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The year generative AI lives up to the hype – Kyndryl on 2025

Generative AI hype hinges on its novelty: new creative possibilities, business applications, and growth opportunities. For manufacturers, this technology has the potential to streamline supply chain management, help plant managers proactively address maintenance problems and drive efficiency across manufacturing sites. Today’s industry leaders are exploring...

Nokia and Motorola Solutions combine on 4G/5G drones for public safety, Industry 4.0

Nokia and Motorola Solutions have integrated hardware and software in a single ‘out-of-the-box’ 4G/5G drone solution for first responders and emergency services, plus mission-critical industries. It is “AI-enhanced, turnkey automated”, they said. Specifically, Nokia has integrated Motorola Solutions’ CAPE navigational software with its...

Applications, permutations, innovations – Celona powers-up private 5G party

Private cellular specialist Celona held court for just 20 minutes at Industrial 5G Forum last month to deliver a handy overview of the whole private 5G spectacle, and to light-up some of its own private 5G pyrotechnics as well. It was the busiest session...

Nokia intros (‘world-first’) 5G 8K 360-degree camera for Industry 4.0

Nokia has introduced a ruggedised 5G-enabled 360-degree camera (Nokia 360 Camera) for industrial usage, including with private 5G networks. The product, offering immersive 8K streaming, is a world-first, it said. It also supports Wi-Fi and Ethernet connectivity, and “spatial audio” (3D OZO) streaming. It...

Eureka moments, snowball effects, whack-a-mole – multiplying private 5G apps

One more private 5G panel write-up, and it’s another cracker. Here, Peter Cappiello, chief executive at Future Technologies, Johnathan Lewis, director of innovation at Miami International Airport, and Dheeraj Remella, chief product officer at Volt Active Data hunkered down for 40 minutes last month...

Want private 5G devices and Industry 4.0 knowhow? Go to Vertex

It is kind of funny to hear the top-feeders in the telecoms market talk about how they ‘get’ the enterprise sector, suddenly. It is kind of frustrating that, after years of hawking private 5G like it is a panacea for the diverse and dynamic...

‘A thousand repeats of the same conversation’ – four challenges to make private 5G scale

There are a whole bunch of headaches, of course, that come with scaling private 5G systems to new venues and new markets. Even if they have been proven at one site, and the use cases and business cases have been mastered, the challenge to...

Has cellular IoT failed? Is it destined to fail? Big questions after AT&T axes NB-IoT

Does AT&T’s decision to ditch NB-IoT in the US, confirmed in RCR Wireless last week, spell the end for this clever and brave little IoT network technology? Just as a technology, the answer is: no, probably not – at least until LTE, whose ‘guardband’...

Singtel drafts-in Ericsson to slice and dice 5G at new Singapore ‘mega’ port

Singtel has drafted-in Ericsson to deploy a dedicated 5G network on a slice of its public 5G network at Tuas Port in Singapore, the new greenfield ‘mega port’ development that will eventually engulf and replace existing shipping terminals at the Port of Singapore. It...

The key to private 5G?—‘Survival of the ecosystem’

Appledore Research sees private 5G pulling $232 billion in annual enterprise spend by 2027 There was maybe always a disconnect between what the telecoms set wanted out of private 5G (and how quickly they wanted it) versus what the industrial sectors meant to spend big...

Gen AI in action – what business leaders need to know (Reader Forum)

The level of attention on generative AI (gen AI) in business is no longer a surprise. It promises game-changing disruption – faster and more cost-effective operations, improved customer and employee experiences, and a competitive edge. The fact is that gen AI is evolving at...

IoT specialist TWTG sells to UK engineering firm IMI for €25m

UK engineering company IMI has acquired Netherlands-based industrial IoT developer TWTG Group for €25 million. TWTG, based in Rotterdam, will become part of IMI’s process automation business. Its portfolio of wireless sensors and integrated software allows plant operators to track, monitor, and optimise industrial...

‘Crossing the chasm’ – Celona answers your questions about private 5G

In case you missed it, California-based private 5G specialist Celona delivered a highly-engaging presentation to a highly-engaged audience at Industrial 5G Forum earlier this month – which prompted more questions than we could handle. Having presented for 20 minutes about ‘private 5G in and...

RealWear buys Almer in bid to ‘reshape the industrial AR market’

Wearable computing firm RealWear has acquired Switzerland-based Almer Technologies in a move set to “reshape the industrial augmented reality (AR) market”, the firm has said. The deal has been backed “strategically and financially” by Germany-based enterprise AR software provider TeamViewer, which sits on the...

‘We’re not ripping all that out’ – pragmatic Cargill on private 5G priorities

Did you see the interview with Airbus this week? Well here’s another dynamite entry for your over-stuffed private 5G files, pulled and transcribed from an interview at Industrial 5G Forum at the start of the month, which follows the story of US process manufacturing...

UK needs AI redundancy fund, proper AI training – but trust in the tech, says TBI

​​AI could save almost a quarter of private-sector workforce time in the UK over the coming decades – equivalent to the annual output of six million workers. So says the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) for Global Change, following up on its July missive to...

Siemens preps on-prem edge version of gen AI industrial copilot, signs ThyssenKrupp

Siemens has said its industrial ‘co-pilot’ tool, billed as the first and only generative AI (gen AI) assistant on the market that writes code for automation engineering, is to be offered as an on-premises hardware-software bundle. It has also said it will add “multimodality...

Airbus to replace Wi-Fi with 5G in “all industrial areas” within five years

More excerpts and leftovers, here, from the new RCR Wireless editorial report on private 5G in Industry 4.0 (check it out), rendered as a full Q&A with Hakim Achouri, telecoms expert and architect at European aviation and aerospace manufacturer Airbus. If you have been...

A ‘bright spot in gloomy telecoms’ – private 5G sales to reach $6bn by 2027

As referenced amid a bunch of stats in the preamble to RCR’s new editorial report on private 5G in Industry 4.0 (see image below), market research firm SNS Telecom & IT, based out of Dubai, has said the private 5G market is one of...

US private 5G provider GXC sells to energy and infrastructure outfit Motive Companies

Texas-based private 4G/5G provider GXC has agreed its sale to California firm Motive Companies, a provider of renewable energy and infrastructure solutions for industrial and commercial applications. Motive will provide GXC with "substantial resources" to expand its customer base and deliver advanced 5G network...

Private 5G is the ‘missing link’ – lessons from Capgemini’s Industry 4.0 workbooks

Consultancy firms love to talk, don’t they; and digital transformation (also covering private 5G) is surely their favourite topic. It is just the way they are built – to chat and discuss, with a view to delegate and collaborate (‘co-create’), and maybe, hopefully, to...

‘No one rings up and asks for a private 5G network’ – BT Business on 5G business

There’s lots of good stuff in the new RCR Wireless report on private 5G in Industry 4.0 – which is out now, free to download, and available here. But not everyone responded in time, and not everything made the cut. Here, for example, is...

Celona intros new security features, global partners for private 5G push

Private 5G specialist Celona has introduced a new suite of ‘zero-trust’ security capabilities, under the name Aerloc, for industrial customers deploying private 4G and 5G networks to underpin IT and OT functions. New capabilities include unified SIM-based authentication, dynamic and distributed policy enforcement, and...

Nokia, Rockwell Automation continue work on industrial transformation

Using private 5G Standalone in industrial automation emboldens key use cases, including AGVs, connected workers and untethered industrial assets The idea of bringing private cellular, both 4G and 5G, into the world of heavy industry has long been alluring to the telecoms sector. From the...