IoT

ABB and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have struck a deal on wireless connectivity for large industrial customers, where ABB sensors attached to industrial equipment are connected to the cloud via …

Three quarters of the IoT market will be given over to low-power wide-area (LPWA) network solutions, compared with just one quarter for high-bandwidth low-latency 5G applications. So says the LoRa …

Keysight Technologies’ Ixia put together what it says was the world’s first public open demonstration of the progress of the 400 Gigabit Ethernet ecosystem for hyperscale data centers, during this …

Vodafone has signed a deal with industrial IoT and AR specialist PTC to help developers and enterprises deploy digital-change applications. The deal is an extension of an existing three-year arrangement, …

Orange told 5G World in London yesterday (July 12) that private networks are too expensive, and that hiving off spectrum for the industrial sector to run private networks will throttle …

The UK government is seeking to reform planning laws and release new spectrum to accelerate 5G deployments, as it also increases public funding for 5G testbeds to stimulate the digital …

China’s top-down approach to 5G gives the country a strong position in 5G-based value creation both near- and long-term. In 2013, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the …

We are currently going through one of the most significant periods of urbanization in history. According to United Nations research, around 55% of the global population lives in metropolitan areas …

With the first 5G commercial mobile broadband networks getting off the ground, and the first devices coming to market, the focus of industry leaders is shifting toward exploring what’s next. …

A recent survey found that that 42% of IT professionals spend too much of their time on troubleshooting tasks and that cloud environments were ranked overall as the second most-common …

Cisco is set to acquire French cyber-security firm Sentryo, with which it has worked to author digital change solutions in the industrial IoT sector. Headquartered in Lyon, France, Sentryo provides …

As the awareness of the transformative nature of 5G is increasing, the industry is slowly waking up to the enormous challenge of securing not only the networks, but also all …

As we have heard, the UK’s 5G RuralFirst project is trying to do with 5G (or 5G-related tech) what the telecoms industry has failed to do with previous generations, and …

It’s become an annual tradition to publish my thoughts and opinions on where I foresee advancements, trends and growth in the communications industry.  Before crafting this year’s forecast, I looked …

Low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking technologies like LoRaWAN and NB-IoT, among others, are helping farmers to connect their work to the internet, as we have heard. This connectivity provides a platform …

NXP and Nvidia both investing in AI for edge use cases The vision for the combination of 5G and the internet of things revolves around leveraging the low latency of …

Fiber connectivity underlies a wide range of smart city applications Smart city is something of a broad term that generally refers to using wired or wireless sensors to gather data …

Japanese tech giant Panasonic has announced its plans to ramp up its smart factory solutions business in India. The company said in a release that it has integrated its welding …

Less than five per cent of data generated by manufacturing plants is used to bring insights and improve operations, according to a study by Frost & Sullivan. Sensors and other …

NXP is buying Marvell’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other wireless connectivity business assets for $1.76 billion, in a move that NXP says will boost its ability to offer turnkey offerings in …

Telefónica and Schindler announced a global partnership under which the Spanish telco will be the IoT and network connectivity partner for Schindler’s digital offering for smart elevators and escalators. Telefonica …

Swedish operator Telia is to build a university-based 5G network for research and testing of industrial uses of high-bandwidth low-latency cellular connectivity. The 5G network will be located at Mid …

Two million farms and 36 million cattle will be connected to the internet by low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, and other technologies, by 2024. This is the calculation from analyst house …

The government of Vietnam has signed an agreement with Ericsson through which the latter will help accelerate the adoption of Industry 4.0 in the Asian nation, the Swedish vendor said …

Canadian telecoms operator Rogers announced plans to launch narrow-band internet of things (NB-IoT) technology in the country, the carrier said in a release. The telco said that NB-IoT will allow …