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‘Not for telcos’ – why Industry 4.0 is a team sport, and why carriers have been benched

This interview is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the rest of the report – with commentary from the likes of Accenture, Appledore Research, EXFO, Nokia, Lufthansa Industry Solutions, Vodafone...

Siemens integrates Google’s cloud and analytics into factory automaton suite

Siemens is to integrate Google’s cloud and analytics technologies with its factory automation portfolio. The pair said their offer will help manufacturing companies to move away from fragmented legacy software, and “bring AI/ML to the manufacturing industry at scale”. Manufacturing companies continue to use legacy...

Edzcom and Nokia upgrade Konecranes ‘smart factory’ from private LTE to 5G

Edzcom and Nokia are to build a private standalone (SA) 5G network for fellow Finnish firm Konecranes at the company’s factory in the municipality of Hyvinkää about 50 kilometres north of Helsinki. Konecranes manufacturers and services cranes and lifting equipment. The company’s Hyvinkää facility is...

Battery maker Hyperbat joins with Ericsson, BT, Qualcomm, NVIDIA on ‘first’ 5G-VR tool

UK-based vehicle battery manufacturer Hyperbat has claimed a “world-first” industrial virtual reality (VR) solution for manufacturing using a private 5G network. It is working with BT and Ericsson on the network setup. Qualcomm is providing its Snapdragon XR2 platform into the VR headset, plus...

DT casts itself as SI for private 5G, bundles AI and IoT, slashes NB-IoT promo costs

Deutsche Telekom has positioned itself as a system integrator (SI) in the emerging private 5G market for Industry 4.0, via a deal with AWS for managed edge infrastructure and services. It has also released a couple of all-in packages for factory and warehouse-based AI...

Nokia and EY combine to ‘unleash the potential’ of industrial 5G across globe

Nokia has teamed up with professional services consultancy Ernst & Young (EY) in Finland to help enterprises and mobile operators ”unleash the business potential” of ‘private wireless’ solutions, the umbrella term used by Nokia to capture a range of industrial networking technologies, but with...

‘Game-changer’ for industry – Grundfos delivers verdict on factory 5G with Ericsson

Danish pump manufacturer Grundfos has given an initial thumbs-up to private factory-based 5G, after six months’ working with Swedish vendor Ericsson and local operator TDC NET on a test network at its production plant in Bjerringbro, north of Aarhus, in Denmark.  “We see 5G as...

Verizon intros ‘hyper-precise’ positioning in US for intelligent driving, advanced IoT

Verizon has introduced a new ‘hyper-precise location’ (HPL) service that uses ‘real-time kinematics’ (RTK) to deliver satellite-based location with centimetre-level accuracy. The HPL service is available via Verizon’s ThingSpace’s IoT platform to business customers and application developers using its 4G and 5G cellular networks...

Nokia says 5G+ will enable ‘the great inversion’ of physical industries

5G+ is the network along with edge cloud, AI/ML, private networks, sensors and robotics Sectors such as media, financial services, and e-commerce were able to more quickly pivot as the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the ebb and flow of global commerce because they were farther along...

Fujitsu, Trend Micro run the rule over private 5G security at Japanese smart factory

Japanese IT company Fujitsu and US-Japanese cyber security company Trend Micro have partnered to “focus on” the security of private 5G networks. The pair said they will use a simulated smart factory environment at a Fujitsu factory  in Japan to run the rule over...

What do enterprises really think of 5G? Frankly, we hear, they don’t give a damn

It is just another networking technology, after all; Appledore Research tells of the trouble with the telco sector’s ‘god complex’. Note, this is an excerpt from an interview that appears in a new editorial report from Enterprise IoT Insights on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full...

Bosch trumps its own Industry 4.0 fantasies with (wait for it)… a smart factory floor

It sounded, at the time, like a sci-fi vision of the future of manufacturing: that with a hyper-connected 5G factory, the only fixed assets will be the floors, walls and ceilings. But Bosch appears effectively to have trumped its own fanciful trade-show talk, from...

