Globalization is shifting. Reshoring and nearshoring are the new trends, driven largely by a desire to be less dependent on China, but also by the supply chain fragility revealed during COVID, as well as geopolitical shifts, and the drop in domestic demand due to...
Vodafone’s burgeoning IoT-monetisation (‘economy of things’) platform, called Digital Asset Broker (DAB), is to be connected to UK web3 enablement company Aventus’ blockchain engine. The two companies said they will help enterprises and partners to take advantage of secure blockchain tech when trading and...
Japan-based IoT connectivity provider Soracom, busily making alliances across the whole IoT industry, has expanded its roster of integrated SIM (iSIM) supply partners with IoT module makers Quectel and Murata. Soracom has been working already with chipset provider Sony Semiconductor Israel (Sony) and SIM...
The business arm of UK-based operator Virgin Media O2, owned by Liberty Global and Telefónica, is offering a Nokia-made private standalone 5G (5G SA) network-and-compute system in a portable hold-all for “businesses of all sizes”. The logic is to make private cellular accessible to...
IoT investments in APAC are expected to reach $435 billion in 2027
Internet of Things (IoT) spending in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region is forecasted to reach $277.5 billion in 2023, an increase of 11% compared to the previous year, according to IDC's latest Worldwide...
California-based compute software vendor Wind River has announced a couple of notable deals; it has deployed a fully-automated edge data centre for Finnish telco Elisa, and also struck a deal with China-based Horizon Robotics to collaborate on edge systems for advanced driver assist systems...
As a long-time independent technology analyst, I cover a lot ground and follow a lot of companies. Communications technology is my main focus, and the wireless world has increasingly become part of that, especially 5G. Along those lines, my travels recently took me to...
Florida-based carrier-services company and virtual operator (MVNO) Syniverse has laid off 95 staff and rejigged its senior management team as part of a reorganisation to merge and reorder its carrier and enterprise business units into two brand new divisions, covering ‘revenue’ and ‘product’. The...
The UK government has launched a £40 million fund for local authorities to deliver 5G-based IoT solutions to help in the fields of manufacturing, transport, agriculture, and healthcare, as well as with their own smart-city services. The money will go to create broad ‘5G...
Nokia is to deploy a private LTE network in the Anterix-owned 900 MHz band in the US for energy provider Xcel Energy. The deployment will support the firm’s grid modernisation and renewable energy strategies, plus optimised delivery of electricity and natural gas. The deployment...
US-based private network vendor Celona has introduced important – critical for hard-nosed Industry 4.0 – fixes to its private LTE/5G system to support key layer-two operational technology (OT) protocols to network industrial machines – including with PROFINET, most significantly, but also BUS, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT,...
Softbank Group has agreed with US-based supply-chain technology supplier Symbiotic to create a new joint-venture company, GreenBox Systems, to sell the latter’s AI-geared warehouse automation systems. As part of the deal, the new business has been appointed as the exclusive supplier of Symbotic’s warehouse...
The LoRa Alliance has trumpeted growth in the Asia Pacific region, ahead of its bi-annual meetup in Tokyo in October. It claimed “millions of sensors” have been added in the region in the first half of 2023 on the backs of “large projects” in...
Where were we? Oh yes; a quick-fire summary of a panel discussion with Intel and Microsoft from Private Networks Forum in May, which presents, in random order, five technology drivers and five business drivers (or other business concerns) for the rollout of 5G in...
Airtel provides IoT services for enterprises across different industries such as automobile, energy, utilities, logistics, financial services and manufacturing
Indian operator Bharti Airtel announced that its B2B division Airtel Business, has already connected over 20 million devices through its IoT solutions across India.
The company said...
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Private 4G and 5G networks present enterprises with advanced options for connectivity by combining the higher performance, reliability and security of cellular technology with the practicality and control of local Wi-Fi infrastructure. They give rise to new and improved enterprise applications, ranging from better...
And so it comes to pass; hybrid IoT devices running both LoRaWAN and Sigfox, once the bitterest rivals in the low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) game, will be available soon. US semiconductor company Semtech, owner of the LoRa physical-radio layer technology (and licensor of hardware...
Running AI workloads at the edge enables better economics, faster decision making and automation
If you look past the hype, look past the technological complexity, look past the protracted proofs of concepts, 5G is all about leveraging a high-bandwidth, low-latency air interface to move data,...
Operators in China deployed nearly 600,000 5G base stations in the April-June period alone
Chinese operators have outperformed the country’s own construction target for 5G base stations, deploying almost 3 million by the end of June, six months ahead of schedule, according to a report...
MachineQ has launched a number of new active RFID asset tracking tags for indoor positioning, along with a new IoT occupancy monitoring solution. They are an extension of its hybrid Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and LoRaWAN real-time location system (RTLS) combo-solution, launched last year....
A panel discussion with Microsoft and Intel at Private Networks Forum in May yielded some helpful insights about the push-and-pull for enterprises to deploy private 5G networks. The conversation, under the heading Mastering Each Vertical Via New Partnership Ecosystem, zipped through a number of...
KDDI-owned global virtual IoT network operator (MVNO) Soracom has announced a partnership with US-based cellular-IoT satellite operator Skylo Technologies. The deal sees Soracom further integrate non-terrestrial network (NTN) connectivity as an option in its cloud-managed portfolio of wireless IoT standards, which also includes (terrestrial)...
As a sign of where industrial-grade 5G is really up to, the announcement from German firm Siemens that it has opened a mainly-5G test lab at its main research campus in the south of the southern city of Erlangen says it remains a technology-under-review...
