Connectivity has been the main blocker for industrial IoT, and not the fragmented hardware and software markets. So says Federated Wireless, one of the companies pioneering usage of private LTE and 5G in the CBRS band in the US.
The firm has announced “one-click” CBRS-as-a-service...
Deutsche Telekom has installed a dual-slice private LTE ‘campus network’, hived off its public LTE network, at a BMW plant in Leipzig. Ericsson has supplied the networking gear for the project.
The German operator said the deployment marks its fourth such campus installation. It has...
More detail has emerged about the private industrial 5G operations Lufthansa has pegged to its new holding in the 3.7-3.8 GHz spectrum in Germany, with Vodafone emerging, as well as Nokia, as early partner for the German airline’s technical services division.
Separately of Nokia’s proclamation...
Note, this story has been referenced and updated in a new post, Lufthansa doubles-down with second private 5G trial – with help from Vodafone, which can be found here.
German airline Deutsche Lufthansa (Lufthansa) has gained a spectrum licence for operating private LTE and...
Germany industrialist Bosch has set out a ‘code of ethics’ around the usage of artificial intelligence (AI) in its connected products, which says humans should be the arbiter of any AI-based decisions.
The firm has issued a set of guidelines, a number of ‘red lines’,...
The UK government has announced the winners of a £35 million funding pot for rural and industrial 5G projects, alongside a new $30 million 5G development competition for the media, gaming, logistics, and tourism sectors. Projects include private networking with Vodafone, Industry 4.0 with...
Huawei said today at a London launch event for new 5G gear that it would prefer to go via the operator community to serve the Industry 4.0 movement, using slices of their licensed public networks to create dedicated networks for industrial automation and intelligence.
It...
Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), Bosch Group, and ZF Friedrichshafen Group have joined the steering committee for the Open Manufacturing Platform (OMP). BMW Group and Microsoft are already on board as founding members.
OMP was established under the umbrella of the Joint Development Foundation, part of...
Telekom Slovenia and Slovenia-based industrial tech provider Iskratel are to deploy hybrid public-private LTE and 5G networks for Industry 4.0.
The pair said they will undertake an analysis of market needs, perform equipment interoperability testing, and investigate spectrum planning aspects. Their arrangement will focus on...
Technologists and industrialists have been at cross purposes in their attempts to make industrial IoT stick, according to Ericsson. The telecoms sector, pushing various forms of cellular connectivity as a springboard for industrial change, must review its sales patter, the company said. More than...
Nokia has struck a deal with Indian operator Bharti Airtel to offer private LTE and industrial AI to enterprises in the manufacturing and distribution sector.
The pair said their partnership around private networking in India will also draw in customers in the financial services, information...
On-device AI on minuscule IoT units will be the "new normal", said UK-based Arm, as it unveiled a 480-times boost in edge processing performance with two new chip designs, pairing the latest in its Cortex-M line with a new micro neural processing unit...
Swedish operator Telenor has tied-up with country-mate Ericsson to sell the vendor’s pre-packed private LTE and 5G to factories and warehouses. It is the first operator to sign as a reseller of the Industry 4.0 bundle –announced a year ago.
Transport company Scania, another Swedish...
German car giants Volkswagen and BMW have confirmed massive Industry 4.0 investments, and firmed up their interests in private industrial 5G as a means to factory automation and slicker production.
Volkswagen has announced “further” investment in digital technologies at its flagship plant in Wolfsburg. The...
CK Hutchison, owner of the Hutchison telecoms group in Asia and Three (3) mobile brand in Europe, has opened a centre of excellence to provide bespoke private LTE and 5G networks for large enterprises.
It cited as prime candidates for industrial LTE and 5G enterprises...
How does a mobile operator, in the business of airtime subscriptions, go beyond selling straight connectivity? Because this must be the goal, and the measure of ambition. There is no future in SIM cards, as we have argued – especially as technological innovation higher...
The Irish government has unveiled a five-year Industry 4.0 strategy to help manufacturing firms to respond to technological change.
The plan, announced last month, includes €23.5 million of funding for the Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR) Centre, a joint initiative between Enterprise Ireland and the IDA,...
As the headline suggests, this analysis should be seen in context. It offers only rapid arithmetic around the World Economic Forum’s (expanding) list of ‘lighthouse’ factories, which claim the most success with digital change. It considers the available data (the location and ownership of...
Steve Szabo, head of global products and solutions for IoT, Verizon Business:
"Digital transformation is a hot topic, but it is not a new topic. And it is, itself, transforming.
"In 2000, the degree to which a company could consider itself on a path to digital...
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Nokia is to equip a major state-run industrial training facility in Brazil with 5G and AI to accelerate Industry 4.0 skills, trials, and deployments in the region.
The Finnish vendor will deploy connectivity and analytics solutions at the country’s National Service for Industrial Training (SENAI-SP)...
Germany industrial giant Siemens has announced a deal to acquire US startup Pixeom for an undisclosed fee, in a move to boost its industrial automation and digitalization division.
Pixeom, responsible for the original Raspberry Pi-based personal cloud platform back in 2014, offers a software-defined edge...
Like it, love it or hate it? Enterprises are unsure about what to make of 5G. A study conducted by Barclays found that at best only 9% were allocating resources for 5G and at worst, only 28% know what 5G is. In other words,...
