France-based Bouygues Telecom has joined with IBM to collaborate with enterprises on industrial 5G use cases in the manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, energy and utilities, and smart city sectors. Bouygues Telecom …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Bouygues Teleco and IBM team up on 5G for factories, hospitals, utilities, cities >
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Manufacturing, construction, agriculture to drive 80% of £15bn 5G boom in UK >
Over three quarters of projected economic growth from 5G in the UK will be driven by just three sectors: manufacturing, construction, and agriculture. These industries, considered to be linchpin ‘verticals’ …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Australia invests over $21 million to accelerate adoption of 5G in industries >
The Australian government announced it is investing almost AUD30 million ($21.2 million) to improve the allocation and management of spectrum and trial 5G use across different industry sectors. This …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Vodafone builds NB-IoT remote control and product recall system for white goods >
Vodafone has built an NB-IoT prototype that allows appliance manufacturers to notify consumers of faulty or dangerous electrical goods, and shut them down remotely if needed. It is targeted as …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Aveva to buy OSIsoft for $5bn to service ‘largest digital-change projects in history’ >
UK based software company Aveva, majority owned by France based automation specialist Schneider Electric, has struck a deal to acquire US data management outfit OSIsoft for $5 billion. OSIsoft is …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">5G could have a $1.2 tn economic impact in Brazil by 2035: Nokia >
The future deployment of 5G technology in Brazil could have a $1.216 trillion economic impact and an increase in productivity of $3.08 trillion, according to a recent study by …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">arm White Paper: eSIM: Giving Manufacturers the Competitive Edge in Logistics >by Ben Stoneby Ben Stone
eSIM technology offers a wide range of benefits to manufacturers of connected devices in the logistics and transportation industry. As the industry faces unprecedented challenges, it’s time to double down …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">IBM, Singapore industry partners to trial 5G manufacturing use cases >
The trials are related to IBM’s recent 5G edge computing offerings IBM is working with Singaporean local mobile carrier M1 and South Korean vendor Samsung to trial 5G use cases …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">These three industries are about to undergo a 5G-powered revolution (Reader Forum) >by Reader Forumby Reader Forum
5G officially arrived this year. In certain parts of the US, it’s already providing AT&T users with upload speeds as fast as 500 megabytes per second and significantly reduced latency. …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Digital Factory Solutions Report Series: Operational Intelligence >by Ben Stoneby Ben Stone
The only way to innovate is to collaborate. In the fourth installment in our new series on smart manufacturing technologies, UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman looks at how the …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">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 …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Digital Factory Solutions Report Series: Operational Intelligence >by Ben Stoneby Ben Stone
How is data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) transforming the manufacturing sector? In the third installment in a new series on smart manufacturing technologies, UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">DoCoMo joins global alliance to promote use of 5G in manufacturing sector >
Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo announced that it has joined the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA), with the main goal of further advancing the use of 5G technology …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">AT&T CFO on enterprise 5G opportunity, T-Mo/Sprint merger >
John Stephens calls out 5G for hospitals, manufacturing AT&T currently has its millimeter wave-based 5G service, dubbed 5G+, available in 21 cities with plans for 29 by year-end and nationwide …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Brussels offers SMEs €1m to test industrial IoT, make Europe leader in Industry 4.0 >
The European Commission is offering manufacturing companies funding of €60,000 each to run collaborative smart manufacturing experiments at neutral hub sites, with a total funding pot stretching to almost €1 …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Editorial Report: Making Industry Smarter Series – From supply chain to demand chain >by Ben Stoneby Ben Stone
If the internet of things (IoT), utilising both low-power and high-bandwidth connectivity, establishes an architectural springboard for digital change, then AI provides the industrial elasticity that will make the market …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Editorial Report Series: Making Industry Smarter – Supply Chain Logistics >by Ben Stoneby Ben Stone
The digital transformation of the supply chain and logistics sectors – a review of the strategies, technologies and stakes in play as the global supply chain industry seeks more sustainable …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Editorial Report: AI and IoT at the cutting edge – when to move intelligence out of the cloud and closer to the action >by Ben Stoneby Ben Stone
Operational intelligence does not come just by connecting machines; it requires advanced analytics to sort the data and recommend a course of action. Many critical use cases at the edge …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Editorial Report: AI and IoT at the cutting edge – when to move industrial intelligence closer to the action >by Ben Stoneby Ben Stone
Operational intelligence does not come just by connecting machines; it requires advanced analytics to sort the data and recommend a course of action. Many critical use cases at the edge …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">APEJ region to lead in terms of IoT spending in 2019, IDC says >
China and South Korea are the top markets in terms of IoT adoption within the region, according to the study Spending on the internet of things in the …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">European IoT market revenues to expand by 19.8% y-o-y in 2019: IDC >
Germany, France and the U.K. will be the markets with the highest level of IoT adoption in 2019 Revenues for the European internet of things market are forecast …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Mobile, fixed and edge are ‘pillars’ of AT&T Business 5G strategy >
Vertically-focused 5G strategy includes retail, manufacturing, healthcare and finance Right now commercial 5G services, inherently limited to device availability—although that will change throughout 2019, reach a very limited number of …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">The top five countries for industrial robotics by sales and density >
Almost three quarters (73 per cent) of the total sales of industrial robots go to just five markets. Their identity (see below) is hardly surprising; they are the world’s leading …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">IBM mixes AI and IoT in bespoke apps for farming, manufacturing, logistics >
IBM has released a range of new Watson artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and services tailored for the agriculture, manufacturing, supply chain, building management, and automotive industries. “Tailoring general AI for …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">AT&T bringing 5G to Samsung semiconductor manufacturing facility >
AT&T Business CEO talks 5G for verticals DALLAS–As operators look to develop 5G revenue streams beyond the consumer segment, AT&T today announced it was working with Samsung to kit out …