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Virgin Media O2 intros Nokia-made private 5G box-solution for UK SMEs

The business arm of UK-based operator Virgin Media O2, owned by Liberty Global and Telefónica, is offering a Nokia-made private standalone 5G (5G SA) network-and-compute system in a portable hold-all for “businesses of all sizes”. The logic is to make private cellular accessible to...

ProSentry taps Senet to offer LoRaWAN building-monitoring system

US building monitoring company ProSentry is taking a LoRaWAN IoT system from IoT service provider Senet in order to deploy and manage private LoRaWAN networks to support IoT monitoring in residential and commercial buildings. ProSentry’s new LoRaWAN-based IoT monitoring proposition includes water and gas...

Wind River builds automated edge for Elisa, autonomous drive system with Horizon Robotics

California-based compute software vendor Wind River has announced a couple of notable deals; it has deployed a fully-automated edge data centre for Finnish telco Elisa, and also struck a deal with China-based Horizon Robotics to collaborate on edge systems for advanced driver assist systems...

Syniverse rejigs structure and management, lays-off 95 staff

Florida-based carrier-services company and virtual operator (MVNO) Syniverse has laid off 95 staff and rejigged its senior management team as part of a reorganisation to merge and reorder its carrier and enterprise business units into two brand new divisions, covering ‘revenue’ and ‘product’. The...

UK launches £40m 5G-IoT fund for local authorities to drive economy, services

The UK government has launched a £40 million fund for local authorities to deliver 5G-based IoT solutions to help in the fields of manufacturing, transport, agriculture, and healthcare, as well as with their own smart-city services. The money will go to create broad ‘5G...

Xcel Energy taps Nokia for private LTE in Anterix band across eight US states

Nokia is to deploy a private LTE network in the Anterix-owned 900 MHz band in the US for energy provider Xcel Energy. The deployment will support the firm’s grid modernisation and renewable energy strategies, plus optimised delivery of electricity and natural gas. The deployment...

Celona intros PROFINET ‘tunnelling’ fix for industrial private 5G systems

US-based private network vendor Celona has introduced important – critical for hard-nosed Industry 4.0 – fixes to its private LTE/5G system to support key layer-two operational technology (OT) protocols to network industrial machines – including with PROFINET, most significantly, but also BUS, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT,...

Softbank forms $100m warehouse-AI joint venture to drive $500m of tech sales

Softbank Group has agreed with US-based supply-chain technology supplier Symbiotic to create a new joint-venture company, GreenBox Systems, to sell the latter’s AI-geared warehouse automation systems. As part of the deal, the new business has been appointed as the exclusive supplier of Symbotic’s warehouse...

‘Millions of sensors’ – LoRa Alliance trumpets H1 LoRaWAN surge in APAC

The LoRa Alliance has trumpeted growth in the Asia Pacific region, ahead of its bi-annual meetup in Tokyo in October. It claimed “millions of sensors” have been added in the region in the first half of 2023 on the backs of “large projects” in...

Private 5G – five tech drivers, five business drivers (part 2)

Where were we? Oh yes; a quick-fire summary of a panel discussion with Intel and Microsoft from Private Networks Forum in May, which presents, in random order, five technology drivers and five business drivers (or other business concerns) for the rollout of 5G in...

Advancing mission-critical comms for smart firefighting (Reader Forum)

Over time, fire safety practices and measures have been established worldwide to prevent fires, mitigate their impact and safeguard lives and property. Firefighting is a hazardous occupation. Firefighters face some of the most unique challenges to save people from life-threatening situations. Emerging technologies can...

LoRa and Sigfox tie the knot – Semtech and Unabiz shake on historic IoT coalition

And so it comes to pass; hybrid IoT devices running both LoRaWAN and Sigfox, once the bitterest rivals in the low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) game, will be available soon. US semiconductor company Semtech, owner of the LoRa physical-radio layer technology (and licensor of hardware...

