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LoRaWAN initiatives combine to create UK’s largest free-to-use LPWA network

UK tech incubator Digital Catapult has meshed its Things Connected LoRaWAN network in with the UK footprint of Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN project The Things Network (TTN). The result is the UK’s largest free-to-use low-power wide-area (LPWA) network deployment and innovation community, according to its architects. UK...

Sprint launches 5G-ready connected car platform

Platform includes maintenance reminders, preventive notifications and roadside assistance   Sprint has partnered with NXM Labs to launch a 5G-ready connected car platform. The carrier said the platform will offer high-speed, on-demand passenger Wi-Fi with advanced vehicle health monitoring and safety. The connectivity service will be offered...

“We will seriously ‘productise’ CityVerve”, says Cisco, as seminal UK smart city pilot winds up

Cisco has said its so-called ‘platform-of-platforms’ has been proven as “procurable and replicable,” as Manchester’s ground-breaking CityVerve smart city pilot in the UK gets set to wind up after two years. Cisco will develop a commercial proposition for cities out of the final ashes...

AT&T sets 2019 schedule for rollout of NB-IoT networks in the US and Mexico

US carrier AT&T has confirmed it will launch a narrowband ‘internet-of-things’ (NB-IoT) network in the US early next year, and in Mexico by the end of next year. Its support for NB-IoT will run in parallel with its existing LTE-M network. AT&T said the...

Rohde & Schwarz first to release “comprehensive” C-V2X test suite for auto-makers

Munich-based test equipment supplier Rohde & Schwarz has updated its CMW500 radio tester and SMBV100A GNSS simulator to support cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) device certification. It is the first test equipment vendor to offer a “comprehensive” C-V2X test suite for the car industry, it said. 3GPP...

Time is right for industrial-scale digital transformation, say GE Digital and Verizon

“If you are not investing in these technologies to drive your own product gains, know that your competitors are already doing so. If you haven’t started, you need to; the industrial IoT (IIoT) race has already begun.” This was the view from GE Digital...

Huawei releases new internet of vehicles platform, smart airport solution

Huawei expects its OceanConnect IoV platform to enable the digital transformation of automobile manufacturers Huawei announced the release of the OceanConnect "internet of vehicles" (IoV) platform, which will enable intelligent and connected vehicles, as well as a new version of its smart airport solution. Huawei highlighted...

Ericsson doubles five-year IoT forecast to 3.5bn LTE-M and NB-IoT connections

Cellular ‘internet-of-thing’ (IoT) connections will reach 3.5 billion by 2023, from around 0.6 billion million today, with compound annual growth of 30 per cent per year, according to Ericsson, with most take-up in the industrial and automotive markets. In total, Ericsson predicts 19.8 billion...

Comcast launches IoT solution for water utilities via new partnership

The new IoT-based solution combines Comcast’s IoT service machine with Neptune LoRa-enabled water meters Comcast’s internet of things service, machineQ, and U.S water technology company, Neptune Technology Group, have announced a collaboration on an IoT solution designed to accelerate smart city projects focused on advanced...

London hatches five-step digital plan to be smartest city of them all

London has set out a five-point digital strategy to make it the smartest city in the world.  Among more than 20 initiatives, bucketed into five ‘mission’ themes, the plan details a new Civic Innovation Challenge to match startups with enterprises, a new London Office for...

The IIoT interview: “We want as many IoT devices as possible,” says Verizon

US carrier Verizon wants to make it easier for enterprises to launch IoT services on its LTE-M network. Its new ThingSpace Ready programme is designed to help developers and enterprises build, certify and manage IoT devices more easily and cheaply. Enterprise IoT Insights chats...

NB-IoT and LTE-M to usurp unlicensed LPWA as the go-to choice for IoT by 2023

The rate of growth of licensed low-power, wide-area (LPWA) network connections will outpace their unlicensed equivalents as the LPWA market swells by 53 per cent per year over the next five years. By 2023, NB-IoT and LTE-M will capture more than 55 per cent...

