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Editorial Report: Making Industry Smarter Series – From supply chain to demand chain

If the internet of things (IoT), utilising both low-power and high-bandwidth connectivity, establishes an architectural springboard for digital change, then AI provides the industrial elasticity that will make the market bounce. This report looks at how IoT and AI, combined, will make the demand...

Editorial Report Series: Making Industry Smarter – Supply Chain Logistics

The digital transformation of the supply chain and logistics sectors – a review of the strategies, technologies and stakes in play as the global supply chain industry seeks more sustainable and competitive ways to supply the world. UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman dives...

Deutsche Telekom, Nokia tests show edge computing is only way to make 5G-V2X safe

5G networks will only achieve the required reliability and latency for autonomous driving if sufficient edge compute functions are brought close to the roadside and architected correctly. Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications, between vehicles and with road infrastructure and services, will not enable driving systems to...

LTE docks at Oulu, as Nokia and compatriots go mob-handed on private networks

Finnish network vendor Nokia and Finnish private LTE provider Ukkoverkot have signed a five-year deal to bring connectivity, automation, and intelligence to the Port of Oulu, also in Finland. The project will start with the establishment of a private LTE network, attaching to internet...

Editorial Webinar: How to bring 5G in-building

5G, the next generation of wireless technology, is poised to have a significant impact on the commercial real estate industry--if stakeholders can coalesce on a straightforward strategy to bring 5G indoors. As 5G ’s enhanced IoT capabilities enable more of the built environment to...

Microsoft, Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance launch intelligent cloud platform

  The new platform will allow cars from these three manufacturers to have access to a wide range of connected car services   Global automotive alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi announced the production release of the Alliance Intelligent Cloud, a new platform that is enabling Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors...

Keysight 5G Education webinar series: What’s Next in 5G: Drive Test, Conformance Test, and Design Validation

5G challenges designers at every step on the road to deployment, and the next stage is no different. Keysight Engineering Education’s 5G webinars help you tackle today’s toughest 5G testing challenges.  Redefining Drive Test for 5G – April 4 Overcoming 5G Signal Generation Test Challenges...

Nerdery: Four vertical sectors primed for IoT expansion (Reader Forum)

Global IoT spending is predicted to reach $745 billion this year, a 15 per cent increase over 2018 – and this double-digit acceleration is expected to continue. Growth can be attributed in part to the manufacturing behind core IoT technologies. Processing speeds have increased, physical...

Siemens releases new edge-based analytics tools for high-speed machining

Siemens has released new edge analytics tools to process data from workpiece machining, and deliver new insights and efficiencies to manufacturing operations. It has also revealed new edge hardware to simplify cloud connectivity for industrial IoT functions. Its new MyWorkpiece applications, part of its Sinumerik...

European tech giants buying digital startups, China buying European tech giants

Traditional industrial technology giants are transforming their businesses by buying, funding or partnering with connected and intelligent manufacturing technologies and data management companies. The trend is most notable in Europe, among companies like like Bosch Rexroth and Siemens. At the same time, China is...

UK sets principles for future mobility, releases £90m for future mobility zones

The UK government has set out a new working strategy to define its objectives and methodologies for future urban mobility. In tandem, it has launched a £90 million competition for four UK cities or regions to establish dedicated mobility zones to trial new mobility...

London to use sensor-equipped school backpacks to monitor air quality

The trial stipulates that 250 children will carry the sensors during a week   London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan launched an air quality monitoring trial in which 250 children attending primary schools will carry special backpacks with air quality sensors on their journey to and from school. This...

Editorial Webinar: 2019 Public safety, critical communications and First Net Review

As mobile network operators put new emphasis on competing for public safety customers, what are the services, devices and capabilities that are being enabled? RCR Wireless News looks at the latest developments and offerings in mission-critical communications, and how they tie into broader use of...

Yandex partners with Hyunday Mobis to develop autonomous cars systems

  The Russian tech giant has already tested autonomous cars technology in Moscow, Las Vegas and Tel Aviv Russian technology company Yandex, which specializes in intelligent products and services powered by machine learning, and South Korean automotive component manufacturer Hyundai Mobis have signed a memorandum of...

Telit launches new FirstNet-capable IoT modules

  Internet of things company Telit is ramping up its support of the FirstNet IoT ecosystem, with the launch of its first embedded modules with Band 14 support for LTE Cat 1 and Cat 4 broadband connectivity. The Telit LE910C1-NF provides LTE Cat 1 download...

ADLINK preps first micro-edge AI solution for LTE small cell poles and 5G radios

ADLINK Technology and Illinois-based manufacturer Charles Industries have demonstrated the industry’s first micro-edge low-latency AI solution that can be co-located on LTE small cell poles or with emerging 5G radios. The California-based edge solution provider has also announced a deal with Google Cloud to integrate...

Belgian IoT firm deploys Nokia machine learning tool for security streaming

Belgian smart-city security provider Room40 has announced a deal with Nokia to use the Finnish vendor’s machine learning tool for video analytics to discern anomalies in stream streams of video, audio and sensor information, and flag incidents in real-time. It is using the Nokia...

Teracom, Loriot launch commercial IoT network in Denmark

  Loriot said it aims to complete the deployment of 5-6 new IoT networks this year   Danish broadcaster and telecom firm Teracom, together with global internet of things provider Loriot, is launching a nationwide long-range IoT network in Denmark. Loriot provides the management system of the LoraWAN-based...

The killer app for 5G is a transformational lifesaver

  High-capacity, low-latency links let firefighters see through smoke As U.S. carriers invest in public safety cellular networks and stand up attendant services geared toward public safety, a major change in the way first responders work is coming. Enhancements to network capacity and latency, combined with...

Americans still afraid of fully autonomous vehicles, AAA study finds

  AAA study found that Americans are receptive to the idea of automated vehicle technology in more limited applications   Three in four Americas remain afraid of fully self-driving cars, following a number of high-profile safety incidents involving automated vehicles in 2018, according to a new study...

Robots, robots, robots… and AI – How BMW is automating its supply chain functions

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘1.8k suppliers, 31m parts, 10k vehicles – How BMW is making sense of its supply chain’. Click here to go to the previous article.  But BMW’s major drive, to date, has been around automation. Indeed,...

1.8k suppliers, 31m parts, 10k vehicles – How BMW is making sense of its supply chain

BMW Group has a global roster of about 1,800 suppliers, scattered at 4,000 points across the globe. Together, they deliver 31 million parts to 30 BMW production sites, worldwide, every day. At the same time, almost 10,000 vehicles come off its production lines daily,...

Europe sets rules for Cooperative Intelligent Transport System

  The new rules were criticized by the GSMA, which urged Europe to adopt the C-V2X technology instead of Wi-Fi-based DSRC technology   The European Commission (EC) has implemented new rules stepping up the deployment of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) on Europe's roads and supporting Dedicated...

Private networks and public slices will combine in hybrid industrial 5G, says Nokia

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘Industrial companies are building private networks because they have to, says Nokia’. Click here to go to the previous article.  Where were we? Oh yes: part-way through a narrative about the desire of industry to...