The rise of private industrial networking should be measured by the number of new networks, and network operators, and not by the number of cell sites, reckons Italy-based industrial networking specialist Athonet.
Speaking at a MulteFire-sponsored panel session, chaired by Enterprise IoT Insights (way...
Swedish vendor Ericsson and Nordic-based service provider Telia have brought automated guided vehicles, augmented reality (AR), and a huge number of sensors to life at Ericsson’s manufacturing facility in Tallinn, Estonia, via a dedicated cellular network.
The Tallinn supply site is one of
Ericsson’s largest manufacturing...
A group of China’s largest tech companies have formed an association with the aim of accelerating initiatives to foster the industrial internet in the country, Chinese paper China South Morning Post reported.
These firms, including Huawei Technologies and internet giant Tencent, have established the...
The world’s first standalone private NB-IoT network has been launched in Florida, using upper 700 MHz A-Block spectrum and covering major urban centres in northern Florida initially.
The operator, San Francisco-based startup Puloli, is targeting utilities and other critical infrastructure industries with a network-as-a-service...
Australian operator Telstra has switched on a private LTE network at a gold mine in Papua New Guinea. The deployment at the Lihir gold mine, on Aniolam Island in the New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea, will bring greater levels of safety, remote...
The European Commission is offering manufacturing companies funding of €60,000 each to run collaborative smart manufacturing experiments at neutral hub sites, with a total funding pot stretching to almost €1 million.
The Commission has invited small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing and...
For Nokia there are three critical technologies for enabling digital transformation of the supply chain, and all of the points along it, including the production, transportation, and storage of goods.
These technologies are private networks, indoor positioning, and advanced analytics. "The combination will be of...
One key element that was skirted around in Enterprise IoT Insights’ recent report on digital change in the power sector: the nitty-gritty of data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). We referenced these as key disciplines – as the real art of digital change, in...
Ericsson is to be carrything-through with its promise to fall in line with operators for rollout of private networks, as new 5G slicing projects in the automotive manufacturing space have emerged with Vodafone and Telefónica.
The Swedish vendor is working with Telefónica Germany to enable...
Some time back, Finnish transmission operator Fingrid ran due diligence on the sector’s transformation, with the decarbonisation and decentralisation of the power supply, and advancements in digital technologies bringing cheaper hardware and better software to grid operations. “We looked at how we could take...
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 has switched on data coverage in large portions of these regions following its purchase...
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 and terminals.
Private networking specialist Ukkoverkot and port machinery maker Kalmar, owned by port automation...
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 of electrical power was 10,000 TWh in 1990 and 25,000 TWh in 2017, and will...
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 is ready to automate various port operations with 5G as soon as the networks go...
Ericsson is to build a fully-automated smart factory in the US, opening from 2020, to build its 5G radios and accelerate 5G rollout in the country.
The factory will use industrial 5G for connecting machines and sensors to edge compute and cloud analytics programmes,...
AT&T and Samung have revealed a number of initial use-case experiments for industrial 5G at the duo’s new ‘Innovation Zone’ within Samsung’s semiconductor factory on Austin, Texas.
These include tests of robotics, industrial IoT, and mixed reality applications, allied to 5G, LTE and Wi-Fi...
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 of data created by these IoT devices will grow at a compund rate of...
AT&T will work with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to help businesses harness edge capabilities. The two companies have agreed a go-to-market programme for the sale of edge connections and edge computing. They are targeting customers in retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and stadiums, in particular.
AT&T’s...
ABB and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have struck a deal on wireless connectivity for large industrial customers, where ABB sensors attached to industrial equipment are connected to the cloud via HPE gateways.
An integrated solution, slated to be available late 2019 and targeted at...
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 Alliance, which continues to push its line about being the key technology in low-power...
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, they said.
Milwaukee-based PTC quoted market analysis from LNS Research that says less than 10...
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 development of 5G networks.
The French operator is trialling campus-style networks with industrial players...
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 transformation of industrial sectors and public services.
Jeremy Wight, secretary of state for the department...
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 connections will reach 4.1 billion by 2024, compared with 1.9 billion 5G connections.
According...
