Lord knows what Red Hat does, exactly, if you’ll excuse the language, but Christ knows it is good to talk to. And clearly, on the interplay between cellular networking and cloud computing at the enterprise edge, it should be listened to – as the...
Cellular IoT provider EMnify has raised $57 million (€50 million) in Series B funding from London-based growth fund One Peak. The new capital, with One Peak as sole investor, will accelerate the Berlin-based firm’s global expansion, “with a particular focus on the US”, it...
Telefónica Tech, the digital services arm of Telefónica, has signed a deal with Spanish engineering services company Grupo Álava, to launch a predictive analytics solution for the Industry 4.0 market that also leverages private 5G, cloud and edge computing, and big-data ‘AI’ analytics from...
We are a little slow off the mark with this one, but there was a notable missive last week from Amazon about IoT network-building in the US, as the firm announced a new LoRa bridge device, by its own smart-home security subsidiary Ring, to...
Maltese network operator GO has signed to use Software AG’s Cumulocity IoT platform for its enterprise customers. It is a minor win for the Germany-based firm, in a country with only around 500,000 inhabitants, but it is a win nonetheless, and GO joins the...
PassiveLogic has secured $34 million in Series B funding from investors Addition and Keyframe, the company said in a release.
The firm noted that these investors are joined by commercial real estate strategics, including RET Ventures, Brookfield Growth, and Era Ventures from the U.S., and...
US LoRaWAN network operator and cloud provider Senet has partnered with European satellite operator Eutelsat Communications, together with US-based LoRaWAN and GPS tracking solutions provider TrakAssure, and UK-based LoraWAN (and Bluetooth and Wi-Fi mesh) network provider Wyld Networks to integrate terrestrial and satellite LoRaWAN...
Note, this article is continued from a previous entry, under the headline: 'A "different beast" in the telco pack – often it’s not about 5G at all, says Orange'. For the first instalment, go here.
We should rewind, and hit play again on the Safran...
Ericsson has recruited US-based mapping company HERE Technologies to provide the mining industry with “custom mapping capabilities”, to go with its own private LTE and 5G network offer to the sector. HERE Technologies joins the Swedish vendor’s roster of approved Industry 4.0 vendors (“partner...
Software AG has entered into a strategic partnership with global tech investment leader Silver Lake, supported by a Silver Lake investment of €344 million. It marks the first time a US technology investment firm has completed a private investment in public equity (PIPE) deal...
Hyperscalers have been strengthening their telco ambitions in 2021, culminating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) launching its own private 5G solution this month (December). The AWS model for private 5G is consumption-based with pricing determined by coverage area and bandwidth. While the solution immediately...
Verizon and Google Cloud have confirmed a partnership on 5G and multi-access edge computing (MEC). Verizon said it is the first US operator to offer “5G mobile edge computing” with “all” of the major cloud providers. It is working with Microsoft Azure at the...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gaining momentum as a key technology for industrial applications and will be one of the big focus topics in 2022. Many companies are curious and open to try out new AI functionalities. Their goal is usually quite simple: greater production...
U.S. glass-manufacturing company View recently announced it has entered into a strategic agreement with RXR Realty to combine RXR?s WorxWell data analytics platform into its broader technology stack.
Formerly known as RxWell, WorxWell?s data analytics platform aggregates all building data including occupancy, space usage, digital...
Note, this article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report, called The Role of Hyperscalers in 5G and Edge. To read the full article – including about Google Cloud’s go-to-market strategy with operators, the breakdown of use cases across the cloud-edge, and...
There is a change in the IoT industry, and it has to do with the convergence of two other big developments. The first is the ongoing adoption of the cloud; the second is the rise of the enterprise developer using low-code/no-code software. Combined, these...
Siemens has signed a deal to acquire digital twin software from US-based smart-building design company EcoDomus. The transaction fee was not disclosed; a statement implied the agreement is for the EcoDomus software, rather than the company itself. The deal is expected to close in...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced two new IoT services, AWS IoT TwinMaker and AWS IoT FleetWise, to simplify the process to, respectively, create digital trains of industrial sites, equipment, and production lines, and collect and transfer vehicle data to the cloud. Siemens, Accenture,...
The kaleidoscope has been shaken, and the pieces are in flux; it is a quote from when British politics was supposed to change forever. But it captures very well an even more seismic upheaval, which promises indelible change for global industry – and will...
Spain-based IoT provider Libelium has launched a new cloud platform, Libelium Cloud, to manage multi-vendor IoT environments. The firm said the launch “completes” its reinvention as an “end-to-end” IoT solutions provider, covering hardware, software, and connectivity. The firm has traditionally specialised in IoT sensors...
Vodafone Business and Microsoft have announced a five-year deal on private 5G, edge computing, and IoT for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The arrangement, extending a long-running partnership between the two, will see Vodafone Business sell the Microsoft suite of compute and storage functions,...
IoT chip and module maker Sequans Communications has said its Monarch 2 module, offering dual-band LTE-M and NB-IoT connectivity, is available as a GSMA-compliant integrated SIM (iSIM / iUICC) unit. It said the iSIM-enabled Monarch 2 is the first IoT chip to pass third-party...
That headline; is it a thunderbolt, really, this private 5G package from Amazon Web Services (AWS)? No, because nothing in it is a surprise. We know AWS is serious about 5G, even if it views it as another application, albeit a functional one, for...
So AWS responded about some of the finer details in its new private 5G offer, announced yesterday. What have we learned? Not much, at least in terms of the identity of the networking partners it is using for the project. But there was some...
