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Comba secures part of a picocell contract with China Mobile

Comba noted that this deployment with China Mobile involved 20,000 small cell base stations   Hong Kong-based wireless infrastructure provider Comba Network, which is a subsidiary of Comba Telecom, said it was recently selected by China Mobile to contribute to the rollout of a large deployments...

US Army’s next-gen weapons program to use firearms with IoT tech

ARC said it technology platform will provide data on individual weapons at scale   National security and public safety company Armaments Research Company (ARC)said that its IoT technology will be introduced in the Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) program of record, in partnership with Sig Sauer. The...

Hyundai Motor, Boston Dynamics announce AI R&D center in the US

Hyundai Motor Group said that the set up of the new AI center in Massachusetts will require a total investment of $424 million   Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics announced an investment of $424 million to establish an artificial intelligence research center in the U.S. The...

APAC smart manufacturing IoT spending to reach $140bn by 2025

A study by IDC showed that manufacturing firms across the region are forecast to invest $88.7bn in IoT solutions for discrete manufacturing by 2025   IoT spending in the smart manufacturing sector in the Asia-Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) region is forecast to reach $140.6 billion by...

Anterix close to attracting new firms for 900 MHz licenses: CEO

In 2020, the FCC approved usage of the 900 MHz band in the U.S. for private LTE and 5G networking by energy companies, in response to a long-standing request by Anterix   Private networking firm Anterix, which holds wide swathes of 900 MHz spectrum in the...

AWS announces availability of its private 5G network offering

AWS said the private mobile network makes use of CBRS spectrum, while it currently supports 4G LTE and will support 5G in the future   Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of its AWS Private 5G, a managed service that helps enterprises set up and...

Airtel in talks with Indian firms to deploy private networks: Report

Bharti Airtel said that contracts for private 5G networks will represent a large portion of the carrier's future 5G revenues   Indian operator Bharti Airtel is currently having talks with a number of local enterprises with the aim of deploying private 5G networks, local newspaper The...

Paris La Défense preps 5G neutral-host and use-case trials in 26 GHz mmWave bands

Paris La Défense, the major metropolitan business district in Paris, has called for applicants to run 5G neutral-host and use-case trials in 26 GHz mmWave spectrum at its site in the French capital. The two trial streams will be open, respectively, to public mobile...

Most Gen-Zers would hail an autonomous taxi – more for convenience, less for safety

A survey of Gen-Zers in the UK – born digital, come-of-age with ride hailing apps, and most comfortable, logically, with the concept of autonomous mobility – has found, indeed, that young attitudes towards autonomous vehicles are “positive”, but that safety is not clearly expected,...

Baidu claims first commercial driverless robotaxi licenses in China

Baidu said its robotaxi services will initially operate in parts of Chongqing and Wuhan   Chinese internet company Baidu secured what it claims are the first permits in China to offer commercial driverless robotaxi services to the public on open roads. In a release, Baidu said that...

Ericsson identifies condition monitoring as a key use case for ports

Ericsson noted that a condition monitoring solution requires a network that can manage high connection density and transfer data in real time with extremely high reliability   Ericsson said it has identified condition monitoring of critical assets as one of the leading use cases driving the...

Softdel joins Siemens ecosystem to target smart buildings

Siemens said that Softdel's EdificeEdge IoT Gateway platform is "ideal" for integrating siloed wireless IoT sensor systems in smart buildings   Siemens and Softdel announced a new partnership in which the latter’s EdificeEdge IoT gateway platform solution has become part of the Siemens Connect Ecosystem. Softdel's EdificeEdge...

Ondas boosts ‘mission: critical IoT’ with $15.2m deal for Israeli drone firm Airobotics

US private cellular Ondas Holdings, parent of Ondas Networks, is to buy Israeli drone system and platform developer Airobotics in a $15.2 million merger acquisition. The new business will be combined with American Robotics, its other drone subsidiary, acquired by Ondas Holdings for $70.6...

UK firm to deliver EV chargers for pilot project in New York

The company’s EV chargers also support a number of IoT and telecommunication applications   U.K. firm Connected Kerb says it has been selected to deliver on-street electric vehicle (EV) chargers for a pilot project in New York. This project is part of the DOT Studio, which is...

ABI sees a new path for digital maps’ use in vehicles

ABI Research noted that applications such as lane centering, localization and location-enriched sensor fusion will see automotive digital maps expand out of the infotainment domain   Global revenues for intelligent speed assistance (ISA) and autonomous vehicle maps are forecast to surpass $500 million by 2027, according...

Amazon buys iRobot for loads of money – to vacuum homes and home data

Amazon has signed a deal to acquire US smart-home brand iRobot, maker of the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, for $1.7 billion. The disc-shaped Roomba robot – which autonomously vacuums floors using IoT sensors to navigate obstacles, drops, and dirt – integrates with various smart...

Industry IoT Consortium writes satellite IoT guides into networking framework

The Industry IoT Consortium (IIC) has for the first time included an update on satellite connectivity in its Industrial Internet Networking Framework (IINF), its guide to help IoT application developers to design, deploy, and operate industrial networking solutions. It has also joined with the...

Ferrovial, Intel, Liberty Mutual, Toyota join MIT on ‘front line’ of mobility revolution

An automotive-technology-engineering collective has joined a new mobility initiative organised by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the ‘front lines of the mobility revolution’. Their task is to shape a “mobility system”, a press statement goes, that is “sustainable, safe, clean, and accessible”. The...

India considering 5G spectrum allocation for private networks

India's Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that direct allocation of 5G frequencies to tech companies was a complex issue   The government of India is analyzing the potential direct allocation of 5G spectrum to local companies and will make a final decision on this issue after...

Verizon launches an AI dashcam for fleet managers

Verizon Connect’s AI Dashcam provides audible alerts to drivers when it detects unsafe driving   Verizon Connect said it is unveiling its advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) Dashcam to provide fleet managers with a "range of insight into dangerous events" as well as in-cab coaching that will...

Siemens completes Brightly buy to bolster smart infrastructure business

Siemens has completed its acquisition of US firm Brightly, a provider of cloud-based asset management and maintenance management software for buildings, and more broadly for built infrastructure. Brightly joins Siemens’ smart infrastructure business, called Siemens Smart Infrastructure. The deal was first announced on June...

Tech truce, vendor tussle, new era, smart play – analysis of the Semtech, Telit deals

The IoT hardware market has, suddenly, shrunk – in order to expand, and to rebalance the western power-play. So say market watchers, reacting to the twin acquisitions this week by US-based chipmaker and Semtech, which has confirmed a deal to splurge $1.2 billion on...

CommScope to enable 5G and CBRS at AT&T Center

  As part of the agreement, the firm will install the CommScope’s ERA All-Digital DAS   CommScope said it has been selected by Spurs Sports & Entertainment (SS&E) to provide mobile connectivity at AT&T Center, home of the San Antonio Spurs basketball team. Under the terms of the...

Five thousand private 5G networks in China? BS! Talking definitions, storms in teacups

Someone somewhere said something about 5,000 ‘private networks’ in China. (Forgive me for not having the reference to hand; I am trying to write quickly and cover ground.) The point, as always, seemed to be just that China is running away with it –...