Edge computing: 4 facts vs. fiction (Reader Forum)

Today’s IT landscape is all about moving towards the microdata centers, as the demand for edge computing pushes through the need for quick and instant access to data. Edge computing is localized computing for systems that operate away from the primary data center. Typically,...

Vodafone helps connect flour mills in Africa with IoT technology

Vodafone's IoT connectivity would allow mills to provide fortified flour to millions of people in African countries   U.K.-based telecom group Vodafone is currently working with Sanku (Project Healthy Children) to equip small flour mills across Africa with internet of things (IoT) services to provide fortified...

Huawei launches new double-capacity Release-14 NB-IoT solution

The Chinese vendor said the new product doubles the cell capacity of previous terminals Huawei has launched what it claims to be the world's first 3GPP Release 14-based commercial NB-IoT solution in eRAN13.1. Huawei said that this new NB-IoT solution increases data rates by a factor...

EC proposes €51.6bn for new industrial transformation tech and infrastructure

The European Commission (EC) has proposed a total budget of €51.5 billion for new technologies and network infrastructure under its next funding cycle, from 2021 to 2027, to drive industrial transformation and technological leadership across the region. As part of two separate proposals, it has...

Sigfox and HERE combine to offer global location services to logistics companies

Sigfox has struck a deal with mapping company HERE to create a global internet-of-things (IoT) location service for the supply chain and logistics industry. The deal will see Sigfox’s low-power wide-area (LPWA) network and geolocation engine supplemented Wi-Fi hotspot coverage from Dutch firm HERE, owned...

What is OPC UA TSN, and how does it work? (The long read, with Cisco and SAP)

The emergence of the OPC UA TSN communications stack, backed by a loose-knit consortium of automation specialists, is a key part of the developing industrial IoT narrative, with halting technological innovation and industrial transformation set to be kick-started by its release and deployment in...

How airports, like miniature smart cities, offer multi-sided IoT use cases

For technologists, airports in general, and the planet?s busiest ones in particular, are like smart cities in microcosm. They encapsulate a head-spinning array of services and applications, covering everything from waste collection and traffic management to private retail and mission-critical controls. Threading new airports with...

Canadian firm launches LoRaWAN wireless solutions for smart city, enterprise IoT apps

Eleven-x said the new solutions allow existing sensors to provide real-time data collection and monitoring   Eleven-x, a Canadian firm operating a nationwide public low-power network, has launched a new platform that offers interface units which enable wireless LoRaWAN connectivity for currently deployed but unconnected smart...

LoRaWAN for IoT gaining traction with network deployments, device support

Comcast deploys LoRaWAN in San Francisco; Laird gateway has Senet support baked-in From devices to connectivity, the internet of things (IoT) market is a crowded space. Cellular standards like LTE-M and NB-IoT are seeing widespread support from operators while proprietary tech like LoRa is drawing...

Nokia to deploy 100Gbps optical transport network for SGCC power grid in China

Nokia has won a contract to deliver an optical transport network (OTN) to the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), covering the SGCC’s power grid operations in Beijing and Tianjin. The deal will see the SGCC achieve 100Gbps speeds in its transport network, up...

Google Cloud joins LoRa Alliance to bolster IoT analytics and insights

Google Cloud has joined the LoRa Alliance as a sponsor member. Its input will help LoRaWAN operators glean deeper insights from data analytics running in their low-power wide-area (LPWA) ‘internet of things’ (IoT) networks, said the LoRa Alliance. Donna Moore, chief executive of the LoRa...

How Honeywell is helping building managers improve indoor efficiencies

New Jersey-based Honeywell is helping organizations to boost efficiency through the use of an application with the aim of improving the quality and comfort levels of workspaces. The Honeywell Vector Occupant app, which is available for iOS and Android devices, represents the first step...