Zeetta Networks and the University of Bristol have switched on a private LTE testbed at the UK’s National Composites Centre as part of the government-backed 5G-ENCODE project, which seeks to investigate private 5G as a springboard for Industry 4.0 and new economic growth in...
The timing is uncanny, and probably rigged, but Nokia has followed old rival Ericsson to announce a deal with AT&T for cloud-based private LTE, and trumped it – in terms of one-upmanship – with a global arrangement with Verizon for distribution of the 5G...
What is asset tracking, anyway? And what is it worth? Because tracking of machine data, one way or another, is easily conflated with the internet-of-things (IoT) movement, at large. And we all know about the mad growth slated for general purpose IoT. Fifty billion...
1 | FedEx + BLE – for tracking vaccine shipments
FedEx has introduced a new Bluetooth based asset tracking system in time for anticipated shipping of COVID-19 vaccines, as well as for other emergency pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. Customers in the aerospace and retail sectors will...
AT&T is offering localised private LTE and 5G in CBRS spectrum using Ericsson’s pre-packed radio access and cloud-based core networking products, along with its own multi-access edge computing portfolio. The pair are targeting enterprises looking to take advantage of the newly-available CBRS band in...
Bosch and Mercedes-Benz have teamed with garage operator Apcoa to test out a new automated driverless valet parking at Stuttgart airport.
The new automated valet parking system co-developed by Bosch and Mercedes is being tested in two parking spaces at the P6 parking garage at...
A so-called 5G+ combination of edge computing, data analytics, and private networking will drive the global economy upwards by seven percent, potentially, or $8 trillion, in 2030. So says a comprehensive-looking new study by Nokia and Nokia Bell Labs, which also reckons spending on...
A new $600 million round of funding by the US Department of Defense (DOD) is being made available for testing military-grade and industrial-grade 5G. The investment will go into smart logistics and industrial AR and VR systems, alongside combat-orientated aircraft and missile communications and...
Software AG wants to make carriers the go-to agents for private 5G campus networks in ‘vertical’ spectrum, and the collective face for new 5G-geared industrial change.
The Darmstadt based company, which positions itself already as the leading provider of IoT-based analytics and integration tools for...
Rockwell Automation and Microsoft have signed a new five-year deal to combine their expertise in operational and information technology (OT and IT), to deliver new edge-to-cloud IoT solutions that bring connectivity and intelligence for industrial transformation. The deal will focus, in a major way,...
BT and Toshiba have deployed an unhackable six-kilometre length of quantum encrypted fibre optic cable for transfer of highly sensitive data between different industrial facilities. It is the first deployment in the UK of a quantum-secure point-to-point fibre network, for sharing encryption ‘keys’ between...
Swiss Re and Hitachi are offering to insure industrial companies against business disruption from bad or back-firing algorithms in critical AI-controlled processes and operations. It is the first time enterprises have been offered insurance against AI.
The arrangement is between the commercial insurance division of...
The global market for connected edge computing services will grow to about $7 billion in 2025, representing a seven-fold jump over 2019. The lion’s share – as much as two thirds, or $4.6bn – will go to the likes of Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s...
Textile production company Chamatex, in conjunction with sports equipment brand Salomon, are to build a smart shoe factory in France. The site will run automated production of sports shoes, “from start to finish”, the pair said. Siemens will be responsible for sundry IoT and...
IoT provider Sierra Wireless has been selected by IoT tracking firm Ekatra to underpin its industrial tank monitoring solution, which is geared particularly towards fertilizer tanks in the farming industry. Ekatra has integrated the Cabadian firm’s ‘full-stack’ Octave IoT platform into its new product,...
Arm has introduced a suite of new safety-critical computing solutions for autonomous systems in the automotive and industrial sectors. The UK-based firm said its new silicon design blueprints are designed for high-powered computing scenarios where safety is a critical factor. In particular, it highlighted...
France-based energy management and automation specialist Schneider Electric has deployed the first private indoor 5G network in the industrial sector in France. The firm has worked with mobile operator Orange and telecoms vendor Nokia. The network utilises “experimental frequencies”.
The network has been live at...
Analytics and integration firm Software AG has scored a couple of major industrial IoT wins, it claims, running to seven and eight figures over multi-year subscriptions, and generally reasserted its buoyancy as the enterprise queue for digital-change has been reshuffled in the wake of...
Wait and hope. That was the message from Huawei this week as it restated its master plan for supremacy of the digital change circuit in the shadow of stretching US sanctions against the firm. The company’s rotating chairman, Guo Ping, told the company’s CONNECT...
Siemens has joined an industrial 5G accelerator programme as part of a collaboration between Ericsson and UK innovation agency Digital Catapult. US data storage company Seagate and UK robotics specialist Tharsus are also on board. The work is geared around private 5G setups; the...
A new €2 million open networking testbed has been unveiled in Ireland, for leading researchers in the field to collaborate with industry on 5G wireless radio, optical fibre, and data centre initiatives, and for Irish and European-led research into next-generation telecoms projects. The infrastructure...
The National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore Technologies (ST) Engineering have signed a $6.6 million deal on a multi-year research programme to build a “people-centric smart future” for Singapore. A press statement from the pair says the research is for “Singapore, and beyond”,...
Nokia has integrated key industrial IoT capabilities into its as-a-service edge networking solution for on-premise private LTE and 5G. These include high-end machine learning analytics and high-precision BLE-based positioning, plus simpler integration with Microsoft Azure IoT cloud modules and pre-engineered compatibility with core industrial...
The IoT market for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services will reach $1.09 billion in 2020 and grow to about 10-times the size, to $10.6 billion, by 2026, according to market advisory firm ABI Research.
The massive growth of so-called ‘advanced analytics’ within...
