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...
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 at private 5G for control and automation of industrial assets using industrial Ethernet (EtherNet/IP)...
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 promote public services, public safety, environmental sustainability, and economic growth. NTT Data, which has...
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 AI boom already well underway, the vast majority of manufacturers have begun researching and implementing...
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 Middle East. The collaboration will potentially expand on a non-exclusive basis to also cover...
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 double over the next decade, from 1.7 billion at the end of 2023 to 3.4...
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 is down to more sales and higher prices, it said, as digital transformation extends...
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 industrial venues from some unknown (or un-shared, in the press note) start-point today, where...
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 global mobile networks to connect mostly-consumer applications. ABI Research calls the figure, pulled from...
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 nationally-available 5G networks for enterprises. Last week, the analyst community debunked a few myths...
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 the need to manage complex integrations and network contracts when deploying fleets of IoT...
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 region of Sarawak in Malaysia. National mobile operator Telekom Malaysia has handled the deployment,...
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 applications feels significant – for both firms, as well as for the drone sector,...
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 as Nokia’s drone rollout in Belgium with Citymesh, and is expected to pass it...
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 consortium, which also includes telecoms and energy utility Southern Linc, offering core hosting solutions,...
More satellite IoT stats; following on from yesterday’s post, reporting on Juniper Research figures, that the total number of IoT satellites will grow by 150 percent over the next five years, from 10,000 in 2024 to 24,000 in 2029, another analyst group has stuck...
More than half of workers in critical industrial sectors have experienced “severe security incidents” that have led to data loss or system downtime, and industrial IoT devices have been blamed. A new poll by US operator Verizon of 600-odd executives in charge of security...
Nokia has added a new drone-mounted automated counting function to its inventory monitoring service for warehouse customers in the US. It slots into its autonomous drone product, offered as part of its so-called Nokia AIMS (Autonomous Inventory Monitoring Service) package of drone-based logistics tools....
A couple of interesting-sounding mission-critical slicing exercises by mobile operators in Europe in the last week or so got RCR Wireless to thinking about whether the slow rollout of standalone 5G (5G SA) in national network infrastructure has reached a point where it is...
Want more private 4G/5G market forecasts? Of course you do, and market research firm Kaleido Intelligence has come up with a humdinger: enterprises will spend over $7 billion per year on private 4G/5G networks by 2028, it says. Which sounds like a lot; but...
Digging into this new Cisco survey about the state of networking in the Industry 4.0 sector, which says the industrial c-suite is being driven to distraction by the risk and reward of artificial intelligence (AI), reveals certain things. They are hardly revelatory; but, again,...
If you work with software, in any industry, then you’ll be using gen AI before you know it, if you aren’t already. This is the conclusion of an interesting study by Capgemini into the most hyped technology out there. And the early results are...
Germany-based managed system integrator Xantaro Group has been recruited by US private networks specialist Celona to sell its private 5G system into European enterprises. Celona joins Nokia, at least, in its roster of private 5G products. It flagged the viability of the Celona system...
Cisco has just issued a research study about the state of networking in the broad Industry 4.0 sector, and it is really good – comprehensive, and well communicated. Quite how much of it is genuinely new or surprising is open to debate, but it...
