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Steel giant Severstal taps MTS, Ericsson for private LTE at Russian mega mine

Steel giant Severstal has appointed Russian mobile operator MTS, working with Swedish network vendor Ericsson, to build a private LTE network at the Karelskiy Okatysh iron ore mining and processing plant. The site, in the Republic of Karelia, is one of the largest iron...

What is Coordinated Multipoint and how does it impact 5G manufacturing?

To further explore the intersection of 5G and manufacturing, register for the 5G Manufacturing Forum.    What are the main benefits of Coordinated Multipoint? In future cellular networks, the demand for very high capacity is expected to grow at a quick pace, casting challenging requirements to the...

How will 3GPP Release 17 and 18 accelerate 5G manufacturing?

To further explore the intersection of 5G and manufacturing, register for the 5G Manufacturing Forum.  The development of Release 17 and 18 and its potential impact in 5G manufacturing   3GPP release 18 represents a major evolution of the 5G System and due to this the 3GPP...

Arm teams with Tech Mahindra on private 5G and open RAN test centre

Arm has opened a virtual ‘5G solutions lab’ with India-based system integrator Tech Mahindra. The setup will provide a live test environment for Arm’s customers in chip production, network design, network operation, and enterprise fields to demo 5G network solutions, it said. In particular,...

Volkswagen recruits Nokia for private 5G network at flagship factory in Wolfsburg

It is a year late, but automotive giant Volkswagen has deployed a private 5G network at its main plant in Wolfsburg in Germany. Nokia has supplied the networking equipment for the project, which is being presented as a pilot, and utilizes the dedicated 3.7-3.8...

Vodafone and Deloitte team up on virtual centre for digital healthcare

Vodafone and Deloitte have teamed up on a virtual centre for digital healthcare. The new facility, called the Vodafone Centre for Health with Deloitte, combines the former’s healthcare solutions and the latter’s healthcare consultancy practice. The two will collaborate, they said, to simplify access...

Top 10 5G manufacturing use cases

To further explore the intersection of 5G and manufacturing, register for the 5G Manufacturing Forum.    The emergence of 5G technology will have a great impact in the way Industry 4.0 manufacturers, or “smart factories,” produce and distribute goods. The key elements of 5G, which are...

Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson claim ‘world first’ 5G slicing for enterprise use cases

Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson have claimed a “world-first” implementation of end-to-end 5G network slicing with on-demand quality-of-service (QoS) control for enterprise use cases. The tests ran in Deutsche Telekom’s innovation lab in Bonn, using a commercial grade 5G SA network from Ericsson. They focused...

Vodafone issues NB-IoT iSIM prototype for environmental monitoring on UK’s Jurassic Coast

Vodafone has deployed iSIM-based NB-IoT-connected sensor units, loosely resembling the printable iSIM tracker solution it developed with Altair and Arm for pharma firm Bayer last year, along the UK's southern coast. The new project is to help academics, businesses, and local authorities bring new...

Investment in industrial IoT to trump cloud, security, analytics in next three years

New research from UK satellite company Inmarsat says IoT is set to overtake cloud computing as the primary Industry 4.0 technology, with enterprise IT investments in industrial IoT to trump everything else in the next three years, including next generation security, big data analytics,...

Nokia releases new private 5G devices for Industry 4.0 ‘teams and machines’

Nokia has released a new range of industrial 5G devices to go with its twin DAC and MPW private wireless products, and its newly bundled MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) edge portfolio. New ruggedized 5G SA devices include a smartphone, field routers, and a 5G...

Disruptive tech a hard sell for anxious enterprises – the real challenge for NB-IoT

He-said / she-said; the finger-pointing between the rank and file in the cellular NB-IoT sector is futile, and wrong anyway. So says Adarsh Krishnan, research director at ABI Research, one of the better commentators on the subject. If we are to play the blame...