Private-LTE AMI specialist Ubiik buys New Zealand industrial IoT firm Mimomax

Taiwanese advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and private network provider Ubiik has acquired New Zealand industrial IoT solution outfit Mimomax Wireless for an undisclosed fee. The pair said the deal created a “best-of-breed wireless solutions provider for utilities and critical infrastructure”. Ubik said it will...

Grand Rapids, Michigan, appoints Dimonoff to install smart-city street-lighting network

The City of Grand Rapids, in Michigan in the US, has awarded a major smart street-lighting contract to Canadian firm Dimonoff, which will see it install 18,037 connected nodes on luminaries across the city to enable more dynamic control of its lighting infrastructure. Dimonoff...

MachineQ expands BLE/LoRaWAN indoor IoT tracking portfolio, targets life sciences

MachineQ has launched a number of new active RFID asset tracking tags for indoor positioning, along with a new IoT occupancy monitoring solution. They are an extension of its hybrid Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and LoRaWAN real-time location system (RTLS) combo-solution, launched last year....

Private 5G – five tech drivers, five business drivers (part 1)

A panel discussion with Microsoft and Intel at Private Networks Forum in May yielded some helpful insights about the push-and-pull for enterprises to deploy private 5G networks. The conversation, under the heading Mastering Each Vertical Via New Partnership Ecosystem, zipped through a number of...

Cellular IoT revenues jump 24% – to 2% of total cellular revenues (but boom-time still beckons)

Global revenues from cellular IoT networks increased 24 percent to reach €10.8 billion in 2022, calculates analyst firm Berg Insight. However they account for just two percent of total mobile revenues among the largest operator groups, it said, and are in general decline, with...

Soracom intros satellite NB-IoT from Skylo into converged global IoT offer

KDDI-owned global virtual IoT network operator (MVNO) Soracom has announced a partnership with US-based cellular-IoT satellite operator Skylo Technologies. The deal sees Soracom further integrate non-terrestrial network (NTN) connectivity as an option in its cloud-managed portfolio of wireless IoT standards, which also includes (terrestrial)...

Siemens opens private 5G – and other industrial IoT – test lab for Industry 4.0

As a sign of where industrial-grade 5G is really up to, the announcement from German firm Siemens that it has opened a mainly-5G test lab at its main research campus in the south of the southern city of Erlangen says it remains a technology-under-review...

Private 5G – gateway apps, supply taps, knowledge gaps (five enterprise memos)

A panel session at Private Networks Forum in May discussed what 5G delivers for enterprises now and what it promises to deliver in the future, with a keen eye on the applications that will swing the business case for them to invest in all-singing...

The case for a converged 0G-WAN standard to deliver Europe-wide IoT (Reader Forum)

Patrick Griffin, Chief Product Officer, Heliot Europe, the largest Sigfox network operator in the European Union; here, he expands on the importance of the new unlicensed LPWAN working group proposing a new 0G-WAN standard to deliver network redundancy, reliability, and scale to support a...

IoT growth flat, industrial IoT ‘soft’; Quectel, Telit Cinterion lead IoT module market

Quectel, Telit Cinterion, and Fibocom captured more than half of the total cellular IoT module shipments in the first quarter of 2023, according to market analysis from Counterpoint Research. Quectel remained the leading vendor; Telit Cinterion climbed to second. Total shipments were flat compared...

An MVNO killer? An MNO land-grab? Verizon intros global IoT eSIM platform

An IoT MVNO killer? It sure sounds like it, almost – if the whole rest of the global operator market could just pick it up. But no, says the global enterprise arm of US operator Verizon; IoT-geared MVNOs will plug into its new global...

Soracom intros trio of generative AI services for cellular IoT customers

Busy Japan-based IoT connectivity provider Soracom has introduced three services to help IoT users to take advantage of new generative AI capabilities. The KDDI-owned firm said the trio of new analytics services work together or separately to process and interpret IoT device data on...