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Schneider Electric intros IoT collaboration platform, pre-packed analytics apps

Schneider Electric has launched a new digital ecosystem, called Exchange, to foster collaboration between industry, software, and startup elements within the IoT space. The French automation specialist wants to drive easier innovation in the market, and get IoT solutions deployed more quickly. At Hannover Messe...

Software AG: “The skills-gap will harm growth; we won’t double sales by relying on data scientists”

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled “Software AG: ‘You don't go to a Chinese restaurant for wienerschnitzel; telcos aren’t players without 5G’.” Click here to go to the previous article. Prior to Hannover Messe 2019, Software AG released a new...

Orange on LPWA: “If there’s no improvement in the radio, we’ll keep the same system”

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled “Orange on IoT: ‘We’re different; we take innovation to the customer’”. Click here to go to the previous article. The role of Orange Business Services as a “carrier-grade systems integrator” might sound familiar (see...

Orange on IoT: “We’re different; we take innovation to the customer”

Having effectvely reduced the discipline of network operations to an elaborate marketing exercise, to sell look-alike SIM cards and airtime bundles, it seems the new 5G era has telecoms operators sounding different, again. It seems like their personalities are coming through, at last. This...

Druid strikes private LTE deals in US, Europe with Geoverse, Koning & Hartman

Irish cellular software company Druid Software has signed deals to capitalise on the private networking opportunity that has emerged with the availability of CBRS radio spectrum in the US, and to drive private network deployments with hospitals in Europe. Local US operator Geoverse, based in...

Automatic for the people – why private networks are public affairs (impressions of Hannover Messe 2019)

In Germany, they’ve made a verb out of the UK’s protracted divorce from the European Union: ‘to Brexit’ - sich verabschieden, aber nicht gehen (to say goodbye, but fail to leave). It was a joke doing the rounds at Hannover Messe 2019 last week,...

Digital transformation investments focused on process automation, Accenture says

Future 5G investments will focus on creating service revenues HANNOVER, Germany--Despite major marketing efforts coming out of the telecoms sector, industrial manufacturers today aren't focused on "leveraging 5G within the four walls of the plant," Accenture Senior Managing Director and Product Industry X.0 Lead Eric...

Ericsson, ABB to accelerate ecosystem for flexible wireless automation

The Swedish vendor said this agreement will enable Industrial IoT and artificial intelligence technologies in the future Ericsson and ABB, a Swiss-Swedish company focused on digital industries, have strengthened their collaboration to accelerate the industrial ecosystem for flexible wireless automation, the vendor said in a...

L-SPARK, TELUS launch accelerator for Canadian IoT ventures

Canadian firms BlackBerry and Solace are also participating in the IoT acceleration initiative  Canadian software-as-a-service (SaaS) accelerator L-SPARK and compatriot telecommunications services company TELUS have inked a partnership to launch the Secure IoT Accelerator program in collaboration with BlackBerry Limited and Solace. The Secure IoT Accelerator...

Bosch targets €1bn gains on the blood-rush of 5G to its factory nervous system

Bosch has raised more than €1.5 billion in revenue from the implementation of Industry 4.0 techniques in its own factories, as well as its customers’ factories, during the past four years, it has said. The company has set an incremental revenue target of €1...

Software AG intros “game-changing” self-serve analytics tool to put IT powers into OT hands

Germany-based Software AG has released a new self-service analytics tool to enable operational staff to rapidly spin-up analysis of real-time streaming data from industrial machines and solve and predict production issues. The new solution, called Analytics Builder, is effectively a skin for Software AG’s Apama...

Arm wins major meter management deal, “pulls in” Pelion customers in retail, logistics

Arm is going after energy providers and device makers after striking a deal with Singapore-based EDMI, manufacturer of IoT modules for utilities, to provide the management platform for smart meter devices, connectivity, and data. EDMI, owned by Osaki Electric Company in Japan, has major smart...

Telefónica takes three-pronged approach to private networks, unlicensed spectrum

Among telecoms operators grappling with the concept of private industrial networks, and ways to coexist with enterprises seeking control of their own LTE and 5G infrastructure, Telefónica cuts an assured figure. It has been developing its strategy around private networks for 18 months at...

Report available now: From supply chain to demand chain – how IoT and AI are enabling the supply chain to flex to changing demand

AUSTIN, Texas, March 25, 2019 — Digital transformation of the supply chain will be bookended by two key technologies: the internet-of-things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). Everything else is held in place by these twin digital capabilities. This is the conclusion of a new editorial...

Neutral Connect Networks expands in-building wireless business via acquisition

The equity firm that controls Neutral Connect Networks acquired Connectivity Wireless Neutral Connect Networks announced the acquisition of Connectivity Wireless Solutions by M/C Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm that is the leading equity investment firm for Neutral Connect Networks. M/C Partners acquired Connectivity Wireless Solutions...

Huawei strikes deal to deploy IoT, 5G solutions in the Middle East

  Through an agreement with Alfanar, the Chinese vendor will initially launch specific solutions in Saudi Arabia   Huawei has inked a partnership with Middle East electrical product manufacturer Alfanar to explore how IoT and 5G technologies can be implemented in the latter’s electrical products. Under the terms...

Bosch proclaims 5G, OPC-UA, and TSN, as Industry 4.0 finally gets ‘practical’

Incoming 5G technologies will be key for higher reliability and lower latency of industrial automation processes, said Bosch Rexrouth, the automation technology unit of German industrial giant Bosch Group, ahead of the Hannover Messe 2019 next week. Bosch reckons the so-called Industry 4.0 movement, capturing...

Ericsson pre-packs private LTE and 5G for factories and warehouses

Ericsson has launched a private network solution that seeks to simplify the deployment and management of private LTE and 5G networks for industrial enterprises with no prior experience of cellular network operations. Compatriot transport company Scania has already implemented the package, dubbed Ericsson Industry...

LTE and 5G for industrial IoT: What are private networks, and how do they work?

Private cellular networks are standard 3GPP-based cellular networks offering a combination of low-power wide-area (LPWA), broadband LTE, and even ‘massive’-scale, ultra-reliable 5G connectivity for exclusive use by private parties. They are deployed and managed separately of public cellular networks, but function in the same way....

European tech giants buying digital startups, China buying European tech giants

Traditional industrial technology giants are transforming their businesses by buying, funding or partnering with connected and intelligent manufacturing technologies and data management companies. The trend is most notable in Europe, among companies like like Bosch Rexroth and Siemens. At the same time, China is...

Teracom, Loriot launch commercial IoT network in Denmark

  Loriot said it aims to complete the deployment of 5-6 new IoT networks this year   Danish broadcaster and telecom firm Teracom, together with global internet of things provider Loriot, is launching a nationwide long-range IoT network in Denmark. Loriot provides the management system of the LoraWAN-based...

Private networks and public slices will combine in hybrid industrial 5G, says Nokia

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘Industrial companies are building private networks because they have to, says Nokia’. Click here to go to the previous article.  Where were we? Oh yes: part-way through a narrative about the desire of industry to...

NTT bundles in FogHorn’s edge AI software to round out industrial IoT offer

Japanese telecoms giant NTT is working with California-based industrial IoT software developer Foghorn to deliver edge-based machine intelligence to industrial clients. NTT-subsidiary NTT Data, offering systems-integration and IoT consultancy services, has selected Foghorn’s Lightning software for its on-premise analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, which...

Industrial companies are building private networks because they have to, says Nokia

Industrial companies will invest in their own private LTE and 5G networks because the business case for digital change is irresistible, and because they want control of their own infrastructure. This leaves operators, betting on new revenue from enabling industrial transformation, in the cold,...