Celona scores hat-trick of private LTE deals in CBRS band – in schools, cities, factories

Private LTE provider Celona has announced a hat-trick of private network projects. The Cupertino firm is working with Joint Venture Silicon Valley (JVSV), a local enterprise forum in Silicon Valley, to bring CBRS-based private LTE to the Campbell Union Elementary School District in the...

‘No one is making money’ – the China NB-IoT story is a cautionary tale, says Nordic

The China model for NB-IoT – state-sponsored incentives, flat-rated airtime pricing, commoditization of hardware – is not all it is cracked up to be, reckon some. Market stats, from various analyst groups, suggest the lion’s share (anecdotally, 90-95 percent) of the NB-IoT market, as...

Hiber signs up to use Inmarsat’s ELERA satellite system for hard-to-reach IoT

Busy Dutch industrial IoT scale-up Hiber has announced it will use Inmarsat’s new ELERA satellite IoT network to expand its own low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT network, which goes under the name Hiberband. The deal allows Hiber, founded in 2016, to “gain years in satellite...

Nokia adds third-party apps to MXIE edge system, claims 100Gbps on single 5G server

Nokia has added a number of applications from third-party Industry 4.0 vendors to its new MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) solution, released last week, including PTC’s ThingWorx IoT platform and Kepware industrial connectivity engine, plus the Linux Foundation’s Fledge framework for IT/OT data aggregation. It...

UnaBiz raises $25m in Series B round to set itself as ‘unified LPWAN’ solution provider

Singapore-based IoT service provider UnaBiz has raised a further $25 million as part of a Series B funding round led by Tokyo-based investment company SPARX Group. The round was oversubscribed, the company said, with participation also from Taiwanese venture and private equity firm CDIB...

Satellite IoT market to hit 15.7m connections in 2025, growing 35.8% per year

The number of satellite IoT subscribers will increase at a compound rate of 35.8 percent per year to reach 15.7 million in 2025, from around 3.4 million in 2020. Analyst firm Berg Insight, with a new research report, said the market for satellite IoT...

Orange combines with IoT Continuum bandmates on pre-certified LTE-M trackers

Swedish tracker company C Security Systems has appointed Orange Business Services, together with its bandmates in the recently-formed IoT Continuum initiative, to accelerate delivery of LTE-M trackers in Europe. C Security Systems, headquartered in Stockholm, specializes in tracking devices for boats, pets, and agricultural...

Druid Software recruited by Proximus and BICS to enable private-public 5G SA roaming

Ireland-based private core network provider Druid Software has been recruited by Proximus to serve enterprise customers running private 4G and 5G installations. It has been working with the Belgian network operator, along with its international roaming business BICS, to test outbound roaming between public...

Peachtree Corners, T-Mobile press go on 5G-V2X for Level 4/5 autonomous shuttles

The Atlanta suburb of Peachtree Corners in the US, playing home to a live smart city testbed, is working with T-Mobile to launch a new fleet of 5G-powered autonomous shuttles for local residents. The service is being provided by mobility solutions provider Beep, with...

Nokia mixes private 5G and edge compute in new MXIE master bundle for Industry 4.0

Nokia has bundled industrial-grade compute, storage, and networking into a single edge solution for mission-critical Industry 4.0. The new package comes with industrial IoT sensing and analytics applications, as well, plus a “single pane of glass” management platform to draw together newly-connected operational technology...

Singapore Zoo installs 1,000 LoRaWAN meters in bid to save 10% of water, electricity

Semtech Corporation has teamed with Singapore-based IoT metering company Sindcon to deploy around 1,000 (“plus”) LoRaWAN energy and water metering devices at the Singapore Zoo. Sindcon worked with local utility Electrique Energie & Metering on the project, also. The target is to save 10...

Did IoT just get ‘massive’? Vodafone signs multi-million multi-market NB-IoT deal

Note this article is taken from a forthcoming editorial report from Enterprise IoT Insights on the state of the NB-IoT market; the report will appear here next week. An Enterprise IoT Insights webinar on the same topic, with panellists from BICS, Nordic Semiconductor, and...