Vodafone added 24 million IoT SIM connections in the 12 months to September 30. Its total connections count stood at 136 million at the end of the period, at the end of the second half of the 2021/22 financial year, up from 112 million...
Private network specialist Athonet is telling enterprises to ‘bring your own RAN’ with the introduction of a facility in its network management system to select from a combination of radio products according to “the needs of the mix of applications” in their edge environments.
The...
Recent FCC rules establishing the commercial use of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum within the 3.55 to 3.7GHz range (band 48) is driving enterprise interest in the use of cellular technology to enable connectivity for many digital initiatives that demand predictable performance,...
MFA (MulteFire Alliance) has launched a new ‘network identifier’ scheme to provide enterprises with a unique global public land mobile network (PLMN) ID for their private LTE and 5G networks. The facility allows them to create “unique and distinguishable” private networks, so only authorized...
Haier, China’s largest consumer electronics and home appliance producer, collaborated with Huawei and China mobile to apply innovative manufacturing solutions combining 5G and mobile edge computing in its smart factories.
Developed at a joint-innovation base established in February, the solutions integrate 5G edge computing with...
Orange Business Services, the IT and system integrator (SI) division of mobile operator Orange, has delivered a non-cellular Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based indoor tracking system for aerospace manufacturer Safran Aircraft Engines across two sites in France. The solution pulls together tracker tags from...
Speaking yesterday (November 15) with Enterprise IoT Insights about a new deal to supply BLE-based trackers to France-based aerospace manufacturer Safran Aircraft Engines, Orange Business Services portrayed itself as the orchestrator, practically, of Industry 4.0. It is a telling assessment, and an interesting case:...
Speaking last week on a webinar session with analyst house Omdia – following the release of its new industrial edge portfolio at Google Next 2021 last month, and ahead of a new joint-research report with Omdia on why mobile operators should work with hyperscalers...
Siemens Energy will utilize the Nvidia Omniverse platform to create digital twins tasked with supporting predictive maintenance of its power plants.
“Nvidia’s open platforms along with physics-infused neural networks bring great value to Siemens Energy,” said Stefan Lichtenberger, technical portfolio manager at Siemens Energy. “Nvidia’s...
Here’s the sobering reality: across the Internet of Things (IoT), security has been overlooked. An amazing 1.51 billion IoT devices were breached in the first six months of 2021, an increase from 639 million in the same time period in 2020. With the anticipated...
From IoT for internal efficiency to external productivity
A new report by analyst house Transforma Insights for IT hardware and services provider Oracle says enterprise internet of things adoption has turned a corner, and gained some newfound maturity. It is a decent read, which draws...
Deutsche Telekom has developed a new LTE-M based sensor solution with US based infrastructure and analytics company Divirod to help municipal authorities and water companies to gather data insights about the risk of flooding and extreme weather events. Divirod has developed the sensors, and...
MEC, AI, ML and IoT all have a part to play in 5G manufacturing
5G is a powerful technology but the notion of 5G manufacturing—using 5G to drive digital transformation within a manufacturing enterprise—includes more than just the network. To drive efficiency gains in manufacturing...
The constantly increasing demand for reliable, high-throughput digital connectivity is the crucial driver behind the ongoing deployment of 5G cellular systems across North America. In response, telecom providers are investing billions to build out this critical infrastructure.
Although the COVID-19 pandemic – and the more...
Australian IoT hardware maker Binary Beer and Canadian IoT software company Kegshoe, specialising in keg trackers and tracking solutions for breweries, respectively, have teamed up to sell their products in tandem. The deal means breweries and distributors in Canada and the US can utilise...
AE Aerospace uses 5G manufacturing processes to optimize workflow and monetize excess production capacity
So the logic goes, enterprise buyers aren’t investing in technologies like 5G without a strong business case that reflects the impact wireless will have on operational key performance indicators, cost savings,...
5G manufacturing ecosystems are still lacking some key aspects , ABI analyst says
The availability of 5G-capable devices for manufacturing environments and the ability of private 5G networks to support legacy manufacturing protocols are two of the factors that will help determine the speed at...
Singaporean operator StarHub and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have inked a partnership to provide a 5G Multi-access Edge Computing (5G MEC) for enterprise and government clients.
The partners said that the new solution will help these clients move time-critical workloads – such as artificial intelligence...
Various updates from LoRa-land, and beyond... Semtech, the owner of LoRa tech and licensing, said environmental IoT provider ICT International, is using LoRa-based devices on LoRaWAN networks to improve urban forest management and carbon accounting. ICT International’s “plant physiology devices” are able to monitor...
Narrowband IoT company Sigfox has teamed up with Irish-American financial software company Stripe to offer IoT subscriptions for purchase online. Stripe is providing the online payment infrastructure. Customers can choose between ‘Discovery’ or ‘Enterprise’ airtime subscriptions. The first is for fewer 10,000 device subscriptions,...
US satellite broadband provider Viasat has agreed a deal to acquire UK-based counterpart Inmarsat for $7.3 billion. The combined company will integrate their spectrum, satellite, and terrestrial assets as a “global high-capacity hybrid space and terrestrial network”, the pair said. It will focus on...
The micromobility market, covering electric bikes and scooters (e-scooters), will grow at a compound rate (CAGR) of 16 percent per year to 2027, from around $3 billion in 2019 to $12 billion at the end of the period. The emergence of cellular IoT –...
Small Cell Forum (SCF) is to develop a new set of private 5G ‘blueprints’ for enterprise and industry, to build on parallel work already completed by the likes of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), and the MulteFire Alliance. The...
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Differences between wired and wireless connectivity at factory floors
When it comes to deploying connectivity on the factory floor, choosing whether to deploy wired or wireless connectivity chiefly depends on the...
