Smart Factory

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 …

Vodafone has signed a deal with industrial IoT and AR specialist PTC to help developers and enterprises deploy digital-change applications. The deal is an extension of an existing three-year arrangement, …

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 …

One third of industrial companies, and almost one half of large industrial organisations, will apply for their own 5G licenses. The interest from enterprises in spectrum licenses, as well as …

ABB said it is currently piloting what it claims to be the world’s first industrial artificial intelligence application using 5G technology to assist the assembly of drives, at its Helsinki …

Cisco is set to acquire French cyber-security firm Sentryo, with which it has worked to author digital change solutions in the industrial IoT sector. Headquartered in Lyon, France, Sentryo provides …

Korean telecommunications firm KT announced plans to launch an advanced smart factory solution based on its 5G network in the third quarter of the year, Korean press reported. The Asian …

Japanese tech giant Panasonic has announced its plans to ramp up its smart factory solutions business in India. The company said in a release that it has integrated its welding …

Less than five per cent of data generated by manufacturing plants is used to bring insights and improve operations, according to a study by Frost & Sullivan. Sensors and other …

Swedish operator Telia is to build a university-based 5G network for research and testing of industrial uses of high-bandwidth low-latency cellular connectivity. The 5G network will be located at Mid …

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 …

Next-generation 5G technology will only appear in the internet-of-things (IoT) market in late 2020, and struggle to find its mark in the space for years afterwards, according to a new …

How will incoming cellular technologies transform manufacturing, and spur its drive for smarter production? That is the question Enterprise IoT Insights put to both sides of the industrial divide in …

Korean telco SK Telecom and Microsoft have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to carry out cooperation activities in the fields of artificial intelligence, cloud and 5G. Under the terms …

Industrial connectivity provider Ondas Networks, formerly Full Spectrum, has acquired 700 MHz spectrum to deploy private cellular networks for industrial users in the state of Alaska and the Gulf of …

Why can’t utilities be more like Netflix or Amazon? It’s a question you see posed in a growing number of articles and analyst reports, arguing that utilities should be more …

Cisco has signed a deal with Italian natural gas infrastructure company Snam to research and develop solutions in the smart energy and industrial internet-of-things (IoT) space, making use of 5G, …

Srinivas Garigipati, chief technology officer for the manufacturing business group at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), talks with Enterprise IoT Insights about the impacts of incoming 5G technology on the broad …

Antje Williams, Executive Programme Manager for 5G, Deutsche Telekom – “We have a huge divide at the moment in the industry, in the country, [about] how operators can serve industries …

HP and Siemens have combined to offer an “integrated” additive manufacturing solution for manufacturing companies, with the likes of VW and Jaguar Land Rover in the wings. The initiative, drawing …

Inside the factory of the future, everything will be fluid, except for the floors, walls, and ceilings. Industrial assets – machines, devices, and vehicles – will be animated by 5G …

The industrial 5G market will benefit from the consumer 5G market, with network deployments starting in earnest in late 2019 and early 2020, as industrial devices take advantage of the …

Finnish vendor Nokia will build a private 5G test network for Chinese auto-maker FAW to spur digital transformation of its industrial machines and processes. The pair have signed a “strategic” …