Nokia has launched a number of industrial 4G/5G devices for hazardous environments in ports, mines, chemical plants, and oil platforms. They are targeted at companies buying its private 4G/5G networks. The Finnish firm has also updated its own team comms application to align with...
Siemens has stuck out a press release to declare the open availability of its private 5G system for industrial-grade networking in Germany, the original home of Industrie 4.0. Is that news, really? The German industrial behemoth’s in-house 5G project has been one of the...
The grand combined promise of 5G networking and edge computing for enterprises is to max out the performance, reliability, and security of mission- and business-critical Industry 4.0 systems.But which workloads should always stay on-prem, for reasons of security and performance, and which can be...
Meanwhile in other Sigfox news, Sigfox-parent Unabiz has sold a large-scale LoRaWAN network to a major shopping mall in the northeast of Singapore. NEX, a seven-storey shopping mall at the Serangoon bus station, located where the city-state’s Northeast and Circle metro lines cross, has...
Another shot-of-life for ultra-narrowband IoT technology Sigfox, on life support 18 months ago, until Singapore-based firm Unabiz plowed-in money, reinvented its business model, embarked on a charm offensive, and breathed new life and hope into its ailing ecosystem. The news this week from the...
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US broadband services and cable television provider Cox Communications will resell the new multi-carrier neutral host CBRS solution from InfiniG, announced last week. It is the first channel partner for the brand new InfiniG service, which launched ahead of MWC Las Vegas last week...
US-based in-building cellular connectivity provider SOLiD has combined with Israeli edge-cloud and private cellular software company ASOCS to deliver an Open RAN solution for private 5G and industrial IoT networks in the developing Industry 4.0 sector. Their solution, targeted at private 5G deployments in...
Telefónica Tech, the digital services and enterprise transformation unit with Spain-based telecoms group Telefónica, has a new deal with enterprise data services provider Snowflake, to sell the US firm’s hybrid edge-cloud (“multi-cloud”) services to enterprises in Europe. Telefónica Tech is to bundle Snowflake services...
Some of the best ideas in IoT… Scratch that; some of the most important innovations in the whole tech game… Actually, scratch all of that; if everything in the end is going to be connected in an internet-of-things (whatever that is), then some of...
The neutral host market is hotting up in the US, suddenly. Following on the heels of Celona’s tie-up with T-Mobile on extending public 4G-LTE coverage with its equipment into the CBRS band, US-based indoor connectivity specialist InfiniG has announced a double-deal with T-Mobile and...
Hybrid private networks extend the controls and policies of IoT devices in local 4G and 5G networks into wider macro coverage. In other words, they enable IoT devices registered on private enterprise-owned networks to roam securely off-site on public carrier-owned infrastructure. They effectively stretch...
Orange has committed to non-cellular IoT connectivity technology LoRaWAN “beyond 2027”. The France-based mobile operator effectively told the SIDO Lyon, the major France-based IoT and AI trade fair, today (September 20) that it will continue to support the development of its public LoRaWAN network...
Multinational energy and petroleum company TotalEnergies has appointed the French division of Singapore-based Unabiz to install Sigfox-based IoT sensors in motorway service stations in Europe and Africa in order to monitor the temperature control of refrigeration units. Unabiz France has already deployed around 3,000...
If you want to know about what to do with sensitive data in operational technology (OT) systems – how to prioritise and segment it, where to place it between the edge and the cloud, and how to retrieve it at both ends (and anywhere...
US private networking specialist Celona has released an “end-to-end” neutral host service that operates over shared CBRS spectrum in the US. The cloud-based software solution allows organizations to extend public 4G-LTE coverage, initially with T-Mobile in the US, to environments with patchy mobile reception,...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a new managed edge service under the banner AWS Dedicated Local Zones. The new services means enterprises can build their own compute infrastructure on their own privately-owned premises, either at a main operational site or a dedicated server...
Deutsche Telekom is offering non-cellular LoRaWAN, as well as satellite-based cellular IoT, as part of its expanded global IoT proposition for connecting data-only embedded SIMs (eSIMs) in both low-power (LPWA) and also high-power wide-area IoT applications. It said it has integrated distributed LoRaWAN “more...
Orange said that 75,000 SIM cards and 9,500 cards for machine-to-machine and IoT services will be activated for Flemish administrative offices
Orange Belgium has signed an initial five-year agreement to provide mobile connectivity and IoT services to the Flemish government, the telco said in a...
Finnish network vendor Nokia has launched new ‘edge charging’ software to give enterprises more control over how data running on private 5G networks is processed and analysed at the edge, and also marketed and sold. Nokia is targeting organisations in the cities, utilities, and...
The business division of Swiss operator Sunrise, as if to preempt the government’s release of ‘vertical’ spectrum on its home turf at the start of 2024, has announced a couple of private 5G pilot projects as it seeks to ramp-up interest from enterprises in...
Something strange is occuring in the utilities sector with the introduction of private 5G at the critical edge, says Southern California Edison. The new capabilities of private cellular are unburdening the old grid-edge of low-power IoT, and also liberating it for game-changing high-power IoT....
The long tail of national regulation on ‘vertical’ private 5G spectrum continues to wag, in a slightly inconsistent manner. Swiss telecoms regulator BAKOM has announced it will open the 3400-3500 MHz (3.4-3.5 GHz) band for enterprises to deploy private 5G networks from the start...
Huawei has been lately increasing efforts and resources to boost the adoption of 5G technology in a number of verticals such as manufacturing, ports, airport, healthcare and mining, among others.
The company is seeing significant opportunities for the telecom industry to start monetizing investments in...
