BROWSING: AR

RealWear buys Almer in bid to ‘reshape the industrial AR market’

Wearable computing firm RealWear has acquired Switzerland-based Almer Technologies in a move set to “reshape the industrial augmented reality (AR) market”, the firm has said. The deal has been backed “strategically and financially” by Germany-based enterprise AR software provider TeamViewer, which sits on the...

Vodafone deploys private 5G at Czech nuclear plant

Vodafone has deployed an all-edge private 5G network in pilot mode at the Temelín Nuclear Power Plant in Czechia for power generation conglomerate ČEZ Group. The UK-headquartered firm called it a “European first”, as a 5G-based private network at a European nuclear site. The...

Licences, bands, industries – Brazil counts up its two-year private-5G totals

Brazilian telecoms regulator Anatel has said 66 licences have been granted so far in the country for enterprise-owned private 5G networks in the country. Thirty-four licences have been issued for spectrum at 2.39-2.4 GHz (2,390 MHz to 2,400 MHz), 30 have licences been issued...

Siemens taps AWS, Sony to show industrial gadgetry at Consumer Electronics Show

Siemens has announced a bunch of partners and products focused on the industrial ‘metaverse’ at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week (January 9-12), mostly linked to its Xcelerator software and platform. These include top-line work with Sony around augmented and...

TeamViewer invests ‘double-digit millions’ in Industry 4.0 duo to drive AI/AR IoT offer

German enterprise group-comms software provider TeamViewer, which has featured prominently in remote collaboration and augmented reality (AR) use cases for early private cellular network deployments, has invested a “low double-digit million” euro sum into two separate Industry 4.0 solution providers: US-based industrial data platform...

Virgin Media O2 intros Nokia-made private 5G box-solution for UK SMEs

The business arm of UK-based operator Virgin Media O2, owned by Liberty Global and Telefónica, is offering a Nokia-made private standalone 5G (5G SA) network-and-compute system in a portable hold-all for “businesses of all sizes”. The logic is to make private cellular accessible to...

Telefónica-led telco alliance teams with Qualcomm to corral XR startups

A novel alliance of eight mobile operators, spearheaded by Telefónica and seeking to cajole “disruptive” startups to build applications for their global 5G networks, has signed with Qualcomm in a bid to stimulate the AR/VR startup community, specifically. The group has issued a “global...

BT opens ‘immersive spaces’ to showcase 5G-geared digital change tech

BT is launching a series of 5G-based augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) showcases in the UK to give private enterprises and public sector organisations a taste of how their industries will change with new digital technologies, and a sense of how they...

Amdocs claims “new solutions” for “new use cases” on Azure private 5G networks

Amdocs claims to have developed / solved a series of “new use cases” for private 5G networks at its new sandbox lab in Texas. The US telecoms software firm said it has worked with Microsoft to create new solutions for industrial maintenance and training...

Tech offers a way to cope with climate disaster, say tech lovers

Extreme weather events and other major disruptions are a direct consequence of irreversible global warming, and a fact of modern life; technology offers a way for people to “address everyday challenges caused by climate change in the 2030s”. This is the gist of a...

‘That’s the fun part’ – how to scale private 5G (by the only enterprise that knows)

Want to know how to scale private 5G across manufacturing plants and manufacturing applications? Well, European aviation and aerospace manufacturer Airbus knows how. Of course, if you have followed the Airbus story in these pages, or caught its feature presentations and panel discussions at...

Telefónica Tech and TeamViewer intro AR-based remote operation tool for Industry 4.0

The news is perhaps more that this is news; that a service like industrial AR for remote inspections is only just, apparently, a part of ta serious-minded enterprise-facing tier-one telco’s service portfolio, but Telefónica Tech has announced just that, partnering with Germany-based remote access...

Paris La Défense preps 5G neutral-host and use-case trials in 26 GHz mmWave bands

Paris La Défense, the major metropolitan business district in Paris, has called for applicants to run 5G neutral-host and use-case trials in 26 GHz mmWave spectrum at its site in the French capital. The two trial streams will be open, respectively, to public mobile...

Private 5G in China – JD Logistics powers through big summer sale with 5G AGV fleet

JD.com, the other mega China-based online retailer, has been running at least 100 “self-developed” automated guided (or “ground”) vehicles (AGVs) over a private 5G network, apparently from local vendors Huawei and ZTE, to automate certain pick-and-pack supply chain operations at its busiest warehouse complex...

MGA Tech taps Edzcom (taps Nokia) for 5G-based Industry 4.0 co-creation platform

Custom-machine manufacturer MGA Technologies has engaged Finland-based industrial networking specialist Edzcom, owned by Spanish tower company Cellnex, to deploy a private 5G network from Nokia at its new MGA TechLab 4.0 in Lyon, in France. The network went live in January; new Industry 4.0...

The three use cases that have turned Industry 4.0 onto private 5G networks

As with the telecoms industry’s travails with NB-IoT, only just starting to resolve, there is a classic chicken-and-egg scenario with industrial 5G, around availability of networks and devices. In other words, why should an enterprise install a 5G network if there aren’t any enterprise-grade...

Vodafone supplies 5G and IoT to health-tech firm with ‘access’ to 90% of operating rooms

Vodafone has formalised a partnership with health-tech platform provider Proximie to supply sundry 5G networking, IoT sensing, and edge computing componentry for its surgical software, which is being deployed in hospital operating theatres and diagnostic rooms to help with training and operations. Proximie says...

Telstra and Ericsson supply private 5G for Australian agri-tech collective

Telstra has deployed a private 5G network for industrial tech organisation AgriFood Connect in Australia. It has worked with Ericsson on the deployment; it is the Swedish vendor’s first private-5G install in Australia. AgriFood Connect is a not-for-profit seeking to drive tech adoption in...

Dull, dirty, dangerous – no more! The year manufacturing gets smart (Ericsson on 2022)

Manufacturing facilities have seen a rapid shift in recent years as production moves beyond traditional methods of output to production enabled by the adoption of information and communication technology (ICT). Full automation is approaching as manufacturers aim for agile and flexible production processes that...

‘Platform-company’ Vodafone signs five-year 5G and IoT edge-deal with Microsoft

Vodafone Business and Microsoft have announced a five-year deal on private 5G, edge computing, and IoT for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The arrangement, extending a long-running partnership between the two, will see Vodafone Business sell the Microsoft suite of compute and storage functions,...

UK industrial AR startup XYZ Reality targets North America with AR hardhat solution

London-headquartered industrial AR startup XYZ Reality has released its new AR headset, the Atom, for the construction industry. The new product (see promo video at the bottom of the page) goes with its Holosite AR platform, and follows a £20 million Series A funding...

US IoT firm Zyter and Qualcomm combine on twin private LTE and IoT deals

US IoT platform provider Zyter is working with Qualcomm, and other Qualcomm partners in the San Diego-based chipmakers smart cities accelerator project, on a couple of private LTE installations in the CBRS band. One is to support a smart warehouse solution for video conferencing...

Ericsson intros ‘time-critical’ 5G-URLLC software enhancements for Industry 4.0

Ericsson has launched a new “software toolbox” to “guarantee” consistently low latency and high reliability in 5G networks for time-critical applications. Its new Time-Critical Communication product, available via a new Critical IoT product, is targeted at enterprises and consumers, variously for cloud gaming, augmented...

Vodafone urges UK to bundle 5G and IoT targets and incentives into net zero strategy

Vodafone has urged the UK government to write targets and incentives for 5G and IoT adoption into its forthcoming net-zero strategy blueprints, due to be published later this year. The UK-headquartered operator said the UK government should create a regulatory and policy framework that...