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Boldyn to buy Apogee to expand connectivity in US higher-ed campuses

UK-headquartered shared network specialist Boldyn Networks has agreed to acquire US-based higher-education connectivity provider Apogee Telecom for an undisclosed fee. The announcement follows hard on the heels of its completion, yesterday (March 5), of the purchase of industrial private 5G specialist Edzcom from Spanish...

Siemens samples own sustainability meds at smart campus in Switzerland

Germany industrial giant Siemens has opened the final wing of a new CHF250 million ($280m) ‘smart infrastructure’ facility in Zug in Switzerland which, it claims, takes advantage of the latest IoT sensing and AI sense-making technologies to optimise highly-efficient energy infrastructure and deliver a ...

HPE takes a seat in the private 5G dining car – and sees no telcos aboard

Put a pin in the bombast and a rinse in the dazzle; if MWC is an industry waypoint on the telecoms road, then the 2023 version said private cellular, as a bountiful diversion, is probably just about on the horizon line. Unlike two years...

Bright eyed, bushy tailed, mob handed – AWS is best-in-show at Barcelona IoT bash

How do you judge the best-in-show? By the bright eyes and bushy tails? Probably not if it is a tech fair. So how should one rate the stands at IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona? Is it a size thing? Is it a...

Quickening scale with LoRaLAN, says LoRaWAN stalwart – TTI passes million mark

IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona is not just about cellular, of course. But its proximity in the calendar, as January turns to February, to the city’s big MWC monster-mash at the end of the month – and the closer alignment of their...

Unabiz ties-up with iWire on Sigfox (plus any-LPWAN) IoT push in MEA region

Dubai-based IoT network and solutions provider iWire Global, at one time in the running to buy Sigfox, has signed a regional collaboration and development deal with Singapore-based IoT outfit Unabiz, which eventually won the race to buy Sigfox’s technology assets in France. The partnership...

A better balance between standardization and differentiation in IoT (Reader Forum)

From AI-capable endpoint devices to autonomous systems, IoT developers are building a diverse ecosystem of products and services, only set to grow. The number of IoT connected devices worldwide is projected to reach over 15 billion in 2023. MicKinsey estimates its market value will...

A note about Enterprise IoT Insights… last orders at the bar, the party is moving on

This is difficult to write. It is a pivotal moment for IoT, and we think – the team at Arden Media, publisher of RCR Wireless News and Enterprise IoT Insights thinks – that it will not survive. At least, not as we know it, or...

EU backs $100m venture capital fund for ‘Industry 5.0’ (Industry 4.0 with-a-conscience)

Zurich-based venture capital group Momenta has launched a $100 million target fund for ‘Industry 5.0’ tech – basically, for startups pushing Industry 4.0 with-a-conscience. The new fund is backed by the European Commission, which told IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona, where the...

IoT tracking in the supply chain (pt 4) – putting the IoT edge at the heart of operations

Note, this article follows directly from a previous post (part 3; January 27) – about roadmap errors and design issues in the rollout of IoT in the supply chain sector, which followed from other posts in the series onJanuary 25 (part 2) and January...

IoT operator Netmore intros public LoRaWAN in France, extends across Europe

Swedish IoT operator Netmore Group has started to deploy a public LoRaWAN network in France, it has said. Its French debut follows a period of busy expansion in 2022, following its acquisition of Nordic IoT Networks in early 2021 and its strategic shift to...

Telekom Serbia bundles NB-IoT and LoRaWAN in “unified” national IoT network

Telekom Srbija (Telekom Serbia) is rolling out a new NB-IoT network to go alongside its public LoRaWAN network, to serve the country’s industrial firms, energy providers, cities and municipalities, and retail and facilities operators. France-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) network specialist Actility, an important vendor...

Norway opens 3.8-4.2 GHz band for private 5G (SA-NPN only; PNI-NPN not permitted)

Norway has opened up 400 MHz of prime mid-band spectrum, at 3.8-4.2 GHz, for enterprises to deploy local-area private 5G networks. Following pilots last year, the Norwegian Communications Authority (Nkom) is now offering four different-sized tranches of the 3.8-4.2 GHz band on 10-year deals....

Meeting ESG targets with LoRaWAN (Reader Forum)

The second best thing to making a full-circle pivot to zero emission is to reduce your current footprint – with miles that are not driven, flights that are not taken, and energy that is not consumed. Indeed, while we transition to a completely emission-neutral...

ABB opens tech HQ in Mexico to serve process industries in North America

ABB is to open a new technology and engineering center in Mexico to serve the North American market. The Swiss engineering conglomerate has made an initial investment of $1 million in the facility, located in the city of Mérida, in the Yucatán region of...

Industry 4.0 ‘lighthouse’ factories – China dominates the latest intake

The World Economic Forum has identified 18 more Industry 4.0 ‘lighthouse’ factories that have managed to “transcend debilitating macro forces” by making use of the latest industrial IoT-related tech. The organisation’s latest bi-annual lighthouse intake brings its total to 132 manufacturing sites, in various...

‘Buildings have to be programmable,’ says Cisco’s smart building lead

'Cisco has added elements of smart buildings to everything it's doing,' the exec says According to Bob Cicero, Cisco's smart building lead for the Americas, technology and connectivity have become the fourth utility, after water, gas and electricity. As a result, Cisco has been focused...

View to install smart windows at Skanska office project in Seattle

  U.S. glass-manufacturing company View has been selected by global construction and development firm Skanska to be featured in the Eight, a Class-A high-rise office tower and one of the first buildings in the Bellevue Central Business District to feature smart windows. Built, developed, and owned...

View to install smart windows at new building in Bellevue

  U.S. glass-manufacturing company View announced its smart windows will be installed at The Artise, a 605,000-square-foot Class-A office building in Bellevue, Washington. The building has been entirely pre-leased to Amazon as part of the company?s plan to bring 25,000 jobs to Bellevue. The Artise is Schnitzer...

Johnson Controls acquires FogHorn, to expand reach in the smart buildings space

  Smart building solutions company Johnson Controls has completed the acquisition of FogHorn, a developer of Edge AI software for the industrial and commercial Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. "Value is increasingly being created by applying intelligence at the edge-device level to create real-time, secure, actionable...

Coretrust announces improvements in health and wellness technologies at its properties

  Los Angeles-based private real estate operating company Coretrust Capital Partners said it has been recently installing multiple state-of-the-art health and wellness technologies at its buildings. The firm said ?it has signed 200,000 square feet of new and renewed tenant leases in the past nine months...

Merlin Properties secures first WiredScore Platinum certification in Barcelona

Diagonal 605 features fiber, cellular coverage and other smart building tech Spanish real estate firm Merlin Properties has obtained WiredScore Platinum certification for its recently remodeled Diagonal 605 building, the company said in a release. Merlin Properties noted that this is the first certification of its...

Cohesion raises $15 million in financing to expand smart building tech

  Cohesion, which focuses on smart building and digital twin SaaS technology, raised $15 million in its Series A financing round co-led by Morgan Stanley Next Level Fund and Hyde Park Angels (HPA), the firm said in a release. New investors, Three Bridges Private Capital and...

Software AG, Softdel ink partnership to target smart building market

Smart building IoT company Softdel has inked a strategic partnership with Software AG, a provider of Enterprise Integration & IoT platforms. Under this new partnership, Softdel and Software AG say they are bringing together their complementary solutions to achieve the increasing demand for better energy...