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Telit concludes acquisition of Thales’ Cinterion IoT business

In July 2022, Telit and Thales agreed that the latter will take a 25% stake in the expanded Telit business   IoT module maker Telit announced the conclusion of its acquisition of the cellular IoT unit of French aerospace, defense and security company Thales, the former...

APAC region to see acceleration in IoT adoption: Report

According to the study, the APAC region is forecasted to have 38.9 billion IoT devices in circulation by 2030 The Asia Pacific (APAC)  region is set to overtake the rest of the world in terms of IoT adoption, according to report from global research firm...

Baidu expands driverless robotaxi services in Wuhan

Baidu also said it plans to put an additional 200 fully driverless robotaxis into operation across China during 2023 Chinese internet company Baidu announced an expansion of its commercial fully driverless robotaxi service in the city of Wuhan, in Hubei province, Chinese press reported. According to...

Hexagon acquires LocLab to boost digital twin offering

Hexagon said that LocLab’s proprietary technology, enabled by a high degree of automation using proven workflows and artificial intelligence, allows the creation of digital twins Swedish digital solutions company Hexagon announced the acquisition of LocLab, a specialist in 3D digital twin content creation. Hexagon noted that...

Volvo Cars takes total ownership of autonomous driving software firm Zenseact

Swedish car manufacturer Volvo Cars has taken full ownership of its autonomous driving software division Zenseact. It said it acquired the remaining 13.5 percent of shares in Zenseact from automotive software and hardware company ECARX, co-founded in 2017 by Eric Li, as the company's...

Indian IoT provider Quantela targets US smart cities with T-Mobile NB-IoT bundle

India-based IoT provider Quantela has signed a deal with T-Mobile in the US to bundle the carrier's cellular IoT airtime with its smart-city solutions. Quantela is focused on cities and utilities in the US, it said, particularly in the smart street-lighting space. The firm said...

Electronics maker Asus signs 5G and IoT smart-city partnership in Germany

Taiwanese electronics maker Asus has announced a deal with German media company Media Broadcast to deploy smart-city solutions at various locations across Germany. The agreement is with Asus's AI and IoT division, called Asus IoT. It will cover the deployment of private 5G campus...

Surge in smart electric meters in US, Canada – on new upgrades and late adopters

The installed base of smart electricity meters in North America is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.8 percent during 2021-2027 to reach a total of 173.4 million units at the end of the period, according to a new...

French regulator Arcep awards 25 private 5G licenses

In March 2022, Arcep opened a trial platform in the 3.8-4.0 GHz band for manufacturers looking to experiment and test new 5G use cases   French regulator Arcep said it has awarded a total of 25 trial licenses for manufacturers willing to experiment and test new...

IoT tracking in the supply chain industry – the lowest start and the biggest finish?

Note, this is the foreword from a new report on IoT tracking in the supply chain industry; the report is linked here and (repeatedly) in the article below – and also in the images at the bottom. The title of this piece might have...

India starts to identify bands for 5G private networks: Report

The government of India has not given any deadline for direct spectrum allocation for 5G private networks   India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has initiated a process to identify 5G spectrum bands to be allocated to companies for the deployment of private networks, local newspaper The...

IoT market for condition monitoring jumps as tech talk gives way to business focus

Condition-based monitoring sensors will reach 277 million connections by 2026, says analyst house ABI Research, as the tech-mix to connect them multiplies and flexes, and solution vendors and enterprise users put focus on business outcomes rather than just technologies. As a new report from...

Top five sectors for cellular IoT – c/o Telit

There is a reason why the logistics sector is the favourite market for IoT. Because IoT, arguably, consists of only two distinct applications – asset tracking and condition monitoring – and the first of these, by definition, is about the positional aspect of ‘things’-in-motion....

Pallet company CHEP takes a long view and a careful road to track 360 million pallets

Enterprise IoT Insights is putting together a report on IoT tracking in the supply-chain industry (in case recent posts have not made that clear), and the discussion has ebbed and flowed about the role of IoT, itself, in the sector’s broader transformation story. As...

Cyber risk doubles in smart manufacturing as IoT jumps 53 percent per year

Risk of intellectual property (IP) theft, including of industrial trade secrets, is rising fast as manufacturing companies connect private equipment and processes. Analyst house ABI Research has put a figure on both the rate of IP risk and rate of IoT connectivity, forecasting that...

EY and Software AG make deal to combine and unleash ‘apps, devices, data, clouds’

Professional services company Ernst & Young Global (EY) has announced a partnership with Germany-based enterprise data and analytics company Software AG to help enterprises with digital change in India and Germany, initially, rolling out to other markets. The partnership is focused on digitalisation, process...

Z-Wave source code released – to rival “shiny” Matter, kick-off “incredible” 2023

The Z-Wave Alliance, in charge of developing local-area IoT technology Z-Wave, has released the Z-Wave source code to alliance members on open-source software development platform GitHub. Alongside, the alliance has said Members can now “shape the future” of the protocol under its (OS Work...

Another 5G first – ‘first hybrid private 5G in Europe’, claim Vodafone and Porsche

Another private 5G story, and another which claims primacy and (apparently) unmatched scale. Vodafone Business, the enterprise division of UK operator Vodafone, has said it has built “Europe’s first hybrid private 5G network”, on a site covering 700 hectares. The hybrid definition, here, means...

‘Largest private industrial 5G network in Europe’ – by Nokia, for ASN (Nokia)

The “largest private industrial 5G network in Europe” has opened in Calais, in France, using 59 small cell antennas to cover a 50,000 square-metre production site belonging to Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), the optical submarine division of telecoms vendor Nokia. The Finnish firm has...

“We’ve never seen risk like this” – Project44’s strategy for global ‘never-normal’ logistics

The supply chain sector as a market for IoT data at the edge – on the road, on the ocean, in the air – is not getting simpler, anytime soon. Post-pandemic, it has changed forever, reasons Bart de Muynck, chief information officer at US...

MNOs vs MVNOS – who is top of mind for enterprise IoT connectivity? (Reader Forum)

Earlier this year, Transforma Insights undertook a survey of 1,100+ enterprises in the US and Europe, asking about their buying behaviour and vendor preferences cellular IoT connectivity. As part of that survey, we asked respondents which connectivity providers they were aware of, which they...

“Customer and vendor, home and abroad” – China’s JDL explains global private 5G vision

The smart logistics operation at China-based retail giant JD.com “makes Amazon look primitive”, reckons regional English-language title The Asia Times. Certainly, its warehousing and fulfilment business, JD Logistics (JDL), caught the attention of the industrial tech media this summer when it revealed a fleet...

5G-to-business market in APAC to reach revenues of $25b by 2028

ABI Research noted that revenues from 5G network slicing deployments in APAC will grow from $151 million in 2022 to $12 billion by 2028   The deployment of 5G private networks in Asia Pacific is expected to reach revenues of $13 billion in 2028, up from...

‘That’s the fun part’ – how to scale private 5G (by the only enterprise that knows)

Want to know how to scale private 5G across manufacturing plants and manufacturing applications? Well, European aviation and aerospace manufacturer Airbus knows how. Of course, if you have followed the Airbus story in these pages, or caught its feature presentations and panel discussions at...