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Digital Twin Consortium expands presence in India, Southeast Asia

DTC will work with companies including Open Health Systems Laboratory (OHSL), Axomem and Dell Technologies The Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) announced it has expanded its regional branch organizer (RBO) program to include India and Southeast Asia. In a release, DTC said it will work with members...

Siemens promises summer launch for OT-grade SME-friendly private 5G system

Siemens has said its new home-grown industrial 5G system will be available in the summer finally, with availability in Germany initially, followed by Brazil subsequently, and other European and global markets in line with demand. The Brazilian launch is made simple by the fact...

Huawei to accelerate investments in digitalization

Huawei and its partners have developed and released over 100 digital transformation standards for the smart city, finance, electric power, highway, aviation and healthcare industries Chinese vendor Huawei will accelerate investments in the digitalization space, particularly in areas including connectivity, computing storage and cloud, the...

AT&T Mexico, Qualcomm and partners test private 5G networks

AT&T Mexico said its 5G Innovation Laboratory is a space designed to test and validate 5G use cases AT&T Mexico has begun technological tests of private networks in its 5G Innovation Laboratory with partners including Qualcomm, Celona, Axity and Veea. The Mexican carrier said that...

Unabiz signs with Actility to further converge Sigfox and LoRaWAN

Unabiz deserves credit; the Singapore-based IoT house, owner of the Sigfox technology for a little over 12 months, is doing what most of the IoT community has considered for some years to be a minimal requirement for massive IoT, and brought the tribal elders...

Qualcomm unveils new suite of processors for IoT

The new suite of products include the Qualcomm QCS8550, Qualcomm QCM8550, Qualcomm QCS4490 and Qualcomm QCM4490 processors Qualcomm Technologies announced new IoT solutions with the aim of expanding the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem and IoT use cases. The announcement was made at the Hannover Messe...

Betacom joins with Google, Ingram, Intel, Qualcomm to streamline private 5G

US network design and services firm Betacom has pulled a bunch of ecosystem partners together into a go-to-market club around its private 4G and 5G offer. The group – which numbers 15, and includes Google Cloud, Intel, Ingram Micro, and Qualcomm, among others –...

NTT deploys Cisco/Airspan private 5G system at RWTH university in Germany

The first fruit of NTT’s new tie-up with Cisco on private 5G; the pair have combined to deploy a private 5G network for research purposes at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) in Aachen, in Germany. It is that valuable thing for an industry looking...

Bosch bets big on industrial tech as sustainability gets trendy

Bosch has said it wants to increase sales of industrial technology by around 40 percent over the next five years, to top €10 billion by 2028. It said rising interest in environmental sustainability will drive revenues, with sales of so-called ‘green tech’ solutions reaching...

Electronics makers lead the Industry 4.0 charge – ports and mines behind

Electronics and appliance manufacturers are leading the way for Industry 4.0 ‘maturity’, according to a new poll of 500 industrial companies by Nokia and ABI Research. Their research says that electronics and appliance manufacturers are marginally further along with their digital transformation than companies...

AMRC demos UK’s first 5G SA testbed for manufacturing firms

The 5G project, which required the investment of over £10 million ($12.4 million), was completed at the end of March The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) carried out a demonstration of what it claims to be U.K.’s first, fully operational 5G Standalone...

Nokia announces new third-party Industry 4.0 applications

Nokia said that these new applications enable use cases such as early alerts and anomaly detection, condition monitoring, preventive and predictive maintenance Nokia announced the launch of four applications for MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) developed by third parties, which will help enterprises connect, collect and...

Logicalis US launches private network services with Cisco

Logicalis claims to be the first U.S. partner to deliver Cisco's private 5G as-a-service, including professional services Managed service provider Logicalis U.S. announced the launch of its private network services, supported by compatriot networking company Cisco. Logicalis, which is a Cisco integrator, said it combines its...

‘More than just connectivity’ – AWS rises above the private 5G hubbub

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will, at some point, replicate its managed private 5G service offering in global markets, it says. The product, currently limited to CBRS installations in the US, has underpinned 200-odd private cellular deployments so far – mostly LTE-based, mostly using componentry...

Ofcom opens review of UK spectrum regime for private and shared 5G

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has opened a six-week consultation with a view to open more cellular spectrum for shared and private usage. It said the success of its Shared Access Licence (SAL) framework, which opened four bands for a range of enterprise users in...

Cradlepoint buys cloud security firm Ericom to shore-up Ericsson enterprise 5G

Swedish vendor Ericsson has acquired secure access software provider Ericom Software via its US-based enterprise networking division Cradlepoint. The transaction, for an undisclosed sum, shores up Cradlepoint’s secure access service edge (SASE) and zero-trust offerings for hybrid 5G and wireline environments, the company said. New...

NTT goes big game hunting with Cisco in global private 5G market

The third part in a loose trilogy on the late rise of the IT crowd in the new private cellular space, following announcements by HPE and Cisco at MWC last month, and a direct followup to the Cisco entry a couple of weeks back;...

What to track, how to track – Four IoT asset types, four IoT asset traits

Clearly, IoT solutions should be designed for whatever is to be tracked. In high-value and low-volume cases, this may be the goods themselves. More likely, IoT solutions will need to be architected to fit with shorter-life crates and pallets or longer-life containers. Where a...

How computer vision is solving workaday Industry 4.0 headaches at the edge

A snapshot from a session at Telco Cloud & Edge Forum this week, which asked about edge-oriented use cases in enterprises, and threw up a couple of interesting examples – which tell how computer vision, specifically, attached to edge-based cellular networks and computing systems,...

AI will hit job market, brand satisfaction, operating costs – say US workers

A loose poll – please don’t roll your eyes – of 2,000 adults in the US about the likely impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the jobs market says, basically, that nothing good will come of it, at least insofar as the availability of...

BT and AWS extend partnership to $500m IoT and MEC enterprise services market

UK-based BT Group has further expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to collaborate on IoT industry solutions, cloud networking propositions, and 5G edge computing services for UK enterprise customers. It said the deal “targets” a $500 million revenue opportunity” to sell IoT...

Italian tile maker Del Conca deploys private LTE/5G from Celona at Tennessee plant

The US division of Italian porcelain and tile manufacturer Del Conca Group has deployed a CBRS-based private LTE/5G system at a large production facility in Loudon, in Tennessee. It has selected US private wireless specialist Celona for the new deployment, which covers 30-odd acres...

Terago deploys 5G private network for Industry 4.0 R&D in Canada

Terago said this 5G private network will allow researchers to test and develop new advanced manufacturing technologies Canadian provider Terago says it has have deployed Canada's first 5G mmWave private network dedicated to Industry 4.0 research in McMaster's new Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI) in Hamilton,...

Volvo Group deploys private LoRaWAN network for predictive maintenance, more

One would be forgiven for thinking the Industry 4.0 game is all about shiny new private 5G networks. Certainly, the telecoms hype machine, and much of the telecoms trade press, says so. But industrial intelligence did not start with 5G, clearly (and has not...