The UK division of Spain-based tower company Cellnex has acquired indoor cellular connectivity provider Herbert In-Building Wireless (HiBW) for an undisclosed fee. The deal will see the creation of a new Cellnex business unit, called Cellnex UK In-Building Solutions (CUKIS), which will be led...
Sigfox has picked up another contract for tracking roll cages in the postal services sector, after Sigfox operator Heliot Europe signing with Post of Slovenia (Pošta Slovenije), the state-owned mail delivery company in Slovenia. The deal was announced at the recent 0GUN (0G United...
T-Mobile US said the new suite "manages all the connectivity, compute, devices and applications" for enterprise and smart city use cases
T-Mobile US has launched a new end-to-end suite of connectivity, compute, devices and applications targeting smart cities, retailers and autonomous factories, among others.
The new...
US power company Ameren has appointed Ericsson on a 10-year deal to provide private LTE and 5G network infrastructure to cover its operations across Missouri and Illinois. The project will consolidate “disparate network solutions” into one cellular network in the 900 MHz spectrum band,...
This is a rehash of a social media exchange last week, somewhere in a far-off echo chamber on LinkedIn, following a post by Enterprise IoT Insights about unsuccessful IoT deployments – which riffed on a slide from Canada-based LoRaWAN solution provider TEKTELIC, shared during...
Satellite telecom operator Sateliot is working to provide direct-to-satellite narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) connectivity, delivered by Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites. The company announced this week a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build a fully virtualized cloud-native 5G core for its NB-IoT service,...
Japan-based NTT has expanded an already-major private LTE and 5G project in the City of Las Vegas, in Nevada in the US, by leading a vendor collective to double the number of network access points across the city, and also to open the infrastructure...
The partnership will combine Itron’s distributed intelligence ecosystem with SmartThings Energy service to provide real-time energy readings and consumption patterns
Itron announced it is working together with Samsung subsidiary SmartThings to connect Itron’s industrial IoT (IIoT) network solution and SmartThings’ services and solutions.
The collaboration will...
Taiwanese industrial IoT provider Ubiik has released a network kit for running any LTE-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT technology on private and hybrid cellular networks. These cellular IoT technologies include Cat-1, LTE-M, and NB-IoT, and the package covers usage in 410MHz and 450MHz bands...
Australian satellite and IT comms provider Speedcast has deployed a private LTE network across four natural gas plants for Brazilian energy integrator Origem Energia in the state of Alagoas in the northeast of the country. The project has been carried out by Speedcast’s local...
Tracking provider Sensolus has moved its IoT estate onto Citymesh’s Sigfox network in Belgium. The move follows Citymesh’s 2021 purchase of the local Sigfox network from French multinational utility company ENGIE, which had managed the infrastructure in the country under the ENGIE M2M brand....
Munich Airport is looking to connect, expand, and automate its existing energy monitoring system, currently taking meter readings for water and electricity consumption – across the terminal buildings, baggage areas, and hangars – over local-area wired and wireless networks, to its developing low-power wide-area...
New Zealand glass manufacturer Architectural Glass Products (AGP) has recruited local pair Pollin8 and Thinxtra, providing IoT gadgetry and IoT networking respectively, to deploy low-power wide-area (LPWA) battery-powered Sigfox trackers on 1,750 delivery trolleys, carrying glass products to customers around the country. The trolleys...
Ericsson noted that the report comes with a specific energy management value calculator designed to estimate savings and efficiencies based on energy prices and other factors
Swedish vendor Ericsson released a ‘Connected Buildings Energy Management’ report in partnership with Nordic property technology company Kiona and...
London-based startup FloLIVE, offering aggregated hybrid-private 5G from global mobile operators for IoT use cases, is working with California-based satellite IoT provider Skylo to augment its footprint with the addition of non-terrestrial 5G network (NTN) coverage, to go beyond the reach of terrestrial mobile...
Core network provider Athonet has expanded its fledgling private 5G vendor club to include a broader cross-set of companies to promote and deliver new cellular systems for enterprises. The new joiners are Airspan, Ambra, Imagine Wireless, Integra Network Solutions, Itatel, RippleLink, Teal Communications, and...
The Things People – those in charge of the The Things Network (TTN) and The Things Industries (TTI) – took the magnanimous (though correct, given its place in the back-end IoT stack) step at its annual LoRaWAN developer event in Amsterdam, The Things Conference,...
Two thirds (67 percent) of enterprises want to see a return on their IoT investments (ROI) within 12 months of starting-out, and yet almost half (49 percent) reckon the biggest roadblock to ROI is long deployment times. Clearly something is up, says a survey...
Senet has expanded its public LoRaWAN network across all five boroughs of New York City through a combination of Senet-owned infrastructure, roaming deals with partner networks, and formal integration with Helium network, the company has said. The US LoRaWAN operator is on a charm...
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...
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...
