The internet of things (IoT) is a game-changer for enterprises and consumers, making every day operations more efficient for organizations and individuals.
As smart cities evolve, government agencies are prioritizing IoT initiatives, and deploying low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks to collect data, and using advanced...
Inside the factory of the future, everything will be fluid, except for the floors, walls, and ceilings. Industrial assets – machines, devices, and vehicles – will be animated by 5G technologies, and made intelligent by edge and cloud analytics, enabling factory owners to swap-around...
The industrial 5G market will benefit from the consumer 5G market, with network deployments starting in earnest in late 2019 and early 2020, as industrial devices take advantage of the muscular combination of connectivity, compute power, and security brought to bear in 5G smartphones....
Finnish vendor Nokia will build a private 5G test network for Chinese auto-maker FAW to spur digital transformation of its industrial machines and processes.
The pair have signed a “strategic” memorandum-of-understanding to carry out joint research into “smart connected cars, industrial IoT, smart manufacturing...
Car maker Audi, like other giants of German manufacturing, is sitting on a tranche of vacant radio spectrum that has been liberated by the German telecoms regulator for test purposes ahead of its official release as an industrial band with the country’s wider 5G...
Semtech opens-up and makes-free its LoRaWAN Academy
Semtech, the Californian chip-maker that owns and licenses the LoRa technology, is offering free educational modules via its LoRaWAN Academy for students, engineers, developers, and enterprises developing LoRa-based IoT solutions.
The LoRaWAN Academy launched in late 2017 and initially...
Finnish vendor Nokia and Italian operator Telecom Italia have joined with six international agri-tech firms on a smart agriculture initiative, ConectarAGRO, that seeks to bring connectivity, automation and intelligence to 93 per cent of Brazilian farmers.
The Brazilian arm of Telecom Italia (TIM...
More from the cutting room floor, leftover from the early 2019 conference season, which should have made the cut in the first place.
Here, following initial discussion with Cameron Coursey, vice president of IoT product development at AT&T, about the drive by operators to...
Samsung and Telensa are to collaborate on smart city projects around streetlighting and data governance, with work slated in South Korea, followed by wider deployments across Asia Pacific and in the United States. The pair will also bring Samsung’s knowhow in 5G, artificial intelligence...
Ericsson has teamed up with Canadian systems integrator Ambra Solutions to sell private LTE and 5G networks to mining companies worldwide. Ambra will partner with Ericsson customers, in the shape of “global service providers”, as part of the deal, delivering private networks for the...
Another from the MWC 2019 vaults, which has so far slipped through the gaps of a hectic quarter at Enterprise IoT Insights. This time, we catch up with Cameron Coursey, vice president of IoT product development at AT&T, to discuss how the US carrier...
Nokia will provide the cellular plumbing for a new €18 million public-private research initiative into the application of 5G in the industrial space.
The project, which goes under the moniker 5G Vertical Integrated Industry for Massive Automation (5G VIIMA), is being billed as a...
UK smart-city firm Telensa has struck a deal with the city of Harrisburg, the state capital of Pennsylvania in the US, to trial traffic analytics, air quality monitoring, and smart waste sensor systems using its connected street lighting system.
Harrisburg deployed a Telensa smart...
The city of Reno, in Nevada, is using blockchain technology to validate data communications between autonomous vehicles and street infrastructure.
The University of Nevada and Reno’s Center for Applied Research (NCAR) have teamed up with local blockchain company Filament on the vehicle-to-everything (V2X) trial, which...
Finnish network vendor Nokia and Finnish private LTE provider Ukkoverkot have signed a four-year deal to bring connectivity, automation, and intelligence to the Port of Kokkola, also in Finland.
The Port of Kokkola is the third largest ‘general’ port in Finland. It is also...
UK-based Mettis Aerospace, manufacturer of components for the likes of Airbus, Boeing and Rolls-Royce, is to test Wi-Fi 6 for connecting industrial machines and processes. The Wireless Broadband Alliance said the trials represent the first of Wi-Fi 6 for enterprise and industrial internet-of-things (IoT)...
Europe moved a step closer to rejecting 5G for autonomous vehicles in favour of wi-fi based communications last week, after the European Parliament voted in favour of the latter technology as proven, and “easy to implement and cheap”.
Around 60 per cent of the vote...
Annual revenue from smart street lights will grow at compound annual rate of 31 per cent to reach $1.7 billion in 2026, reckons ABI Research.
The analyst house said street lighting programmes will continue to focus on replacing conventional lamps with LED lamps through...
US frozen drinks company Freezing Point, parent to slushie brand Frazil, has partnered with Norwegian engineering firm 7Sense to develop a low-cost, retrofittable cellular NB-IoT circuit board to make its in-store slushie machines smart.
The circuit board, based on the nRF9160 System-in-Package (SiP) from...
UK smart street-lighting firm Telensa has appointed Belfast-based digital services provider Kainos as lead partner in the ramp-up and rollout of its Urban Data Project to additional smart cities.
The Urban Data Project initiative launched in Cambridge, in the UK, in February, and brings...
Japanese telecommunications
operator NTT DoCoMo, together with compatriot logistics firm Itochu Logistics
Corp. and their U.S. subsidiaries announced that they will trial an IoT
solution for delivery-fleet management in the United States.
The companies said that this
IoT-based solution uses LTE-M devices to visualize operational status of
outsourced trucks.
The trial...
The original Monarch system-in-package (SiP) from French chipmaker Sequans Communications has been made available Verizon’s ThingSpace IoT ‘accelerator programme’ for just $6.50.
The new price point is a significant advance on the magic $10 mark for IoT chips that was breached in the middle of...
German automotive manufacturer Volkswagen will start construction of its own 5G mobile networks in 122 factories in Germany in 2020, according to a report in Wirtschaftswoche, the German business magazine.
Volkswagen, the largest automaker by worldwide sales, has issued a tender to network equipment vendors....
French internet of things specialist Sigfox has announced the launch of a nationwide IoT network in Canada.
Through the partnership with the Sigfox Global Network, Sigfox Canada can provide customers with IoT coverage in any of the 60 countries around the world where the firm...
