BROWSING: IoT

Oracle taps AT&T to connect its enterprise IoT application services

Oracle is incorporating cellular IoT connectivity and network APIs from AT&T into its Enterprise Communications Platform (ECP), it has said. The move means Oracle’s enterprise customers can do away with the need to manage complex integrations and network contracts when deploying fleets of IoT...

China Tower inks IoT monitoring deals with two Chinese telcos

The deals aims to help China Tower handle demand for transmission of monitoring data and related data analysis services for mid and high-point IoT devices Chinese tower operator China Tower has renewed multi-year framework deals with compatriot operators China Telecom and China Unicom with the...

Swiss drone rollout shows value of ‘brilliant’ public 5G to industry, says Nokia

As novel industrial technologies go, Nokia’s deal with Swisscom Broadcast, the Swiss operator’s enterprise-facing security and analytics arm, to deploy a network of 300 drones for emergency services and industrial applications feels significant – for both firms, as well as for the drone sector,...

Deutsche Telekom boosts global IoT focus

Deutsche Telekom said it is the first European telecommunications company to join the Bridge Alliance German carrier Deutsche Telekom said it is focusing on growing internationalization in the Internet of Things (IoT) business with a new deal by its subsidiary Deutsche Telekom IoT with the...

Swisscom deploys Nokia drone fleet for public safety and industrial monitoring

Swisscom Broadcast is working with Nokia to deploy a nationwide drone network of 300 drones for the emergency services, public safety, and private industrial sectors. It follows the same model as Nokia’s drone rollout in Belgium with Citymesh, and is expected to pass it...

“Transformation complete” – Unabiz claims 40% growth, $25m funds to spur Sigfox 2.0

Unabiz, owner of the Sigfox technology, has announced $25 million of new capital funds from Japanese pair KDDI and KCCS (Kyocera) as part of early interest in a new series C (“pre-series C”) round, which is due to close in October. The Singapore-based company...

HPE beefs up cyber defence for enterprise networks

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has beefed up its cyber defence offer for enterprise networks with the addition of behavioural analytics to its detection and response capabilities and zero-trust access to its campus network proposition. The latter covers local-area edge networks, including its private 4G...

More satellite IoT stats – market to top 26m connections, $4bn value by 2030

More satellite IoT stats; following on from yesterday’s post, reporting on Juniper Research figures, that the total number of IoT satellites will grow by 150 percent over the next five years, from 10,000 in 2024 to 24,000 in 2029, another analyst group has stuck...

Half of workers in critical industry hit by cyber attacks – IoT is to blame, says Verizon

More than half of workers in critical industrial sectors have experienced “severe security incidents” that have led to data loss or system downtime, and industrial IoT devices have been blamed. A new poll by US operator Verizon of 600-odd executives in charge of security...

Over 24,000 IoT satellites within five years – up 150% from 10,000

The number of satellites in orbit that can be used for IoT connectivity will grow by 150 percent over the next five years, according to UK-based IoT analyst group Juniper Research. The forecast says the total number of satellites will grow from 10,000 in...

Nokia intros autonomous drone inventory-counting for US warehouse customers

Nokia has added a new drone-mounted automated counting function to its inventory monitoring service for warehouse customers in the US. It slots into its autonomous drone product, offered as part of its so-called Nokia AIMS (Autonomous Inventory Monitoring Service) package of drone-based logistics tools....

Is network slicing coming of age, finally? ‘You’re having a laugh, right?’

A couple of interesting-sounding mission-critical slicing exercises by mobile operators in Europe in the last week or so got RCR Wireless to thinking about whether the slow rollout of standalone 5G (5G SA) in national network infrastructure has reached a point where it is...

Enterprises to spend $7bn per year on 18,000 private 4G/5G networks by 2028

Want more private 4G/5G market forecasts? Of course you do, and market research firm Kaleido Intelligence has come up with a humdinger: enterprises will spend over $7 billion per year on private 4G/5G networks by 2028, it says. Which sounds like a lot; but...

Vodafone turns on LTE-M in the UK, claims a full house of IoT tech

Vodafone has said enterprise customers in the UK now have all the necessary cellular-based IoT tools at their disposal, after it switched on LTE-M services in its home market. The operator, which has hitherto steered customers looking to connect battery-powered IoT monitoring applications onto...

Five obstacles for Industry 4.0 (ah, technology – all mouth, no trousers)

Digging into this new Cisco survey about the state of networking in the Industry 4.0 sector, which says the industrial c-suite is being driven to distraction by the risk and reward of artificial intelligence (AI), reveals certain things. They are hardly revelatory; but, again,...

Cellular IoT antenna sales to top 1.2 billion by 2028, rising 15% per year

Annual shipments of cellular IoT antennas, including both internal and external antennas, totalled 598 million units in 2023, and will spiral at a compound rate (CAGR) of 14.9 percent per annum in the period to 2028 to top 1.2 billion, according to IoT analyst...

Celona appoints German integrator Xantaro to sell private 5G in Europe

Germany-based managed system integrator Xantaro Group has been recruited by US private networks specialist Celona to sell its private 5G system into European enterprises. Celona joins Nokia, at least, in its roster of private 5G products. It flagged the viability of the Celona system...

AI risk and reward is driving Industry 4.0 c-suite to distraction, says Cisco study

Cisco has just issued a research study about the state of networking in the broad Industry 4.0 sector, and it is really good – comprehensive, and well communicated. Quite how much of it is genuinely new or surprising is open to debate, but it...

‘Deep enthusiasm’ – 90% of firms finding ‘unexpected’ AI uses, finds Honeywell poll

A survey by US-based Honeywell says “only” less than one in five (17 percent of) AI “influencers” in enterprises have “fully implemented initial AI plans”. Which is a statistic that might be taken the other way, too; to say so many are already on...

Hrvatski Telekom slices public 5G for ‘private’ 5G at major new smart port in Croatia

Port operators APM Terminals and ENNA Group have tapped Deutsche Telekom subsidiary Hrvatski Telekom for a ‘private’ slice of its public 5G network at their joint-venture development at the new Port of Rijeka, set to be the largest shipping port in Croatia when it...

Public 4G worth millions to rural UK towns – say fisherman, farmers, filmmakers

Upgraded public LTE (4G) connectivity has a social and economic impact of up to £6.9 million on rural towns in the UK, according to new research, which considered the impact on the farming, fishing, freelancing, and tourism industries in four remote UK communities after...

Soracom embeds gen AI developer tools into cellular IoT platform

KDDI-owned Soracom has embedded generative AI capabilities into its cellular IoT connectivity and services platform, it has said. It has introduced two new services to help IoT developers with more complex IoT deployments. These are Soracom Flux and Query Intelligence; the first is a...

Vodafone Spain sees nearly 28% YoY IoT growth

Vodafone said that over 805,000 IoT connections had been added in the first half of the year Vodafone Spain reached over 7.37 million active IoT lines as of June 30, marking a 27.7% year-on-year growth, the telco said in a release. Vodafone noted that 1.6 million...

Asterisk, asterisk, asterisk – things to think about when thinking about private 5G

In all the to-and-fro last week about how to size the private 4G/5G market, mostly following the quarterly results from Ericsson and Nokia, an email exchange with the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), which seeks to keep score of it, threw certain perennial aspects...