BROWSING: IoT

Qualcomm targets $22 billion in automotive, IoT revenue by 2029

Qualcomm wants to diversify its offerings and reduce its dependency on the mobile handset market At its 2024 Investor Day, Qualcomm outlined ambitious financial targets in several emerging growth areas as part of its larger strategy around reducing its dependency on the mobile handset market. Specifically,...

AT&T quits NB-IoT – sales stopped ahead of Q1 network shut-down

AT&T has stopped selling NB-IoT data plans and certifying NB-IoT devices, as it starts the process to decommission its NB-IoT network in the US entirely. The decision was taken as part of a strategy for “improving” its IoT services for enterprise customers, whose IoT...

What’s next for 5G? 3GPP Release 18, 19 and beyond

To understand the commercial reality of cellular connectivity, in this case 5G, it’s important to understand the standardization work that set the stage for real-world deployments. So before we look into what’s coming from 3GPP in Releases 18, 19 and beyond, it’s important to...

Siemens wins major IoT sustainability deal with UAE government

Siemens has won a major deal to retrofit 60 government buildings in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with IoT sensors and software. The UAE government has set a plan to reduce energy and water consumption by 27 percent per annum across the properties. Its...

SECO teams up with Raspberry Pi on IoT and HMI solutions, software integration

Italian embedded IoT solution developer SECO has a deal with UK-based Raspberry Pi to work together to develop customised hardware and software solutions for industrial enterprises. These include a 10.1-inch human-machine interface (HMI) solution based on Raspberry Pi's fifth-generation Compute Module (CM5) and supporting...

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...

Kagan: Tech is experiencing a Golden Age of growth and transformation

In the 1990’s I was a member of an advisory committee to U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. That was back in the President Clinton era. Over several years, as I got to know him better, I learned much about Washington...

‘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...

Solving UK water leakage with sub-gigahertz IoT (Reader Forum)

Water leakage is a critical issue affecting residential and commercial properties across the UK, with severe financial, environmental and operational consequences. The rising cost of water bills, paired with the prevalence of insurance claims for water damage, highlights the urgency of finding innovative solutions...

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...

Nokia hails ‘unprecedented’ private 5G trial at vaccine plant in Brazil

Nokia has proclaimed a private 5G trial at a production plant at the Institute of Immunobiological Technology (Bio-Manguinhos) in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil as a connectivity springboard to enhance vaccine manufacturing. Bio-Manguinhos produces active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs; not those ones) for vaccines for...

Private 5G in bloom – a dozen mega-sized Industry 4.0 deployments

If you like lists – and who doesn’t? – and you also like private 5G, Industry 4.0, IoT, and all of that jazz (who doesn’t?), then the new report from SNS Telecom & IT might just be for you. It has lists coming out of...

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...

Murata and G+D ready ‘world-first’ SGP.32/iSIM cellular IoT module

Japanese electronics manufacturer Murata has combined with Germany-based security technology group Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) on a cellular IoT module that supports both the new SGP.32 remote SIM provisioning (RSP) specification and new integrated SIM (iSIM) technology. The pair called it a “world first”, and said...

T-Mobile deploys private 5G for Jacksonville shuttle service

Mobile operator T-Mobile has deployed a private 5G network in the City of Jacksonville, Florida, to connect a fleet of autonomous vehicles along the city’s waterfront and urban centre. The project is a part of the city’s so-called Ultimate Urban Circulator initiative to expand...

Vodafone to supply global IoT airtime to Oracle’s enterprise customers

UK-based Vodafone is to supply global IoT connectivity for industry applications running on Oracle’s edge-cloud enterprise platform, called Enterprise Communications Platform (ECP). The US software company said Vodafone’s global SIM will “underpin” its portfolio of industry applications, as offered on its ECP system by...

BT intros app-level tracking of enterprise AI emissions

BT is offering enterprise customers a granular view of electricity consumption and carbon emissions associated with their individual compute workloads and AI applications. The UK firm has expanded its so-called Carbon Network Dashboard to provide customers with a view of how digital transformation drives...

Smart-city firm Iteris sold for $335m to Italian system integrator Almaviva

US smart-city software company Iteris has sold to Italian outfit Almaviva Group for $335 million. Iteris provides infrastructure management solutions and consultancy. The deal covers 100 percent of its Nasdaq capital, priced at $7.20 per share, and is funded by a €725 million bond...

Netmore buys Everynet – to create biggest LoRaWAN operator on the planet

More news from busy LoRaWAN network operator Netmore Group; the Sweden-based firm has acquired Dutch operator Everynet, a key historical player in the LoRaWAN narrative, for an undisclosed fee. The move further cements Netmore Group’s position as the most ambitious and acquisitive outfit in...

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...

Royal Mail tags 850,000 roll cages with ambient IoT trackers

Israeli supply-chain IoT software developer Wiliot has secured a major contract with the Royal Mail in the UK to supply 850,000 ambient IoT tags to track wheeled containers, or roll cages, through its distribution centres. The containers, called Yorks, are used to transport parcels...

The mobile industry needs to pivot to the enterprise (Analyst Angle)

Recently I was talking with a friend about the need for the mobile industry to pivot. If we can successfully pivot from the consumer to the enterprise, then the industry can grow for the next 20 or 30 years. But as we talked, I realized...

KSB hospital in Switzerland taps Siemens for 2,000 IoT tags, 7,000 IoT sensors

The Kantonsspital Baden (KSB) in Switzerland, a public hospital in Baden in the Swiss canton of Aargau, is in the process of deploying 2,000 IoT tags and 7,000 IoT sensors to improve its patient care, hospital operations, and energy consumption. The hospital has worked...