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Huawei, Audi strengthen intelligent connected vehicles cooperation

  Huawei said it has integrated its mobile data center platform into the Audi Q7   Huawei and Audi announced plans to strengthen their cooperation in the field of intelligent connected vehicles. During the Huawei Connect event taking place this week in Shanghai, China, the two partners carried...

Five reasons to bet (now) on a fourth industrial revolution

“The kaleidoscope has been shaken; the pieces are in flux.” It is a phrase written for the political age, almost two decades ago. But as an analogy for ground-shaking change, it suits the mad-paced technology market’s face-off with industry particularly well. For the technology market...

German firm works with truck manufacturers in European platooning plan

  EU co-funded ENSEMBLE project aims to introduce multi-brand platooning on European roads by 2021   German company ZF said it is currently working with truck manufacturers as part of the European Union's co-funded ENSEMBLE project to test programs with the goal of introducing multi-brand platooning on...

CommScope’s PoE lab tests Cat6A thermal performance for next-gen applications

As building owners continue to make technology investments in optical fiber and category 6A cabling to enable the more efficient use of Power over Ethernet (PoE), IoT and cloud-based applications in commercial and industrial buildings, it?s critical to ensure that the building?s cabling structure...

Softbank, Toyota ink deal to create mobility services JV

  The JV, dubbed MONET, aims to create a mobility-as-a-service business unit in 2020   Japanese firms Toyota and SoftBank have agreed to form a strategic partnership to facilitate the creation of new mobility services, and plan to establish a joint venture company, MONET Technologies Corporation, before...

SoftBank completes key connection tests for NIDD technology

  The new technology enables users to transmit data to IoT devices without the need of an IP address   Japanese carrier SoftBank announced that it has successfully completed what it claims to be the world’s first connection test in a commercial environment for Non-IP Data Delivery...

T-Mobile US certifies u-blox’s module for its NB-IoT network

  The U.S. carrier launched a nationwide NB-IoT network in July 2018   Swiss firm u‑blox says that T‑Mobile US has certified its LTE Cat NB1 SARA‑N410 module to run on the carrier’s narrowband internet of things network. U-blox said its module, which supports ultra-low power consumption, can...

Sprint’s IoT platform will be finished and 5G-ready next month, says Ericsson

Ericsson will have completed construction of Sprint’s new IoT core network and operating system (OS) by next month, it has said. The US carrier will be able to offer ‘internet of things’ (IoT) connectivity and applications on the new infrastructure in November. The IoT platform,...

IIC seeks cross-sector alliances to bring harmony as IIoT momentum builds

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) is on a charm offensive to strike cross sector alliances with trade bodies, communities and consortia to bring greater harmony and faster transformation of industry as it engages with new digital technologies. The IIC said last month it had “global...

Kuwait announces smart meter project with Ericsson and Zain

  Ericsson will provide SAP’s HANA in-memory platform for this smart meter project   Kuwait's Ministry of Electricity and Water has announced a new smart meter project which will connect hundreds of thousands of buildings across the Arab country. Under the project, the government aims to install a...

Iridium, AWS partner to offer satellite IoT solution

  The agreement will make Iridium IoT services available with AWS IoT   Satellite communications company Iridium Communications has been collaborating with Amazon Web Services to develop a new service dubbed Iridium Cloud Connect, a satellite cloud-based solution that offers global coverage for internet of things applications. Iridium,...

Ericsson, Telstra test long-range NB-IoT connection in Australia

  Ericsson said the new technology will allow the carrier to expand its LTE footprint across the country   Swedish vendor Ericsson and Australian carrier Telstra said they have successfully deployed and tested narrowband internet of things data connections up to 100 kilometers from a base station...

AT&T sets flat-rate full-fat LTE-M plan at £30 per month – per AT&T IoT device

AT&T has introduced a flat-rate full-fat LTE-M data plan in the US of £30 per month for unlimited data. The One Rate subscription applies only to AT&T-approved IoT LTE-M devices, and to single devices at a time – data cannot be pooled across multiple internet-of-things...

U.S Cellular targets business, rural customers with new IoT deal

  The regional carrier inked an agreement with IoT America to provide a suite of IoT solutions   U.S. Cellular has signed an agreement with Internet of Things America to provide a suite of IoT solutions for business customers and farmers across the country. The regional carrier said...

Spark switches on LTE Cat-M1 IoT network in New Zealand

  The telco already operates an IoT network based on LoRaWAN technology across New Zealand   New Zealand telecom operator Spark has switched on its second internet of things network, which brings LTE Cat-M1 to the carrier ’s 4G mobile network. Spark said that the new IoT network...

Kerlink wins contract for IoT Scotland project

Under the contract, the French IoT specialist will install up to 500 gateways across Scotland   French internet of things specialist Kerlink has been selected as the provider of hardware and software for IoT Scotland, which is a nationwide, low-power, wide-area network. Under the project, Kerlink will...

AT&T opens Texas innovation lab for industry ‘verticals’ to test 5G, AI, SDN and IoT

AT&T is inviting companies in the manufacturing, retail, health, finance, and public sector industries into its Foundry innovation lab in Plano, Texas, for the first time to collaborate on new digital solutions. A new area within the facility has been given over to “all aspects...

Train reliability can jump 30% with predictive maintenance, claim Nokia and Altran

Telecoms vendor Nokia and engineering firm Altran have announced a predictive maintenance solution to streamline the upkeep of trains from all manufacturers. Nokia said it will make trains up to 30 per cent more reliable in terms of their availability, and 20 per cent more...

Arm: “Innovation won’t stop, it will just get harder – get over it”

The old drivers for the advancement and miniaturisation of computing may be about spent, but there is plenty of innovation in the pipe during the next five years, Arm co-founder and chief technology officer Mike Muller told the Arm Research Summit in Cambridge, in...

Sprint, Vodafone call on Arm to embed and secure IoT connectivity

Operators Sprint and Vodafone have backed Arm’s integrated SIM (iSIM) technology to help the internet-of-things (IoT) market reach scale. Sprint confirmed it is working with fellow Softbank companies Arm and Packet on its new IoT platform, announced last week. Swedish vendor Ericsson has been handed...

Revealed: The world’s smartest factories and manufacturers

The most advanced factories in the world are in Europe and Asia, according to a new review of smart manufacturing by the World Economic Forum. Just one of the top factories is in the US. However, German and the US companies, often working outside their...

myDevices inks deal with Alibaba Group to launch IoT solutions in China

The JV with Alibaba Cloud’s IoT unit will allow the US firm to offers IoT solutions for Chinese companies   U.S. firm myDevices has partnered with the IoT business unit of Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, to launch turnkey...

Sigfox eyes “heavy” expansion in the US, targeting logistics and utilities sectors

  Sigfox said it will focus on Russia, China and India to boost growth next year   French internet of things connectivity provider Sigfox is looking to expand its operations in the U.S. market, with special focus on a number of key verticals, Franck Siegel, Sigfox’s chief...

Why ultra-low 5G latencies are not assured, and Europe is worst placed

The physics of time-division duplexing in radio communications means 5G could, in certain frequency bands, struggle to achieve the ultra low latencies it promises. Worse, in some markets, regulatory forces have compounded the challenge with backwards rules about 5G radio operations. As a consequence, radio...