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Deloitte acquires Industry 4.0 system integrator in Australia

Professional services firm Deloitte has acquired small specialist Industry 4.0 consutancy and integrator Efficientia Solutions in Australia. A press note said the “team” at Efficientia Solutions, comprising seven staff, has joined the Australian branch of Deloitte, to support its industrial and manufacturing consultancy and...

India designates 12 new smart industrial cities – to take total to 2

The Indian government is to build a total of 12 new industrial smart cities in various states to drive domestic manufacturing in the country. These join eight urban manufacturing centres that are already under development. The department of industry and trade revealed progress with...

NIST makes $70m funding offer for new US industrial AI institute

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US is offering up to $70 million in funding for a new Manufacturing USA institute to develop AI for productivity and security for the US manufacturing sector. It has opened a competition and requested...

Cisco, Rockwell Automation to boost industrial digital transformation in APAC

Rockwell Automation said that the deal with Cisco aims to enable manufacturers in APAC to optimize operations and enhance productivity Cisco and Rockwell Automation announced a collaboration focused on boosting digital transformation of the industrial market in the Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China region. In...

BAE Systems appoints Siemens to develop Industry 4.0 ‘blueprint’

Aerospace and defence firm BAE Systems, the biggest manufacturer in the UK and the biggest defence contractor in Europe, has appointed Siemens on a five-year deal to develop a “strategic blueprint” for smart manufacturing within its design and production disciplines. The pair are old...

‘Deep enthusiasm’ – 90% of firms finding ‘unexpected’ AI uses, finds Honeywell poll

A survey by US-based Honeywell says “only” less than one in five (17 percent of) AI “influencers” in enterprises have “fully implemented initial AI plans”. Which is a statistic that might be taken the other way, too; to say so many are already on...

Public 4G worth millions to rural UK towns – say fisherman, farmers, filmmakers

Upgraded public LTE (4G) connectivity has a social and economic impact of up to £6.9 million on rural towns in the UK, according to new research, which considered the impact on the farming, fishing, freelancing, and tourism industries in four remote UK communities after...

Asterisk, asterisk, asterisk – things to think about when thinking about private 5G

In all the to-and-fro last week about how to size the private 4G/5G market, mostly following the quarterly results from Ericsson and Nokia, an email exchange with the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), which seeks to keep score of it, threw certain perennial aspects...

Boldyn to build private 5G lab for offshore energy and Industry 4.0 at Port of Blyth

UK-headquartered shared network specialist Boldyn Networks is to design and build a private 5G network at the Port of Blyth in Northumberland in the UK. The new infrastructure, based on an HPE/Athonet core network (and likely an Airspan radio network), will underpin a new...

Steady, and still ahead – Nokia’s private 5G quarter in review

Finnish vendor Nokia has added some colour to its quarterly private 4G/5G enterprise sales, after not saying much at all in its official results announcement last week. The firm added around 30 new enterprise ‘logos’ in the three months to the end of June...

NTT Data intros edge AI platform to fuse data from private 5G and IoT setups

NTT Data, the global system integrator division of Japanese group NTT, has introduced a new edge AI platform that “integrates and synthesises” data from sensors, devices, and systems in enterprise venues to flow into task-specific industrial AI models. It is being offered as a...

Twenty big enterprise wins in the quarter – more from Ericsson on private 5G

More, here, from Ericsson about private 5G, after the Swedish vendor replied formally to questions in email from RCR Wireless about its enterprise strategy; its responses arrived after Monday’s post on the subject, and go further in terms of the trends it sees in...

Four in five using AI, says TCS – as it brings gen AI and IoT support for enterprises

India-based IT consultancy and system integrator Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has launched a generative AI aggregation platform for enterprise customers and a new IoT lab in the US, with a stated remit to support sensor deployments feeding into developing industrial AI projects. It has...

Fujitsu and Cohere combine RAG and LLMs to develop gen AI for enterprises

Fujitsu is working with US data security and privacy outfit Cohere on a number of industry-geared AI projects, including joint development of a Japanese large language model (LLM) for enterprises in Japan, as well as an exclusive global reseller deal for other generative AI...

Ericsson rejigs Cradlepoint, preps post-summer private 5G push

In a briefing room at MWC in Barcelona at the end of February, when presented with the idea that, for all its successes with the mobile operator crowd, Nokia is running away with it in the enterprise space, Ericsson responded by saying something about...

From RAG to riches with industrial AI – what is retrieval augmented generation (RAG)?

Speaking at an event in London on Wednesday (July 10), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) presented its portfolio of joint AI solutions and integrations with Nvidia, along with its channel strategy and training regime, to UK journalists and analysts that did not make the trip...

Time to comply – AI Act is published in Europe, in force by August

The Artificial intelligence (AI) Act has been published today (July 12) in the Official Journal of the European Union, the gazette of record for the European Union (EU). It confirms a three-phase schedule for the implementation of its various provisions according to the risk...

Humility, patience, collaboration – the big cultural shift in the private 5G market

Note, this article forms a (concluding) part of a recent editorial report from RCR Wireless about ‘private 5G in Industry 4.0 – hype versus reality’. The full report, which extends the discussion further, is available to download here – for free. The cultural approach to...

Seven cases and places where Wi-Fi HaLow works well for IoT

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has claimed triumphant IoT trials of new Wi-Fi HaLow technology in different enterprise venues. Its ‘phase-two’ tests of the technology, listed as 802.11ah in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) family of IEEE 802 standards of local,...

Licences, bands, industries – Brazil counts up its two-year private-5G totals

Brazilian telecoms regulator Anatel has said 66 licences have been granted so far in the country for enterprise-owned private 5G networks in the country. Thirty-four licences have been issued for spectrum at 2.39-2.4 GHz (2,390 MHz to 2,400 MHz), 30 have licences been issued...

‘There is only one gamechanger’ – new UK government told to get radical with AI

The only way out of this mess is with technology, an old Labour prime minister told a new Labour prime minister in London today (June 9) – four days after a new UK government won power in a landslide election victory, and got a...

How the private 5G market got match-fit and found its killer app

Note, this article forms a (middle) part of a recent editorial report from RCR Wireless about ‘private 5G in Industry 4.0 – hype versus reality’. The full report, which extends the discussion further, is available to download here – for free. To an extent, all...

Satellite operator Kinéis targets IoT market in India

Satellite IoT operator Kinéis has a deal with Hyderabad-based space engineering solutions provider Dhruva Space to produce compatible devices and solutions to grow low-power satellite IoT applications in India. Kinéis will have a constellation of 25 nanosatellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO) by early 2025....

ADNOC and e& to build energy industry’s ‘largest’ private 5G network in UAE

State-owned UAE oil company ADNOC is working with state-owned UAE telecoms company e&, formerly Etisalat Group, to build the “energy industry’s largest private 5G network”, it has said. There is no word yet on the identity of the network provider in the deal, but...