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...
Note, this article is taken from a longer editorial report on private 5G enterprise NOCs; to access the report, click here, or on the image below. For the attendant webinar on the same subject, including panellists from ABI Research, Vodafone, and Radisys, go here.
US-based Radisys,...
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...
Finnish telco Elisa has acquired a majority stake in Belgium-based industrial health and safety software provider TenForce, as part of the continuing expansion of its smart factory business. While continuing as an independent company, TenForce will be part of Elisa’s newly-formed IndustrIQ business, which...
Orange Business Services, the global enterprise division of France-based operator Orange, has struck a deal with German industrial giant Siemens in France to combine on industrial IoT, private 5G networks, cloud and edge computing, data analytics, and cybersecurity.
The partnership brings together the two companies’...
Non-Standalone 5G deployment at U.S. facilities will form template for expansion to global John Deere manufacturing facilities
DENVER--Representatives from John Deere, a global manufacturer of agricultural machinery headquartered in Moline, Illinois, have gradually become mainstays at telecoms and technology events as the company looks to...
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...
If the main event – the big report from which this article is taken – makes the case for operator-led management of private industrial 5G networks, with a primary investigation into how and where they might run operations, then the below Q&A session veers...
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.
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...
Bosch has opened two new Industry 4.0 academy venues in Germany, and is offering Industry 4.0 apprenticeships and qualifications to staff at 240 Bosch plants worldwide, as well as to employees at partner organisations, via an international network of chambers of industry and commerce.
The...
Did you see the writeup last week (or the week before?), that the window of opportunity for telcos to reinvent themselves with private 5G, as more than just dinosaur utility pipes, is closing, almost before it has even opened? Sound somewhat alarmist? We thought...
Deutsche Telekom is to build a private 5G campus network at the Future Factory Hub, a research campus being built at the Werner-von-Siemens Centre for Industry and Science in Siemensstadt, in the Spandau district of Berlin.
The project, funded by the city of Berlin, 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...
The rarefied opportunity for telcos to reinvent themselves with private 5G, as more than just dinosaur utility pipes, is about to pass the operator community by, according to ABI Research. The window of opportunity, presented by spectrum liberalisation and stripped-back 5G systems, is “closing”...
The Industrial Internet Consortium has rebranded as the Industry IoT Consortium. The IIC acronym remains. Explanation for the name change was limited, but claims some “new direction” and arguably reflects the technology sector’s acceptance of the internet of things (IoT) as the common technological...
