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On-device AI is “new normal” – Arm claims mega-jump in edge AI with new chip combo

On-device AI on minuscule IoT units will be the "new normal", said UK-based Arm, as it unveiled a 480-times boost in edge processing performance with two new chip designs, pairing the latest in its Cortex-M line with a new micro neural processing unit...

Dell, STMicro, Software AG unite in Tangle-over-blockchain for industrial IoT

Dell Computers, STMicroelectronics, and Software AG have thrown their weight behind blockchain-rival The Tangle to record and secure transactions and payments between machines in the industrial IoT space.  The companies, joined by various others from the tech and research sectors, have formed a new working...

CBRS champ Celona claims private LTE deployments, carrier-beating metrics

California-based private LTE/5G startup and CBRS champ Celona has announced eight test deployments of its wireless networking solution using CBRS spectrum, along with new partnerships for CBRS-based networks with edge networking firm Cradlepoint and supply-chain tech provider World Wide Technology (WWT). Celona, which closed $10...

VW and BMW raise industrial 5G stakes – how German car giants are tooling up for Industry 4.0

German car giants Volkswagen and BMW have confirmed massive Industry 4.0 investments, and firmed up their interests in private industrial 5G as a means to factory automation and slicker production. Volkswagen has announced “further” investment in digital technologies at its flagship plant in Wolfsburg. The...

‘Manufacturers want proof’ – Ericsson looks to bottle fizz and pop of industrial IoT

Industrial IoT’s biggest problem? The fear of failure in a risk adverse industry. So says Ericsson, which recommends a two-pronged approach to spur takeup among overly-cautious manufacturing companies. The first fix is to drive starter IoT with proven low-level sensor solutions; the second is to...

Orange: IoT is the nitty-gritty of tracking and monitoring – not ‘all the pretty things’

Note, this article continues from a previous instalment: 'Connectivity is 5% of Industry 4.0 spend – we’d rather talk apps and services'. Go here to read this article. So, what about those IoT use cases, which Orange Business Services (OBS) reckons are proven (see...

Orange: Connectivity is 5% of Industry 4.0 spend – we’d rather talk apps and services

How does a mobile operator, in the business of airtime subscriptions, go beyond selling straight connectivity? Because this must be the goal, and the measure of ambition. There is no future in SIM cards, as we have argued – especially as technological innovation higher...

Why 5G doesn’t amount to a hill of beans, and it is not enough for operators

Telecoms operators must do more than just sell connectivity. It is a maxim that gets repeated, often, and always – and one that, in the end, becomes more like a stick to beat them with than a code of survival, as they fail over...

Spending on factory data apps and analytics to rise 50% to $27bn in five years

Spending on factory data applications will grow from $18 billion in 2019 to just over $27 billion in 2024, a rise of 50 per cent in the period, according to analyst house ABI Research. The industrial and manufacturing sector is seeking to upgrade software...

Where in the world is Industry 4.0 strongest? Napkin analysis of the ‘smartest factories’

As the headline suggests, this analysis should be seen in context. It offers only rapid arithmetic around the World Economic Forum’s (expanding) list of ‘lighthouse’ factories, which claim the most success with digital change. It considers the available data (the location and ownership of...

VC roundup: New year deals for industrial IoT providers Seeq, Armis, Machfu, WITRAC

  Industrial IoT firm Seeq raises $24 million from equity sale Seattle-based industrial analytics company Seeq has raised $24 million from investors, according to a report in Computer Reseller News. Seeq has sold $24.3 million of equity to an unnamed investor group, according to the report, which...

FogHorn on 2020: The year edge-AI helps industry finally make sense of ‘things’

Organizations will move IoT projects from proof-of-concept to proof-of-value Ramya Ravichandar, vice president of product management, FogHorn: “During proof-of-concept deployments in the last few years, many organizations have confirmed the benefits that IoT can bring to a wide variety of industries – and IoT spending is...

‘IT/OT convergence is a problem statement’ – ‘co-creation’ in industrial IoT (12-inch remix)

Note, this is an excerpt from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – co-creation, co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. Go here for the full report (free to download). It takes from and extends a...

PTC on 2020: The true value of industrial IoT ‘will out’ as business pressures rise

Joseph Biron, chief technology officer for IoT, PTC: “At the turn of the decade, Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and PTC president and chief executuve Jim Heppelmann laid out the industrial race for smart, connected products, and how the early movers stood to gain. “Using...

IIC intros industrial IoT match-making to connect tech buyers with tech sellers

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has introduced a new pilot programme called Industry Connect Service (ICS) to connect enterprises seeking digital change with experts in the field. It works like a industrial IoT dating service to connect tech buyers with tech vendors, to explore bespoke...

‘Enterprises care about the insights, not the data’ – Arm on co-creation in industrial IoT

This interview, with Niall Strachan, director of product at UK-based Arm’s Pelion IoT business, is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, called 'Crossing the IT/OT divide – co-creation, co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale'. Go here for the...

‘This is where we need to get to deliver scale’ – KPMG on co-creation in industrial IoT

Note, this interview, with Greg Corlis, managing director for emerging technologies and national IoT leader, at KPMG, is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, called 'Crossing the IT/OT divide – co-creation, co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale'. Go...

Why (most) industrial IoT platforms suck – and solve nothing by themselves

Sometimes content gets left on the cutting room floor, and sometimes it does not even make the edit. And often that content is excellent, and deserves a feature all of its own. This is a (delayed) retelling of a briefing Enterprise IoT Insights had...

NXP pushes industrial IoT with $1.8bn deal for Marvell’s connectivity assets

Dutch firm NXP Semiconductors has completed the $1.76 billion acquisition of the wireless connectivity assets of Bermuda chip firm Marvell Technologies. The cash deal, agreed at the end of May, completed last week; it sees NXP augment its industrial IoT, automotive and communication portfolio with...

WBA Wi-Fi 6 trial in ‘hostile Wi-Fi environment’ deemed a success

Previously, Wi-Fi failed to work in Mettis’ challenging factory environment The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) announced the successful completion of its phase one trial of Wi-Fi 6 infrastructure and services with Mettis Aerospace, a U.K. designer and manufacturer of precision-forged, machined and sub-assembled components. The...

‘You need a villain in the piece’ – private LTE threat to carriers is overplayed, says Nokia

Will carriers be ousted, or forced to cede ground, in the enterprise market with the rise of private networking and the liberalisation of spectrum in the 5G era? Nokia thinks the existential threat to the operator community has been overplayed. “By and large, almost exclusively,...

AVSystem and Traxens partner to provide efficient management of smart containers

  Logistics and transport are definitely the industries that will significantly benefit from the solutions brought by Internet of Things. We can also safely state that every industry uses transport services or logistics processes to a greater or lesser extent. This is what causes these...

Secrets of the production line – the ‘cloak and dagger’ of industrial IoT

The pursuit of cheaper, faster, and more varied production is intensifying. Factories are bustling with innovation experiments, as industrialists are availed of ever-more sophisticated digital tools. But the manufacturing sector is competitive, and its grab for innovation, to raise its members above their rivals, is...

Don’t wait for 5G to close the gap between digital and physical industries

Nokia Bell Labs VP sees physical industries as a "great untapped opportunity" The telecom industry, and the massive capex that has gone into building out wired and wireless networks, is in large part responsible for enabling a massive boom in digital industries, webscale companies like...