BROWSING: IoT

Nestlé intros “first” all-private 5G in Latin America – with Ericsson, Claro, Embratel

Swiss food-and-drink manufacturing conglomerate Nestlé has tapped Brazilian telecoms duo Claro and Embratel, both subsidiaries of Mexican group América Móvil, to build a private 5G network at a factory in Caçapava, a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. Swedish vendor Ericsson...

Sigfox operator Heliot joins MIOTY Alliance – to bring ‘unified LPWAN’ a step closer

Heliot Europe, the biggest Sigfox operator in Europe, has joined the MIOTY Alliance, the group promoting MIOTY as an alternative to low-power IoT technologies like Sigfox, as well as LoRaWAN and NB-IoT. The move, which might once have been considered by the Sigfox crowd...

Go big, or go home – private 5G for smart warehousing (five takeaways)

Analyst house ABI Research, in association with US network design and services firm Betacom, has put out a white paper about private 5G in warehousing, and Enterprise IoT Insights has had a quick read and (borrowed and stolen and) come up with five takeaways...

“Enough tinkering; time to deliver” – IoT gets “no-nonsense” ahead of big TTN/TTI show

Next week – in case you’ve been trapped under a heavy object, away from the business pages on social media – is The Things Conference, the annual LoRaWAN shindig in Amsterdam, hosted by the TTN/TTI Things collective. The show (September 22-23) has built a...

Kigen and AT&T enable cloud-based SIM transfers to streamline IoT production

Belfast-based SIM development firm Kigen, previously part of chip design company Arm, is working with US carrier AT&T to enable IoT manufacturers to transfer SIM ownership of AT&T-connected IoT devices to their customers, in the form of end-user facing IoT providers, post-production – without...

Kore joins Ericsson’s global IoT platform to simplify enterprise deployments

The Ericsson IoT Accelerator platform has more than 8,500 onboarded enterprises and more than 90 million IoT connections IoT solutions provider Kore announced today that it has joined the Ericsson IoT Accelerator ecosystem, which the companies claim will simplify global IoT deployments by enabling more...

Matter, Sidewalk, Wi-SUN, Wi-Fi 6 – new Silicon Labs range for IoT in home, yard, city

Silicon Labs has announced four new solutions to help jump-start a new “mega-cycle in IoT”, including development kits and chip systems for IoT products based on Matter, Amazon Sidewalk, Wi-SUN, and Wi-Fi 6. The new products headline the Austin outfit’s so-called Series 2 portfolio,...

Thales, BICS team up on consumer-style eSIM activation for global cellular IoT apps

French aerospace and security company Thales is working with Belgium-based carrier services company BICS to simplify embedded SIM (eSIM) usage in the IoT market, the pair have said. Basically, Thales has engineered a new eSIM activation solution for IoT devices, and notably IoT devices...

‘Start of an IoT mega-cycle’ – Silicon Labs talks Matter, Amazon Sidewalk, Wi-SUN

As US IoT chipmaker Silicon Labs opens the (virtual) doors to its third Works With event (September 12-14), and readies a rush of new product releases (coverage incoming), Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Ross Sabolcik, the firm’s general manager for industrial and commercial,...

Neutral host networks to revolutionize indoor cellular, says Celona (Reader Forum)

A long-time pain for many businesses has been dealing with poor indoor cellular coverage. Fortunately, recent advances in cellular technology have given rise to a more modern approach to improving in-building cellular coverage. The emergence of new shared cellular spectrum options, such as Citizen’s Band...

New IIC test drive bundles IoT, digital twin, blockchain for marine rentals, tracking

The Industry IoT Consortium (IIC) is running a “short-term, rapid-engagement” pilot to develop a blockchain-based peer-to-peer IoT network for the marine industry. The work will engage various IoT, digital twin, and blockchain elements, to deliver fleet management, tracking, and security, including boat-to-dock payments, maintenance...

Europe on fire – an €8.5bn problem with a €900k solution (the case for IoT in wildfires)

Some of the most interesting IoT use cases on the conference circuit in the past months have been about wildfire monitoring. Through the heat of summer, as parts of Europe burned, smart people from clever companies took to the stage at various events to...

