industry 4.0

Spectrum management company Federated Wireless has released a new network planner tool for fixed wireless access (FWA) and private networks in CBRS spectrum in the US. The product is AI-powered, …

BT has said it has “switched on” its network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform Global Fabric, following testing over the last couple of months. Commercial services will launch in early 2025, it said; …

UK-headquartered mobile operator Vodafone – or ‘Vodafone IoT’, or ‘Vodafone Business’, perhaps, or ‘Vodafone Business IoT’, as it is written in the press notice – is now connecting commercial integrated …

Note: sign up here to join the RCR Wireless webinar on how to scale private 5G in Industry 4.0 (‘balancing customisation and simplicity in private industrial 5G networks’) on October …

Private 4G/5G security startup OneLayer has followed tie-ups with key network vendors Nokia and Ericsson with a multi-year deal with US investor-owned energy provider Evergy to manage and secure OT …

Nokia has introduced a ‘sustainability calculator’ for enterprises to estimate the environmental and operational (“social”) benefits of using private 4G (LTE) and 5G networks as a platform for new Industry …

Want to know how private 5G is faring at the sharp-end of Industry 4.0? Well, you could do worse than ask a battle-hardened system integrator in its original home. Which …

A new “forecast report” by analyst house Dell’Oro Group, says revenue from the sale of radio access network (RAN) equipment for private 4G (LTE) and 5G deployments in the global …

The financial and manufacturing sectors are most advanced with deployment of industrial artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, reckons Fujitsu. In conversation with RCR Wireless, on the back of a rush of …

“I don’t have any one-liners for you this time,” says Wienke Giezeman, almost apologetically, as if our periodic chats about the state of the IoT market are supposed to produce …

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 …

Nokia is working with Industry 4.0 giant Rockwell Automation to test private 5G in standalone (SA) mode in the 3.55-3.7 GHz CBRS band in the US. Specifically, they are looking …

The City of Brownsville in Texas, in the US, has commissioned NTT Data to deploy a private 5G network and a roster of IoT and AI applications to support and …

Enhanced quality control, elevated safety standards and customised training through RAG deployment can all drive improvements in operational efficiency, writes Łukasz Koczwara, CTO at IT consultancy STX Next  With the …

African fibre broadband and satellite connectivity provider Liquid Intelligent Technologies has signed an exclusive deal with Globalstar to sell the US satellite firm’s private 5G products in Africa and the …

More Friday market figures for you; these provide a definitive evergreen overview of the smart metering market, arguably, as follows…  The total number of smart meters in the world will …

Another day, another forecast; this one from Informa-owned analyst company Omdia, which says global market revenue from “mission-critical” data centre storage will reach $103 billion by 2028. The projected growth …

This is a postscript to the news-post yesterday (August 14) about a mad rush of Industry 4.0 data over the next five years, which ABI Research forecasts will multiply in …

Some scratch-your-head stats just in from ABI Research: the manufacturing industry will generate 4.4 zettabytes of data worldwide by 2030, almost equivalent to the annual volume of data carried by …

One thing seems clear, after a couple of announcements in recent weeks and several years in the doldrums: network slicing is coming, and it will make a new virtue of …

Oracle is incorporating cellular IoT connectivity and network APIs from AT&T into its Enterprise Communications Platform (ECP), it has said. The move means Oracle’s enterprise customers can do away with …

Malaysian multinational oil and gas company Petronas has opened a private 5G network at its liquefied natural gas (LNG) complex in Bintulu, on the island of Borneo in the central …

As novel industrial technologies go, Nokia’s deal with Swisscom Broadcast, the Swiss operator’s enterprise-facing security and analytics arm, to deploy a network of 300 drones for emergency services and industrial …

Swisscom Broadcast is working with Nokia to deploy a nationwide drone network of 300 drones for the emergency services, public safety, and private industrial sectors. It follows the same model …

The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) has appointed Ericsson to offer private 4G and 5G networks to small- and mid-sized electric cooperatives (co-ops) across the US. NRTC is leading the …