Citymesh runs drones tests on private 5G network at Brussels Airport

Brussels Airport has announced it has successfully tested drones for inspections and surveillance using its private 5G network, installed by network vendor Nokia and network operator Citymesh. Local air traffic control and management company Skeyes has also been involved in the test flights in...

Zeetta Networks releases new software for private LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi slicing and splicing

The new version of the Zeetta Networks platform, which provides a dashboard for managing multiple private enterprise networks, as a “single pane of glass”, has already been tested as well in “large scale” smart city initiatives in the UK, including in Bristol (Bristol is...

Fujitsu launches private 5G network at Oyama smart factory

  Japanese company Fujitsu announced the start of of operations of a private 5G network at its Oyama plant in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. In a release, Fujitsu said that the network consists of a 4.7 GHz band SA and a 28 GHz extended frequency band NSA...

Verizon, Nokia ship full private 5G to Port of Southampton for Associated British Ports

Verizon has signed its first European private 5G contract, in a deal with Associated British Ports in the UK. The US firm has been appointed to deploy private 5G at the Port of Southampton. Nokia is providing the networking infrastructure, as part of the...

Hitachi buys US software firm GlobalLogic for $9.5bn in ‘biggest deal’ for Japanese tech

Hitachi is to acquire Silicon Valley-based digital engineering services company GlobalLogic for $9.5 billion. The firm will be integrated into the Japanese firm’s Hitachi Vantara unit; its digital engineering capabilities will “strengthen” its Lumada industrial IoT platform, the company said. Japanese financial paper The Nikkei...

5G takes ‘different muscles’ – Accenture on how to serve industry with telecoms (and vice versa)

This conversation will form part of the narrative in the forthcoming Enterprise IoT Insights report on industrial 5G SLAs, out at the start of April (to be available here). A webinar on the same subject is available here, with panellists from ABI Research, EXFO,...

Telia intros private LTE/5G enterprise offer using ‘public’ spectrum in Norway

Sweden-based Telia has launched a private LTE and 5G network solution for enterprises in Norway using its licensed spectrum, otherwise used for its public network services. It follows the launch of the same service in Sweden in September. Telia is offering to install a...

Edzcom taps Athonet for twin private 5G networks at Steveco terminals in Finland

Finnish industrial networking specialist Edzcom has deployed private 5G networks at shipping terminals in Mussalo and Hietanen in Kotka for Steveco, Finland’s largest port operator. Italy-based Athonet has provided the core network and connectivity platform. The two sites in Kotka, on Finland’s southern coast, are...

Rogers launches managed solution for wireless private networks

Rogers sees private network opportunity in verticals like mining, oil and gas, and manufacturing Canadian operator Rogers announced the launch of a managed solution for wireless private networks (WPN), the company said in a release. The company said that the new offering chiefly targets large businesses...

Vodafone sets the controls for the heart of the (private 5G network) ‘run’

As promised last week, in an op-ed write-around of the same conversation, here is the full interview with Phil Skipper, group head of IoT business development at Vodafone, on the subject of industrial 5G performance KPIs and management SLAs – and the role of...

Fractus Antennas rebrands as Ignion with mission to spur ‘antenna-less’ IoT

Barcelona-based IoT antenna company Fractus Antennas has rebranded as Ignion. The company has reissued its mission statement, to establish its proprietary off-the-shelf multiband ‘virtual antenna’ chip technology as a driver for faster, cheaper IoT development, and a spur for ‘massive’ scale IoT deployments.  Industry veteran...

Nokia bundles spectrum access and radio sensing into CBRS offer in the US

Nokia has integrated a spectrum access and radio sensing mechanisms into its private LTE and 5G offer for priority and general access users in the CBRS band in the US. The Finnish firm has partnered with Virginia-based Key Bridge Wireless on the solution, which...