Industry 4.0

KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has claimed its five-millionth IoT connection, citing strong uptake in the energy, retail, healthcare, agriculture, and consumer electronics industries. The figure represents an advance of …

A session at Private Networks European Forum (PNEF) last month considered the challenges, and broader cultural shift, to bring ‘private 5G to the masses’. Koen Mioulet, secretary at the European …

Twenty-six organizations and alliances in the US with active interests in private and shared cellular for enterprise usage have jointly written to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National …

Semiconductor firm Skyworks Solutions claims to have produced the world’s smallest dual-mode cellular IoT system-in-package (SiP) solution. The US outfit partnered with IoT chip and module maker Sequans Communications on …

Federated Wireless is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) on a private cellular deployment with California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) to support the university’s new ‘5G innovation network’, geared …

The pressure on enterprises to embrace sustainability from business perspective has been catalysed by the public’s desire for a sustainable future. From board rooms, ESG regulatory compliance to product design …

Note, this article is taken from the intro/outro sessions at 5G Manufacturing Forum, hosted by Enterprise IoT Insights and RCR Wireless. It is a summary, a ramble, and a call-to-arms …

Network design and services firm Betacom has struck a channel sales deal (“integrated delivery model”) with Qualcomm whereby enterprise customers in the Industry 4.0 space will be able to link …

A sure sign of spiralling interest in asset tracking; US supply-chain software outfit project44 has raised an $80 million funding round led by UK-based investment company Generation Investment Management and …

Eight percent of stock in the supply chain, between production and consumption, never even arrives – mostly because it either spoils in transit (4.3 percent) or is discarded as surplus …

NTT DOCOMO and Accenture have said they will put formal focus on so-called Web3 solutions, based on blockchain technology, to “solve social issues”. The pair said they will “address technology …

Federated Wireless has been conditionally approved as an automated frequency coordination (AFC) system operator by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to go alongside its role as gatekeeper for CBRS spectrum …

The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is to release a “blueprint”, it says, for how to deploy “cost-effective and scalable” cloud-native private 5G networks, based on an initial trial of a …

Japanese IT firm Fujitsu is to start testing private 5G for equipment inspection at its major data centre in Yokohama, in the Kanagawa prefecture, as a springboard to drive “operational …

Okay, so not a new use case, as such; it is just another connectivity-in-manufacturing case. But still, it is process manufacturing… at a giant paper mill! Swedish pulp and paperboard …

Israeli private cellular security startup OneLayer has opened a network security lab in Tel Aviv for telecoms and security companies to test threats to private LTE and 5G networks, currently …

US system integrator Kyndryl has published a nice-looking blog post, complete with videos, on its headline work, announced at the start of the year, to deploy private LTE for Michigan-headquartered …

The action plan, which will run from 2022 to 2026, aims to further integrate virtual reality with industrial applications   China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with other …

US LoRaWAN specialist Senet has been recruited by US engineering firm LimnoTech to deploy a public LoRaWAN network across the Great Lakes region of the US, providing connectivity across area …

Regional US electric utility Xcel Energy has signed a deal with Anterix to lease its 900 MHz spectrum for private LTE across its service area in eight western and midwestern …

Vodafone Germany has been busy with private networks for Industry 4.0. A new announcement, with Nokia, says the pair are testing high-accuracy indoor positioning (HAIP) services over a 5G ‘campus …

  When it comes to industrial 5G capabilities, the technology has yet to live up to the hype, according to Andreas Mueller, head of communication and network technology in the …

Swedish vendor Ericsson has completed the rollout of a private LTE network for regional US electric utility Evergy, covering 20 cell sites in Kansas and Missouri. Locally-headquartered engineering consultancy Burns …

US-based cold chain management company DeltaTrak is working with Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson to provide global tracking and monitoring data for perishable food and biopharmaceutical products. An announcement says DeltaTrak …

Germany-based Becker Mining Systems, a supplier of systems and equipment for the mining industry, has agreed with Ericsson to resell the Swedish telecoms vendor’s private LTE and 5G bundle to …