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,...
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled 'Software AG cites deals with AT&T, AWS, Dell in pursuit of €24bn IoT opportunity'. Click here to go to the previous article.
New Software AG chief Sanjay Brahmawar has been seven months in the...
Germany-based Software AG has reorganised its channel strategy to prioritise IoT platform deals with the likes of AT&T, ‘hyper-scale’ cloud deals with the likes of AWS, edge hardware deals with the likes of Dell, and IT and IoT reseller deals with the likes of...
Vodafone will use a range of private networking options to serve industrial verticals, it has said, as it develops its advanced LTE and emerging 5G proposition for enterprises. These options include spot usage of unlicensed LTE, localised usage of public LTE, and dedicated slices...
IBM has introduced a new suite of industrial internet of things (IoT) solutions for preventative and predictive downtime and maintenance that leverage artificial intelligence and advanced analytics.
The solution will reduce the risk of failure of physical assets including vehicles, manufacturing robots, turbines, mining...
Through the partnership, both companies will provide IoT solutions for Chinese firms and foreign companies operating in China
Arm and China Unicom announced a long-term partnership to deliver internet of things solutions to Chinese enterprises and global companies which are seeking a local presence in...
With Nokia’s IoT platform, the Japanese company will be able to offer IoT services for sectors including agriculture, industry and automotive
BARCELONA--Nokia announced that Japanese operator Rakuten has selected its Impact IoT platform for the deployment of internet of things services across Japan.
With the deployment of...
Ericsson sought to set itself apart from Nokia in its approach to industrial markets at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, as it made clear it will serve new industrial customers via its traditional operator customers.
Finnish vendor Nokia has stated it will go direct to...
Telstra and Ericsson are combining their cellular IoT and connectivity services, in the shape of the former’s narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and LTE-M networks and the latter’s IoT Accelerator connectivity and device management platform, respectively. The move will enable the deployment and management of IoT...
A total of 94 commercial narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and LTE-M have been launched in 50 markets, according to the GSMA’s latest count of low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks operating in licensed spectrum.
This is an increase of 53 mobile IoT networks, or 130 per cent, in...
Dave Wright, president of the CBRS Alliance, wants to be clear: the 3.5 GHz shared spectrum band should not be considered an IoT band. “It's very much a multi-purpose band,” he says, really in response to persistent questioning about IoT scenarios for private operation...
American enterprises rule for IoT, and the transport industry leaves the automotive sector for dust when it comes to connecting 'things'. These are the conclusions of a new study by Vodafone, which nevertheless finds higher adoption, higher confidence, and higher urgency among global enterprises.
One...
Eight further organisations have joined the Charter of Trust for cybersecurity, an initiative launched by Siemens last year to raise security in the internet of things (IoT) market. Membership of the charter now stands at 17. Siemens said the group’s first task is to...
For industry, many critical applications cannot wait for artificial intelligence (AI) in the cloud. Instead, they demand insights and decisions at the edge -- closer to the source, where the real action is. A new report by Enterprise IoT Insights considers the balance enterprises are...
Sigfox has publicly released the specifications of its radio protocol for connected objects. The company said it expects a “boom” in the number of objects, including consumer devices, connecting to its network as a result.
The release of its radio specifications means any manufacturer, developer,...
This article is the third instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018.
The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine the...
Jean-Philippe Provencher, vice president, manufacturing strategy and solutions, PTC
“The governing factors are the facilities, the cost of downtime, and speed of product development.
"Cloud computing could hit a snag with these factors as facilities in lower cost areas may struggle with intermittent or costly...
The Israeli company recently inked a deal to provide its IoT solution to a Tier 1 U.S. network operator
Network intelligence and security provider Allot is seeing business opportunities in the U.S. market for its IoT solution, Ran Fridman, executive VP of worldwide sales at...
The combined organization will focus on industrial, internet including the promotion of best practices for fog and edge computing
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and the OpenFog Consortium have concluded the details to combine the two consortia.
Effective immediately, the organizations will work together under the IIC...
Note, this is the second part in a feature about Nokia'snew industrial strategy. The first instalment can be found here.
Nokia’s latest results, which saw shares slip on a slow forecast for 2019 5G sales, present the company’s strategic re-organisation around three so-called ‘pillars’ –...
In simple terms, the prevailing wisdom is the more data, the better. More data equals better decisions, which equals better products, and more users. That is the theory, anyway.
The problem is the volume of processed data, at least from industrial setups, has been largely...
Nokia’s biggest opportunity, it explains, is to go beyond its traditional customer base to serve industrial markets directly, with private networking solutions. The total market for private LTE, and later private 5G, masts is potentially twice as large in straight volume terms as the...
This week, 1,500 business types from every-sized enterprise in the burgeoning IoT space will descend on Amsterdam in The Netherlands to chat LoRaWAN, the low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking technology that saw 60 per cent growth last year.
The occasion is The Things Conference (January 31...
A new industrial consortium including SAP and Siemens has convened to help industrial organisations go beyond the ‘pilot trap’ with their Industry 4.0 deployments.
The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and German testing and certification company TÜV Süd have recruited SAP and Siemens, alongside management...
