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O2 Telefónica talks-up private 5G install and 5G positioining app in Leipzig hospital

As well as a new private 5G deployment in Hamburg for IT service provider Dataport, covered Wednesday (March 30), O2 Telefónica has confirmed a private 5G setup at the Helios Park-Klinikum, a private psychiatric and orthopedics hospital, in Leipzig. O2 Telefónica led the installation,...

Helium rebranded Nova Labs, raises $200m in Series D – from a16z, DT, Goodyear, Nokia

Helium, the company in charge of the crowd-sourced Helium non-cellular IoT and cellular 5G networks, has rebranded as Nova Labs, and announced $200 million of Series D funding from New York-based investment company Tiger Global and Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Besides...

Nokia to supply private 5G to Etisalat UAE’s smart-city and Industry 4.0 clients

Nokia has signed a deal with telecoms operator E&, formerly Etisalat Group, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to deploy 5G private networks for enterprises in Abu Dhabi. The pair will target “various industries, including ports, oil and gas, government and critical infrastructure”, they...

China leads smart-factory hall of fame – US way behind as Industry 4.0 powerhouse

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has added 13 new smart factories to its ‘global lighthouse network’ of flagship sites for advanced manufacturing; its total network, proclaimed for their use of “Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies”, now stretches to 103 manufacturing facilities and “value chains”. Besides,...

Shrunk-down and shrink-wrapped – Cisco’s private 5G service play and channel strategy

Cisco took time out with Enterprise IoT Insights at MWC a couple of weeks back to discuss its late entry into the private 5G market, plus its channel strategy around system design and network support, and partner strategy around radio access network (RAN) components....

Delays? What delays? Keysight rubbishes talk of an industrial 5G logjam

Maybe it is just the way we ask the questions, but… test and measurement company Keysight Technologies has sought, effectively, to dispel any rumour and disquiet in the ranks about delays with industrial-grade 5G devices to go with industrial-grade private 5G networks. The US-based...

‘We are a tech-co, not a telco… designed to prime’ – BT on the private 5G sales game

The operator pack, as one would expect, is dividing in two around the Industry 4.0 market, suggests UK-based BT, with serious-minded enterprise-geared providers restructuring their sales operations in order to ‘prime’ the pumps, and switch on a new flow of private 5G, industrial IoT,...

Real business outcomes and ‘one throat to choke’ – IBM on what Industry 4.0 wants

Another late entry from the MWC files, this time from a discussion with IBM; but another one, again, where the talk is somehow timeless, at least in a 2022/3 timeframe, and also sometimes abstract. “Sure, it is a ramble; but, then, nothing is certain,”...

Lexmark adds edge AI solution to industrial IoT suite for smart manufacturing

Print services company Lexmark has stepped up its adventures in IoT service provision with the introduction of a new edge AI solution for Industry 4.0 projects, and for the manufacturing sector, in particular. The firm noted the trend towards edge computing in the industrial...

‘The build is the easy bit’ – Vodafone on what is missing with private 5G for Industry 4.0

Note, for more on this topic, and to hear more from Vodafone and others, join the Enterprise IoT Insights webinar on Industrial 5G (From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard) on April 28 – also featuring speakers from ABI Research, MFA (MulteFire Alliance)/Nokia, and Schneider...

Private LTE/5G nets to hit 13,500 in ’26, 5G to lead from ’24, 5G IoT devices to flow from ’23

The total number of private LTE and 5G networks will increase to 13,500 installations globally by 2026, according to analyst group Berg Insight; this is a 10-fold increase, roughly, from a figure today of “more than” 1,000 private LTE deployments and 200–300 private 5G...

Schneider Electric taps NTT for private 5G for smart factories and data centres

Industrial automation and energy management provider Schneider Electric is to install NTT’s new private 5G solution at its flagship ‘smart factory’ production facility in Lexington, Kentucky, and progressively through the French firm’s factories and data centres. It appears, as well, that Schneider Electric will...

The three use cases that have turned Industry 4.0 onto private 5G networks

As with the telecoms industry’s travails with NB-IoT, only just starting to resolve, there is a classic chicken-and-egg scenario with industrial 5G, around availability of networks and devices. In other words, why should an enterprise install a 5G network if there aren’t any enterprise-grade...

Industry 4.0 in the UK – four 4G/5G installs, four 4G/5G industries (and four Nokia wins)

This started, provisionally, as a roundup of five key private 5G deployments in five key private 5G industries in five key private 5G markets, spurred by a couple of recent announcements we missed originally, by Spanish construction firm Ferrovial at the Silvertown Tunnel project...

Honeywell partners with Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions

Honeywell said the alliance will integrate distributed energy resources owned by Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions with its battery energy storage systems and Smart Cities Software solution Honeywell and Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions (DESS), a commercial brand of Duke Energy, announced a deal to jointly develop...

Transatel intros LTE and 5G roaming between public and private networks

NTT-owned IoT MVNO-enabler Transatel has introduced a private LTE/5G extension for its IoT roaming SIM to enable connected devices to switch between public and private cellular networks. It described the new feature as “critical given the massive adoptions of private 5G in factories and...

Telefonica unveils smart building platform at MWC

Telefonica highlighted that the smart building platform aims to centralize, automate, collect and present data more efficiently   Spanish telecommunications operator Telefónica, in collaboration with Siemens, Bookker and BIM6D, has unveiled its smart building platform in a demonstration area at Mobile World Congress (MWC), being held...

Industry loves Industry 4.0; it’s just not very good at showing it – says Verizon

MWC, Barcelona: The industrial sector loves the idea of digital change, says Verizon, and private 5G as a platform for it, but it’s just not very good at showing it. Speaking at a packed industrial 5G (Industry City / Manufacturing Summit) conference stream at...

Boingo joins Qualcomm’s smart cities gang, ‘streamlines’ enterprise IoT on private 5G

US private networks and small cells provider Boingo Wireless is working with Qualcomm to “streamline” IoT deployments for enterprise customers, it has said. The Los Angeles firm has joined Qualcomm’s ‘smart cities accelerator’ programme, and is offering integrated Qualcomm-based IoT solutions with its own...

Nokia signs DAC sales deals with Alibaba, Atos – as private 5G shifts up a gear

Nokia has announced go-to-market deals for private LTE and 5G with the cloud division of Chinese web giant Alibaba and with French cloud services company Atos. Both companies will integrate and resell its Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) private wireless solution, which is driving much...

Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Nokia, Qualcomm issue tech blueprints to spur private 5G

MFA, formerly the MulteFire Alliance, has released a set of ‘technology blueprints’ for industrial 5G networks and devices to help enterprise users, device makers, and application developers select key 3GPP features for their specific 5G private network deployments and solutions. The new work was...

Druid Software integrates Polte positioning tech into private LTE and 5G networks

Core network provider Druid Software has partnered with IoT positioning firm Polte to bring the Texas firm’s ‘cloud location over cellular’ (C-LoC) tech to private LTE and 5G networks, and also to enterprises tracking business assets from private onto public LTE and 5G infrastructure. Druid...

HPE intros private 5G with home-made core and third-party RAN (Airspan to start)

Following Cisco’s soft-launch at the start of the month – and also leapfrogging it with an immediate commercial release – rival IT vendor Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced a new private LTE and 5G system for serious-minded enterprise usage, including in the prized...

Hybrid IoT by vertical market – and how Sidewalk and Helium have blurred the lines

Note, this article is taken from a new editorial report from Enterprise IoT Insights, Hybrid Low-Power IoT – How The IoT Industry Is Balancing Function And Efficiency. The report is available here, or by clicking on the image at the bottom of the page....