BMW Group has extended a cloud computing and services partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver various IoT and AI capabilities to extend driver assistance (ADAS) features in new vehicles launching in 2025. The German automaker has also confirmed it is working with...
Orange Business, the enterprise division of Orange, has signed a deal to tie together existing digital systems and internet-of-things (IoT) technologies in the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) in the Al Aqeeq area of Riyadh, and wrap it up in new data analytics and...
German outfit Kärcher, a manufacturer of pressure washers, vacuum cleaners and industrial floor cleaners, has signed with Deutsche Telekom to supply global IoT connectivity to its “autonomous robot scrubber drier” machines in international markets. The family-owned firm is fitting new robot scrubbers with a...
National Grid, the UK electricity and gas utility company, also operating in New York and Massachusetts, is advertising a million-pound vacancy for a cyber specialist to set ‘honeypots’ in its network systems to wrongfoot hackers and misdirect incoming attacks on critical energy infrastructure. The...
Doing 10 times more with 10 times less is how we are going to save the planet, and how many public and commercial sectors will survive too. And it is all about massive IoT.
The only reason massive IoT hasn't truly arrived yet is that...
Another angle on (postcard from) the critical 5G edge, in support of an upcoming editorial report on the matter; industrial IoT software provider Factry, tackling the challenge of industrial automation as “hard-boiled IT experts”, suggests the entrenched paranoia and control freakery that tends to...
Speaking with system integrator NTT this week for an upcoming editorial report about how to allocate critical Industry 4.0 workloads, certain well-understood drivers to move computing and connectivity systems away from centralised cloud and network infrastructure onto enterprise premises were, again, made clear. The...
“You can't just put on a hoodie and be down with the kids.” RCR Wireless is in conversation with Wienke Giezeman, co-founder and chief executive at The Things Industries, the Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN collective selling middleware and tooling into the hyperactive low-power end of the...
The Mexican division of Latin American Sigfox operator WND has signed a deal with local metering outfit WaterMeter Corp to supply one million Sigfox water meters in the country over the next decade. Unabiz, the parent of the Sigfox technology and an IoT solution...
Broadcom announced its second generation of wireless connectivity chipset solutions for the Wi-Fi 7 ecosystem last month to meet Wi-Fi 7 demand, which the company expects to be greater than it was for Wi-Fi 6. Broadcom’s Directors of Product Marketing for Wireless Communications and...
Many IoT devices will remain on-premise for all of their working lives, either fixed in-position or else in perpetual motion within a clearly-defined local perimeter line. But many others will move freely in and out of enterprise venues, leaving their local private network boundaries...
Highly-acquisitive IoT connectivity provider Wireless Logic has snapped up US-headquartered virtual network operator (MVNO) Webbing for an undisclosed fee. The deal, its 10th in just a couple of years, extends the UK firm’s presence in the Asian and North American markets, and also gives...
Just for the record… Globe Telecom, running the largest mobile network in the Philippines, has “successfully showcased” the country’s first standalone private 5G (5G SA) network at its own INNOVANIA technology and innovation event. It used a core network from Athonet, acquired by Hewlett...
Property crime is the most common type of criminality in the U.S. There are 2.5 million burglaries annually in the U.S., 66% of which are home invasions, while the other 34% affect small businesses. Yet only 25% of Americans have a home security system...
Airtel has already launched 5G services in approximately 5,000 towns and cities across India
Indian operator Bharti Airtel has launched 5G services across all 22 telecom circles in the country, using frequencies in the 26 GHz band.
The telco stated that this deployment adheres to the...
Frontier Communications has been facing pressure to show growth for several years. While they still face that pressure, when it comes to business services, they seem to be doing something right. Frontier Business is showing growth, and that may be where they will continue...
Markets across industries are embracing the Internet of Things (IoT). From widely adopted consumer goods, like watches and thermostats, to applications in aerospace, healthcare, construction & building management, oil & gas and beyond, intelligent devices are driving growth and innovation.
As found by the VDC...
The '5G-Advanced' project tested 5G using 400 megahertz of 6 GHz spectrum
The Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced the completion of the second phase of its “5G-Advanced” trials project, saying that the tests achieved speeds up...
Viavi outlines private Open RAN benefits and security complexities
Beyond macro public networks, Open RAN could also support the variety of deployment configurations necessary for private enterprise networks. But just as Tier 1 operators have to guard against security incidents to stave off financial and...
AT&T said it worked with Nokia and MediaTek on the testing
U.S. carrier AT&T recently completed what it claims to be the first 5G Reduced Capability (RedCap) data call in the U.S. The telco said that the RedCap data call was made in both the...
Heavyweights in the semiconductor industry have joined together to create a new company to accelerate production of products based on the new open-source RISC-V (RISC-five; reduced instruction set computer-V) architecture. Robert Bosch, Infineon Technologies, Nordic Semiconductor, NXP Semiconductor, and Qualcomm Technologies will jointly invest...
Pausing to reflect with media and analysts in London yesterday (August 3) on decent quarterly growth of 4.5 percent within its enterprise division, Vodafone provided some useful colour on its strategy and progress with ‘mobile private networks’ (MPNs; private LTE and 5G, by any...
Qualcomm down double digits in handsets and IoT; automotive remains a growth driver
Qualcomm reported third quarter results this week; total revenues were down 23% from the same quarter last year to $8.45 billion with handset revenue down 25% and IoT revenue down 24%. The...
