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Liberty Lake based IoT provider Itron has signed a contract with Louisville Water Company, in Louisville, Kentucky, to replace around 280,000 water meters. Itron will install smart meters in their …

5G will only gets its wings in 2023, or thereabouts, when its full functionality is revealed in a standalone version of the new radio (NR) standard. That is when it …

U.S. IoT company Senet has inked a partnership with Zenseio, an IoT system integrator specializing in embedded technology, sensors and telemetry devices for the agriculture and industrial markets, the former said …

Firstly, that headline: too much? Perhaps, but let us make the case – and draw breath, for this may take some time. Industrial 5G is the only version of 5G …

Fingrid, Finland’s national transmission system operator, has appointed Nokia to build an IP/MPLS network to support the digital transformation of its national electrical grid.  Fingrid will use the network to …

Vodafone is embedding AWS compute and storage services at the edge of its 5G network in Europe, starting in the UK and Germany and rolling out to other European territories. …

France-based Orange has followed Spanish telecoms operator Telefónica to announce a major strategic overhaul that places analytics and automation, to underpin both internal efficiencies and external services, at the heart …

Japan’s Softbank will plough artificial intelligence (AI) and internet-of-things (IoT) technologies into a burgeoning smart city project in Indonesia, after striking a deal with Jakarta-based conglomerate Lippo Group. The deal, …

Siemens has followed country-mate Bosch to apply for spectrum licences in the 3.7-3.8 GHz band in Germany. The firm will seek to manage its own LTE and 5G networks in …

A doctor in Rome has performed “major surgery” on a patient in an operating theatre in the city of Terni, 100 kilometres away, using virtual reality glasses and a 5G …

Stephen Mellor picks up where he left off, and where we left him: the challenge with industrial IoT to gain widespread adoption is as much to do with interpretation as …

Telefónica has revealed a five-point reinvention plan to set it for “the next 100 years”. The strategy leans heavily into the digital transformation of industry and society, and sees the …

Japanese utility firm Nippon Gas (NICIGAS) announced plans to upgrade 850,000 gas meters with smart capabilities in 2020 using a retrofitted gas meter reader developed by UnaBiz and Soracom, the …

Will carriers be ousted, or forced to cede ground, in the enterprise market with the rise of private networking and the liberalisation of spectrum in the 5G era? Nokia thinks …

Made in Germany, commercialised in Canada, sold everywhere on the planet: that’s the recipe to make low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking, the backbone connectivity technology in the IoT space, finally deliver …

The number of cellular IoT connections will reach five billion by the end of 2025, from 1.3 billion by the end of 2019, according to Ericsson. Around a half will …

Bosch and Qualcomm have set up shop at the Smart Production Solutions (SPS) trade fair in Nuremberg, Germany, this week to show industrial devices using time-sensitive networking (TSN) over a …

German industrial giant Bosch, an early champion of privately operated industrial 5G for manufacturing, has confirmed it has applied for localised spectrum licenses in Germany and will trial private 5G …

Improbable as it seems, the chase might just be on. Having told Enterprise IoT Insights in the summer it has set a bonkers 2023 target of one billion IoT connections, …

BehrTech, licensee of the new MIOTY low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology, has announced a deal to integrate business and operations data for enterprises seeking to deploy sensor and analytics solutions. BehrTech …

The Lord Mayor of Dublin cut through the glad-handing and future-selling on the main stages at Smart City Expo World Congress 2019 in Barcelona yesterday (November 20), revealing at once …

IoT network provider Sigfox will enable private ultra-narrowband networks from early 2020, starting in France, it has announced. The company said it is on track to pass 15 million connected …

Nokia has deployed private LTE networks with more than 120 customers across multiple industries and geographies, it has revealed.  The Finnish vendor said it had deployed almost two in five …

Nokia is working with Hitachi Kokusai Electric in Japan to deploy private LTE and 5G networks for industrial and government customers in Japan. It has struck a parallel deal in …

IoT module maker Telit said revenues climbed 7.8 per cent to $274.5 million in the nine months to the end of September, compared with $254.7 million in the year-ago period. The …