BROWSING: IoT

Skyworks, Sequans combine on “smallest” LTE-M and NB-IoT system-in-package

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 the product, numbered SKY66431, to combine the France-based firm’s Monarch 2 modem with its...

Federated Wireless and AWS kick off private 5G channel deal with Cal Poly installation

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 to “accelerate” adoption of edge and cloud IoT networking and AI analytics for public...

Capgemini Webinar: Industry 4.0 and Sustainable Engineering

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 meetings and shop floors, most of the organization conversations revolve around: How to create...

A message to enterprises about private 5G* in manufacturing – just do it

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 – which attempts only to say that industrial 5G is a developing standard, which...

Betacom strikes deal with Qualcomm on private LTE/5G design and management

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 Betacom’s private 5G network design and management service with Qualcomm’s RAN automation and management...

Ignion intros digital-twin prototyping for IoT devices with up to five radios

Barcelona-based antenna company Ignion has launched a digital-twin prototyping tool for IoT devices with up to five radios. The latest version of its Antenna Intelligence Cloud (AIC) product, which ostensibly removes the need to start with a physical prototype, supports design simulations of IoT...

Supply chain scale-up project44 bags $80m from Maersk, others – takes value to $2.7bn

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 Denmark-based A.P. Moller Holding, the investment arm of A.P. Moller Maersk, and parent of...

How Wi-Fi 6 and MU-MIMO are driving commercial wireless (Reader Forum)

Wi-Fi has transformed our homes and workplaces by enabling device mobility and IoT applications. Since the introduction of Wi-Fi 6 in 2019, communities and enterprises have used it to support a host of applications. Wi-Fi 6 incorporates a number of enhancements that have made...

Reasons to track – eight percent of goods, 3.6 percent of profits vanish in supply chain

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 (3.4 percent). This failure of stock preservation and demand forecasting (“overproduction”) in the supply...

NTT DOCOMO and Accenture in Web3 tangle – to “solve social issues”

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 challenges and train talent” in the Web3 field in pursuit of social good. So...

Arm integrates IoT development tools into GitHub, autoML platforms Qeexo, Nota.AI

Arm has integrated its development tools for embedded devices into the open source GitHub developer platform, home to 90 million developers, for faster IoT development. It is also working with development workflow providers Qeexo and Nota.AI to make its digital-twin developer software available on...

Federated eyes role as 6 GHz spectrum coordinator, signs with Wi-Fi 6E suppliers

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 access for private cellular deployments in the US. The firm has already struck commercial...

Telecom Infra Project readies blueprint for cheaper, scalable cloud-native private 5G

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 5G-connected computer vision application led by Telefonica. Rakuten Symphony, Tech Mahindra, and NTT Data...

Fujitsu tests private 5G for equipment inspection, remote recovery at data centres

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 resilience and process automation” in the broader data centre market. The Fujitsu project, to...

New private 5G use-case shock! Paper manufacturer Holmen Iggesund gets smart

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 company Holmen Iggesund has commissioned local system integrator Combitech to deploy a private 5G...

OneLayer opens private 5G network security lab – to stay “ahead of the bad guys”

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 rolling out in enterprises across the globe. The firm has invited solution providers to...

From a standing start in Texas – the story of Dow Chemical’s multi-site private LTE push

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 Dow Chemical Company, manufacturer of plastics, chemicals, and agricultural products. The post puts focus...

Public LoRaWAN arrives in the Great Lakes – for regional IoT water management

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 wetlands, parks, coastlines, rural and urban areas, and open waters. The work is part...

Market for cellular IoT gateways and routers rallies after (and despite) Covid impact

New research from analyst house Berg Insight says the market for cellular IoT gateways and routers was worth $1.15 billion in 2021, with 4.5 million units shipped in the year, representing robust sales growth of 14 percent. Market demand has recovered, and then-some, following...

Regional power utility Xcel Energy signs with Anterix for private LTE in eight US states

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 states. The deal is another sign of momentum for Anterix, which has signed a...

BMW tests 5G positioning with Vodafone and Nokia at Leipzig factory

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 network’ (‘campus-netz’) at BMW’s factory in Leipzig, the car maker’s premier site for testing...

1NCE debuts with Softbank in Japan – as gateway for 19 markets in Asia Pacific

Global cellular IoT provider 1NCE has launched in Japan with operator Softbank. Its debut in Japan comes six months after Softbank’s expanded stake in the firm was discussed, and four months after it was confirmed. Softbank, already a major investor in Cologne-headquartered 1NCE, announced...

Electric utility Evergy deploys Ericsson-made private LTE across Kansas, Missouri

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 & McDonnell has been engaged, also, on the new network’s design and build, and...

Cold chain tracking firm DeltaTrak signs with Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson

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 is working with Ericsson “through Deutsche Telekom”; it adds that the firm is using...