NTT is making waves in the private 5G market right now; deals with BMW on a test installation at its production site in Dingolfing in Germany and with local airport operator Fraport on a major commercial engagement at Frankfurt Airport (which followed a parallel...
HANOVER, Germany—Industrie 4.0 as a concept originated in Germany, in 2011. After a two-year hiatus due to Covid-19, Hannover Messe is back—and industry is operating amid a series of crises that are causing a fresh look at what problems technology can solve. Or as...
Siemens and Alibaba have struck a deal to “foster” new growth in the industrial ‘internet of things’ (IIoT) market in China, the pair have announced. The deal will see Siemens’ MindSphere IoT platform made available on Alibaba Cloud in 2019, to enable enterprises in...
The emergence of the OPC UA TSN communications stack, backed by a loose-knit consortium of automation specialists, is a key part of the developing industrial IoT narrative, with halting technological innovation and industrial transformation set to be kick-started by its release and deployment in...
Analyst house Gartner has put the leading IIoT platforms through their paces, and named the best in the business. Here, Enterprise IoT Insights reviews the Gartner review, and orders the results, to summarise the best industrial IoT platforms available to enterprises in the energy...
The industrial ‘internet of things’ (IoT) market is geographically skewed, reckons one of its leading protagonists. Greg Kinsey, vice president of Japan-based Hitachi's Vantara business, says the US is way behind, fixated on sensors in factories, while European countries rewrite the industrial rule-book with...
“There are three ways to be smart in manufacturing,” says Michael Yost, president of manufacturing association MESA International. Three, it seems, is the magic number when it comes to categorising smartness in manufacturing.
“When we talk about the digital transformation of industry, we talk...
SDN and mobile edge computing 'go hand-in-hand'
In addition to increased capacity and lowered latency--as compared to what's offered by LTE and its variants--5G use cases, particularly latency-sensitive applications like self-driving vehicles and augmented and virtual reality, will require dense, distributed network infrastructure. Data center-based...
Bringing digital transformation to the manufacturing sector is a main goal of the partnership
Manufacturing is a major economic driver in Germany, and, as such, the sector is drawing considerable federal investment under the auspices of Industry 4.0, a national plan to digitally transform manufacturing....
Microsoft IoT Central connects to Azure cloud services; Connected Factory announced ahead of Hannover Messe
Microsoft has unveiled Microsoft IoT Central, a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering aimed at reducing the complexity of IoT solutions. The company bills the solution as enabling "powerful IoT scenarios without...
T-Systems, DT's enterprise group, will provide IoT services to manufacturing interest Kaeser Kompressoren
Germany is a leader in the digital transformation of the manufacturing sector, a combination of federal investment by way of the Industrie 4.0 initiative and the key role manufacturing plays in the...
The 5G Automotive Association was formed last month by German car makers, telecom vendors and chip makers
Vodafone announced it has become the first telecommunication services provider to join the recently-established 5G Automotive Association (5GAA).
Last month German car makers Audi, BMW and Daimler, as well...
Mobile edge computing is seen as an important part to alleviating network congestion and improving cloud-based applications for both current 4G and future 5G networks. In the approach to 5G commercialization, Ericsson and Vodafone conducted a 5G mobile edge proof of concept, connecting separate...
New research comparing the development of industrial "internet of things" economies in Germany, Japan, China and the U.S. finds Germany has the strongest industrial base, but lacks in ICT development while the U.S. has the opposite dynamic. The Handelsblatt Research Institute conducted the comparative analysis at...
Former McDonald's CEO: Robots are 'going to cause a job loss across this country like you're not going to believe'
The use of robots in manufacturing and other types of industry is not a new phenomenon, but, with advances in technology, the current tide of...
America needs to 'up its game,' Bill Gates writes in op-ed piece
In an opinion piece published April 18 by Reuters, Microsoft Co-founder and all around tech luminary Bill Gates called on The U.S. government to increase spending and other initiatives associated with driving research,...
Initiatives like Germany’s Industrie 4.0 and Made in China 2025 seed regional IoT economy
The "Internet of Things" promises to connect 20 billion previously unconnected objects by 2020. As the IoT takes shape, some global regions, largely due to government-led planning, are emerging as likely...
Initiatives like Germany’s Industrie 4.0 and Made in China 2025 seed regional IoT economy
The "Internet of Things" promises to connect 20 billion previously unconnected objects by 2020. As the IoT takes shape, some global regions, largely due to government-led planning, are emerging as likely...
Low-power, wide-area IoT network also being deployed in 10 U.S. cities
Adding to its European dedicated "Internet of Things" network, provider Sigfox plans to expand its low-power, wide-area network into Germany, which has undertaken a national IoT initiative with Industrie 4.0.
The Sigfox network is active...
This week on IoT Innovation, RCR Wireless News takes a look at Horizon 2020 IoT and 5G, the European Union's €80 billion plan to drive job and economic growth while keeping the EU competitive globally
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