IoT

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 – …

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, …

High-performance use cases such as Work From Home, industrial IoT, telehealth and 4K streaming video are driving adoption of a new generation of Wi-Fi connectivity. These use cases come with …

Cellular IoT module shipments rose by 14 percent in the 12 months to the end of 2022, with China leading the way for regional shipment volumes India leading the way …

Amazon has issued a clarion call to the IoT crowd to build IoT devices for Sidewalk, its nationwide LoRa-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) network in the US. It said the Sidewalk …

The GSMA report also forecasts that licensed cellular IoT connections in China will reach 3.6 billion by 2030 China ended 2022 with 1.84 billion cellular IoT connections in 2022, a …

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 …

With global 5G deployments accelerating, industries from healthcare to manufacturing to mining are in midst of a digital metamorphosis. They are all trying to compete and innovate through the usage …

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 …

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, …

IoT virtual mobile network operator (MVNO) KORE Wireless Group has signed a deal to acquire the IoT division of customer engagement platform company Twilio. The Atlanta-based firm said the move …

Chinese search engine and cloud analytics firm Baidu has won a permit to provide a driverless ride-hailing service in Beijing. It said the new taxi service will be the “first-ever …

News out of MWC a couple of weeks back that Cisco had teamed with NTT to get serious about big-ticket private 5G for multinational enterprises was somewhat overshadowed by rival …

Unabiz has announced yet another deal in its unremitting pursuit of a low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) mashup, as it seeks to add the telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB) standard, commercialised in the …

Qualcomm brings multi-vendor automation and SMO capabilities to private networks with the Edgewise Suite As Industry 4.0 concepts meant to optimize efficiency in sectors like manufacturing, utilities, mining and more …

Swedish telecoms group Telia Company has developed a new machine vision solution for inventory management in warehouses which runs on a hybrid (‘virtual’; semi-private) private 5G network. The project, part …

It says something about how far T-Mobile’s coverage has come in the 5G era in the US; the AAA automobile club for roadside assistance and other travel services has selected …

Samsung Electronics has announced its first ultra-wideband (UWB) chipset, the Exynos Connect U100, for use in mobile, automotive, and IoT devices. The new hardware solution offers precise distance measurements, down …

Network design and services firm Betacom has developed a perimeter surveillance solution to run on private LTE and 5G networks in airports, warehouses, factories, and other venues. It has worked …

On the subject of smart labels, as per a couple of recent pieces about Sony Semiconductor Israel… There is, of course, another pioneer in the field, and one the team …

Vodafone has a “multi-year” deal with Chinese tech firm Lenovo to provide global IoT connectivity to Lenovo devices. The arrangement is between Vodafone Business, Vodafone’s international business division, and Lenovo …

BT has said it is to make a “multi-million-pound investment” in mobile edge computing (MEC), rooted in its LTE (4G) and 5G network infrastructure. Its mission is to bring enterprise …

Core network specialist Druid Software has announced a deal with French neutral host operator and system integrator TDF to jointly provide private 5G systems to critical industry in France. The …

Something is afoot in the brave new IoT world of smart labels; DB Schenker, the logistics division of German rail firm Deutsche Bahn, has announced a smart-label solution to track …

German chemical company BASF is to deploy a private 5G network at a facility in the Port of Antwerp in Belgium with the help of local networking specialist Citymesh. The …