisco is to provide car-to-trackside wireless connectivity at the first autonomous car race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway next month. The firm has signed as a sponsor of the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) on October 23, a new competition with teams from 21 universities...

Senet agrees US roaming with blockchain-based LoRaWAN provider Helium

LoRaWAN operator Senet has agreed a US-based roaming deal with peer-to-peer LoRaWAN operator Helium. The deal follows its announcement last week it is offering integration services with third-party LoRaWAN networks, alongside wholesale LoRaWAN plans for US cellular operators. Hotspot maker Helium, which runs its so-called...

Qualcomm joins chorus for faster 5G rollout, citing major ‘green’ benefits (and big bucks)

The clamour from the telecoms industry for governments and regulators to ease and encourage further 5G rollout is getting louder. Following on the heels of Vodafone’s call-to-arms last week in the UK, for the government to write targets and incentives for 5G and IoT...

Citymesh teams with TowerEye on private LTE for festivals and events in Belgium

Citymesh is working with Belgium-based TowerEye on temporary private LTE (4G) networks for festivals and other events. Their private 4G installations will provide connectivity for ticket scanning, contactless payments, and Covid checks, plus flexibility to support other mobile and IoT applications. Broadcasting, and augmented...

Korea’s LG Uplus aims to boost revenues from smart factory solutions

    Korean telecommunications operator LG Uplus said it aims to increase sales from its smart factory solutions business by sevenfold within the next five years, Korean news agency Yonhap reported. LG Uplus has been developing industrial solutions that use its 4G and 5G networks to automate...

Kerlink puts LoRaWAN on Dutch streetlights; Senet offers it wholesale in the US

Further to the news yesterday of Microsoft's appointment to the board of the LoRa Alliance, the rest of the LoRaWAN ecosystem continues to move at a decent clip, it appears. Two of the leading lights in the non-cellular IoT firmament, in the form of...

5G manufacturing use case spotlight: Supply chain optimization

Verizon said 5G could help improve visibility in supply chains and prevent inventory shrink as well as provide more accurate product location

Edzcom partners on mission-critical private 5G for emergency services, heavy industry

Finnish industrial networking specialist Edzcom is working with France-based communications software provider Streamwide to bring higher-grade security to mission critical private LTE and 5G networks. It said the partnership will allow it to expand its offering in the ‘critical communications market’. Streamwide divides its portfolio...