US telecoms software and services outfit Amdocs has claimed to have developed a bunch of new private 5G use cases at its sandbox lab in Dallas, Texas. The new applications, being prepped for show at MWC in a couple of weeks, include 5G-sprung scenarios...
Zurich-based venture capital group Momenta has launched a $100 million target fund for ‘Industry 5.0’ tech – basically, for startups pushing Industry 4.0 with-a-conscience. The new fund is backed by the European Commission, which told IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona, where the...
Rail infrastructure operator Adif Alta Velocidad (Adif AV) has handed Cellnex Telecom and Nokia a €20.5 million contract to build private 5G and public 5G networks to connect, digitalise, and automate its rail logistics centres in Spain. They have just over five years (62...
Note, this article follows directly from a previous post (January 25) – about how IoT solved the global supply-chain edge, which followed another entry (January 24) about why logistics is the hardest sector of all for IoT; all articles are taken from a new...
Nokia added 45 new customers for its private networks products in the fourth quarter of 2022, outrunning its third-quarter total (30 new customers) by 50 percent, and taking its total customer count beyond the 560 mark, the company said. It had closed the third...
This article is taken from a new editorial report on the state of IoT in the supply chain sector, released this month (January 2023). The report discusses the potential Industry 4.0 upside for the supply chain sector in all its disjointed promise, with some...
Norway has opened up 400 MHz of prime mid-band spectrum, at 3.8-4.2 GHz, for enterprises to deploy local-area private 5G networks. Following pilots last year, the Norwegian Communications Authority (Nkom) is now offering four different-sized tranches of the 3.8-4.2 GHz band on 10-year deals....
A quick excerpt from a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, courtesy of José María Álvarez-Pallete, chairman and chief executive at Telefónica, who directly and powerfully addressed the elephant in the elite Alpine conference rooms: that unfettered digital change...
The World Economic Forum has identified 18 more Industry 4.0 ‘lighthouse’ factories that have managed to “transcend debilitating macro forces” by making use of the latest industrial IoT-related tech. The organisation’s latest bi-annual lighthouse intake brings its total to 132 manufacturing sites, in various...
Ericsson has added a new IT-focused private cellular offering from US-based subsidiary Cradlepoint, acquired in late 2020, into its private 5G portfolio. Cradlepoint’s NetCloud Private Networks solution is said to be tailored to the needs of “lean IT-oriented enterprises”, including in the logistics, light...
As promised and previewed last week, here is a full transcript of the interview with Marc Overton, managing director of BT’s industrial go-to-market business Division X – from a conversation a couple of months back, at the UK operator’s annual Robotics Festival at its...
A new survey by global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company says robotics and automation systems will account for 25 percent of capital spending by industrial companies over the next five years, mostly for routine manual tasks in the logistics and fulfillment, retail and...
Digital transformation of supply chains has solidified as a boardroom topic over the past 12 months. While this drive for industrial change can be attributed to international developments, it is also true that many companies now clearly see the benefits of adopting new digital...
Verizon has deployed a private 5G network at the 5,500 square-metre ‘smart factory’ at Wichita State University in Kansas, in the US. The showcase facility, dubbed Smart Factory @ Wichita, is on the university’s science research campus. It is sponsored and “convened” by the...
Contrary to the popular narrative among new telco upstarts that traditional mobile operators will be left behind in the Industry 4.0 race – on the grounds they are entrenched and parochial, geared for box-shifting and hobbled by local assets – UK-based BT says the...
Taiwanese IoT metering company Ubiik has won a $17 million tender from Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) for the deployment of an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system to host 450,000 additional smart meters. It is the company’s fourth consecutive AMI-tender win in Taiwan, it said,...
Asset tracking is a seminal use case for the IoT market. It is one of the key applications – together with asset monitoring – that underpins the whole IoT movement as it congregates around the supply-chain sector. But the logistics market is deeply entrenched...
Asset tracking is a seminal use case for the IoT market. It is one of the key applications – together with asset monitoring – that underpins the whole IoT movement as it congregates around the supply-chain sector. But the logistics market is deeply entrenched...
Asset tracking is a seminal use case for the IoT market. It is one of the key applications – together with asset monitoring – that underpins the whole IoT movement as it congregates around the supply-chain sector. But the logistics market is deeply entrenched...
Risk of intellectual property (IP) theft, including of industrial trade secrets, is rising fast as manufacturing companies connect private equipment and processes. Analyst house ABI Research has put a figure on both the rate of IP risk and rate of IoT connectivity, forecasting that...
This report, a companion to the Private Networks Forum, Europe will connect key stakeholders to discuss - are private networks the key to driving enterprises into the Industry 4.0 era? We will examine the latest private network deployments, European spectrum liberalization and management, and...
The “largest private industrial 5G network in Europe” has opened in Calais, in France, using 59 small cell antennas to cover a 50,000 square-metre production site belonging to Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), the optical submarine division of telecoms vendor Nokia. The Finnish firm has...
The supply chain sector as a market for IoT data at the edge – on the road, on the ocean, in the air – is not getting simpler, anytime soon. Post-pandemic, it has changed forever, reasons Bart de Muynck, chief information officer at US...
