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Chinese high-tech firms create industrial internet association: report

A group of China’s largest tech companies have formed an association with the aim of accelerating initiatives to foster the industrial internet in the country, Chinese paper China South Morning Post reported. These firms, including Huawei Technologies and internet giant Tencent, have established the...

Standalone private NB-IoT network debuts in Florida, in sliver of 700 MHz spectrum

The world’s first standalone private NB-IoT network has been launched in Florida, using upper 700 MHz A-Block spectrum and covering major urban centres in northern Florida initially. The operator, San Francisco-based startup Puloli, is targeting utilities and other critical infrastructure industries with a network-as-a-service...

Brussels offers SMEs €1m to test industrial IoT, make Europe leader in Industry 4.0

The European Commission is offering manufacturing companies funding of €60,000 each to run collaborative smart manufacturing experiments at neutral hub sites, with a total funding pot stretching to almost €1 million. The Commission has invited small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing and...

Private networks, indoor positioning and analytics – Nokia’s recipe for industrial change

For Nokia there are three critical technologies for enabling digital transformation of the supply chain, and all of the points along it, including the production, transportation, and storage of goods. These technologies are private networks, indoor positioning, and advanced analytics. "The combination will be of...

Three key test cases for industrial 5G being explored by AT&T and Samsung

AT&T and Samung have revealed a number of initial use-case experiments for industrial 5G at the duo’s new ‘Innovation Zone’ within Samsung’s semiconductor factory on Austin, Texas. These include tests of robotics, industrial IoT, and mixed reality applications, allied to 5G, LTE and Wi-Fi...

Accenture snaps up security outfit Deja vu to combat $5.2 trillion cyber threat

Professional services company Accenture has bought Seattle-based ‘security-of-things’ company Deja vu Security for an undisclosed fee, as it seeks to ramp up its cyber-security offer in the face of an estimated $5.2 trillion cyber-risk for global enterprises. Deja vu Security specialises in security design and...

LoRa shoots for 75% of IoT market, versus 25% for 5G; aims for stars with satellite constellation

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 and PTC combine to simplify IoT and AR for industry and developers

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, half of large firms, will apply for 5G licenses

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 to buy industrial IoT cyber-security firm Sentryo

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...

KT to launch 5G-based smart factory solution in Korea in Q3

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...

Telefonica partners with Schindler to provide IoT connectivity for escalators

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...

Rogers announces plans to launch NB-IoT network in Canada

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...

This hard land: From cotton gin, to combine harvester, to computer vision (by way of The Boss)

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 smart farms, 36 million smart cows by 2024, says new report

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...

Smart aquaculture – and the Mexican method (Reader Forum)

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...

Global IoT connections to reach 50 billion by 2030: study

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...

Industry 4.0 Q&A: “Manufacturers already tried LTE and it failed miserably,” says KPMG

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...

Ondas Networks aquires 700 MHz spectrum for private cellular in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico

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...

Industrial LTE and 5G network management: Whose line is it anyway?

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...

Siemens and HP join on 3D printing for Industry 4.0; sign up VW, Land Rover

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...

Fold-away factories and modular assembly: Two visions of industrial 5G, one dream of digital supply

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...

Audi: ‘Could a carrier run our 5G network? Why not? Everything’s on the table’

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...

NIB: Semtech offers free LoRaWAN training; Digital Colony buys small-cell firm iWireless; Soracom announces IoT funding

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...