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Fire in the hole! How industrial 5G will light a big-bang to remake the telecoms world

This article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with commentary from the likes of Accenture, Appledore Research, EXFO, Nokia, Lufthansa Industry Solutions, and...

Semtech, EchoStar test satellite-enabled LoRaWAN for utilities, agriculture, maritime

Semtech is working with EchoStar Mobile, a mobile satellite services provider in Europe, to test satellite connectivity services enabled by the LoRaWAN protocol. The pair want to create the “first low cost, satellite-based, real-time, bidirectional, massive IoT connectivity service”, they said.  The LoRa Alliance, promoting...

Silicon Labs intros new range of Wi-SUN SoCs for smart meters, lights, cities

Austin-based chip-maker Silicon Labs has announced a new range of system-on-chips (SoCs) with support for Wi-SUN, an alternative for low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking like LoRaWAN and Sigfox. It said its new EFR32xG12 platform is suited to new IoT opportunities, and will help to “accelerate”...

What’s the point of 5G if the latency is lost in the middle? ‘Data is baggage, otherwise’

This article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with commentary from the likes of Accenture, Appledore Research, EXFO, Nokia, Lufthansa Industry Solutions, and...

LoRaWAN duo SenRa and Senet expand in India – and into Middle East, Asia, Africa

India-based LoRaWAN provider SenRa has expanded its network operation to 74 cities in India, and has claimed a rush of deals with the likes of Bosch for industrial IoT, Ripple Metering for smart meters, and PNI for smart parking, as well as deals running...

Orange supplies Russian mining firm with Wi-Fi based RTLS to grade, sort raw coal

Russian coal mining company Raspadskaya has deployed a Wi-Fi based real-time IoT tracking solution from Orange Business Services to help sort different grades and types of coal at a coal preparation factory in the Kemerovo region of Russia. Raspadskaya, partly owned by British steel making...

Network monitoring – the ‘only way’ to know what you’re really getting from private 5G

This article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with commentary from the likes of Accenture, Appledore Research, Nokia, Lufthansa Industry Solutions, Vodafone and...

Scarborough, Maine, migrates smart street-lighting from Echelon to Dhyan

The town of Scarborough in Maine, in the US, has migrated its smart street lights onto a cloud management platform from California-headquartered Dhyan Networks and Technologies, and away from smart lighting company Echelon. The firm said its central management software (CMS) has allowed the town...

Swiss Post, Swisscom offer LoRaWAN-based SmartButton for one-click postal services

Swiss Post has developed a battery-operated optical identification (OID) device, the SmartButton, running on LoRaWAN, to offer consumers and businesses a means to order postal services with a simple button-press. It has worked with mobile operator Swisscom, which has deployed a LoRaWAN network for...

Nokia maintains momentum in mining with private LTE/5G wins in Russia, Chile

Nokia has picked up a couple of other contracts for deployment of private cellular networks in the mining sector, it has said, with Russian palladium and nickel mining company Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) and with Chilean copper mining company Codelco. The new announcements -- by Nokia’s...

Airbus taps Ericsson for private LTE network at French production plant

European aerospace manufacturer Airbus has announced the deployment of a private LTE network from Swedish telecoms vendor Ericsson at its factory in Toulouse, in France. Ericsson said the deal was an ‘extension’ of an existing partnership between the two firms. The network, described as...

The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact in the smart city field

  The Covid-19 pandemic is having a huge global impact, clearly. Enterprise IoT Insights talked with technology vendors and market analysts to analyze the impact of the pandemic on smart cities and to understand what new challenges, opportunities and use cases will arise in a...

IT/OT ‘heavyweights’ Microsoft and Siemens join Open Industry 4.0 Alliance

Microsoft and Siemens have signed up to the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance, a two-year old consortium of “European” industrial companies geared to drive cross-vendor interoperability for factories and warehouses. They join as “heavyweights” of the IT and OT sides of the conjoined industrial IoT...

