The world’s first standalone private NB-IoT network has been launched in Florida, using upper 700 MHz A-Block spectrum and covering major urban centres in northern Florida initially.
The operator, San Francisco-based startup Puloli, is targeting utilities and other critical infrastructure industries with a network-as-a-service...
Nokia and SP Telecom are set to roll out 5G network, Singapore’s first, alongside the country's power grid. The new data fibre network, slated for launch in 2020, will support critical communication services, they said.
The new network will enable both fixed and 5G...
The UK government is seeking to reform planning laws and release new spectrum to accelerate 5G deployments, as it also increases public funding for 5G testbeds to stimulate the digital transformation of industrial sectors and public services.
Jeremy Wight, secretary of state for the department...
LoRa and Sigfox have maintained and extended their market-share lead over their cellular equivalents LTE-M and NB-IoT, as the latter technologies have been “plagued by network hardware and connectivity module issues. LoRa has been boosted by the rollout of private networks, and Sigfox remains...
The biggest fragmentation in smart agriculture is with base-line connectivity, which establishes the platform for the analytics and automation tools that will change farming.
“Connectivity is a neccessary evil,” says Pete DeNagy, president and co-founder, Internet of Things America. “No business is advantaged by...
Two new announcements this week, by cities both sides of the the Atlantic, make clear, again, the case for smart street-lighting is undeniable.
In the US, the city of Syracuse in New York State has teamed with the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to...
The pressure food producers face to digitally transform is mounting. With a rapidly growing population, farms find themselves at a decisive moment in their ability to continue to produce enough food to meet rising demand.
As with all sectors, technology is going to be...
Industrial connectivity provider Ondas Networks, formerly Full Spectrum, has acquired 700 MHz spectrum to deploy private cellular networks for industrial users in the state of Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as certain coastal counties in Texas and Louisiana.
The deal, acquired by...
AT&T and San José, in California, have signed a deal worth an estimated $1 million to extend wi-fi coverage and build smart city infrastructure across 14 parks around the city. AT&T is also donating $200,000 to help stimulate community organisations to get citizens online
AT&T...
Inside the factory of the future, everything will be fluid, except for the floors, walls, and ceilings. Industrial assets – machines, devices, and vehicles – will be animated by 5G technologies, and made intelligent by edge and cloud analytics, enabling factory owners to swap-around...
For the last several years, market momentum has pushed 5G technology into the mainstream?at least kind of. Per Qualcomm, ?5G is designed to be a unified, more capable platform that will not only elevate mobile broadband experiences, but also support new services such as...
Car maker Audi, like other giants of German manufacturing, is sitting on a tranche of vacant radio spectrum that has been liberated by the German telecoms regulator for test purposes ahead of its official release as an industrial band with the country’s wider 5G...
In discussions of smart buildings, the benefits of deploying a network infrastructure to both increase the intelligence of the building with smart devices and also to deliver a persistent wired/wireless network are very well explained. However, there is a dimension that is a blind...
The city of Reno, in Nevada, is using blockchain technology to validate data communications between autonomous vehicles and street infrastructure.
The University of Nevada and Reno’s Center for Applied Research (NCAR) have teamed up with local blockchain company Filament on the vehicle-to-everything (V2X) trial, which...
Finnish network vendor Nokia and Finnish private LTE provider Ukkoverkot have signed a four-year deal to bring connectivity, automation, and intelligence to the Port of Kokkola, also in Finland.
The Port of Kokkola is the third largest ‘general’ port in Finland. It is also...
Deutsche Telekom said private networks are easy to talk about, but hard to manage, at Hannover Messe 2019 last week, swatting away the perceived jeapordy for operators in the industrial 5G debate.
Adel Al-Saleh, member of the board at Deutsche Telekom and chief executive...
In Germany, they’ve made a verb out of the UK’s protracted divorce from the European Union: ‘to Brexit’ - sich verabschieden, aber nicht gehen (to say goodbye, but fail to leave). It was a joke doing the rounds at Hannover Messe 2019 last week,...
The telecoms community and the industrial space must engage more closely if they are to achieve the kind of heightened control and intelligence in factories and warehouses that 5G promises.
This was the thrust of a presentation from Nokia at Hannover Messe 2019, which...
Sigfox operator Wireless Network Developments (WND) has covered 85 per cent of the UK population with it Sigfox network, having deployed 1,500 Sigfox base stations. The deployment has been on time and in budget, said WNDUK, and the 85 per cent threshold means the...
Nokia is building private LTE and 5G coverage for the ARENA2036 automotive research factory in Stuttgart in collaboration with members of the German car and manufacturing industries, including Daimler, Bosch and TRUMPF.
Nokia will provide full private 4G/LTE and 5G New Radio coverage for the...
Private cellular networks are standard 3GPP-based cellular networks offering a combination of low-power wide-area (LPWA), broadband LTE, and even ‘massive’-scale, ultra-reliable 5G connectivity for exclusive use by private parties.
They are deployed and managed separately of public cellular networks, but function in the same way....
Finnish network vendor Nokia and Finnish private LTE provider Ukkoverkot have signed a five-year deal to bring connectivity, automation, and intelligence to the Port of Oulu, also in Finland. The project will start with the establishment of a private LTE network, attaching to internet...
ADLINK Technology and Illinois-based manufacturer Charles Industries have demonstrated the industry’s first micro-edge low-latency AI solution that can be co-located on LTE small cell poles or with emerging 5G radios.
The California-based edge solution provider has also announced a deal with Google Cloud to integrate...
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘Industrial companies are building private networks because they have to, says Nokia’. Click here to go to the previous article.
Where were we? Oh yes: part-way through a narrative about the desire of industry to...
