IoT

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A panel session at Private Networks Forum in May discussed what 5G delivers for enterprises now and what it promises to deliver in the future, with a keen eye on …

Let’s talk about Voice over New Radio (VoNR) and begin with an analogy. I like analogies because they can bring dry technical topics to life. Many cars today feature a …

Patrick Griffin, Chief Product Officer, Heliot Europe, the largest Sigfox network operator in the European Union; here, he expands on the importance of the new unlicensed LPWAN working group proposing …

New FCC effort seeks alignment with NIST principles on cybersecurity The Biden administration and the Federal Communications Commission are working on a product labeling effort focused on standards for cybersecurity …

Quectel, Telit Cinterion, and Fibocom captured more than half of the total cellular IoT module shipments in the first quarter of 2023, according to market analysis from Counterpoint Research. Quectel …

An IoT MVNO killer? It sure sounds like it, almost – if the whole rest of the global operator market could just pick it up. But no, says the global …