Last month, the CBRS community in the US made a swift counter-strike, in the form of a joint letter to the FCC and NTIA, against a report by telecoms lobby group CTIA that said private and shared cellular is bad for the US economy...
A panel session at Private Networks European Forum last month put the spotlight on the discipline of network and system management, specifically, where traditional mobile operators are increasingly facing-off with rival factions in the developing Industry 4.0 supplier market. These other groups include system...
Together, they will help drive Industry 4.0 transformation
Private networks are providing enterprises with more reliable and pervasive connectivity than was previously available. What’s more, private networks can provide a simplified infrastructure and streamlined operational environment for edge computing operations, an increasingly ubiquitous fixture in...
Siemens has worked with Qualcomm to deploy an indoor private 5G network in CBRS spectrum at Siemens headquarters in Chicago, with a view to test and develop solutions to automate building functions and services. The private 5G trial network is being used, initially to...
Nokia is to deploy a private LTE network at the Port of San Antonio in Chile, the country’s main maritime port, handling almost 50 percent of the country’s import and export trade. The Finnish vendor was selected by the port operator, San Antonio Terminal...
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 transparency...
Berg said that the number of active fleet management systems in North America had reached 13.7 million at the end of last year
The number of active fleet management systems deployed in commercial vehicle fleets in North America is forecast to reach 26 million by...
Australian supermarket chain Coles is running track-and-trace of its poultry supply chain, based on an IoT tracking and monitoring solution by pallet pooling company Loscam and local Sigfox operator Thinxtra. The pair has attached sensors to 4,500 poultry ‘bins’ (containers) moving between its suppliers’...
There was a good panel session, yesterday (November 29; see cover image, available on-demand), on IoT tracking in the supply chain, which brought insightful content and commentary from leading IoT outfits DeltaTrak, Telit, and Unabiz, plus from analyst house ABI Research. But even with...
Qualcomm, BMW Group, Valeo and Ericsson also took part in the 5G SA automated driving tests
Deutsche Telekom, BMW Group, Valeo, Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies announced what they claim is the world's first demonstration of automated driving application supported by 5G Standalone (SA) network slicing...
The RAIN RFID Alliance's newly appointed President Aileen Ryan shares advice for woman looking to advance their careers and also the growing role of RAIN RFID technology in an increasingly connected world.
Asset tracking is a seminal use case for the IoT market. It is one of the key applications – along with, and combined with, asset monitoring – that underpins the whole movement as it congregates around the supply chain sector, supposed to grow rapidly-massive...
Australia-based semiconductor company Morse Micro, developing Wi-Fi HaLow for low-power mid-range IoT solutions, has quickly followed a AUS$140 million ($94m) Series B round in September with a further AUS$30 million ($20m) in Series B funding. The new funds, presented as a “top-up from major...
Australian outfit Konvoy Group started three years ago, in the summer of 2019, as a keg rental business, offering logistics support to craft brewers in its home country. It has, in the meantime, expanded its services portfolio, launched in international markets, and signed with...
The move is part of China's broader initiative to widen the application of 5G industrial internet to boost the domestic manufacturing sector
The government of China has granted the first 5G private network license in the country to Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), the...
Japanese company Fujitsu is taking part in this 5G initiative
A consortium of Japanese organizations has developed open source software for private 5G networks, claiming to domestically produce a low-cost 5G core (5GC) network which brings down the cost of private infrastructure.
The organizations taking part...
France-based virtual operator Transatel, busily offering somehow-unfashionable local MVNO and MVNE services in Europe for two decades already, has a second (actually, third and fourth) life, suddenly, in the global IoT game – which has become even racier in recent years with its acquisition...
At the end of 2021, the EU + UK region had nearly 163 million smart electricity meters
More than 56% of the electricity customers in European Union and the United Kingdom (the so-called EU27+3) had a smart meter at the end of 2022, according to...
Both firms will bring secured Edge Cloud services backed by IBM Cloud Satellite to end customer
Colt Technology Services and IBM have launched a joint lab environment to help customers adopt Industry 4.0 technologies in the manufacturing value chain.
Under this agreement, the firms say they...
UK IoT connectivity platform provider Wireless Logic has acquired France-based industrial IoT platform enabler IoThink Solutions for an undisclosed sum. The deal follows Wireless Logic’s twin purchases of IoT MVNO Mobius Networks and IoT SIM provider Jola in the summer. The Berkshire-based firm also...
Sony Semiconductor Israel has introduced a new dual-band low-power cellular IoT chipset solution which it claims is the “first” to combine the both LTE-M and NB-IoT in a single integrated modem. The new ALT1350 chipset also supports satellite (non-terrestrial; NTN) connectivity, plus cellular, satellite-GNSS,...
T-Mobile’s IoT developer kit includes a complete software development kit (SDK), built on the Zephyr Real-time Operating System
T-Mobile US announced the launch of its first IoT developer kit, which will enable developers to connect to the carrier’s network and create connected IoT solutions.
The kit...
KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has claimed its five-millionth IoT connection, citing strong uptake in the energy, retail, healthcare, agriculture, and consumer electronics industries. The figure represents an advance of one million global connections in less than a year; the firm passed four million,...
A session at Private Networks European Forum (PNEF) last month considered the challenges, and broader cultural shift, to bring ‘private 5G to the masses’. Koen Mioulet, secretary at the European Users Wireless Enterprise Network Association (EUWENA), and Maria Cuevas, networks research director at UK-based...
