The number of active IoT devices for cold chain tracking reached 4.1 million worldwide in 2021, according to Berg Insight. The calculation measures refrigerated cargo and cargo carrying units, including trailers, intermodal containers, rail freight wagons, air cargo containers, cargo boxes and pallets. The...
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...
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...
MTN currently provides 5G services in 38 cities across South Africa
South African telco MTN is currently building private 5G networks for 14 companies in the mining and ports sectors in South Africa, according to local newspaper the Sunday Times.
MTN’s CEO Charles Molapisi said that...
Quectel’s passion for a smarter world drives us to accelerate IoT innovation. A highly customer-centric organization, we are a global IoT solutions provider backed by outstanding support and services. Our growing global team of over 3,000 professionals sets the pace for innovation in cellular,...
Both private network deployments involve the Nokia Digital Automation Cloud solution
Nokia announced two 5G private network deployments yesterday: One in Brazil at the manufacturing facilities of electronics provider Flex Brazil, and another at MEXT, the Turkish Employers’ Association of Metal Industries Technology Center, in...
A recent global survey commissioned by Altair found "breakneck adoption" in the use of digital twins, with 69% of companies reporting that their organization makes use of digital twins. Forty-three percent of those surveyed said that digital twins could make physical prototypes obsolete within...
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...
Digital Vision will use BT's 5G/FTTx multi-access connectivity and edge computing
U.K. telco BT and French IT firm Atos have announced the launch of Digital Vision, which is a computer vision solution for the industrial sector including manufacturing and logistics.
Computer vision enables computers and intelligent...
SK Telecom said that the UAM pilot will be carried out in Jeju, one of South Korea’s main tourist attractions
An urban air mobility consortium led by Korean carrier SK Telecom and Hanwha Systems has inked a partnership with the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province with...
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...
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...
Hear from executives at AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and other leading telcos on how they’re using AI to build a competitive advantage.
Today, as telecoms support hybrid work scenarios, IoT devices become key components of network infrastructure, and providers expand customer services, the volume of data...
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...
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,...
In an increasingly complex and technology driven market, mobile network operators and infrastructures are facing the challenges of reducing costs and increasing competitiveness. At the same time, investments in infrastructure and resources are required to ensure the successful rollout of new services and technologies...
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...
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,...
Actility noted that Milesight LoRaWAN gateways are ideal for interconnecting and relaying messages between various sensors and the network server efficiently and reliably
Chinese IoT solutions provider Milesight has signed a strategic partnership with French firm Actility, a provider of IoT connectivity solutions, with the...
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...
ARC said that the new award will integrate the firm’s flagship product with USMC enterprise maintenance system data
National security and public safety company Armaments Research Company (ARC) announced a contract award intended to further scale its conditions-based maintenance platform for U.S. Marine Corps (USMC)...
The Asian telco noted that the new 5G incubator will be powered by Intel’s 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processors
Singaporean operator Singtel announced its collaboration with Intel to establish a 5G Multi-access Edge Compute (MEC) incubator to boost the adoption of 5G in the enterprise...
Internet of Things (IoT) as described by its name, is the internet of the “things” or physical objects that are embedded with software, sensors, and communication technology. It is a network of physical objects. The objective of connecting these devices called “things” is to...
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...
