US telecoms software and services outfit Amdocs has claimed to have developed a bunch of new private 5G use cases at its sandbox lab in Dallas, Texas. The new applications, being prepped for show at MWC in a couple of weeks, include 5G-sprung scenarios...
Zurich-based venture capital group Momenta has launched a $100 million target fund for ‘Industry 5.0’ tech – basically, for startups pushing Industry 4.0 with-a-conscience. The new fund is backed by the European Commission, which told IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona, where the...
Note, this article follows directly from a previous post (part 3; January 27) – about roadmap errors and design issues in the rollout of IoT in the supply chain sector, which followed from other posts in the series onJanuary 25 (part 2) and January...
Rail infrastructure operator Adif Alta Velocidad (Adif AV) has handed Cellnex Telecom and Nokia a €20.5 million contract to build private 5G and public 5G networks to connect, digitalise, and automate its rail logistics centres in Spain. They have just over five years (62...
Note, this article follows directly from a previous post (January 25) – about how IoT solved the global supply-chain edge, which followed another entry (January 24) about why logistics is the hardest sector of all for IoT; all articles are taken from a new...
Swedish IoT operator Netmore Group has started to deploy a public LoRaWAN network in France, it has said. Its French debut follows a period of busy expansion in 2022, following its acquisition of Nordic IoT Networks in early 2021 and its strategic shift to...
Nokia added 45 new customers for its private networks products in the fourth quarter of 2022, outrunning its third-quarter total (30 new customers) by 50 percent, and taking its total customer count beyond the 560 mark, the company said. It had closed the third...
Note, this article follows directly from a previous post (January 24) – about why logistics is the hardest industry of all for the IoT market to crack; both are taken from a new editorial report on the state of IoT in the supply chain...
French water distribution company Société de Gérance et de Distribution d'Eau (Sogedo) has signed a 10 year deal with Singapore-based IoT development house Unabiz, which owns the Sigfox IoT network technology, to enhance water conservation and management in France. Sogedo will deploy more residential...
The number of 5G-based IoT connections, deployed for higher-performance machines, will reach 116 million globally by 2026, reckons market research firm Juniper Research. The forecast represents a big jump on current numbers, with just 17 million IoT sensors so far (early 2023) running on...
US private cellular Ondas Holdings has completed the acquisition of Israeli drone system and platform developer Airobotics through a merger acquisition, in a deal worth $15.2 million. The new drone unit is to be combined with American Robotics, acquired by Ondas Holdings for $70.6...
This article is taken from a new editorial report on the state of IoT in the supply chain sector, released this month (January 2023). The report discusses the potential Industry 4.0 upside for the supply chain sector in all its disjointed promise, with some...
Belgian glass manufacturer Euroglas-De Landtsheer (Euroglas) has deployed a Sigfox tracking solution from local pair Citymesh and HeronTrack to get live positional readouts on its entire fleet of 1,100 stillage racks, used to transport glass products across the Benelux region. The stillage racks are...
Norway has opened up 400 MHz of prime mid-band spectrum, at 3.8-4.2 GHz, for enterprises to deploy local-area private 5G networks. Following pilots last year, the Norwegian Communications Authority (Nkom) is now offering four different-sized tranches of the 3.8-4.2 GHz band on 10-year deals....
A quick excerpt from a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, courtesy of José María Álvarez-Pallete, chairman and chief executive at Telefónica, who directly and powerfully addressed the elephant in the elite Alpine conference rooms: that unfettered digital change...
The second best thing to making a full-circle pivot to zero emission is to reduce your current footprint – with miles that are not driven, flights that are not taken, and energy that is not consumed. Indeed, while we transition to a completely emission-neutral...
ABB is to open a new technology and engineering center in Mexico to serve the North American market. The Swiss engineering conglomerate has made an initial investment of $1 million in the facility, located in the city of Mérida, in the Yucatán region of...
The World Economic Forum has identified 18 more Industry 4.0 ‘lighthouse’ factories that have managed to “transcend debilitating macro forces” by making use of the latest industrial IoT-related tech. The organisation’s latest bi-annual lighthouse intake brings its total to 132 manufacturing sites, in various...
Brazilian oil and gas giant Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) is multiplying its private LTE operations across its offshore and onshore facilities, according to a report in Latin American business publication BNamericas. LTE networks have so far been deployed on 11 out of 29 offshore oil...
US firm Semtech has concluded its acquisition of Canada’s Sierra Wireless for $1.2 billion, nearly doubling its annual revenue. The deal, announced in August last year, brings together Semtech’s LoRa/LoRaWAN property, enabling non-cellular low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT in unlicensed spectrum, with Sierra Wireless’ well-established...
Massive IoT – or massive machine-type communications (mMTC) – is all around us. We live in a vast connected ecosystem of data-gathering applications that draw on comparatively low levels of data at source but which, when aggregated by application vendor or enterprise user, is...
The latest edition of ABI Research’s likeable annual tech predictions about what will fly in the year ahead, and what will splutter on the runway and return to the shed, has come up with a couple of interesting counterpoints in the massive IoT saga....
Ericsson has added a new IT-focused private cellular offering from US-based subsidiary Cradlepoint, acquired in late 2020, into its private 5G portfolio. Cradlepoint’s NetCloud Private Networks solution is said to be tailored to the needs of “lean IT-oriented enterprises”, including in the logistics, light...
As promised and previewed last week, here is a full transcript of the interview with Marc Overton, managing director of BT’s industrial go-to-market business Division X – from a conversation a couple of months back, at the UK operator’s annual Robotics Festival at its...
