2019

Membership of the World Economic Forum’s fledgling Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network (Centre Network) has swelled to over 100, with five nations and a number of international organisations …

A new industrial consortium including SAP and Siemens has convened to help industrial organisations go beyond the ‘pilot trap’ with their Industry 4.0 deployments. The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) …

Sigfox USA has confirmed its president, Christian Olivier, has left the business. It said the decision was mutual, and the business is preparing a new appointment to drive the “next …

Federal Communications Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel continued her backing of an incentive auction for Educational Broadband Service licenses at 2.5 GHz at a forum in Washington, D.C., framing it as a …

Study finds executives appreciate the benefits the Fourth Industrial Revolution will bring but many lack a clear strategy Political and corporate leaders gathered in Davos, Switzerland, this week for the …

  The two UK carriers said they also aim to upgrade their transmission networks with higher capacity optical fiber cables   UK carriers Vodafone and Telefonica UK (O2) have signed …

  The Singaporean telco, together with Noki,a had launched a nationwide NB-IoT network in 2017   Singaporean telco M1 said it will use Nokia’s Impact IoT platform to bolster its …

UK tech incubator Digital Catapult is sponsoring a pair of UK firms to set up as Industry 4.0 showcase labs for the rest of the UK manufacturing industry. County Durham …

Ericsson’s CEO also said that rollout of 5G in European markets could experience a slow down due to regulatory issues Political troubles being faced by Chinese vendor Huawei could affect …

European aerospace firm Airbus has a 10-year back-log of orders, explains Sébastien Boria, R&D technology leader at Airbus. “Which means we have no problem selling aircraft.” Demand is high because …

Nokia CEO on Fourth Industrial Revolution: “If ever something was worth working, it’s this.” Harnessing steam to drive mass production; tapping electricity to globalize manufacturing; widespread computing–all past industrial revolutions …

As enterprises seek to modernize and digitalize their operations, application and cloud integration issues are costing about half of large enterprises between $250,000-$500,000 per year, according to a new survey …

For those following the development of 5G, it might be easy to say 5G is already here. In reality, that is partially true. 3GPP Release 16, sometimes referred to as …

Ulf Ewaldsson named T-Mobile US SVP of Technology and Transformation Last year Ericsson consolidated its business units and Ulf Ewaldsson left his role as heading Business Area Digital Services to …

  The new facility will allow the companies to test and co-develop 5G solutions for industries   Ericsson, Singtel and Singapore Polytechnic (SP) have opened what they claim is the …

  The executive said that Huawei would probably face difficult times as a number of countries are planning to ban the vendor in 5G contracts   Ren Zhengfei, founder and …

  The combined solution will allow companies to monitor shipments and assets through IoT technologies   Internet of things company Aeris announced it is working with Roambee, an IoT supply …

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 …

I read it somewhere, and it made sense; the application of new digital technologies in the global supply chain is about two critical functions – ‘sensing’ and ‘sense-making’, where the …

  The Internet of Things has been growing relentlessly for over a decade now. Is it, however, an already developed and mature phenomenon? Or maybe this rapid growth was actually …

  5G-based Smart Water-control and Monitoring Problems such as flood and soil erosion, water pollution have led to global water resources crisis. Traditional means of water quality monitoring and control …

Commercial buildings account for 19% of energy usage in the U.S., with heating and lighting comprising more than 50% of those costs. Despite the decreasing costs associated with LED lighting …

The?Middle East and Africa to double spending on smart building technology Honeywell Building Solutions has entered a memorandum of understanding (Mou) with UAE systems integrator Smartworld to implement smart buildings …

Mobile phones have become so ubiquitous that it appears everyone has one. Today, there are all different levels of phones on the market—from prepaid phones that cost under $100 to …

A critical challenge facing 4G LTE fixed wireless operators is how to cost-effectively increase site capacity.   Although there are many options available, including Massive MIMO, sectorization is one of the …