An “Industry 4.0 benchmark” – Nokia, Claro combine on private LTE at Chile gold mine

Nokia is working with mobile operator Claro in Chile, a regional subsidiary of Mexican telecom group América Móvil, to equip South African mining company Gold Fields’ new Salares Norte mine with a private LTE network. The new network will support remote-controlled trucks, excavators, drills, and...

STMicro joins MIOTY Alliance, unveils MIOTY stack for flagship multi-mode STM32 SoC

Semiconductor firm STMicroelectronics (STMicro) has joined the burgeoning MIOTY Alliance, to promote the novel telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB) technology, commercialized as MIOTY, as an alternative to low-power wide-area (LPWA) protocols like LoRaWAN, Sigfox, and NB-IoT in the industrial IoT and smart cities markets. MIOTY (a portmanteau...

Nokia to deploy dedicated 5G for ‘Industry 4.0 hotbed’ in Japan’s Aichi Prefecture

Local Japanese telco KATCH is looking to hoover up Industry 4.0 contracts among automotive and high-tech manufacturers in the Aichi Prefecture, in Japan, after apponting Finnish vendor Nokia and local systems integrator CTC to deploy a dedicated private 5G network in the region. KATCH wants...

Private LTE for all nuclear power plants in France – EDF sets Thales, Ericsson to work

Électricité de France (EDF) has appointed Thales and Ericsson to design and supply private industrial-grade LTE networks at all of its nuclear energy sites in France. The company has 56 nuclear power reactors in the country, and the stated schedule is to connect “two-to-four”...

Vodafone offers Covid-19 vaccination management, vaccine tracking in Africa

Vodafone has said it is to supply infrastructure and solutions, using cellular and IoT tracking and monitoring technologies, to support Covid-19 vaccine roll-out in Africa. Vodacom, the company’s operating company in Africa, is working with the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) on a ‘home-grown’...

‘Not for telcos’ – why Industry 4.0 is a team sport, and why carriers have been benched

This interview is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with commentary from the likes of Accenture, Appledore Research, EXFO, Nokia, Lufthansa Industry Solutions, Vodafone...

Siemens integrates Google’s cloud and analytics into factory automaton suite

Siemens is to integrate Google’s cloud and analytics technologies with its factory automation portfolio. The pair said their offer will help manufacturing companies to move away from fragmented legacy software, and “bring AI/ML to the manufacturing industry at scale”. Manufacturing companies continue to use legacy...

DALI Alliance intros new Bluetooth gateway spec for in-building mesh networks

The DALI Alliance, the trade group representing the DALI smart-lighting interface, has released a new gateway specification to allow intelligent lighting fixtures to talk to Bluetooth mesh networks, and to share analytics across building management systems. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the trade association...

Edzcom and Nokia upgrade Konecranes ‘smart factory’ from private LTE to 5G

Edzcom and Nokia are to build a private standalone (SA) 5G network for fellow Finnish firm Konecranes at the company’s factory in the municipality of Hyvinkää about 50 kilometres north of Helsinki. Konecranes manufacturers and services cranes and lifting equipment. The company’s Hyvinkää facility is...

Battery maker Hyperbat joins with Ericsson, BT, Qualcomm, NVIDIA on ‘first’ 5G-VR tool

UK-based vehicle battery manufacturer Hyperbat has claimed a “world-first” industrial virtual reality (VR) solution for manufacturing using a private 5G network. It is working with BT and Ericsson on the network setup. Qualcomm is providing its Snapdragon XR2 platform into the VR headset, plus...

Sigfox teams up with China-based IoT maker Queclink on stolen-vehicle trackers

China-based IoT manufacturer Queclink is adding Sigfox-based IoT connectivity in its stolen vehicle trackers. The two companies have struck a deal to “uncover hidden potential of IoT”, they said, by launching more products with different form factors and applications. Queclink has launched a new...