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Nokia, TIM join agri-tech alliance to bring automation and intel to farmers in Brazil

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...

Nokia targets industrial automation startups via innovation challenge

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 loops mobile operators into private 5G deal for mining sector

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...

AT&T on reducing cellular IoT costs and complexities for developers: “Time to revenue is shorter”

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 to open innovation, co-creation center in California

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 headlines “giant” Finnish 5G research project into industrial “megatrends”

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...

Nokia and Ukkoverkot tie-up another private LTE deal with another Finnish port

Finnish network vendor Nokia and Finnish private LTE provider Ukkoverkot have signed a four-year deal to bring connectivity, automation, and intelligence to the Port of Kokkola, also in Finland. The Port of Kokkola is the third largest ‘general’ port in Finland. It is also...

UK aerospace firm tests Wi-Fi 6 in industrial 5G setup, with BT, Cisco, HPE, Intel

UK-based Mettis Aerospace, manufacturer of components for the likes of Airbus, Boeing and Rolls-Royce, is to test Wi-Fi 6 for connecting industrial machines and processes. The Wireless Broadband Alliance said the trials represent the first of Wi-Fi 6 for enterprise and industrial internet-of-things (IoT)...

How America fell in love with slushies again – a tale of natural flavours and smart dispensers

US frozen drinks company Freezing Point, parent to slushie brand Frazil, has partnered with Norwegian engineering firm 7Sense to develop a low-cost, retrofittable cellular NB-IoT circuit board to make its in-store slushie machines smart. The circuit board, based on the nRF9160 System-in-Package (SiP) from...

Tapplock launches new security solutions for enterprise segment

Canadian IoT firm Tapplock has launched a new generation of security solutions including the Tapplock one+, and its enterprise platform, Tapplock Enterprise Padlocks are often used by businesses to secure assets. The company highlighted that assigning keys, managing user permissions and tracking access history can...

Nokia, Cellcom ink MoU to deploy Sensing as a Service in Israel

Nokia and Cellcom Israel have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to deploy Sensing as a Service in Israel with the main aim of creating a real-time environmental data offering using Cellcom Israel's existing radio infrastructure. Nokia Sensing as a Service allows the re-use of existing radio sites to...

Deutsche Telekom: “People underestimate what it takes to manage a network”

Deutsche Telekom said private networks are easy to talk about, but hard to manage, at Hannover Messe 2019 last week, swatting away the perceived jeapordy for operators in the industrial 5G debate. Adel Al-Saleh, member of the board at Deutsche Telekom and chief executive...

Telefonica launches new unit to focus on IoT security

Spanish telecom giant Telefónica has launched the IoT Cybersecurity Unit, a new project focused on the securing the internet of things, the telco said in a release. The new unit combines the company’s capabilities in both the cybersecurity and IoT fields. Telefonica’s IoT Cybersecurity Unit will have the...

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...