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...
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 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 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...
The World Economic Forum has published a study that says “nature-positive” enterprise solutions can create 395 million jobs and $10 trillion in revenue by 2030. A major subtext of the piece is how digital technologies, bringing insight and automation to critical industries, can drive...
UK water utility Yorkshire Water is in the final stages of an NB-IoT and AI pilot with BT to connect almost 4,000 acoustic, flow, pressure, and water quality monitors to manage leaks and interruptions in the water network in the north of England.
BT, which...
Australian electric utility Tasmanian Networks (TasNetworks) has appointed local LoRaWAN provider National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) to build a LoRaWAN network in the island state of Tasmania, off the southern Australian coast.
42-24, the IT and telecoms division of local government-owned TasNetworks, is will seek...
Less than half of European firms have invested in energy efficiency measures, and this area accounts for only a small share of their total investment budget, according to a new report by the European Investment Bank (EIB).
The new EIB report,?Going Green ? Who is...
AT&T and Accenture have teamed up on private cellular for US oil company Phillips 66. The trio are developing a bespoke industrial LTE and 5G setup for low-latency refinery automation and analytics, they said. The solution utilises AT&T’s public network and edge compute infrastructure.
The...
Finland has issued its first private cellular licence for industrial LTE and 5G at 2.3 GHz. State-owned energy company Fortum Power and Heat will use the licence at its power plant in Loviisa, on the country’s southern coast. Local transport and communications agency Traficom...
Schneider Electric, a specialist in digital transformation of energy management and automation, announced that it is working with the University of Notre Dame to implement EcoStruxure Building 3.0 in more than 95 buildings across its campus.
The University will benefit from increased levels of operational data visibility and control...
Autonomous NB-IoT platform harvests its own energy
HiSilicon, a chip manufacturer owned by Chinese vendor Huawei, and Dutch firm Nowi Energy showcased the second generation of their energy autonomous NB-IoT platform.
The companies explained that the device acts as a sensor hub which can transmit via...
Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) and the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) have completed two joint energy efficiency projects.
In total, the projects are saving the university 66,000 therms of energy every year. Both projects were part of California's joint Energy Efficiency Partnership between state universities and investor-owned utilities. Over the...
New research from Nokia says one third of enterprises in the energy, manufacturing, cities, and transportation sectors are already using 5G to drive industrial performance and digital change. Three in five enterprises will look to mobile operators for direction when planning 5G services, according...
US engineering and product design agency Apricity has devised a combined LTE-M and BLE solution for utilities in the US to control demand from domestic water heaters and reduce supply from coal-fired auxiliary power stations.
Domestic water heaters are estimated to be responsible for up...
Private LTE and 5G provider Quortus has secured investment from US-based edge analytics firm Communications Systems Inc (CSI) and UK-based telecoms solutions provider cellXion to drive sales in North America, Europe, and Japan, as the market for private industrial networking gathers pace.
Quortus, based in...
Canadian company Kontrol Energy announced that following the successful completion of UL certification for its building automation technology, SmartSuite, it has now commenced CE certification for the European and global markets.
Achieving the UL product safety certification allows Kontrol to sell its SmartSuite technology in...
Miami-Dade County in southeastern Florida in the US has deployed an IoT solution for waste water management to mitigate regulatory issues, prevent sewer overflows, improve water quality, and ensure safety for the public.
Tech company Itron, based in Washington state, has been drafted in by...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to approve usage of six megahertz of 900 MHz spectrum for private networking by utility companies in the US, declaring the ‘juice is worth the squeeze’ despite its diminutive spread.
The six-megahertz is split between two five-megahertz holdings...
The city of St. Louis has passed a Building Energy Performance Standard (BEPS) with the aim of advancing the city's goal of eliminating community-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050.
?The coronavirus has shown us how a crisis can disrupt the entire world. The threat...
Semtech announced that?Talkpool, which provides global Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and telecommunication network services, has incorporated?Semtech?s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol?into its new line of sensor solutions for smart home and building applications.
Talkpool?s portfolio of LoRa-based products enable enhanced data monitoring to...
Low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT technologies like LoRaWAN are proving their worth as connectivity technologies for smart water preservation and management during periods of change and crisis, including in the current COVID-19 crisis.
Smart connectivity networks are enabling improved management of water and other utilities during...
Bosch is preparing to ramp up production again after shutting down production at nearly 100 facilities globally in the COVID-19 pandemic, on the back of a 17 percent slowdown in March, a 7.3 percent fall in the first quarter, and a refusal to forecast...
The island of Orkney in Scotland has developed a 5G-powered digital twinning system to help residents participate in the delivery of its new energy network.
Led by Heriot-Watt University’s Global Research, Innovation and Discovery (GRID) facility and supported by the Scotland 5G Centre, the project...
