Qualcomm, BMW Group, Valeo and Ericsson also took part in the 5G SA automated driving tests
Deutsche Telekom, BMW Group, Valeo, Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies announced what they claim is the world's first demonstration of automated driving application supported by 5G Standalone (SA) network slicing...
Australia-based semiconductor company Morse Micro, developing Wi-Fi HaLow for low-power mid-range IoT solutions, has quickly followed a AUS$140 million ($94m) Series B round in September with a further AUS$30 million ($20m) in Series B funding. The new funds, presented as a “top-up from major...
Australian outfit Konvoy Group started three years ago, in the summer of 2019, as a keg rental business, offering logistics support to craft brewers in its home country. It has, in the meantime, expanded its services portfolio, launched in international markets, and signed with...
The move is part of China's broader initiative to widen the application of 5G industrial internet to boost the domestic manufacturing sector
The government of China has granted the first 5G private network license in the country to Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), the...
Japanese company Fujitsu is taking part in this 5G initiative
A consortium of Japanese organizations has developed open source software for private 5G networks, claiming to domestically produce a low-cost 5G core (5GC) network which brings down the cost of private infrastructure.
The organizations taking part...
France-based virtual operator Transatel, busily offering somehow-unfashionable local MVNO and MVNE services in Europe for two decades already, has a second (actually, third and fourth) life, suddenly, in the global IoT game – which has become even racier in recent years with its acquisition...
At the end of 2021, the EU + UK region had nearly 163 million smart electricity meters
More than 56% of the electricity customers in European Union and the United Kingdom (the so-called EU27+3) had a smart meter at the end of 2022, according to...
Both firms will bring secured Edge Cloud services backed by IBM Cloud Satellite to end customer
Colt Technology Services and IBM have launched a joint lab environment to help customers adopt Industry 4.0 technologies in the manufacturing value chain.
Under this agreement, the firms say they...
UK IoT connectivity platform provider Wireless Logic has acquired France-based industrial IoT platform enabler IoThink Solutions for an undisclosed sum. The deal follows Wireless Logic’s twin purchases of IoT MVNO Mobius Networks and IoT SIM provider Jola in the summer. The Berkshire-based firm also...
Sony Semiconductor Israel has introduced a new dual-band low-power cellular IoT chipset solution which it claims is the “first” to combine the both LTE-M and NB-IoT in a single integrated modem. The new ALT1350 chipset also supports satellite (non-terrestrial; NTN) connectivity, plus cellular, satellite-GNSS,...
T-Mobile’s IoT developer kit includes a complete software development kit (SDK), built on the Zephyr Real-time Operating System
T-Mobile US announced the launch of its first IoT developer kit, which will enable developers to connect to the carrier’s network and create connected IoT solutions.
The kit...
KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has claimed its five-millionth IoT connection, citing strong uptake in the energy, retail, healthcare, agriculture, and consumer electronics industries. The figure represents an advance of one million global connections in less than a year; the firm passed four million,...
A session at Private Networks European Forum (PNEF) last month considered the challenges, and broader cultural shift, to bring ‘private 5G to the masses’. Koen Mioulet, secretary at the European Users Wireless Enterprise Network Association (EUWENA), and Maria Cuevas, networks research director at UK-based...
Over 20 Indian enterprises have applied to secure 5G spectrum to set private networks in the country
Indian carriers believe that they are better prepared for the end-to-end deployment of private 5G networks and for managing the related infrastructure compared to enterprises, local newspaper The...
Infosys, Capgemini, GMR, Larsen & Toubro, Tata Communications, Tata Power and Tejas Networks are among the interested firms to deploy private 5G networks
Over 20 Indian companies have applied to secure 5G spectrum to set private networks in the country, local newspaper The Economic Times...
Twenty-six organizations and alliances in the US with active interests in private and shared cellular for enterprise usage have jointly written to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to hail the “success” of the Citizens Broadband Radio...
The smart water metering rollout will connect some 300,000 Itron residential and C&I smart water meters to the existing network
Industrial IoT provider Itron, which specializing in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solutions for utilities, announced that Singapore’s national water agency, PUB, is leveraging SP Group’s...
Semiconductor firm Skyworks Solutions claims to have produced the world’s smallest dual-mode cellular IoT system-in-package (SiP) solution. The US outfit partnered with IoT chip and module maker Sequans Communications on the product, numbered SKY66431, to combine the France-based firm’s Monarch 2 modem with its...
Federated Wireless is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) on a private cellular deployment with California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) to support the university’s new ‘5G innovation network’, geared to “accelerate” adoption of edge and cloud IoT networking and AI analytics for public...
Industry 4.0 represents a shift from 'islands of automation' to cyber-physical systems
Four industry experts came together at the 5G Manufacturing Forum to offer insight into how some of the biggest barriers effecting digitalization — like the changing role of data, legacy integration and workforce...
The pressure on enterprises to embrace sustainability from business perspective has been catalysed by the public's desire for a sustainable future. From board rooms, ESG regulatory compliance to product design meetings and shop floors, most of the organization conversations revolve around:
How to create...
Mobile network operator UScellular and wireless WAN networking equipment Cradlepoint announced a new partnership Wednesday that promises to deliver “enterprise-grade” 5G business internet services to UScellular’s enterprise customers. The companies plan to offer UScellular customers pre-certified wireless routers and wideband adapters, to help connect...
Note, this article is taken from the intro/outro sessions at 5G Manufacturing Forum, hosted by Enterprise IoT Insights and RCR Wireless. It is a summary, a ramble, and a call-to-arms – which attempts only to say that industrial 5G is a developing standard, which...
BT noted that the project will demonstrate value in three use case areas for ports and highways, including port operations and management, marine operations and highway safety and defect inspections
U.K. carrier BT said that the government committed to provide financing for a project in...
