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Released by Arm, buoyed by Bayer – Pelion shifts to the edge and comes of age

IoT device management platform Pelion, previously a unit within Arm, has been spun-out as a standalone business, wholly-owned by the UK chip design firm. At the same time, it has integrated its connectivity management and device management engines, and bundled a new application management...

Citymesh ups 3.5 GHz holding in North Sea to support 5G wind-farm comms with Nokia

Private network operator and industrial connectivity specialist Citymesh has expanded its spectrum holding in Belgium to 100MHz of the 3.5 GHz band. It will use the new tranche of spectrum to bolster private 5G capacity in the North Sea, including to support the Belgian...

Bouygues Teleco and IBM team up on 5G for factories, hospitals, utilities, cities

France-based Bouygues Telecom has joined with IBM to collaborate with enterprises on industrial 5G use cases in the manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, energy and utilities, and smart city sectors. Bouygues Telecom said the rollout of 5G networks in France in the coming weeks will give rise...

Manufacturing, construction, agriculture to drive 80% of £15bn 5G boom in UK

Over three quarters of projected economic growth from 5G in the UK will be driven by just three sectors: manufacturing, construction, and agriculture. These industries, considered to be linchpin ‘verticals’ of the broad Industry 4.0 movement, will contribute £5.2 billion, £4.2 billion, and £2.2...

The challenge to make disposable tracking tags (and massive IoT) green

Note, this article is taken from a new report on the asset tracking sector, called Asset Tracking – and the March Towards Massive IoT. The report can be downloaded here. With some horror, the idea of disposable tracking tags and labels, applied to millions of boxes...

Smart cities put faith in ‘tech-first optimism’ as Covid-era tech-spend set to triple

Cities must keep faith in “tech-first optimism” as they grapple with the fallout from the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in the next five years. A new forecast for smart-city spending in the period suggests they will embrace such a philosophy. Frost & Sullivan has issued a...

DoE’s Smart Energy Analytics initiative helps buildings save energy

  A total of 104 U.S. companies, schools, governments, and institutions have used the Department of Energy's Smart Energy Analytics Campaign, a four-year initiative funded through the Building Technologies Office and facilitated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to expand the use of energy...

SHV Energy uses Orange to connect, track and monitor gas tanks in Europe and the US

Netherlands-based SHV Energy is to deploy smart meters and telemetry on its gas tanks in Europe and the US. The move is geared to improve asset management, supply-chain security, and truck routing, to reduce fuel costs and carbon emissions. The solution will use LTE-M...

Nokia, Optus to provide IoT solutions to Australian industry customers 

  Australian operator Optus has selected Nokia’s IMPACT IoT platform to provide device management and data collection capabilities to customers in multiple industry segments in Australia, Nokia said in a release. Nokia’s IoT Device Management Platform (DMP) will enable Optus to provide its customers with simple...

Landis+Gyr and Vodafone embed global IoT connectivity into meters and grid assets

Swiss energy management company Landis+Gyr has signed with UK-based Vodafone to connect smart meters and smart grid applications to 400-odd mobile networks in 180 countries using Vodafone’s network and roaming partnerships, as well as its IoT device management and services portfolio.  The partnership, formalised as...

Connexin secures $103 million to expand its smart city business in the UK

  U.K. smart city company Connexin announced it has raised an initial commitment of up to £80 million ($103 million) in funding to further strengthen its position in the smart infrastructure and Internet of Things (IoT) sector. The company said that new investment will support the...

Vodafone New Zealand launches new IoT platform

  Vodafone New Zealand launched Connect by xone, which it describes as an "intuitive end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) management solution" that gives businesses visibility and control over all their owned IoT assets. Globally, Vodafone Group says it manages more than 100 million IoT connections, and...

Shell builds digital twin of Singapore refinery, targets 25% jump in performance

Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) has started on a four-year project to construct a digital twin of its Pulau Bukom petrochemical manufacturing site in Singapore. On completion in 2024, and in pilot between times, the virtual replica of the Pulau Bukom facility will be the...

Aveva to buy OSIsoft for $5bn to service ‘largest digital-change projects in history’

UK based software company Aveva, majority owned by France based automation specialist Schneider Electric, has struck a deal to acquire US data management outfit OSIsoft for $5 billion. OSIsoft is backed by Japan-based tech firm Softbank. The pair said they will “service the largest...

Edzcom and Signify team up on private Li-Fi and 5G combo for industry

Finnish private networking and edge computing specialist Edzcom has signed a deal with Netherlands-based lighting company Signify to offer Li-Fi based solutions combining two-way wireless infrared and visible light connectivity for industrial IoT applications to its customers in the manufacturing, energy, oil and gas,...

Energy sector urged to get behind LTE – first with carriers, then with licences

The energy industry should consider the LTE family of cellular technologies, including NB-IoT, LTE-M, and 4G and 5G, to spur their longer-term Industry 4.0 ambitions, according to analyst house Guidehouse Insights. The energy market must start experimenting with cellular right away, it says, with...

Nokia signs with LS Electric to supply IoT analytics to Korean utility market

South Korea based electric power equipment company LS Electric has signed up Finnish vendor Nokia to supply an analytics-based asset management platform to local power utilities. LS Electric, a division of Seoul-based conglomerate LS Group, wants an IoT and AI solution to enable customers to...

Huck Capital, Schneider Electric deliver energy-as-a-service for commercial buildings

Energy management specialist Schneider Electric and automation and investment firm Huck Capital struck a partnership to create a new company that will deliver energy-as-a-service to commercial and industrial buildings. The partnership combines Schneider's energy management and microgrid expertise with Huck's sustainability-focused investment and operational focus....

Microsoft, Snam team up on IoT and AI to build ‘energy company of the future’

US tech giant Microsoft and Italian natural gas utility Snam are developing a hybrid cloud infrastructure based on Azure to raise the processing power within Snam’s IoT sensor network, to bring efficiency and flexibility to its operations. The deal will help to build the...

What is ‘the 15 minute city’ – and why it is the same as a ‘smart city’

Note, this article originally appeared as a blog post on the Guidehouse Insights website; it is reprinted here with permission. The original article can be found here.  “La ville du quart d’heure” was a key theme for Anne Hidalgo during her successful reelection campaign for mayor of...

Vodafone and Centrica to build ‘first’ 5G-ready private network for oil and gas sector

Vodafone is to build a private LTE network, upgradeable to 5G, for Centrica Storage Limited (CSL), the gas storage and processing unit of UK gas and electricity supplier Centrica. The new private cellular network, at Centrica’s Easington facility in County Durham, will use Ericsson...

ABB intros IT-OT analytics bundle to release 80% of trapped Industry 4.0 data

Swiss engineering conglomerate ABB has released an analytics software and services suite to combine data from information and operation technology (IT and OT). The new ABB Ability Genix product “collects, contextualizes, and converts” data from across industrial operations and engineering functions, along with enterprise-based...

UK provider Vilicom gets private LTE gig for world’s largest offshore wind farm

UK based telecoms provider Vilicom has struck a deal with Danish power company Ørsted to design and deploy an LTE network at its Hornsea Two offshore wind farm. On completion, in 2022, Hornsea Two will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world. The...

Siemens, SAP stitch together Industry 4.0 software for entwined digital thread

Siemens and SAP have agreed to offer each other’s industrial production software as complementary solutions in an integrated Industry 4.0 offer, enabling a digital thread between lifecycle management and business operations. SAP will offer Siemens’ cloud-based Teamcenter software to customers as the core foundation for...