Spending on factory-based IoT data applications will grow from $18 billion in 2019 to just over $27 billion in 2024, a rise of 50 per cent in the period. About $32 billion will go on industrial IoT platforms for smart manufacturing by 2025.
The market...
Mars is working with Microsoft and Accenture to bring new IoT and AI solutions to its manufacturing and supply-chain operations. The work is part of an expanded deal with Microsoft around its Azure cloud and analytics services, geared to drive digital change at the...
Industrial IoT provider Itron, specialising in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solutions for utilities, is working with Microsoft to provide cloud-based meter data management (MDM) services to customers. The pair have completed a round of performance and scalability testing of Itron’s Enterprise Edition Meter Data...
Japan-based electronics company Panasonic has acquired US supply management company Blue Yonder outright for $5.6 billion.
The deal, completed last month and slated to close shortly, saw Panasonic acquire the remaining 80 percent of shares in the company from New Mountain Capital, adding to the...
Telefónica has signed a deal with Microsoft to combine their private 5G networking and edge computing capabilities, respectively, for the industrial sector. The pair said their “joint vision” is to deploy integrated industrial-grade 5G communications and computing solutions on customers’ premises.
The arrangement is between...
Seattle-based industrial analytics company Seeq has closed a $50 million Series C funding round, led by global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners. The new funding means the firm, a star of industrial IoT on the venture capital scene, has achieved the...
This article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with commentary from the likes of Accenture, Appledore Research, EXFO, Nokia, Lufthansa Industry Solutions, and...
Nokia has picked up a couple of other contracts for deployment of private cellular networks in the mining sector, it has said, with Russian palladium and nickel mining company Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) and with Chilean copper mining company Codelco.
The new announcements -- by Nokia’s...
Microsoft and Siemens have signed up to the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance, a two-year old consortium of “European” industrial companies geared to drive cross-vendor interoperability for factories and warehouses. They join as “heavyweights” of the IT and OT sides of the conjoined industrial IoT...
This interview is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with commentary from the likes of Accenture, Appledore Research, EXFO, Nokia, Lufthansa Industry Solutions, Vodafone...
Siemens is to integrate Google’s cloud and analytics technologies with its factory automation portfolio. The pair said their offer will help manufacturing companies to move away from fragmented legacy software, and “bring AI/ML to the manufacturing industry at scale”.
Manufacturing companies continue to use legacy...
Deutsche Telekom has positioned itself as a system integrator (SI) in the emerging private 5G market for Industry 4.0, via a deal with AWS for managed edge infrastructure and services. It has also released a couple of all-in packages for factory and warehouse-based AI...
Verizon has introduced a new ‘hyper-precise location’ (HPL) service that uses ‘real-time kinematics’ (RTK) to deliver satellite-based location with centimetre-level accuracy. The HPL service is available via Verizon’s ThingSpace’s IoT platform to business customers and application developers using its 4G and 5G cellular networks...
French firms Atos, Dassault Systèmes, Groupe Renault, STMicroelectronics, and Thales have joined together to create a new ‘Software République’ to develop home-grown “sustainable mobility” solutions for cities, regions, and businesses, as well as for citizens.
The quintet said major industrial players “on other continents” are...
It sounded, at the time, like a sci-fi vision of the future of manufacturing: that with a hyper-connected 5G factory, the only fixed assets will be the floors, walls and ceilings. But Bosch appears effectively to have trumped its own fanciful trade-show talk, from...
Verizon and Honda are testing how new edge-based 5G could ensure reliable connectivity between road infrastructure, vehicles, and pedestrians. The pair are working at the University of Michigan’s Mcity, a test bed for connected and autonomous vehicles, on the project, with a view to...
The new version of the Zeetta Networks platform, which provides a dashboard for managing multiple private enterprise networks, as a “single pane of glass”, has already been tested as well in “large scale” smart city initiatives in the UK, including in Bristol (Bristol is...
Arm has unveiled its first new architecture in a decade to raise performance and security in the “next 300 billion Arm-based chips” to be delivered to the market over the coming decade. The firm said the new Armv9 architecture, replacing Armv8, is geared towards...
Esri UK announced a new partnership with global consulting and engineering services company Tetra Tech to offer customers an end-to-end solution for indoor mapping, the former said in a release.
The partnership aims to capitalize on the growing demand for indoor mapping for facilities management...
Australian network operator Telstra is to deploy weather stations on its NB-IoT network infrastructure in Queensland, in the northeast of the country, in order to create a hyper-local weather data and forecast system for farmers in the region.
The pilot project is being organised with...
Software AG and SAP have announced a deal to offer the former’s TrendMiner industrial analytics software on the latter’s industrial cloud platform for Industry 4.0 operations. The pair said factories can use TrendMinder as a self-service tool to bring new insights to shop floor...
IBM has teamed up with network vendor Samsung and mobile operator M1 in Singapore to open an ‘Industry 4.0 studio’, in its own name, to develop and test 5G and AI solutions for industrial applications in the Asia Pacific region. The new standalone (SA)...
Siemens has said it will provide an entire industrial 5G ‘system’ for private cellular networks in industry, covering the radio access network, core network, and compatible end-devices. It said industrial automation specialists are best to “take care of” the new 5G requirements from industry,...
Up to $800 billion will be spent on new and replacement server equipment and edge computing facilities in the period to 2028, driven by the deployment of 5G in industry, alongside the commoditization of edge hardware and the rise of open source networking software....
