BROWSING: IoT

Swiss drone rollout shows value of ‘brilliant’ public 5G to industry, says Nokia

As novel industrial technologies go, Nokia’s deal with Swisscom Broadcast, the Swiss operator’s enterprise-facing security and analytics arm, to deploy a network of 300 drones for emergency services and industrial applications feels significant – for both firms, as well as for the drone sector,...

Deutsche Telekom boosts global IoT focus

Deutsche Telekom said it is the first European telecommunications company to join the Bridge Alliance German carrier Deutsche Telekom said it is focusing on growing internationalization in the Internet of Things (IoT) business with a new deal by its subsidiary Deutsche Telekom IoT with the...

Swisscom deploys Nokia drone fleet for public safety and industrial monitoring

Swisscom Broadcast is working with Nokia to deploy a nationwide drone network of 300 drones for the emergency services, public safety, and private industrial sectors. It follows the same model as Nokia’s drone rollout in Belgium with Citymesh, and is expected to pass it...

“Transformation complete” – Unabiz claims 40% growth, $25m funds to spur Sigfox 2.0

Unabiz, owner of the Sigfox technology, has announced $25 million of new capital funds from Japanese pair KDDI and KCCS (Kyocera) as part of early interest in a new series C (“pre-series C”) round, which is due to close in October. The Singapore-based company...

Ericsson and Anterix to sell private 4G/5G to electric co-ops in the US

The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) has appointed Ericsson to offer private 4G and 5G networks to small- and mid-sized electric cooperatives (co-ops) across the US. NRTC is leading the consortium, which also includes telecoms and energy utility Southern Linc, offering core hosting solutions,...

HPE beefs up cyber defence for enterprise networks

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has beefed up its cyber defence offer for enterprise networks with the addition of behavioural analytics to its detection and response capabilities and zero-trust access to its campus network proposition. The latter covers local-area edge networks, including its private 4G...

More satellite IoT stats – market to top 26m connections, $4bn value by 2030

More satellite IoT stats; following on from yesterday’s post, reporting on Juniper Research figures, that the total number of IoT satellites will grow by 150 percent over the next five years, from 10,000 in 2024 to 24,000 in 2029, another analyst group has stuck...

Half of workers in critical industry hit by cyber attacks – IoT is to blame, says Verizon

More than half of workers in critical industrial sectors have experienced “severe security incidents” that have led to data loss or system downtime, and industrial IoT devices have been blamed. A new poll by US operator Verizon of 600-odd executives in charge of security...

Enterprises to spend $7bn per year on 18,000 private 4G/5G networks by 2028

Want more private 4G/5G market forecasts? Of course you do, and market research firm Kaleido Intelligence has come up with a humdinger: enterprises will spend over $7 billion per year on private 4G/5G networks by 2028, it says. Which sounds like a lot; but...

Vodafone turns on LTE-M in the UK, claims a full house of IoT tech

Vodafone has said enterprise customers in the UK now have all the necessary cellular-based IoT tools at their disposal, after it switched on LTE-M services in its home market. The operator, which has hitherto steered customers looking to connect battery-powered IoT monitoring applications onto...

Five obstacles for Industry 4.0 (ah, technology – all mouth, no trousers)

Digging into this new Cisco survey about the state of networking in the Industry 4.0 sector, which says the industrial c-suite is being driven to distraction by the risk and reward of artificial intelligence (AI), reveals certain things. They are hardly revelatory; but, again,...

Vodafone UK highlights savings for public buildings with 5G SA

Vodafone noted that 5G SA technology can integrate many connected devices and sensors with IoT across heating, cooling and lighting systems to monitor energy use 5G-powered technologies can generate significant cost and energy savings across public buildings like schools, hospitals and leisure centers across...

Cellular IoT antenna sales to top 1.2 billion by 2028, rising 15% per year

Annual shipments of cellular IoT antennas, including both internal and external antennas, totalled 598 million units in 2023, and will spiral at a compound rate (CAGR) of 14.9 percent per annum in the period to 2028 to top 1.2 billion, according to IoT analyst...

Celona appoints German integrator Xantaro to sell private 5G in Europe

Germany-based managed system integrator Xantaro Group has been recruited by US private networks specialist Celona to sell its private 5G system into European enterprises. Celona joins Nokia, at least, in its roster of private 5G products. It flagged the viability of the Celona system...

AI risk and reward is driving Industry 4.0 c-suite to distraction, says Cisco study

Cisco has just issued a research study about the state of networking in the broad Industry 4.0 sector, and it is really good – comprehensive, and well communicated. Quite how much of it is genuinely new or surprising is open to debate, but it...

India designates 12 new smart industrial cities – to take total to 2

The Indian government is to build a total of 12 new industrial smart cities in various states to drive domestic manufacturing in the country. These join eight urban manufacturing centres that are already under development. The department of industry and trade revealed progress with...

‘Deep enthusiasm’ – 90% of firms finding ‘unexpected’ AI uses, finds Honeywell poll

A survey by US-based Honeywell says “only” less than one in five (17 percent of) AI “influencers” in enterprises have “fully implemented initial AI plans”. Which is a statistic that might be taken the other way, too; to say so many are already on...

e&, Ericsson claim first implementation of 5G SA RedCap in MEA

The testing took place in e& UAE's live 5G SA network, where RedCap was enabled in both frequency division duplex (FDD) and time division duplex (TDD) spectrum Ericsson and Emirati-based operator e& UAE have conducted a successful end-to-end verification of Ericsson's Reduced Capability (RedCap) software...

Soracom embeds gen AI developer tools into cellular IoT platform

KDDI-owned Soracom has embedded generative AI capabilities into its cellular IoT connectivity and services platform, it has said. It has introduced two new services to help IoT developers with more complex IoT deployments. These are Soracom Flux and Query Intelligence; the first is a...

Vodafone Spain sees nearly 28% YoY IoT growth

Vodafone said that over 805,000 IoT connections had been added in the first half of the year Vodafone Spain reached over 7.37 million active IoT lines as of June 30, marking a 27.7% year-on-year growth, the telco said in a release. Vodafone noted that 1.6 million...

Boldyn to build private 5G lab for offshore energy and Industry 4.0 at Port of Blyth

UK-headquartered shared network specialist Boldyn Networks is to design and build a private 5G network at the Port of Blyth in Northumberland in the UK. The new infrastructure, based on an HPE/Athonet core network (and likely an Airspan radio network), will underpin a new...

Steady, and still ahead – Nokia’s private 5G quarter in review

Finnish vendor Nokia has added some colour to its quarterly private 4G/5G enterprise sales, after not saying much at all in its official results announcement last week. The firm added around 30 new enterprise ‘logos’ in the three months to the end of June...

Global cellular IoT connectivity market reaches $15bn in 2023

According to IoT Analytics, 5G IoT connections are forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 44% from 2024 to 2030 The global cellular IoT connectivity market generated revenues of $15 billion from a total of 3.6 billion cellular IoT connections in 2023, according to a...

Actility agrees with LoRa inventors to buy LoRaWAN search-and-rescue startup API-K

French LoRaWAN specialist Actility has acquired a France-based LoRaWAN startup called API-K, which produces a LoRaWAN tracking system for mountain sports and rescue teams, and was co-founded by LoRaWAN luminaries François Sforza and Nicolas Sornin, two parts of the three-man team that invented the...