Smart Cities

The city of Cardiff in the UK has started a tender process to procure a lighting supplier for the £4.5 million upgrade of 23,750 residential streetlights in the city with …

The Société du Grand Paris (SGP), the state owned industrial company responsible for the Grand Paris Express metro project, has contracted Nokia to deploy a private LTE as part of …

Qualcomm has hailed the progress with cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology in recent months, including with certification of seven products using its own Qualcomm 9150 C-V2X chipset. C-V2X is a global …

Cellular is the best connectivity technology for smart street-lighting in cities, reckons Netherlands based lighting company Signify. The rise of ultra narrowband (UNB) for outdoor smart lighting in cities, popularized …

The city of Stockholm in Sweden is to deploy a software platform from Itron to manage its streetlights, according to the US-based industrial networking company. Itron has signed a contract …

The city of Sunderland in the UK is looking to establish a ‘strategic consortium’ and procure a “strategic delivery partner” to establish the country’s first city-owned ‘neutral host’ network for …

This year’s Hannover Messe trade fair, arguably the second biggest event for the telecoms market in Europe, has been postponed until July. Deutsche Messe, which runs the show, made the …

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has announced a new testbed to show the feasibility of adapting LTE for the urban rail sector. The new project is being led by Huawei, …

Connectivity has been the main blocker for industrial IoT, and not the fragmented hardware and software markets. So says Federated Wireless, one of the companies pioneering usage of private LTE …

Amsterdam-based Ingy has confirmed it is using wireless mesh protocol Wirepas as the foundational technology for its smart lighting offer, and the key component to scale smart lighting for hundreds …

Cisco is working with Oxford University spin-out company Oxbotica on a UK trial to explore how autonomous vehicles can securely and automatically share data via public Wi-Fi hotspots. The idea …

US-based industrial networking company Itron has signed with local electricity provider Borås Elnät in Sweden to swap-in 46,000 smart electric meters and layer-in sensors and analytics across its grid infrastructure. …

Irish postal company and fleet operator An Post Mails & Parcels (An Post) has contracted Irish Sigfox operator VT Networks to equip and monitor “several thousand” roll cages and containers …

A band of research organizations and industrial companies have formed the MIOTY Alliance to promote telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB), commercialized as MIOTY, as an alternative  low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology to the …

Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN group The Things Network (TTN) has instructed the IoT community at large to draw strength, as a collective working with open technologies, from its apparent weaknesses as a …

IoT infrastructure provider LORIOT has partnered with local networking and security system integrator Layer3 to deploy LoRaWAN in Nigeria for smart city and smart building solutions. Layer3’s cloud infrastructure will …

The UK government has announced the winners of a £35 million funding pot for rural and industrial 5G projects, alongside a new $30 million 5G development competition for the media, …

An intro-video plays as the founders of The Things Network (TTN), take to the stage at their annual LoRaWAN bash in Amsterdam. A Hollywood-style voiceover crows about big-sounding tech – …

Huawei said today at a London launch event for new 5G gear that it would prefer to go via the operator community to serve the Industry 4.0 movement, using slices …

Japan-based train company and railway operator Odakyu Electric Railway is trialling machine vision technology from Nokia to improve safety at rail crossings. The firm has started testing at the Tamagawa …

Mobile network operators will have earned $8 billion, and counting, in brand new sales revenue from 5G-based IoT connections by 2025, according to new forecasts from Juniper Research. The firm …

Annual deployments of new smart poles for street lighting, featuring sensors and connectivity, willl increase at a compound rate of more than 50 per cent per year, from just 600 …

Smart city spending will jump by almost a fifth in 2020, with the biggest city protagonists in the space set to spend at least $1 billion each. The big opportunity …

  Semtech Corporation announced that NetOP, a developer and manufacturer of LPWAN-based IoT applications, has developed a new smart energy consumption monitoring solution based on Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol. The …

Dell Computers, STMicroelectronics, and Software AG have thrown their weight behind blockchain-rival The Tangle to record and secure transactions and payments between machines in the industrial IoT space.  The companies, …