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Lexmark chases $50bn opportunity with launch of new IoT services business

Print services company Lexmark has launched a new IoT portfolio for manufacturing companies to monitor usage of their connected devices in-market, and provide their customers with a platform of analytics-based maintenance and service solutions. The company put the total market opportunity, for industrial IoT...

Semtech hails new ‘zero-maintenance, zero-carbon’ energy-harvesting LoRa solution

Semiconductor maker Semtech has announced a new LoRa-based solution, combining a power-efficient microcontroller and an edge tracker module, that harvests ambient energy from the environment to preclude the need for a battery completely. The California-based firm called the solution “maintenance free” and “zero carbon”,...

Truphone hooks-up with Sony and Kigen on global iSIM for NB-IoT and LTE-M

Truphone has combined with chipset maker Sony Semiconductor Israel and SIM specialist Kigen on an integrated SIM (iSIM) solution for global IoT deployments. Altair and Kigen have worked separately to offer a proprietary version of iSIM technology for remote provisioning of cellular IoT devices...

US IoT firm Ubicquia secures $25m debt to scale supply, launch in Europe and Asia

US-based IoT provider Ubicquia has entered a new $25 million debt and working capital facility with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The facility will be used to accelerate growth, facilitate larger supply chain commitments and manage working capital requirements driven by increasing orders from OEM...

Arm intros reference architecture to help automakers grasp ‘software-defined future’

UK-based chip design company Arm has announced new software architecture and hardware platforms for emerging software-defined automotive systems, including for driver assistance, infotainment, electrified powertrains, and ultimately for autonomous vehicles. The new releases are designed to enable the automotive industry to build powerful new...

SaaS apps a ‘thing of the past’ – Mendix looks to drive low-code industrial change

Siemens-owned Mendix has announced “massive enhancements” to its low-code software development platform to enable IoT ‘makers’ to assemble and monetise new digital products. It has declared prescriptive software-as-a-service applications a “thing of the past” as drag-and-drop, non-specialist, low-code software development starts to drive industrial...

Celona claims O-RAN compliant private 5G, inks investment deal for federal 5G systems

California-based private LTE/5G startup Celona is the first company to implement the O-RAN Alliance’s specifications for open radio access network (open RAN) software in private 5G enterprise networks, it has said. Celona said its O-RAN-compliant capabilities, newly certified, confirm its so-called ‘edgeless’ 5G architecture...

Charge Analytics taps Soracom to connect industrial IoT monitoring and control systems

US-based IoT outfit Charge Analytics has picked KDDI-owned Soracom to provide mission-critical cellular IoT connectivity, based on NB-IoT and LTE-M, to remote monitoring and control systems deployed in highly regulated industrial settings such as construction, manufacturing, mining, and chemical production. These systems transmit real-time indoor...

Vodafone UK intros IoT platform for water companies to digitalize legacy systems

Vodafone has launched a new IoT platform for UK water companies to consolidate data from disparate industrial sensors and systems into a single management plane. The solution, which wraps in design and supply of new IoT gadgetry, allows water companies to prolong the life...

Utah Inland Port Authority to deploy private LTE/5G network from Athonet, Intel

The Utah Inland Port Authority, the state-run logistics agency developing a dry port in the northwest of Salt Lake City and other undeveloped land in Salt Lake County, has said it will build and manage its own private 5G network as the “foundation” for...

NTT intros service platform for enterprises to design, deploy, manage private 5G globally

NTT has launched a private cellular as-a-service platform for enterprises to deploy private LTE and 5G networks anywhere in the world. The Japan-based firm described the offer as an “end-to-end stack of services that goes beyond the network” to include infrastructure and device management,...

Verizon and IBM combine on 5G test cases, ‘management approaches’ for Industry 4.0

IBM and Verizon are collaborating on 5G use cases and ‘management approaches’ for Industry 4.0 at IBM’s ‘industry solution lab’ in Texas, in the US. The pair are offering industrial enterprises a test environment to experiment with 5G networking, cloud-and-edge compute, and analytics-based AI...

