Wirepas has received an additional €10 million cash injection from Estonia-based early-stage venture capital firm Karma and Finnish state-owned investment firm Tesi to accelerate development of its new mesh-based non-cellular …
Bosch has opened two new Industry 4.0 academy venues in Germany, and is offering Industry 4.0 apprenticeships and qualifications to staff at 240 Bosch plants worldwide, as well as to …
Did you see the writeup last week (or the week before?), that the window of opportunity for telcos to reinvent themselves with private 5G, as more than just dinosaur utility …
The Australian government has announced nearly AUS$20 million in funding for 5G-based enterprise innovation projects in the country, including for a 5G-controlled fire-fighting tank. The new investments were originally slated …
Deutsche Telekom is to build a private 5G campus network at the Future Factory Hub, a research campus being built at the Werner-von-Siemens Centre for Industry and Science in Siemensstadt, …
UK-based cellular system integrator Vilicom has selected Mavenir to provide a private LTE network based on open RAN architecture for an off-shore wind farm in Scotland. The project is the …
Nordic Semiconductor has established a ‘global Wi-Fi hub’ in Hyderabad, in India, with 40 R&D staff and a busy recruitment drive. The Norway based IoT chip maker wants to make …
US-based IoT outfit Charge Analytics has picked KDDI-owned Soracom to provide mission-critical cellular IoT connectivity, based on NB-IoT and LTE-M, to remote monitoring and control systems deployed in highly regulated …
Wireless smart meters have transformed the management of electricity, water, and gas supplies to homes and businesses. By some estimates, smart electricity meters have reduced electricity power consumption by approximately …
Private enterprise 5G edge NOCs – As industrial sectors eye 5G as a platform to drive automation and intelligence as part of the Industry 4.0 revolution, mobile operators have a …
As industrial sectors eye 5G as a platform to drive automation and intelligence as part of the Industry 4.0 revolution, mobile operators have a battle on their hands to convince …
The rarefied opportunity for telcos to reinvent themselves with private 5G, as more than just dinosaur utility pipes, is about to pass the operator community by, according to ABI Research. …
The World Economic Forum is to establish a new ‘smart cities’ centre in Detroit, in the US, to stimulate the public and private sectors to collaborate on innovation to drive …
The Industrial Internet Consortium has rebranded as the Industry IoT Consortium. The IIC acronym remains. Explanation for the name change was limited, but claims some “new direction” and arguably reflects …
Vodafone has launched a new IoT platform for UK water companies to consolidate data from disparate industrial sensors and systems into a single management plane. The solution, which wraps in …
The state-owned Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) is coordinating a joint research and development project with Finnish network vendor Nokia and Swedish mining company Sandvik around industrial private 5G …
Qualcomm has launched its latest drone platform, and its first (and “the world’s first”) to introduce 5G and AI into the mix. The new Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G platform and …
The Utah Inland Port Authority, the state-run logistics agency developing a dry port in the northwest of Salt Lake City and other undeveloped land in Salt Lake County, has said …
More detail has emerged about NTT’s new private cellular as-a-service platform, launched last week for enterprises to deploy private LTE and 5G networks anywhere in the world. The firm has …
UK satellite communications provider Inmarsat is to launch a global narrowband network for IoT connectivity, targeting the aviation, maritime, and government sectors. The new service, which goes by the name …
IoT connectivity provider Kajeet has acquired network design consultancy Red Rover, specialising in supply of LTE connectivity to ‘community and educational’ outlets, to launch a new private LTE networks practice. …
US aerospace and weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin has opened a new 215,000 square-foot smart manufacturing facility at its Skunk Works campus and headquarters in Palmdale, in California. It called the …
There are billions of IoT devices across the globe – from Google Homes and Amazon Echos to Ring Doorbells, Fitbits, Nest heaters, and more. And they are not just for …
NTT has launched a private cellular as-a-service platform for enterprises to deploy private LTE and 5G networks anywhere in the world. The Japan-based firm described the offer as an “end-to-end …
IBM and Verizon are collaborating on 5G use cases and ‘management approaches’ for Industry 4.0 at IBM’s ‘industry solution lab’ in Texas, in the US. The pair are offering industrial …
