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CarriersFundamentalsInternet of Things (IoT)Smart CitiesWired Networks, Fiber
Smart cities Q&A | Five key questions for five tech providers: What’s so good about PPP? (2/5)
Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart …
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Connected CarsFundamentalsInternet of Things (IoT)News & Event CoverageTransportation: Airports, Rail, Ports
Four C-V2X trials: Will cellular replace DSRC?
Qualcomm, telcos and automakers testing C-V2X With U.S. regulators questioning the value of setting aside the 5.9 GHz band for direct short range communications, a long-gestating but not widely adopted …
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EnterpriseFundamentalsInternet of Things (IoT)NB-IoTOil & GasSensorsSmart CitiesWired Networks, Fiber
All about Wi-SUN, and the quiet buzz around the ‘world’s widest’ IoT network
Wi-SUN has been quietly succeeding in the smart utilities and smart cities markets as an alternative for low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking like LoRa and Sigfox. The open ‘wireless smart utility …
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FundamentalsInternet of Things (IoT)PolicySmart Cities
Smart cities Q&A | Five key questions for five tech providers: How hard is it to fund smart cities? (1/5)
Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart …
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EnergyFundamentalsInfrastructureInternet of Things (IoT)Smart CitiesWired Networks, Fiber
The hard ROI of smart street-lighting – seven ways for cities to make their money back
Only one smart city use case stands up to close scrutiny: smart street lighting. The business case for parking and garbage, the other functions in the holy trinity of smart …
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Data AnalyticsFundamentalsInfrastructureInternet of Things (IoT)PolicySensorsSmart CitiesSmart FactoryWired Networks, Fiber
Five reasons to bet (now) on a fourth industrial revolution
“The kaleidoscope has been shaken; the pieces are in flux.” It is a phrase written for the political age, almost two decades ago. But as an analogy for ground-shaking change, …
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CarriersFundamentalsInfrastructureInternet of Things (IoT)Smart Cities
The DT dozen: A look at Deutsche Telekom’s “multifaceted” smart city strategy in Poland
Two hours from Warsaw, the town of Kazimierz Dolny has hardly changed since the Renaissance, when it thrived as centre for the grain trade. T-Mobile Poland has just announced plans …
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The scramble for technology to create cleaner, safer, richer cities has intensified as funding models have started to take root. The fashion for smart city pilot tests has finished. The …
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What is MEC and why does it matter?
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillWhat is MEC? The Radio Access Network is only one of multiple pieces that will enable 5G. Virtualization is another, as is multi-access edge computing: MEC. MEC is entwined with …
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The URLLC debate (pt5): Will enterprise 5G use cases scale? (Once more; is 5G just a proving ground for 6G?)
Throughout the ‘ask-the-experts’ session at URLLC 2018 in London earlier this month, serialised here across a number of posts, the conversation circled back time and again to 5G use cases. …
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The URLLC debate (pt4): What is the business case for MEC? (And where’s the edge at anyway?)
For ultra low latency services, as enabled by incoming 5G technologies, multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a must. It provides the means to reduce latency, by degrees, as the compute …
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ChannelsFundamentalsInternet of Things (IoT)PolicySecurityStandards
10 key private-sector cybersecurity standards
A previous article in this series discussed government efforts for cybersecurity. This article will give a rundown on some of the major standards development organizations (SDOs) in the area of …