As part of the ongoing Postcards from the Edge series, RCR Wireless caught up with Dan Hays, principal at PwC’s strategy consultancy division Strategy&, to discuss how the Industry 4.0 ecosystem might impose some kind of industrial order on the new digital chaos at...
Iridium Communications, jockeying with US rival Orbcomm at the top of the satellite IoT market, has struck a deal with machinery manufacturer Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group (XCMG) to connect its heavy equipment in global markets, including its excavators, loaders, and crane trucks. XCMG makes...
Nokia has deployed a private LTE network for US port operator Husky Terminal and Stevedoring, based at the Port of Tacoma in Washington, in the northwest of the US. The new network, running in CBRS spectrum, covers around 115 acres, including all of the...
There is no blueprint for the critical Industry 4.0 edge, really; there is no way to rationalise in an easy matrix of applications and architectures which workloads stay at the edge and which go to the cloud. At least not in practical and usable...
BMW Group has extended a cloud computing and services partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver various IoT and AI capabilities to extend driver assistance (ADAS) features in new vehicles launching in 2025. The German automaker has also confirmed it is working with...
Nokia has introduced a “modular and durable” industrial drone solution, Nokia Drone Networks, to run beyond-line-of-sight off a private cellular network and edge compute array. Nokia is bundling drones, a docking station, a ground control station, plus add-on IoT sensors and cameras. It is...
Norwegian system integrator Northcom Solutions has signed with Nokia to resell the Finnish firm’s private LTE and 5G solution, Digital Automation Cloud (DAC), into critical industrial sectors. Northcom has a presence in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, and a track record of selling Industry...
The big message from the big massacre in ‘massive’ IoT – which has seen high-takes vendors written-down and high-stakes gamblers written-off – is that it is not a massacre at all. It is a general abandonment; a yellow-bellied resignation by the self-appointed commanders in...
National Grid, the UK electricity and gas utility company, also operating in New York and Massachusetts, is advertising a million-pound vacancy for a cyber specialist to set ‘honeypots’ in its network systems to wrongfoot hackers and misdirect incoming attacks on critical energy infrastructure. The...
We probably should write this, just because its impact on the tech-fuelled enterprise market will be considerable – whether by itself, or as a harbinger for AI adoption in the workplace with all the knock-on effects for smart industry. US artificial intelligence (AI) developer...
New research says the market for service and industrial robotics will be worth $218 billion by 2030, with use cases multiplying “from shelf stacking to cleaning to manufacturing”, and crossing into “numerous sectors”, notably manufacturing, logistics, agriculture, healthcare, and defence. Analyst group GlobalData said...
Telit Cinterion noted that the trial focused on how Nestlé could use 5G to connect autonomous manufacturing robots and automated guided vehicles at its plants
Telit Cinterion announced the completion of a successful proof-of-concept trial of private 5G for factory automation.
In a release, the company...
Japanese industrial conglomerate Hitachi has hooked up a private cellular network from Ericsson and an on-site edge engine from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run computer vision checks on a production line at its electric motor vehicle manufacturing plant in Berea, Kentucky, in the...
Doing 10 times more with 10 times less is how we are going to save the planet, and how many public and commercial sectors will survive too. And it is all about massive IoT.
The only reason massive IoT hasn't truly arrived yet is that...
Another angle on (postcard from) the critical 5G edge, in support of an upcoming editorial report on the matter; industrial IoT software provider Factry, tackling the challenge of industrial automation as “hard-boiled IT experts”, suggests the entrenched paranoia and control freakery that tends to...
Speaking with system integrator NTT this week for an upcoming editorial report about how to allocate critical Industry 4.0 workloads, certain well-understood drivers to move computing and connectivity systems away from centralised cloud and network infrastructure onto enterprise premises were, again, made clear. The...
The MIOTY Alliance, of organisations promoting the novel low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technology of the same name, has convened a working group to integrate IO-Link (IODD) data models into the MIOTY standard. The objective is to “bridge the gap” between OT and IT in...
Container terminal operator Eurogate Terminals, part of Eurogate Logistics Group, has recruited Deutsche Telekom to build private 5G networks at port terminals in Hamburg, Bremerhaven, and Wilhelmshaven in Germany. The €6.6 million project, funded in part by the German government, will see networks running...
US-based private cellular specialist Celona has set up in southeast Asia via a series of channel sales deals with carriers and integrators in South Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam. It follows its move beyond its original confines in the CBRS market in the US...
“You can't just put on a hoodie and be down with the kids.” RCR Wireless is in conversation with Wienke Giezeman, co-founder and chief executive at The Things Industries, the Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN collective selling middleware and tooling into the hyperactive low-power end of the...
Many IoT devices will remain on-premise for all of their working lives, either fixed in-position or else in perpetual motion within a clearly-defined local perimeter line. But many others will move freely in and out of enterprise venues, leaving their local private network boundaries...
The Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED) is working with the enterprise division of local operator group Etisalat, trading as e&, to drive Industry 4.0 development in the region, with a stated focus on the internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, artificial intelligence...
Just for the record… Globe Telecom, running the largest mobile network in the Philippines, has “successfully showcased” the country’s first standalone private 5G (5G SA) network at its own INNOVANIA technology and innovation event. It used a core network from Athonet, acquired by Hewlett...
On the back of its launch of a new managed security services (MSS) portfolio, France-based energy management and automation specialist Schneider Electric has warned that new cellular-based operational technology (OT) solutions – advancing notably with the introduction of private 5G systems, flanked also by...
