A new private 5G network at Tacoma Tideflats, surrounding the Port of Tacoma on Puget Sound in the US state of Washington, has been deployed to support five enterprises, initially, …
Spain-based automotive components manufacturer Gestamp has announced a multi-year EU-funded research project with two local 5G/IoT specialists to develop a new “operations model” for private 5G and industrial IoT to …
France-based Dracula Technologies, developing energy-harvesting technology for low-power IoT solutions, has announced a new electrical energy storage solution, called LAYERVault, which retains photovoltaic power, drawn from light sources even in …
A piece of news from the back-end of last year, but worth memorialising here, in light of Hitachi Vantara’s early role in driving Industry 4.0 with its Lumada IoT platform, …
Mass adoption of reduced-capability 5G (5G RedCap) for mid-tier cellular IoT applications will start from next year (2024), commencing in China, reckons analyst house Omdia. The arrival of RedCap, it …
Sigfox-owner Unabiz continues to push rival low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technology LoRaWAN as a connectivity platform for major IoT projects, confirming a deal with Singapore-based engineering group GreenA Consultants to …
US materials science and digital identification company Avery Dennison is working with European mattress manufacturer Aquinos Group to tag bedding products from 2024 with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology so …
Brewing company Heineken has appointed Siemens to deliver a digital twin and monitoring system to map and track progress towards its net-zero production targets at 15 international beer breweries and …
Vodafone’s IoT connectivity unit is to become a standalone business by April of next year (2024) following a major 10-year deal with Microsoft that will see both firms invest in …
An interesting angle came up last week in a webinar about smart metering, hosted by eSIM specialist Kigen, where Danish meter maker Kamstrup responded to a question about how utility …
Nokia has launched a dedicated business unit in the U.S. to deliver private cellular, edge computing, and other critical connected solutions to the federal government. The new unit, called Nokia …
Clearly, the focus of the initial response among the analyst community to HPE’s proposed $14 billion takeover of Juniper Networks, announced last week, has been on the latter’s artificial intelligence …
Siemens has announced a bunch of partners and products focused on the industrial ‘metaverse’ at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week (January 9-12), mostly linked to …
Satellite comms provider Iridium Communications is inviting device makers, chipmakers, mobile operators, and IoT developers to have their say on the functionality of its developing NB-IoT satellite network. The US …
Australia-based semiconductor company Morse Micro, developing Wi-Fi HaLow for low-power mid-range IoT solutions, has issued a flurry of announcements at CES in Las Vegas this week (January 9-12), including international certification …
Germany-headquartered IoT MVNO 1NCE has announced a series of software plugins in its cloud-based connectivity management platform to accelerate IoT development projects, and spearhead its development as an open software …
Cloud and edge solutions provider Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has confirmed it has agreed a deal to acquire enterprise networking specialist Juniper Networks for $14 billion. The acquisition will double …
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is closing on a $13 billion deal for Juniper Networks, according to a report yesterday (Monday, January 8) in The Wall Street Journal, and widely covered …
The city of Glasgow in Scotland will be “Europe’s largest smart things and IoT innovation hub” – if the UK government and city council has its way. They have joined …
US-based private cellular provider Celona has teamed up with Palo Alto Networks to integrate the latter’s cyber-security and -analysis software into its private 4G and 5G network management solutions. It …
UK-based BT Group is looking to repurpose old street cabinets, traditionally used to store broadband and phone cabling, as electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. The firm’s innovation startup unit, Etc., …
Is this a review of 2023, or a forecast for 2024? It could be either, on the grounds it looks backwards to look forwards, taking its cues from the past …
German enterprise group-comms software provider TeamViewer, which has featured prominently in remote collaboration and augmented reality (AR) use cases for early private cellular network deployments, has invested a “low double-digit …
Ireland-based SIM specialist Kigen has issued a couple of announcements about supply deals in the eSIM / iSIM space. The firm is working separately with IoT platform providers Neue and …
The World Economic Forum has inducted 21 manufacturing operations into its Industry 4.0 hall-of-fame based on their usage of sundry digital tech, notably AI, to raise productivity, reduce wastage, and …
