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Nokia intros explosion-proof private 5G handsets for explosive Industry 4.0

Nokia has launched a number of industrial 4G/5G devices for hazardous environments in ports, mines, chemical plants, and oil platforms. They are targeted at companies buying its private 4G/5G networks. The Finnish firm has also updated its own team comms application to align with...

Siemens’ home-made private 5G is go (finally) – in home of Industrie 4.0, at least

Siemens has stuck out a press release to declare the open availability of its private 5G system for industrial-grade networking in Germany, the original home of Industrie 4.0. Is that news, really? The German industrial behemoth’s in-house 5G project has been one of the...

Editorial Webinar: Critical edge workloads for industrial IoT — what stays and what goes?

The grand combined promise of 5G networking and edge computing for enterprises is to max out the performance, reliability, and security of mission- and business-critical Industry 4.0 systems.But which workloads should always stay on-prem, for reasons of security and performance, and which can be...

Postcards from the edge | Cloud-to-edge consistency is everything, says AWS

ACHTUNG! THIS IS THE LAST CHANCE TO JOIN THE WEBINAR ON CRITICAL 5G EDGE WORKLOADS ON SEPTEMBER 27 (TOMORROW). JOIN HERE – IT'S FREE, AND NOT-TO-BE-MISSED! You know the drill by now; you know the questions. Here is the response from AWS, with the latest...

Nokia opens new lab in Dubai to boost AI/ML adoption

Nokia said that one of the areas of focus of the lab will be on private wireless and industrial networks Finnish vendor Nokia said it will launch an open innovation lab in Dubai, UAE, with the main aim of driving regional innovation and accelerating the...

SOLiD and ASOCS produce open-RAN private 5G for Industry 4.0 in CBRS

US-based in-building cellular connectivity provider SOLiD has combined with Israeli edge-cloud and private cellular software company ASOCS to deliver an Open RAN solution for private 5G and industrial IoT networks in the developing Industry 4.0 sector. Their solution, targeted at private 5G deployments in...

Postcards from the edge | The critical 5G edge is ‘best of both worlds’, says Siemens

If you want to know about what to do with sensitive data in operational technology (OT) systems – how to prioritise and segment it, where to place it between the edge and the cloud, and how to retrieve it at both ends (and anywhere...

Postcards from the edge | Something strange at the 5G edge, says Southern California Edison

Something strange is occuring in the utilities sector with the introduction of private 5G at the critical edge, says Southern California Edison. The new capabilities of private cellular are unburdening the old grid-edge of low-power IoT, and also liberating it for game-changing high-power IoT....

Switzerland to release 3.4-3.5 GHz band for private 5G from 2024

The long tail of national regulation on ‘vertical’ private 5G spectrum continues to wag, in a slightly inconsistent manner. Swiss telecoms regulator BAKOM has announced it will open the 3400-3500 MHz (3.4-3.5 GHz) band for enterprises to deploy private 5G networks from the start...

Vendor HFR to install private 5G and Wi-Fi 6E for Korean aviation manufacturing

Network equipment vendor HFR has said it will supply a “converged private 5G and Wi-Fi 6E network” for a new industrial complex “in the metaverse” at the Kyungnam Techno-Park in the coastal city of Changwon in the southeast of South Korea. The Kyungnam/Changwon development...

Postcards from the edge | Private 5G is reshaping the Industry 4.0 edge, says Nokia

The edge has always existed, as any bull-headed IT wizard will tell you; but it has not always existed like this. The edge-cloud continuum is well travelled by enterprise IT technicians, taking powerful advantage of the economies of hyper-scale afforded by cloud-based compute engines....

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 ...

Postcards from the edge | Ultra ‘six-nines’ reliability – and why it’s madness (Reader Forum)

Four nines, five nines, six nines – everyone wants more nines. Every enterprise wants ultra reliability, with guaranteed uptime of 99.99 percent (or 99.999 percent, or 99.9999 percent). But here’s the thing; a flippant rule of thumb says every extra nine in pursuit of...

Postcards from the edge | No single recipe for Industry 4.0 success, says PwC

As part of the ongoing Postcards from the Edge series, RCR Wireless caught up with Dan Hays, principal at PwC’s strategy consultancy division Strategy&, to discuss how the Industry 4.0 ecosystem might impose some kind of industrial order on the new digital chaos at...

Iridium strikes global satelite IoT deal to connect XCMG construction machinery

Iridium Communications, jockeying with US rival Orbcomm at the top of the satellite IoT market, has struck a deal with machinery manufacturer Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group (XCMG) to connect its heavy equipment in global markets, including its excavators, loaders, and crane trucks. XCMG makes...

Nokia intros industrial drone solution – to go with 5G-edge setups

Nokia has introduced a “modular and durable” industrial drone solution, Nokia Drone Networks, to run beyond-line-of-sight off a private cellular network and edge compute array. Nokia is bundling drones, a docking station, a ground control station, plus add-on IoT sensors and cameras. It is...

Nokia and NTT in private 5G Thai-up private network services in Thailand

NTT is to resell Nokia's private cellular and edge cloud system to a total addressable market of 3.2 million enterprises in Thailand – in line with the country's Thailand 5.0 scheme Global system integrator NTT is to resell Nokia's private cellular and edge compute...

National Grid to set ‘honeypots’ to trap hackers – amid rising risk from digitisation

National Grid, the UK electricity and gas utility company, also operating in New York and Massachusetts, is advertising a million-pound vacancy for a cyber specialist to set ‘honeypots’ in its network systems to wrongfoot hackers and misdirect incoming attacks on critical energy infrastructure. The...

Robotics market to grow 300% in five years – spurred by labour shortages, war

New research says the market for service and industrial robotics will be worth $218 billion by 2030, with use cases multiplying “from shelf stacking to cleaning to manufacturing”, and crossing into “numerous sectors”, notably manufacturing, logistics, agriculture, healthcare, and defence. Analyst group GlobalData said...

Telit Cinterion, Nestlé Brazil partner on private 5G

Telit Cinterion noted that the trial focused on how Nestlé could use 5G to connect autonomous manufacturing robots and automated guided vehicles at its plants Telit Cinterion announced the completion of a successful proof-of-concept trial of private 5G for factory automation. In a release, the company...

Postcards from the edge | Compute is critical, 5G is useful (sometimes) – says NTT

Speaking with system integrator NTT this week for an upcoming editorial report about how to allocate critical Industry 4.0 workloads, certain well-understood drivers to move computing and connectivity systems away from centralised cloud and network infrastructure onto enterprise premises were, again, made clear. The...

Deutsche Telekom gets ‘largest’ private 5G gig – three German ports, for Eurogate

Container terminal operator Eurogate Terminals, part of Eurogate Logistics Group, has recruited Deutsche Telekom to build private 5G networks at port terminals in Hamburg, Bremerhaven, and Wilhelmshaven in Germany. The €6.6 million project, funded in part by the German government, will see networks running...

Celona goes to Asia with roster of private 5G carrier and reseller deals

US-based private cellular specialist Celona has set up in southeast Asia via a series of channel sales deals with carriers and integrators in South Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam. It follows its move beyond its original confines in the CBRS market in the US...

Enabling private networks – crucial hybrid private/public network use cases for IoT

Many IoT devices will remain on-premise for all of their working lives, either fixed in-position or else in perpetual motion within a clearly-defined local perimeter line. But many others will move freely in and out of enterprise venues, leaving their local private network boundaries...