Smart Cities

Industrial connectivity provider Ondas Networks has started offering private wireless connectivity for mission-critical services in the State of Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, plus certain adjacent counties. The company …

Three Finnish industrial-change specialists, including telecoms vendor Nokia, have banded together on a collaboration project to construct a private LTE test network for developing industrial IoT applications for shipping ports …

The only way the planet will hit sustainability targets is through comprehensive electrification and digitisation of the energy market, and of society at large, reckons German tech giant Siemens. Consumption …

The German Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) has a good definition of ‘smart grids’, which needs no embellishment. “The basic idea is that each device which is connected to …

The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA), Deutsche Telekom and Nokia have completed an 18-month field test of 5G slicing and industrial IoT at the Port of Hamburg. The Port of Hamburg …

The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) and Panasonic of North America have signed a deal to develop an advanced transportation data network, the vendor said in a release. This network …

Annual revenue for the global smart city technology market will jump from $97.4 billion in 2019 to $263 billion by 2028, a rise of more than 150 per cent, with …

UK medics and telecoms engineers have demostrated a 5G connected ambulance and a remote-controlled ultrasound scan over a public 5G network. The showcase has been carried out by telecoms provider …

With localised power generation, the flow of electricity and data has to go both ways. New electricity metering infrastructure establishes an integrated system of meter hardware, communications networks, and data …

Dutch lighting company Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, has launched a new smart pole dubbed BrightSites, the firm said in a release. The new BrightSites smart pole accommodates a wide variety of …

There will be 41.6 billion connected IoT devices generating 79.4 zettabytes (ZB) of data by 2025. So says International Data Corporation (IDC), which calculates at the same time the amount …

Three quarters of the IoT market will be given over to low-power wide-area (LPWA) network solutions, compared with just one quarter for high-bandwidth low-latency 5G applications. So says the LoRa …

National Grid, the UK-based electricity and gas utility, has pumped money into a group of new energy tech providers, taking its total investment portfolio to $90 million. It has also …

Orange told 5G World in London yesterday (July 12) that private networks are too expensive, and that hiving off spectrum for the industrial sector to run private networks will throttle …

The UK government is seeking to reform planning laws and release new spectrum to accelerate 5G deployments, as it also increases public funding for 5G testbeds to stimulate the digital …

The number of cellular IoT connections, mostly to machines, will continue to outrun the number of 5G connections, mostly to people, for at least five years. Ericsson predicts cellular IoT …

New 5G technologies will generate $17 trillion in economic growth in the period to 2035, with the initial stimulus coming from smart-city applications piggybacking on urban 5G rollouts. But operators’ …

There’s no master list of smart city use cases primarily because, in the right context, nearly anything could contribute to a smart city. However, some of the major ones that …

How to move from limited smart cities pilots to scaled deployments “Smart cities” is most certainly a nebulous term. At a high-level, it refers to a collection of use cases, …

AT&T has made climate data from the US Department of Energy available to public and private colleges and universities, as well as local governments, to use for climate risk analysis. …

The LoRa Alliance has expanded its LoRaWAN certification programme to simplify and reduce testing for device makers and network operators. A single certification process will cover conformance, interoperability, and radio-frequency …

UK firm Telensa is to provide smart outdoor lighting, bringing remote control and energy savings, at the Port of Tyne, in the northeast of England. The Port of Tyne, one …

Network operator Three has rented out 50MHz of its 2.6 GHz frequency holding in Sweden in bid to boost local industry and stop regulator PTS carving-up the 3.5 GHz band …

The city of Philadelphia in the US is deploying lighting, sensors, and networking technologies from Cisco and CIMCON Lighting as it seeks to be “one of the leading smart cities …

Siemens will bring internet-of-things (IoT) technologies and solutions to the home stadium of the Jacksonville Jaguars, the American fooball team, based in Jakcsonville, Florida. The German firm has signed a …