London-headquartered global system integrator NTT Data (stylised NTT DATA) has won a multi-year deal to deploy and populate a private 5G network at a 40,000-square-metre manufacturing facility for Roularta Media Group (RMG), Belgium’s largest printing company. Work has started already, with the private 5G...
Germany-based Industry 4.0 system integrator Smart Mobile Labs (SML), acquired by Boldyn Networks in January (2025), has signed a ‘framework’ deal with national rail operator Deutsche Bahn for the planning, delivery, construction and operation of private 5G ‘campus’ networks in the country. The deal...
More evidence, if it was needed, that 5G is all about enterprises – whether it is used by operators, themselves, to drive internal efficiencies, or sold to other sectors as private networks, network slices, or wide-area networks (WAN) services. Ahead of MWC, the GSMA...
Leading industry companies including Infineon, Intel, PepsiCo, and Qualcomm have joined together to form the Ambient IoT Alliance (AIoTA) to develop and scale energy-harvesting in battery-less IoT sensor devices. The group is focused on ambient IoT – as written about as a conceot in...
Ireland-based private 5G specialist Druid Software has released a high-end version of its 5G core network for distributed private 5G deployments at the enterprise and network edge – in order for enterprises, operators, and other system vendors to be able to offload and manage...
More from US private 5G specialist Future Technologies, following from the long interview with the firm last week: the system integrator, on a stateside tear-up in the 5G-connected Industry 4.0 game, said it won over $20 million in industrial-grade private 4G and 5G deals...
All told, 2024 was something of an annus horribilis for the cellular IoT sector, with consolidation and divestitures on the back of zero sales growth. But it could prove to be a whole lot worse than expected, it seems. “It's possible that a pessimistic...
British car maker Jaguar Land Rover has deployed a private 5G network from Swedish vendor Ericsson – with help from the UK integrator arm of Japanese IT firm Fujitsu. Ericsson invited both companies on stage at its pe-MWC analyst event in London today (February...
Spain-based Telefónica’s big 5G showcase at the industry’s big 5G showcase, at MWC in Barcelona next month, will feature a pair of healthcare solutions, among other things. These will show how a public 5G network can be used to carry patients' IoT data from...
Vodafone has a new deal with Saudi tech and telecoms outfit Mobily to expand its IoT coverage in Saudi Arabia. The deal is between the UK-headquartered operator’s enterprise IoT arm (Vodafone Business IoT / Vodafone IoT) and the Saudi firm, and sees its customers...
Hold tight; you might want to catch your breath. How’s business? It is only conversational; a casual salutation at the start of a pre-MWC call to coordinate diaries. But Peter Cappiello, chief executive at US system integrator Future Technologies, has a whole lot to...
NXP Semiconductors has agreed a deal to buy US edge AI chipmaker Kinara for $307 million. Kinara specialises in energy-efficient neural processing units (NPUs). NXP said it will combine the firm’s edge NPUs and AI software more formally into its own industrial and IoT...
Qualcomm CEO discusses the "era of AI inference” and what it means for the company's diversification strategy
Qualcomm this week reported Q1 2025 financials marked by the company’s QCT business, including handsets, automotive and IoT, bringing in record revenues of $10.084 billion, up 20% from...
System integrator Kyndryl is bundling AI security software from Palo Alto Networks into its own secure access service edge (SASE) offer. Its SASE services afford a “unified network security posture”, it said. Integration of Palo Alto Networks’s ‘zero-trust’ Prisma solution unites “network and security...
The Wi-SUN Alliance has unveiled a product certification programme for Wi-SUN based smart meters, smart sensors, and sundry IoT modules development kits. Certification will ensure Wi-SUN devices, compliant with the FAN (Field Area Network) 1.1 wireless mesh specification, work with other products on the...
KDDI-owned virtual network operator (MVNO) Soracom is supplying out-of-the-box global IoT connectivity into a pair of new developer evaluation kits from France-based IoT chipmaker Sequans. The new modules are available in two variants, with either dual-band LTE-M and NB-IoT connectivity, or single-band Cat 1bis...
Nokia and Ericsson both hailed healthy sales of private 5G networks to enterprises this week, to boost their final-quarter and full-year 2024 results. Nokia went furthest, to say it had a “record” quarter at the end of last year for new private 5G (and...
A new government-funded scheme in the UK is seeking to apply IoT sensing and AI sense-making to lamb farming. The UK Agri-Tech Centre, an independent organisation for agricultural innovation, is working with farm equipment manufacturer David Ritchie Agricultural (Ritchie) to prototype an automated IoT/AI...
Lufthansa Industry Solutions (LHIND), a pioneer integrator in the private 5G space, has been running a test network on a Raspberry Pi in its work labs and meeting rooms – if only just to show enterprise customers (and network vendors, if pushed) how easy...
Slovenian Industry 4.0 telecoms specialist Kontron has worked with Germany-based system integrator Mugler to deploy a private 5G network in the 3.7-3.8 GHz band on the campus at Rosenheim Technical University of Applied Sciences (TH Rosenheim) in Germany. Kontron, formerly Iskratel, has authored both...
Rockwell Automation has acquired Canadian industrial robotics outfit Clearpath Robotics for an undisclosed fee. The deal includes the Ontario firm’s namesake research division, developing autonomous technology for the innovation market, as well as its industrial division OTTO Motors, which makes autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)...
KDDI-owned virtual network operator (MVNO) Soracom has launched an integrated SIM (iSIM) solution for global IoT deployments. It adds a third SIM option to its developer portfolio, to go with its card-type physical SIMs and chip-style embedded eSIMs. It is offering a new iSIM-compatible...
Chip maker Semtech Corporation has had its EM8695 5G RedCap module certified by the FCC and PTCRB, the comms regulator and the telco review board in the US, and has also passed tests on mobile operator AT&T’s network. The unit is poised for “carrier...
Sigfox parent UnaBiz has convened a new ‘Sub0G’ ecosystem collective to develop smart IoT labels for the low-end of the IoT tracking market, targeting logistics and distribution sectors. French electronics manufacturer Linxens, Dutch semiconductor company NXP Semiconductors, and UK printed battery maker Zinergy have...