Telefónica Tech and TeamViewer intro AR-based remote operation tool for Industry 4.0

The news is perhaps more that this is news; that a service like industrial AR for remote inspections is only just, apparently, a part of ta serious-minded enterprise-facing tier-one telco’s service portfolio, but Telefónica Tech has announced just that, partnering with Germany-based remote access...

MFA ramps-up support for any-spectrum private 5G – with tools, guides, trackers

MFA, the private networking alliance that emerged from the old MulteFire project, is ramping up activities with a bunch of new resources, including tools and guides, for industrial enterprises looking to deploy private LTE and 5G, plus a headline sponsorship of Hannover Messe USA,...

Wi-Fi HaLow champ Morse Micro gets $140m, plus MegaChips gateway to East

Australia-based semiconductor company Morse Micro, developing Wi-Fi HaLow for low-power mid-range IoT solutions, has raised $140 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Japan-based chip services company MegaChips, with participation also from existing investors, including Blackbird Ventures, Main Sequence Ventures, Clean...

Nokia intros devices and features for private 5G in CBRS 3.5 GHz, Anterix 900 MHz in US

The other Industry 4.0 announcement from Nokia’s enterprise group this week, ahead of Hannover Messe USA next week, is about 5G devices, plus spectrum access and new dashboarding for private 5G systems. The Finnish firm, fresh from talking industrial software, and following its separate...

Nokia opens MXIE shop, DAC catalogue to third-party Industry 4.0 developers

Nokia has released a couple of notable upgrades to its Mission-Critical Industrial Edge (MXIE) system to afford channel partners and enterprise customers the facility to host legacy non-cloud OT workloads and contemporary third-party Industry 4.0 apps in the platform, to plug into Nokia’s private...

Celona offers device (and staff) certification scheme for private LTE and 5G networks

Celona has introduced a new device certification scheme to reassure customers that certain user equipment will work without a hitch on its local-area (LAN) private LTE and 5G systems. The scheme is for “cellular-native private wireless devices”, it said; it is the first of...

Vodafone to test GNSS ‘corrections’ service for centimetre-level IoT and V2X accuracy

Vodafone is looking to offer enhanced satellite positioning to locate IoT devices and autonomous vehicles within centimetres, rather than with standard metre-range accuracy, as with straight GNSS services. It is working with US-based GNSS system developer Topcon Positioning Group to test the new service...

“Start small, start smart” – the Industry 4.0 road to scalability, sustainability with Bosch

Some time back – actually months back, ahead of Hannover Messe 2022 – Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Sven Hamann, chief executive at Bosch Connected Industry to discuss the interplay between 5G connectivity, IoT sensing, and AI analytics as a developing Industry 4.0...

Nowi, E-Peas strikes deals to expand energy harvesting in IoT, as market jumps 10%

A couple of interesting press notes about energy harvesting in IoT modules during the past week, all originating in the Low Countries; Dutch firm Nowi, a key supplier of energy harvesting circuits, has said Chinese IoT chip design company Telink Semiconductor is using its...

Wyld taps IoT maker Miromico for satellite LoRaWAN modules; ramps-up US sales

Satellite IoT company Wyld Networks has signed a deal with Switzerland-based IoT manufacturer Miromico to design and manufacture a new range of sensor-to-satellite LoRaWAN modules and terminals to support remote and hard-to-reach IoT applications. Miromico will also resell the UK firm’s Wyld Connect portfolio...

IoT gateway market to jump 20% per year with cellular sunsetting, industrial demand

Snap IoT analysis just in from ABI Research; the US-headquartered firm has run the rule over the post-coronavirus market for IoT gateways and concluded, because of industrial IoT takeup among other factors, that total global revenues from the sale of IoT gateways will jump...

Sequans set for ‘big’ China debut – via licensing deal with unnamed partner

IoT chip and module maker Sequans Communications has gained entry to the Chinese market, via an unnamed partner—and it expects the results to be very, very big. The firm announced that it has struck a five-year strategic licensing deal that gives the Chinese partner...