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PostNL connects 250,000 roll containers using BLE trackers in the Netherlands

Netherlands postal logistics provider PostNL has deployed Bluetooth-based tracking beacons on 250,000 roll containers. It has partnered with Polish IoT provider Kontakt.io on the project. PostNL delivers 1.1 million parcels and 8.1 million letters throughout the Benelux nations each day. The newly deployed Bluetooth Low...

Qualcomm confirms first Release-16 industrial 5G modem for Industry 4.0

Qualcomm has announced its first “purpose-built” 5G modem for industrial IoT applications, scheduled for release next month (June 2021). The new modem-to-antenna solution is pitched at the manufacturing, energy, agriculture, construction, mining, and retail sectors. The Qualcomm 315 5G IoT Modem-RF System incorporates the...

‘No SLAs to speak of’ – Lufthansa Industry Solutions on private 5G for Industry 4.0

This article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with commentary from the likes of Accenture, Appledore Research, EXFO, Nokia, and Vodafone – is...

O2 UK, Microsoft ink partnership to test MEC on private 5G network

    U.K. operator O2, owned by Spanish telco Telefonica, has announced a new partnership with Microsoft in the Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) field, the former said in a release. The carrier said that the proof-of-concept will deploy on-premise MEC capabilities within a private 5G network. Under the...

The state of ‘things’ in smart manufacturing – grasping at and grappling with Industry 4.0

Spending on factory-based IoT data applications will grow from $18 billion in 2019 to just over $27 billion in 2024, a rise of 50 per cent in the period. About $32 billion will go on industrial IoT platforms for smart manufacturing by 2025.  The market...

Mars brings in Microsoft and Accenture to drive smart manufacturing, supply chain

Mars is working with Microsoft and Accenture to bring new IoT and AI solutions to its manufacturing and supply-chain operations. The work is part of an expanded deal with Microsoft around its Azure cloud and analytics services, geared to drive digital change at the...

Manufacturer WEG tests private and public 5G with Nokia and Anatel in Brazil

Brazilian electronic equipment manufacturer WEG is working with the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) and Finnish network vendor Nokia on parallel Industry 4.0 testbeds using public and private 5G networks in a live factory setting in Jaraguá do Sul, in the Brazilian state of...

Private 5G will ‘eclipse’ traditional telecoms – Quortus on its first 2,000 networks

“It will take time, but this provision of untethered enterprise value will eclipse the standard consumer telecoms market.” So says Mark Bole, chief executive at core networking provider Quortus. It sounds almost fanciful, that such a global infrastructure might ever be doubled, and even...

Fujitsu, AWS partner with a focus on enterprise digital transformation

    Japanese ICT company Fujitsu announced a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), to accelerate the digital transformation of the mobility industry. The Japanese firm said that this collaboration will enable Fujitsu to expand its business for companies in the mobility industry including automobile...

Telefónica and Microsoft combine private 5G and edge compute for Industry 4.0

Telefónica has signed a deal with Microsoft to combine their private 5G networking and edge computing capabilities, respectively, for the industrial sector. The pair said their “joint vision” is to deploy integrated industrial-grade 5G communications and computing solutions on customers’ premises. The arrangement is between...

Fire in the hole! How industrial 5G will light a big-bang to remake the telecoms world

This article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with commentary from the likes of Accenture, Appledore Research, EXFO, Nokia, Lufthansa Industry Solutions, and...

5G for industry – coal miners could ‘wear suits and ties at work’, says Huawei chief

Huawei in February opened the Intelligent Mining Innovation Lab in Shanxi province Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei, speaking at the opening of the company's Intelligent Mining Innovation Lab in China's Shanxi province, discussed how the "main goal" of 5G is enabling the digital transformation of vertical...

What’s the point of 5G if the latency is lost in the middle? ‘Data is baggage, otherwise’

This article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with commentary from the likes of Accenture, Appledore Research, EXFO, Nokia, Lufthansa Industry Solutions, and...

LoRaWAN duo SenRa and Senet expand in India – and into Middle East, Asia, Africa

India-based LoRaWAN provider SenRa has expanded its network operation to 74 cities in India, and has claimed a rush of deals with the likes of Bosch for industrial IoT, Ripple Metering for smart meters, and PNI for smart parking, as well as deals running...

Orange supplies Russian mining firm with Wi-Fi based RTLS to grade, sort raw coal

Russian coal mining company Raspadskaya has deployed a Wi-Fi based real-time IoT tracking solution from Orange Business Services to help sort different grades and types of coal at a coal preparation factory in the Kemerovo region of Russia. Raspadskaya, partly owned by British steel making...

Network monitoring – the ‘only way’ to know what you’re really getting from private 5G

This article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with commentary from the likes of Accenture, Appledore Research, Nokia, Lufthansa Industry Solutions, Vodafone and...

Scarborough, Maine, migrates smart street-lighting from Echelon to Dhyan

The town of Scarborough in Maine, in the US, has migrated its smart street lights onto a cloud management platform from California-headquartered Dhyan Networks and Technologies, and away from smart lighting company Echelon. The firm said its central management software (CMS) has allowed the town...

Swiss Post, Swisscom offer LoRaWAN-based SmartButton for one-click postal services

Swiss Post has developed a battery-operated optical identification (OID) device, the SmartButton, running on LoRaWAN, to offer consumers and businesses a means to order postal services with a simple button-press. It has worked with mobile operator Swisscom, which has deployed a LoRaWAN network for...

Nokia maintains momentum in mining with private LTE/5G wins in Russia, Chile

Nokia has picked up a couple of other contracts for deployment of private cellular networks in the mining sector, it has said, with Russian palladium and nickel mining company Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) and with Chilean copper mining company Codelco. The new announcements -- by Nokia’s...

Airbus taps Ericsson for private LTE network at French production plant

European aerospace manufacturer Airbus has announced the deployment of a private LTE network from Swedish telecoms vendor Ericsson at its factory in Toulouse, in France. Ericsson said the deal was an ‘extension’ of an existing partnership between the two firms. The network, described as...

The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact in the smart city field

  The Covid-19 pandemic is having a huge global impact, clearly. Enterprise IoT Insights talked with technology vendors and market analysts to analyze the impact of the pandemic on smart cities and to understand what new challenges, opportunities and use cases will arise in a...

IT/OT ‘heavyweights’ Microsoft and Siemens join Open Industry 4.0 Alliance

Microsoft and Siemens have signed up to the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance, a two-year old consortium of “European” industrial companies geared to drive cross-vendor interoperability for factories and warehouses. They join as “heavyweights” of the IT and OT sides of the conjoined industrial IoT...

An “Industry 4.0 benchmark” – Nokia, Claro combine on private LTE at Chile gold mine

Nokia is working with mobile operator Claro in Chile, a regional subsidiary of Mexican telecom group América Móvil, to equip South African mining company Gold Fields’ new Salares Norte mine with a private LTE network. The new network will support remote-controlled trucks, excavators, drills, and...

Private LTE for all nuclear power plants in France – EDF sets Thales, Ericsson to work

Électricité de France (EDF) has appointed Thales and Ericsson to design and supply private industrial-grade LTE networks at all of its nuclear energy sites in France. The company has 56 nuclear power reactors in the country, and the stated schedule is to connect “two-to-four”...