Three quarters of the IoT market will be given over to low-power wide-area (LPWA) network solutions, compared with just one quarter for high-bandwidth low-latency 5G applications.
So says the LoRa Alliance, which continues to push its line about being the key technology in low-power...
Vodafone has signed a deal with industrial IoT and AR specialist PTC to help developers and enterprises deploy digital-change applications. The deal is an extension of an existing three-year arrangement, they said.
Milwaukee-based PTC quoted market analysis from LNS Research that says less than 10...
One third of industrial companies, and almost one half of large industrial organisations, will apply for their own 5G licenses. The interest from enterprises in spectrum licenses, as well as in network management, is highest among US and French firms, with more than two...
Cisco is set to acquire French cyber-security firm Sentryo, with which it has worked to author digital change solutions in the industrial IoT sector.
Headquartered in Lyon, France, Sentryo provides device visibility and security solutions for industrial control system (ICS) networks, promising availability and resiliency...
Korean telecommunications firm KT announced plans to launch an advanced smart factory solution based on its 5G network in the third quarter of the year, Korean press reported.
The Asian carrier said the main aim of the
initiative is to raise productivity at local factories.
The smart...
Telefónica and Schindler
announced a global partnership under which the Spanish telco will be the IoT
and network connectivity partner for Schindler’s digital offering for smart elevators
and escalators.
Telefonica will provide the services under its Telefonica Business Solutions unit.
The cloud-based digital platform Schindler Ahead is a...
Canadian telecoms operator Rogers announced plans to launch narrow-band internet of things (NB-IoT) technology in the country, the carrier said in a release.
The telco said that NB-IoT will
allow IoT devices and sensors to send and receive small amounts of data over
long distances, with very...
Farming is hard. It always has been. There is a song called This Hard Land by Bruce Springsteen, rock’s great chronicler of every-day struggle in modern America, which captures something of the labour and luck of working the land. “Mister, can you tell me...
Two million farms and 36 million cattle will be connected to the internet by low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, and other technologies, by 2024. This is the calculation from analyst house ABI Research, in a new report that considers the opportunity for internet-of-things (IoT) technologies...
With populations in the developing world continuing to grow, the need to find new ways to satisfy increased demand for access to food has never been greater. In order to do this, fish farming, or ‘aquaculture’, is quickly becoming a serious contender for the...
The number of devices connected to the internet is expected to reach 50 billion worldwide at the end of 2030, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics.
The study also
reported that global IoT connections will reach 38.6 billion by 2025. Last
year, there were 22...
How will incoming cellular technologies transform manufacturing, and spur its drive for smarter production? That is the question Enterprise IoT Insights put to both sides of the industrial divide in a new editorial report, called 'Industrial LTE and 5G: How Incoming Cellular Technologies Will...
Industrial connectivity provider Ondas Networks, formerly Full Spectrum, has acquired 700 MHz spectrum to deploy private cellular networks for industrial users in the state of Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as certain coastal counties in Texas and Louisiana.
The deal, acquired by...
Antje Williams, Executive Programme Manager for 5G, Deutsche Telekom –
“We have a huge divide at the moment in the industry, in the country, how operators can serve industries best. There are lots of complaints about how operators have served industry so far, which...
HP and Siemens have combined to offer an “integrated” additive manufacturing solution for manufacturing companies, with the likes of VW and Jaguar Land Rover in the wings.
The initiative, drawing on Siemens’ digital factory offer and HP’s additive printing systems, notably its new Jet Fusion...
Inside the factory of the future, everything will be fluid, except for the floors, walls, and ceilings. Industrial assets – machines, devices, and vehicles – will be animated by 5G technologies, and made intelligent by edge and cloud analytics, enabling factory owners to swap-around...
Car maker Audi, like other giants of German manufacturing, is sitting on a tranche of vacant radio spectrum that has been liberated by the German telecoms regulator for test purposes ahead of its official release as an industrial band with the country’s wider 5G...
Semtech opens-up and makes-free its LoRaWAN Academy
Semtech, the Californian chip-maker that owns and licenses the LoRa technology, is offering free educational modules via its LoRaWAN Academy for students, engineers, developers, and enterprises developing LoRa-based IoT solutions.
The LoRaWAN Academy launched in late 2017 and initially...
Finnish vendor Nokia and Italian operator Telecom Italia have joined with six international agri-tech firms on a smart agriculture initiative, ConectarAGRO, that seeks to bring connectivity, automation and intelligence to 93 per cent of Brazilian farmers.
The Brazilian arm of Telecom Italia (TIM...
Finnish vendor Nokia announced the launch of its Nokia Open Innovation Challenge (NOIC), through which the company aims to attract technology startups with innovative and disruptive solutions for the industrial automation segment.
Nokia said that the winners of this global competition will be provided with...
Ericsson has teamed up with Canadian systems integrator Ambra Solutions to sell private LTE and 5G networks to mining companies worldwide. Ambra will partner with Ericsson customers, in the shape of “global service providers”, as part of the deal, delivering private networks for the...
Another from the MWC 2019 vaults, which has so far slipped through the gaps of a hectic quarter at Enterprise IoT Insights. This time, we catch up with Cameron Coursey, vice president of IoT product development at AT&T, to discuss how the US carrier...
Ericsson announced the upcoming launch of Ericsson D-Fifteen, a new innovation and co-creation center at the company’s Santa Clara office, the vendor said in a release.
The Swedish firm said that the new center will enable the company to bring multiple core capabilities together under...
Nokia will provide the cellular plumbing for a new €18 million public-private research initiative into the application of 5G in the industrial space.
The project, which goes under the moniker 5G Vertical Integrated Industry for Massive Automation (5G VIIMA), is being billed as a...
