LoRaWAN operator Senet has agreed a US-based roaming deal with peer-to-peer LoRaWAN operator Helium. The deal follows its announcement last week it is offering integration services with third-party LoRaWAN networks, alongside wholesale LoRaWAN plans for US cellular operators.
Hotspot maker Helium, which runs its so-called...
The clamour from the telecoms industry for governments and regulators to ease and encourage further 5G rollout is getting louder. Following on the heels of Vodafone’s call-to-arms last week in the UK, for the government to write targets and incentives for 5G and IoT...
Citymesh is working with Belgium-based TowerEye on temporary private LTE (4G) networks for festivals and other events. Their private 4G installations will provide connectivity for ticket scanning, contactless payments, and Covid checks, plus flexibility to support other mobile and IoT applications. Broadcasting, and augmented...
Further to the news yesterday of Microsoft's appointment to the board of the LoRa Alliance, the rest of the LoRaWAN ecosystem continues to move at a decent clip, it appears. Two of the leading lights in the non-cellular IoT firmament, in the form of...
Finnish industrial networking specialist Edzcom is working with France-based communications software provider Streamwide to bring higher-grade security to mission critical private LTE and 5G networks. It said the partnership will allow it to expand its offering in the ‘critical communications market’.
Streamwide divides its portfolio...
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...
Microsoft has joined the board of the LoRa Alliance, the marketing and development body for the LoRaWAN low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) standard. Microsoft said LoRaWAN was a “critical connectivity fabric” for its work with digital twins, listing a bunch of customers that have used...
Nokia has signed a deal with the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) to leverage industrial 5G, and other technologies, to drive the Industry 4.0 movement on the continent, as well as connectivity in general. The pair have a stated objective to “shape policy, develop talent,...
Vodafone has urged the UK government to write targets and incentives for 5G and IoT adoption into its forthcoming net-zero strategy blueprints, due to be published later this year. The UK-headquartered operator said the UK government should create a regulatory and policy framework that...
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...
Through the end of last month and the start of last week, an assortment of tech providers, all with something to sell, descended on São Paulo to proclaim the imminent arrival of 5G in Brazil, and paint a picture of glorious digital change stretching...
Microsoft and Nokia have partnered with the South Australian Government to combine ‘space technology’ and terrestrial 5G in service of local industry, including as the basis for digital change in the Australian agriculture, mining, transport, logistics, and public sector industries.
A press statement provided little...
The University of Birmingham in the UK has devised a plan to be “the world’s smartest global campus” by deploying IoT sensing and AI sense-making technologies to link academic research and teaching, and influence consumer habits, as part of a broader agenda around renewable...
Federated Wireless is working with Learning Alliance Corporation, offering vocational training with businesses and colleges, to issue more than 2,000 certificates to newly qualified private-network installation engineers working with LTE in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) in the US.
They said the move is...
Ultra narrowband IoT network provider Sigfox is working with Google to build a new range of IoT devices that can leverage local artificial intelligence (AI) analytics at the ‘edge’, in compute nodes on customers’ premises. Sigfox has signed a deal to load Coral, Google’s...
TIM has struck a deal via its IoT solutions division Olivetti with engineering firm SECO to produce IoT solutions for Italian enterprises – worth €50m to SECO and €225m to TIM over the next three years.
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...
Dutch IoT solution provider NetOP Technology has teamed up with French LoRaWAN gateway maker Kerlink to produce a ‘wildfire-prevention’ system that measures humidity, temperature, carbon dioxide, and volatile organic compounds to issue long-distance alarms over LoRaWAN to alert about possible wildfires.
Global warming has increased...
Wirepas has received an additional €10 million cash injection from Estonia-based early-stage venture capital firm Karma and Finnish state-owned investment firm Tesi to accelerate development of its new mesh-based non-cellular industrial ‘5G’ technology. Both Karma and Tesi are existing investors in Finland-based Wirepas.
Wirepas is...
UK-based cellular system integrator Vilicom has selected Mavenir to provide a private LTE network based on open RAN architecture for an off-shore wind farm in Scotland. The project is the first of its kind in the UK, the supplier companies said, combining open RAN...
Wireless smart meters have transformed the management of electricity, water, and gas supplies to homes and businesses. By some estimates, smart electricity meters have reduced electricity power consumption by approximately 5% to 15%. In 2020, there were 710 million electricity smart meters installed world-wide...
The World Economic Forum is to establish a new ‘smart cities’ centre in Detroit, in the US, to stimulate the public and private sectors to collaborate on innovation to drive urban change. The new ‘global centre for urban transformation’, headquartered in the Michigan city...
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...
Qualcomm has launched its latest drone platform, and its first (and “the world’s first”) to introduce 5G and AI into the mix. The new Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G platform and reference design will spur the industrial market to deploy autonomous drones for infrastructure inspections,...
