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Deutsche Telekom, Bosch take part in campus network project in Germany

    Deutsche Telekom, Bosch and several German companies are taking part in a project with the aim of offering campus networks across Germany. The "CampusOS" project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) with 18,1 million euros ($20.8 million) over...

NTT bundles workflow software with private 5G – to break silos, boost scalability

Business solutions provider NTT is working with US software firm ServiceNow to introduce an “AI-enabled end-to-end workflow automation platform” to its private 5G proposition. The idea is enterprises will be able to migrate business processes onto the cloud using ServiceNow’s cloud platform, which incorporates...

Industrial IoT is the answer to good and green business, says everyone – says ABB

Industrial IoT is the tech answer to the business challenge of environmental sustainability. Everyone says so; everyone knows so. And yet only a third of enterprises are putting their money where their mouths are, and investing in industrial IoT. That is the message, effectively,...

Container tracking firm Traxens raises €23m, buys rival NEXT4, plots global expansion

France-based container tracking company Traxens has raised €23 million in a further funding round, led by existing investors, and at the same time acquired local rival NEXT4, which produces removable and reusable box trackers. Traxens, which counts Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk (Maersk) among...

TPG, Nokia to deliver private networks for mining and energy sectors

  Australian telo TPG Telecom has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nokia as part of a new partnership to develop and deliver mobile private network solutions for the mining and energy sectors. The agreement will see TPG Telecom and Nokia collaborate across their portfolio...

Telstra strikes AUS$100m cellular IoT deal for four million smart meters

Telstra has announced a AUS$100 million deal with utility services provider Intellihub to provide up to 4.1 million cellular IoT SIMs for smart energy meters in Australia over the next 10 years. The operator said it was its “largest ever IoT deal”, in terms...

StarHub supplies University of Singapore with 5G for connectivity and IoT co-creation

The National University of Singapore (NUS) is working with operator StarHub to leverage 5G and IoT as part of a two-year trial to build a ‘smart campus’ infrastructure to bring intelligence and automation to its facilities management operation, as well as to drive its...

Project aims to use 5G, IoT to smarten Australia’s waste trucks

5G will connect IoT sensors, including cameras, on waste trucks A collaboration between Swinburne University of Technology and Brimbank City Council in Australia will result in an interconnected network of garbage trucks that will use the 5G network and the Internet of Things (IoT). The project...

Samsung, Amdocs partner to deliver 4G, 5G private networks in the U.S.

  Samsung Electronics America and Amdocs said they will collaborate to deliver end-to-end 4G and 5G private network solutions to U.S. enterprises. In a joint statement, the firms said that the agreement includes delivery of Samsung’s complete set of private network solutions, including Citizen Broadband Radio...

‘Rivals are going the wrong way’ – Cisco teases Wi-Fi-friendly private 5G bundle

Cisco is readying a Wi-Fi-style pay-as-you-go private LTE and 5G offer for enterprises, and particularly for industrial enterprises, which comprises Cisco-led pre-sale network-design consultancy and post-sale network management support. Details about the in-between build-phase, in terms of sale-side network parts and ownership, are less...

Troubled IoT firm Sigfox plunged into rapid three-week auction – sale closes Feb 25

The court-appointed receivers in charge of France-based ultra-narrowband IoT technology company Sigfox have initiated a competitive bidding process for the company’s various technology assets, customer accounts, and going-concerns, including its France based Sigfox network operation. The auction, to recover funds in default and potentially...

Mitsubishi Electric, NTT Docomo team up on private 5G for Industry 4.0 in Thailand

Japanese manufacturing group Mitsubishi Electric has inducted country-mate NTT Docomo into its new Industry 4.0 alliance in Thailand in order to offer private 5G with smart manufacturing solutions from other partners. Mitsubishi Electric called it “the first case of private 5G with Japanese equipment”...

Ubiik intros dual-mode Release-15 LTE-M/NB-IoT small cell for industrial IoT

Taiwanese industrial IoT provider Ubiik has released a Release 15 level dual-mode LTE-M and NB-IoT unit that can operate as a small cell or access point. It is pitching the product to mobile network operators and private LTE network providers, supplying industrial enterprises. The...

Comcast Business, Nokia partner to target 5G private wireless networks

  Comcast Business recently announced a non-exclusive partnership with Finnish vendor Nokia to extend its enterprise connectivity portfolio to deliver 5G private wireless networks. For this purpose, Comcast will use Nokia DAC (Digital Automation Cloud) industrial-grade private wireless solution and digitalization enabler platform. The first Comcast Business...

What is the net environmental impact of dirt-cheap massive-scale IoT?

This discussion is missing something, of course; IoT is not supposed to be written about as an environmental risk. The idea that billions of disposable trackers might litter the planet is an alarmist angle, arguably, on a tech-for-good story. Because, in most cases, the...

German city and uni expand LoRaWAN into smart city, Industry 4.0 apps, 5G crossover

Pforzheim University in Germany has expanded its LoRaWAN network, originally deployed for research purposes at the university faculty of technology, for usage by smart city and Industry 4.0 applications, as well as in industrial 5G crossover work with another university in the country's south.  These...

UiPath works with Deloitte in the Smart Factory @ Wichita initiative

  UiPath, a robotic process automation (RPA) software company, recently announced it has become a builder sponsor of The Smart Factory @ Wichita, a new Industry 4.0 immersive experience center by Deloitte. As a sponsor of The Smart Factory @ Wichita, UiPath said it will showcase...

NNNCo gets involved in LoRaWAN smart street lighting project in Uruguay

  Australian LoRaWAN network operator National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo) has signed a contract with technology provider Wellness TechGroup, to provide IoT network coverage to 70,000 smart streetlights in Uruguay’s capital Montevideo. In a release, the Australian firm said that the project will cover 200 square...

IoT platform market is innovating, expanding, about to boom – with $31bn of sales in 2026

The IoT platform market is innovating and expanding, and about to boom. So says ABI Research, which has counted 62 companies offering connectivity management platforms for enterprises to keep track of their varied IoT estates, and calculated $31 billion will be spent on them...

Telefónica strikes deal for up to 650,000 NB-IoT water meters in Spain

We are a little late with this, but it is a sizeable deal, which might also be construed as significant because it is for low-power wide-area (LPWA) connectivity in Spain, in Sigfox’s (other) backyard, and its comes to us in the days after Sigfox’s...

Vodafone supplies 5G and IoT to health-tech firm with ‘access’ to 90% of operating rooms

Vodafone has formalised a partnership with health-tech platform provider Proximie to supply sundry 5G networking, IoT sensing, and edge computing componentry for its surgical software, which is being deployed in hospital operating theatres and diagnostic rooms to help with training and operations. Proximie says...

GSMA and 5G-ACIA team up on industrial 5G for Industry 4.0

The GSM Association (GSMA) and the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) are to collaborate more deeply on industrial 5G for smart manufacturing. The pair have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly “promote and advance a shared understanding” of industrial...

Telstra and Ericsson supply private 5G for Australian agri-tech collective

Telstra has deployed a private 5G network for industrial tech organisation AgriFood Connect in Australia. It has worked with Ericsson on the deployment; it is the Swedish vendor’s first private-5G install in Australia. AgriFood Connect is a not-for-profit seeking to drive tech adoption in...

Sigfox placed into receivership in France – with six months to find buyers, save jobs

Sigfox has been placed into receivership in France, with a six month window to find a new owner. The company’s chief executive, Jeremy Prince, instructed the Toulouse Commercial Court to open the procedure yesterday (January 26), to place Sigfox, as well as local Sigfox...