Sierra Wireless has released its new Octave IoT platform, first announced in June as an integrated offer with Microsoft’s Azure IoT cloud solution. It claims the platform is “unique” as …
James Blackman
James Blackman
James Blackman has been writing about the technology and telecoms sectors for over a decade. He has edited and contributed to a number of European news outlets and trade titles. He has also worked at telecoms company Huawei, leading media activity for its devices business in Western Europe. He is based in London.
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The mining industry continues to recruit operators and vendors to deploy new industrial LTE and 5G networks on the promise of industrial change. Here is a summary of recently announced deployments. …
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The cellular IoT ecosystem, the cellular community would have us believe, is growing fast. The GSMA counted 89 NB-IoT networks and 34 LTE-M launches as of October 2019, with several …
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The policy is the technology and the technology is the policy. That is the truth of city governance in the digital age, says Gartner. Any government services delivered at scale …
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Private networks and cellular IoT will be keys for operators to unlock $700 billion of new revenues from industrial 5G services community in the next decade, as industrial sectors look …
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The steady liberalisation of radio spectrum for private and shared usage in various markets, along with the growing realisation among traditional network operators that their licensed spectrum mat be better …
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1 | Anglo American, Capcoal coal mine, Queensland, Australia British mining company Anglo American has just started work in Australia on what it envisions as “one of the most technologically …
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Tech Mahindra and Cisco have come up with a new digital factory blueprint that puts 5G at the heart industrial operations. Tech Mahindra said the solution sets a model for …
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Fifteen smart city networks and tech governance groups, representing 200,000 public and private sector organisations in the smart cities space, have joined together to establish global policy standards for the …
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BehrTech, the Toronto-based startup in charge of the MIOTY low-power wide-area (LPWA) technolgy, has signed with industrial software company MAJiK Systems, from Ontario, to connect legacy industrial equipment with analytics …
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Toronto-based BehrTech, licensee of the new MIOTY low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology, has come out swinging, it says, both as it gathers business from incumbent LPWA rivals and as it sets …
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The Department of Water and Sewage (DAE) of Americana in São Paulo, Brazil, will deploy smart meters and management solutions from Itron to stem water losses from 80,000 water and …
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Silicon companies Arm, Bosch, NVIDIA, and NXP Semiconductors have joined with car makers General Motors and Toyota and automotive suppliers Continental and DENSO in a new alliance geared towards ‘making …
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In a trio of announcements at Arm TechCon 2019 in San Jose yesterday (October 8), chip design company Arm walked the line on increasing flexibility and reducing fragmentation in the …
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Schneider Electric and ThoughtWire combine digital twins for hospitals French firm Schneider Electric is partnering with Canadian IoT platform provider ThoughtWire on data integration and digital twins for the healthcare …
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Verizon and NEC claim existing fibre networks, rather than purpose-built fibre networks, can be used for optical sensing, to collect data on city traffic conditions and environmental measures. They suggest …
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Note, this is the third part in a three-part series about manufacturer Sandvik Cormorant, which has been ranked as the smartest factory in Sweden. Go here to read the previous …
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Package delivery company UPS has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate a fleet of aerial delivery drones. The certification puts no limits on the size or …
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Vodafone is the first network operator in the UK to sub-license unused LTE / 4G spectrum under UK regulator Ofcom’s new spectrum policy, which seeks to bolster rural and indoor …
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Note, this is continued from a previous article, called: ‘Greta dislikes you, but we like Greta’ – Sandvik on industrial revolution and the smartest little tool-house in Sweden. Go here …
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Ohio-based tool distributor Jergens Industrial Supply (JIS) has developed an industrial spin-off of Amazon’s Dash IoT button for retail customers of its products. The Wi-Fi-enabled solution, which simplifies and automates …
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Rockwell Automation has acquired India-based systems integrator MESTECH Services for an undisclosed fee. It said the deal will enhance its digital-change offer, spur business in India, and provide a new …
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An NHS trust in Manchester, in the UK, has agreed a £25 million deal with Hitachi Consulting to use advanced data analytics and IoT tools to digitise its processes and …
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The Port of Marseille Fos, in France, has new discussions with Orange about 5G, a developing relationship with IBM on blockchain, and a host of collaborations with local industry around …
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Dense Air, a subsidiary of network infrastructure vendor Airspan, has signed a deal with the city of Cascais in Portugal, a municipality in the Lisbon district, to build a 5G …