Data Analytics

Smart traffic management systems will save cities $277 billion by 2025, by reducing traffic congestion. The figure is a rise of 55 percent on the 2021 savings forecast, of $178 …

(Am I really going to write this?) 6G is a trillion dollar opportunity, apparently. So says the headline in a PR missive about a new report from research firm IDTechEx, …

US carrier Verizon has signed a deal to acquire Austrian industrial robotics software company Incubed IT (stylized as incubed IT) for an undisclosed fee. Its rationale is to complement its …

Spending on big data and analytics in the oil and gas industry is increasing at a rate of about 75 percent per year, as companies rapidly dispense with in-house IoT …

Vodafone is launching a higher-accuracy GNSS-based positioning technology for enterprises to remotely track vehicles, machines, and devices to within 10 centimetres, compared to around three metres with standard satellite systems. …

Mobile operator COSMOTE has deployed the first LTE-based private campus network in Greece for smart manufacturing, it has announced. The new deployment, at a production facility belonging to Greek solar …

The UK divisions of Spain-based mobile operator Telefónica and Italy-based aerospace manufacturer Leonardo have announced a deal to collaborate on private 5G for Industry 4.0, including for the “high-pace” manufacturing …

Volkswagen Group is to build a cloud-based ‘automated driving platform’ on Microsoft Azure to accelerate development of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving functions for group car brands. …

Sigfox is to migrate its entire IoT infrastructure to Google Cloud, the company has said. Until now, Sigfox has managed its core network infrastructure and data services from its own …

Telefónica is working with Mavenir and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer managed IoT connectivity to industrial, manufacturing, public sector, and automotive customers anywhere in the world using the former’s …

Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom are bundling private cellular and edge computing into an integrated ‘campus’ networking package for enterprises globally. The pair are offering the same in Germany, already; their …

Note, this post is continued from an article called, “5G helped us through Covid’ – Lufthansa Technik on private 5G with Nokia, Vodafone”. Click here to see the previous instalment. …

Ericsson is to deploy a standalone private 5G network at a Ford engine plant in Valencia, in Spain. The trial installation is part of a European Union initiative to drive …

Bosch said this week it has so far sold 10 million connected power tools, home appliances, and heating systems, and has added about €300 million in revenue by adding artificial …

Farming is just outdoor manufacturing, says John Deere; the whole concept of ‘smart manufacturing’ is only novel to cloistered production, taking place indoors, out of the rain. Farmers have been …

Dell Technologies and VMware are working with South Korean operator SK Telecom to bundle together private 5G and multi-access edge compute (MEC) to help carriers sell Industry 4.0 to enterprises, …

Private LTE and 5G for industry appears to be rolling faster than anyone expected. UK-based mobile operator Vodafone took the floor at a (really cracking) private LTE and 5G event …

The parallel narratives around cellular 5G and Industry 4.0 are about to collide. China has said it will build 30 brand new ‘smart factories’ by 2023, all of them threaded …

Austria-based A1 Telekom has acquired a majority share in local smart-city analytics startup Invenium, in which the mobile operator has held a stake since 2017. The unit, originally a spin-off …

The bar for digitally enabled manufacturing services keeps rising and will be boosted by the investments made during 2020. While companies race to innovate, it is important to remember that …

It’s hard to believe that at the start of last year some people were still openly questioning whether IoT was real, or if it would ever arrive in any significant …

Electric transmission and distribution utility Versant Power will deploy advanced metering solutions and smart meters in Maine, in the US, with a view to modernize its electricity grid. Versant Power …

Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII), which brands itself as the Smart Manufacturing Institute in the US, are working together to accelerate the development, …

IoT chipmaker Nordic Semiconductor has added artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to its flagship series of Bluetooth IoT chips, to bring contextual insights at the very edge on low-power …

The Covid-19 pandemic has deeply disrupted existing ‘just-in-time’ models of supply chain management and manufacturing. Around the world, many production lines ground to a halt in 2020, and a light …