BROWSING: Smart City
10 new 5G projects get €50m EU funds – for healthcare, public safety, logistics
Ten new projects have been selected for €50 million of European Union (EU) funding from a second call for proposals under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Digital) programme. The focus of the funding is 5G for Smart Communities’, and includes a couple of notable...
One million LoRaWAN meters – Connexin wins ‘largest UK water meter contract’
UK broadband and digital service provider Connexin has won a deal with utility supplier Essex & Suffolk Water to manage the roll-out of smart meters across the Essex and Suffolk supply regions, to the northeast of London. The advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) framework contract...
BT looks to repurpose UK broadband street cabinets as EV charging points
UK-based BT Group is looking to repurpose old street cabinets, traditionally used to store broadband and phone cabling, as electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. The firm’s innovation startup unit, Etc., has announced a series of pilots, starting in Scotland, to enable street cabinets to...
‘There’s a reason utilties use unlicensed bands’ – Ubiik preps any-band LTE push
Note: this article is continued from a previous entry, available here, which went under the headline: ‘If you want 100% cellular, then you get what you get’ – why hybrid IoT is the only IoT.
Where were we? Oh yes; this idea that governments, regulators,...
Siemens samples own sustainability meds at smart campus in Switzerland
Germany industrial giant Siemens has opened the final wing of a new CHF250 million ($280m) ‘smart infrastructure’ facility in Zug in Switzerland which, it claims, takes advantage of the latest IoT sensing and AI sense-making technologies to optimise highly-efficient energy infrastructure and deliver a ...
Orange to build, manage smart city platform for key Saudi business district
Orange Business, the enterprise division of Orange, has signed a deal to tie together existing digital systems and internet-of-things (IoT) technologies in the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) in the Al Aqeeq area of Riyadh, and wrap it up in new data analytics and...
Druid Software ramps up private 5G activity in France, Germany
Core network specialist Druid Software has announced a deal with French neutral host operator and system integrator TDF to jointly provide private 5G systems to critical industry in France. The announcement is part of a charm offensive by the Irish firm both home and...
Bright eyed, bushy tailed, mob handed – AWS is best-in-show at Barcelona IoT bash
How do you judge the best-in-show? By the bright eyes and bushy tails? Probably not if it is a tech fair. So how should one rate the stands at IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona? Is it a size thing? Is it a...
Unabiz ties-up with iWire on Sigfox (plus any-LPWAN) IoT push in MEA region
Dubai-based IoT network and solutions provider iWire Global, at one time in the running to buy Sigfox, has signed a regional collaboration and development deal with Singapore-based IoT outfit Unabiz, which eventually won the race to buy Sigfox’s technology assets in France. The partnership...
A better balance between standardization and differentiation in IoT (Reader Forum)
From AI-capable endpoint devices to autonomous systems, IoT developers are building a diverse ecosystem of products and services, only set to grow. The number of IoT connected devices worldwide is projected to reach over 15 billion in 2023. MicKinsey estimates its market value will...
A note about Enterprise IoT Insights… last orders at the bar, the party is moving on
This is difficult to write.
It is a pivotal moment for IoT, and we think – the team at Arden Media, publisher of RCR Wireless News and Enterprise IoT Insights thinks – that it will not survive. At least, not as we know it, or...
Sierra Wireless intros new eSIM service to enable IoT network switching across globe
Canada-based cellular IoT specialist Sierra Wireless, under the stewardship of US LoRaWAN outfit Semtech since last month, has launched a new eSIM / eUICC service offering multi-carrier connectivity in the US, it has said. The new service, called Smart Connectivity Premium, uses the eSIM...
EU backs $100m venture capital fund for ‘Industry 5.0’ (Industry 4.0 with-a-conscience)
Zurich-based venture capital group Momenta has launched a $100 million target fund for ‘Industry 5.0’ tech – basically, for startups pushing Industry 4.0 with-a-conscience. The new fund is backed by the European Commission, which told IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona, where the...
IoT tracking in the supply chain (pt 4) – putting the IoT edge at the heart of operations
Note, this article follows directly from a previous post (part 3; January 27) – about roadmap errors and design issues in the rollout of IoT in the supply chain sector, which followed from other posts in the series onJanuary 25 (part 2) and January...
IoT operator Netmore intros public LoRaWAN in France, extends across Europe
Swedish IoT operator Netmore Group has started to deploy a public LoRaWAN network in France, it has said. Its French debut follows a period of busy expansion in 2022, following its acquisition of Nordic IoT Networks in early 2021 and its strategic shift to...
IoT tracking in the supply chain (pt2) – how cellular IoT solved the global edge
Note, this article follows directly from a previous post (January 24) – about why logistics is the hardest industry of all for the IoT market to crack; both are taken from a new editorial report on the state of IoT in the supply chain...
Norway opens 3.8-4.2 GHz band for private 5G (SA-NPN only; PNI-NPN not permitted)
Norway has opened up 400 MHz of prime mid-band spectrum, at 3.8-4.2 GHz, for enterprises to deploy local-area private 5G networks. Following pilots last year, the Norwegian Communications Authority (Nkom) is now offering four different-sized tranches of the 3.8-4.2 GHz band on 10-year deals....
Meeting ESG targets with LoRaWAN (Reader Forum)
The second best thing to making a full-circle pivot to zero emission is to reduce your current footprint – with miles that are not driven, flights that are not taken, and energy that is not consumed. Indeed, while we transition to a completely emission-neutral...
Comcast and Celona supply CBRS private 4G/5G system to California fairgrounds
Comcast and Celona have deployed a private 4G/5G network using the CBRS band at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, California. The network has already provided support for back-of-house operations at a number of events, including the annual Sonoma County Fair last August....
Las Vegas to implement digital twin solution to cut carbon emissions
Digital Twin provider Cityzenith and an IoT specialist Terbine are jointly developing a technology solution to transition Las Vegas to zero carbon emissions.
As part of this initiative, a significant area of downtown Las Vegas will leverage advanced 5G networking, plus IoT and digital twin...
AT&T and JBG SMITH unveil plans to build 5G smart city in DC area
AT&T and JBG SMITH have entered into a letter of intent with the aim of delivering a 5G smart city, at scale, at National Landing.
The first network infrastructure deployments are planned for the first half of 2022 and will expand with development of the...
Boingo Wireless joins Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program
U.S. distributed antenna system (DAS) and Wi-Fi provider Boingo Wireless has joined the Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program.
?Boingo powers smart cities from the inside out. You cannot have a smart city without intelligent, connected buildings. New wireless technology?including 5G, private networks over CBRS, and...
Retro-fits, recycling and data: How Stockholm became Europe’s greenest smart city
Stockholm is a ?lighthouse city?, alongside Cologne and Barcelona, in the European Commission?s GrowSmarter project, one of three to?receive support in the first ?Smart Cities and?Communities? (SCC1) call under the?Horizon 2020 funding stream, the biggest innovation fund in Europe, with ?80 billion allocated through...