The LoRa Alliance set out its stall at The Things Conference, an annual LoRaWAN meetup in Amsterdam, with an agenda to make the IoT market simpler for developers, device makers, and enterprise customers, so it achieves massive scale, finally.
Donna Moore, chair of the alliance,...
Sigfox IoT networks are now live in 70 countries. The French firm claims launches in three new markets in 2020, increasing its total country count by four and a half per cent compared with the end of 2019. Sigfox's network in the UK has...
Orange has brought in a first wave of industrial companies into its new 5G-geared Industry 4.0 campus in Antwerp, in Belgium. Those to join are the Port of Antwerp, chemical company Borealis, and polymer manufacturer Covestro.
The quartet will play (“co-innovate”) with real-life industrial applications...
The two companies are teaming up to grasp new business potential in the fast-growing market for private 4G and 5G mobile networks. The rising demand for private cellular network solutions comes as industries and enterprises increasingly need advanced digitalization to ensure their competitiveness.
Telecoms vendor...
All around the world, cities are becoming smarter, greener, more efficient. In fact, according to a May 2019 study conducted by Grand View Research, the global smart city market is expected to reach $237.6 billion by 2025.
From small-scale trials focused on simplifying the commute...
LoRaWAN will work in the 2.4 GHz spectrum band, also occupied by Wi-Fi and Bluetooth systems, to enable LoRaWAN-based IoT devices to work globally at the same frequency for the first time, without needing to switch between sub-GHz bands in roaming.
That is the proposal,...
Verizon has inked an agreement with Honeywell with the aim of helping utilities speed up the deployment of new communication-enabled, intelligent sensors and controls for the smart electric grid, both firms said in a release.
Under the terms of the agreement, Verizon will integrate its...
The Freshwave Group, a new UK network provider, is seeking to combine telecoms expertise and real-estate savvy to plug coverage gaps in public mobile coverage with shared and private networking. It is targeting enterprises and cities, as they seek to leverage new data traffic...
Brazilian telecoms regulator Anatel has approved local energy distributor Neoenergia to operate a private LTE network in the 3.5 GHz frequency. It will be the first private LTE network in Brazil, and the first for smart electric grids in Latin America.
Finnish vendor Nokia secured...
Waterfront Toronto, in charge of the $1 billion redevelopment of Toronto’s waterfront neighbourhood, has extended the deadline on whether to move forward with Google sister company Sidewalk Labs’ proposal for the smart city enclave.
The board of Waterfront Toronto has extended the consultantion period from...
UK regulator Ofcom is proposing to make 500MHz of contiguous spectrum in the lower 6 GHz band available for unlicensed indoor Wi-Fi and low-power outdoor Wi-Fi usage. It has also revealed plans to release an additional 18GHz of Extremely High Frequency (EHF) spectrum, above...
A consortium of technologists, industrialists, and academics have joined a new European working group to develop and demonstrate a new ‘beyond-5G’ system for private networks, integrating 5G, Wi-Fi, and LiFi technologies, and managed through AI based autonomic networking.
The 30-month project, called 5G-CLARITY, has been...
How does a mobile operator, in the business of airtime subscriptions, go beyond selling straight connectivity? Because this must be the goal, and the measure of ambition. There is no future in SIM cards, as we have argued – especially as technological innovation higher...
The first “neutral aggregating platform” for tracing the provenance of goods in the supply chain has launched, pulling together and making visible data from sundry blockchains.
The World Economic Forum described it as a “self-service track-and-trace” blockchain platform at its general meeting in Davos this...
After leading the early automation revolution at the beginning of the 20th century, manufacturers are once again seeking a technological edge. A whopping 72% of manufacturing companies plan to significantly increase investment into digitization efforts in 2020. These manufacturers’ combined financial commitment is expected...
Most people in Britain would support regulated usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, for critical services and industrial enterprises, according to a report by Vodafone.
Eighty per cent of the British public would support their adoption if better safety, security and monitoring measures...
Telecoms operators must do more than just sell connectivity. It is a maxim that gets repeated, often, and always – and one that, in the end, becomes more like a stick to beat them with than a code of survival, as they fail over...
Smart lighting specialist Signify is helping the city of Davos, in Switzerland, in achieving its sustainability goals as it upgrades both Davos’ streetlights and the lighting of the city’s Congress Center to energy-efficient LEDs, the firm said in a release.
This week, Davos will host...
This article, in five parts, is continued from Step 2, about spectrum and regulation; Step 2 can be found here.
“Once frequency usage fees have been clarified – a significant detail required for investments in industrial 5G – nothing will stand in the way of...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has opened a new ‘customer experience centre’ in Bangalore (Bengaluru), in India, to offer IoT solutions to customers and partners from across industries.
The facility, on a 20,000 square-foot campus, shared with a global engineering centre for its Pointnext Services division,...
China-owned Volvo Cars is working with China Unicom to develop 5G based communications between cars and infrastructure in China.
The two companies have agreed to work together to research, develop and test automotive applications of 5G and emerging vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology, they said. The pair...
Twenty one of Europe’s capital cities are to participate in a new initiative to accelerate development and delivery of "high impact" digital services.
The two-year scheme, by Bloomberg Philanthropies, will see cities receive technical help, access to city leaders, and training from "innovation experts" about...
Siemens and Arm have struck a deal around computing and sensor design for connected and autonomous vehicles, to help the automotive industry develop more complex platforms for in-car and between-car connectivity.
The work to redefine vehicles within intelligent and interconnected transport systems starts with on-board...
For a time, electronics shows were dominated by handheld devices. The biggest and most glam stands belonged to smartphone makers. It seems almost passé now, and more interesting for it, as the miniaturisation and acceleration of computing has exploded tech into new industrial realms.
In...
