IoT

Finnish vendor Nokia announced the ‘Nokia Local 5G Technology Partnership’, a new strategic alliance to accelerate adoption of 5G-based enterprise industry solutions in Japan. Members of the new alliance include Conexio, Hitachi Kokusai, NS (Nippon Steel) Solutions, Omron and Sharp, …

The past year has most of us yearning for a more ‘normal’ year ahead. Fortunately, the future is bright in the IoT marketplace. Consider this: IoT Analytics predicted in 2018 that we’d see 21.7 billion active connected IoT devices in …

As an IT systems administrator, you will need to extend the network to connect IoT and business systems. This means placing equipment in nontraditional spaces such as warehouses, manufacturing floors and outdoors. To specify equipment for nontraditional spaces, you will …

Note, this article is taken from a new editorial report on the state of digital change in the healthcare sector (see image below). The report – Challenges with Digital Change in Healthcare – from low-level IoT sensing to big-bang 5G and …

  Nokia announced that it will deploy industrial-grade 5G Standalone (SA) private wireless networking for the 5G4KMU project, which spans five leading research centers in the state of Baden-Württemberg, in Germany. Once the project is fully completed, it will comprise …

5G connections in Latin America are expected to reach 15 million by 2020 and will grow to 62 million by 2025, according to a new study by GSMA Intelligence. In its Mobile Economy Latin America 2020 report, the company predicted …

Healthcare is, arguably, the most complex sector for technologists to crack – and one that  offers the greatest opportunity for change, as well. Healthcare is delivered differently in every market, and the business case is unfamiliar: a matter of life and …

Russian mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) and Swedish network vendor Ericsson are to deploy a private LTE network for Anglo-Russian mining company Polymetal. The deployment is at Polymetal’s Nezhdaninskoye gold deposit in the Republic of Sakha , in the far-east …

Nokia has been selected by Citycom Telecommunication Graz to deliver a 5G network covering the City of Graz and the entire province of Styria, in Austria. Once the deployment if completed, Citycom Graz will offer autonomous industrial-grade private wireless networks …

Australia-based semiconductor company Morse Micro, developing Wi-Fi HaLow  for low-power mid-range IoT solutions, has raised $13 million in new funding. The latest Series A funding round takes its total to $30 million, and will go on expanding its product and …

Vodafone has pulled together an enterprise bundled with the various component parts in an IoT stack to enable business customers in the UK to make their own IoT solutions. The UK division is working with IoT.nxt, acquired by Vodafone’s South …

Jeff Lorbeck, Qualcomm Senior Vice President and General Manager of IoT hosted an analyst briefing called, Accelerating Digital Transformation through IoT. You may be surprised how the Internet of Things is another sizeable growth opportunity for both the company and …

China Mobile will use Nokia’s ‘worldwide IoT network grid’ (WING) to offer enterprise customers IoT connectivity at home and abroad. Nokia’s WING service affords operators a way to offer cellular IoT services without having to invest in global infrastructure. The …

IoT device management platform Pelion, previously a unit within Arm, has been spun-out as a standalone business, wholly-owned by the UK chip design firm. At the same time, it has integrated its connectivity management and device management engines, and bundled …

Netherlands-based engineering and design firm SODAQ has invented a solar-powered cellular IoT asset tracker which dispenses with a battery altogether, and runs by harvesting solar energy alone. It is the first of its kind, anywhere, reckons Nordic Semiconductor, which supplied …

Azure for Operators built on three principles: partnerships, ecosystem development and infrastructure monetization Microsoft, given its established position in distributed cloud computing, enterprise relationships, and massive developer community, sees the confluences of 5G, edge computing and an operator focus on …

Sigfox has announced deals with Austrian logistics and postal provider Austrian Post and Australian keg rental provider Konvoy Group, via local Sigfox operators Heliot and Thinxtra, respectively. Between them, the deals are worth around 100,000 connections by the end of …

Nordic Semiconductor has struck a deal with Arkessa to offer wider international cellular IoT connectivity with its nRF9160 system-in-package (SiP), the Trondheim-based firm’s flagship dual-mode LTE-M and NB-IoT module. Global roaming has remained a challenge for the broad IoT sector, …

NXP Semiconductors has integrated edge- and cloud-based compute services from AWS into its new S32G vehicle network processor, for in-car communications gateways, to help enterprises, notably car makers and insurance companies, to process, share, and commercialise vehicle-related data. The Netherlands-based …

About $32 billion will be spent on industrial IoT platforms for smart manufacturing by 2025, and the number of industrial AR connections will surge by 57 percent per year in the period to 20.9 million in 2025. So says market …

  Public transport is integral to a city’s prosperity and its citizens’ wellbeing. Besides providing the infrastructure to get people from point A to B, transport operators are responding to citizens’ needs to remain connected and productive on public transport, …

From remote work to home-based education, wireless connectivity allows us to quickly adapt in an ever-changing world You may have just finished an online videoconference from your home office, helped your kids log in for a remote class at the …

French electronics manufacturer Lacroix Group has appointed Orange to deploy an indoor 5G network from Ericsson at a factory in France to run the rule over its value as a springboard for Industry 4.0, and as a foundation stone for …

Following four years of research and interviews with leaders in the industrial IoT (IIoT) space, Cambashi has settled on nine ‘verticals’, or ‘connected market areas’ for IIoT applications. These are: buildings, cities, infrastructure, products, production, supply chain, transportation, and workers. Although …

  The installed base of connected building automation systems in Europe and North America is forecast to 34.4 million in 2024, compared to an estimated 20.5 million systems in 2019, according to a new research report from IoT analyst firm …