Deutsche Telekom has public-private ‘campus’ networking setups with various customers, offering a kind of proto-slicing, as a precursor to industrial 5G. It has so far announced deals with German lighting company OSRAM, German car parts maker ZF Group, and the RWTH research institute at...
CK Hutchison, owner of the Hutchison telecoms group in Asia and Three (3) mobile brand in Europe, has opened a centre of excellence to provide bespoke private LTE and 5G networks for large enterprises.
It cited as prime candidates for industrial LTE and 5G enterprises...
Note, this article continues from a previous instalment: 'Connectivity is 5% of Industry 4.0 spend – we’d rather talk apps and services'. Go here to read this article.
So, what about those IoT use cases, which Orange Business Services (OBS) reckons are proven (see...
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...
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,...
Connected Nokia factory in Oulu sees 30% productivity gain
Nokia has been bullish on using LTE and 5G to power private networks for industrial verticals like mining, shipping and manufacturing. As the network infrastructure vendor works to sell its vertically-tailored solutions through carrier customers and...
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...
The World Economic Forum has zeroed-in on skills and training as it seeks to put the world right in Davos this week. It has launched a programmer, Reskilling Revolution, to provide one billion people with better education, skills and jobs in the face of...
ABI Research has poured water on the idea Wi-Fi 6 will gain mass adoption in the IoT space in the near-term. It has also said a few dominant chipset vendors will squeeze out new entrants in the IoT market, that low-power wide-area tech standards...
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...
Spending on factory data applications will grow from $18 billion in 2019 to just over $27 billion in 2024, a rise of 50 per cent in the period, according to analyst house ABI Research. The industrial and manufacturing sector is seeking to upgrade software...
The Irish government has unveiled a five-year Industry 4.0 strategy to help manufacturing firms to respond to technological change.
The plan, announced last month, includes €23.5 million of funding for the Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR) Centre, a joint initiative between Enterprise Ireland and the IDA,...
As the headline suggests, this analysis should be seen in context. It offers only rapid arithmetic around the World Economic Forum’s (expanding) list of ‘lighthouse’ factories, which claim the most success with digital change. It considers the available data (the location and ownership of...
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...
Bosch wants to be an “innovation leader” in AI, it told CES last week. The German industrial giant, one of the manufacturing sector’s most outspoken champions of industrial 5G, is seeking to mainline data in its products and factories, and apply advanced analytics to...
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,...