Telefónica to build private 5G NOCs to serve industry in Spain, Brazil, UK, Germany

Note, this article is taken from an upcoming report on operator-run private 5G enterprise NOCs. Look out for the report next week; sign up here (last chance!) for the webinar on private 5G enterprise NOCs on August 11, featuring ABI Research, Radisys, Vodafone and...

Druid Software signs with CBRS specialist CTS on private 5G managed service bundle

Massachusetts-based telecoms infrastructure provider Communication Technology Services (CTS) is working with core network provider Druid Software to bundle the Irish firm’s Raemis platform into its private LTE/5G offer in the US. CTS is offering a managed private LTE/5G service to enterprises leveraging the Citizens...

Xicato inks smart building partnership with amBX

  U.S. firm Xicato, which provides Bluetooth smart building wireless controls, and U.K. company amBX, a developer of lighting controls software, announced a strategic partnership to integrate Xicato?s smart wireless controls with amBX SmartCore lighting control software. The strategic partnership will create a complete intelligent and...

SIs in trouble, hyperscalers indifferent – the case for carrier-led private 5G

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘Software AG, StarHub and the blueprint for carrier-led industrial private 5G’, available here. Bernd Gross, chief technology officer at Software AG, is presenting the case for telcos as the go-to agents for private 5G. He...

Senet makes Tampa Bay network the ‘largest metro LoRaWAN deployment’ in US

US-based LoRaWAN platform provider Senet has said it is expanding its public LoRaWAN network in the Tampa Bay metropolitan region in Florida. The network extension, covering over 1,600 square miles across Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, including the cities of Tampa Bay and St Petersburg,...

Software AG, StarHub and the ‘blueprint’ for carrier-led industrial private 5G

Software AG remains set on its strategy to make mobile operators the go-to agents for private 5G in ‘vertical’ spectrum, and particularly in the Industry 4.0 space where it retains a developing crossover customer base in telecoms and industry. While most of the market...

Edzcom installs 5G at machine maker MGA’s Industry 4.0 biopharma lab in France

Finnish private networking specialist Edzcom has been appointed by industrial machine manufacturer MGA Technologies to build a private 5G network at its new Industry 4.0 innovation lab near Lyon, in France. Edzcom called the installation the “first private 5G lab” in France – for...

BT deploys IoT, sensor technology to digitize the Port of Ipswich

  UK carrier BT and Associated British Ports (ABP) said they are currently trialing the next generation of Internet of Things (IoT) and sensor technology to speed up the movement and processing of cargo goods and digitize the Port of Ipswich’s logistics and operations processes. In...

Nokia intros eSIM/iSIM software for remote management of cellular IoT devices

Nokia has introduced new software to enable operators and enterprises to remotely manage cellular IoT devices with embedded and integrated SIM (eSIM and iSIM) functionality. The software works with standard consumer devices, as well, but eSIM and iSIM technologies make most difference in the...

Qualcomm tees-up Capgemini to push new Release-16 private 5G system in Industry 4.0

Qualcomm is teaming up with Capgemini to “unlock” private 5G for Industry 4.0, based on its new Release 16-capable 5G RAN platform and radio modem. Qualcomm and Capgemini will develop an off-the-shelf private network system, “tested and validated”, to provide clients a faster route...

False starts, funny looks – Nokia eyes 14m private LTE networks with MulteFire launch

After all the false starts and funny looks, is it time to take MulteFire seriously? Nokia says so. And, as the mainstream telecoms market wakes up to the Finnish firm’s long-time message about the industry-changing potential of private cellular, it is probably worth listening....

Druid Software teams up with system integrator Siticom on private 5G in Germany

Ireland-based core network vendor Druid Software has announced a go-to-market deal on private 5G with system integrator Siticom. The Germany-based firm has an agreement with US-based Airspan Networks on 5G open radio access network (RAN) hardware. It appears the pair are Siticom’s preferred choice...