Whatever Vodafone’s intention when polling 1,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK, and whatever its conclusion from their responses, one thing is also clear: business is hard in this economic climate. What also seems apparent, reading between the lines of Vodafone’s enterprise...
In order, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Beijing, London, and Seoul ranked as the top five smart cities, or ‘digital cities’, in a new study by Economist Impact. New York, Sydney, Singapore, Washington DC, and Paris rounded out the top 10, meaning Europe and Asia Pacific contributed...
This is a rehash (and extension, in the end) of a previous post, to an extent; but it distils the message from before, and says there are sure signs, at last, that the private cellular market, covering localised installations of enterprise-geared 5G, nominally, has...
Chinese vendor ZTE, together with China Telecom Chengdu Branch and other partners have been working in the so-called "5G Joy City" project in Chengdu, China, with the main goal of improving the quality of life of Chengdu residents.
As part of this initiative, ZTE and...
Siemens has acquired UK-based industrial IoT firm Senseye for an undisclosed fee. Senseye, founded in 2014, provides analytics-based (“AI-powered”) predictive maintenance solutions for industrial machines, offering ways to manage and reduce unplanned downtime and to boost productivity and sustainability.
The firm, headquartered in Southampton, was...
AI for wireless is already here, with applications in areas such as mobility management, sensing and localization, smart signaling and interference management. Recently, Qualcomm Technologies has prototyped the AI-enabled air interface and launched the Qualcomm 5G AI Suite. These developments are possible thanks to...
Nokia is to integrate Microsoft’s Azure Arc cloud management platform into its MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) solution for mission-critical Industry 4.0 environments. The tie-up will afford customers buying private wireless and edge computing from Nokia a way to also manage Azure workloads, in any...
UK telecoms group BT has revealed a ‘charter’ to invest almost £100 million over the next three years in its new Division X digital change unit, which is at the heart of its broader strategy to establish itself as a ‘tech-co’ (“not a telco”),...
German industrial giant Bosch has shifted its messaging, perhaps, in time for Hannover Messe, Europe’s big industrial trade fair, which sees its return next week after three calendar years of pandemic and disruption. Very squarely, the message from Bosch in its pre-show strategy update...
Humans are the key piece of successfully implementing digital change in augmented manufacturing
Speaking during a World Economic Forum panel discussion today, industrial leaders drove home the point that the North Star for manufacturing isn’t full-on automation in a lights-out plant. Rather, the goal is...
The latest developments in cloud-based AI and edge computing, coupled with 5G’s enhanced bandwidth, are about to mobilise robots like never before and unleash a manufacturing revolution, explains Richard Cockle, Global Head of IoT, Identity and Big Data at GSMA.
Factory automation is on the...
France-based precision agriculture startup Sencrop has raised $18 million in Series B funding, led by Israeli venture capital firm JVP. Sencrop, founded in 2016, headquartered in Lille, claims to be Europe’s leading provider of “field-connected solutions”, with 20,000 farmers in 20 countries, mainly in...
Working towards 2030 sustainability
British Telecom (BT) this week announced a new edge compute solution as part of its manifesto to help customers reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60 million tons by the year 2030. The new effort uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed by QiO...
Ericsson has restructured its business and management to reflect its new growth strategy, which hinges on private 5G and cloud services, and has set a group target of 15-18 percent EBITA margin “within two-to-three years”. The Swedish vendor said its strategy is to be...
Alif Semiconductor and Edge Impulse have claimed ‘dramatic increases’ in performance of machine learning in embedded systems through the combination of the former’s Ensemble family of microcontrollers (MCUs) and fusion processors with the latter’s ML development platform. The pair claimed the improvements are enough...
Qualcomm is on a roll. They just keep hitting the ball out of the park, quarter after quarter, with strong and expanding growth. A few short years ago they were bogged down with Apple and U.S. government battles, but now that things have settled...
Michael Dell: The combination of edge and 5G is “a huge catalyst for…growth”
Dell Technologies Founder, Chairman and CEO Michael Dell this week opened Dell Technologies World 2022 in Las Vegas with a reflection on how the “twin engines of human inspiration and technology” foster...
Arm has issued a flurry of announcements related to its Cortex-M and Cortex-A processor families, restating its mission to “streamline” embedded computing for the IoT developer market. Among the new releases, the UK-based firm has launched a new top-of-the-line Cortex-M processor, the Cortex-M85, offering...
Belgium-based advanced analytics firm TrendMiner, part of German software vendor Software AG, has released an upgraded production client for industrial analytics in process manufacturing industries. The new TrendMiner release – literally, for mining analytics trends in time-series data – caters to OT-side industrial operators,...
