Sigfox-parent Unabiz reckons it can now deliver a 90 percent “success rate” with Wi-Fi positioning on Sigfox trackers thanks to the addition of some AI/ML trickery to its Wi-Fi scanning software. Sigfox operator KYOCERA Communication Systems (KCCS) has claimed a jump from 62 percent...
Israeli edge-cloud and private cellular software company ASOCS is working with Lufthansa Industry Solutions (LHIND), the system integrator (SI) division of German aviation firm Lufthansa Group, and an early pioneer of private 5G in Europe, to test and develop its own industrial 5G positioning...
Qualcomm SVP of Engineering talks 5G, AI and IoT at Mobile World Congress 2023
In addition to its long-standing leadership in smartphone and other mobile devices, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a driving force in the research and standards work that has defined 5G New Radio, 5G...
Qualcomm brings multi-vendor automation and SMO capabilities to private networks with the Edgewise Suite
As Industry 4.0 concepts meant to optimize efficiency in sectors like manufacturing, utilities, mining and more gain interest and adoption, private networks, including 4G, 5G and Wi-Fi, are emerging as a...
Nokia said that the proof-of-concept was deployed in a Bosch production plant in Germany
Nokia and Bosch are jointly working on the development of a 5G-based precision positioning technology targeting new Industry 4.0 use cases, the vendor said in a release.
The two firms have deployed...
The initiative will bring together 5G experts and specialists from both Telia and Ericsson to support the program and its customers
Swedish operator Telia and compatriot vendor Ericsson announced the launch of NorthStar, which it describes as a 5G innovation program for industrial enterprises, to...
Cellular IoT provider 1NCE has said it wants to repeat its trick with flat-rate global IoT pricing to also “disrupt” the IoT industry with free device and cloud management software. At CES in Las Vegas, the firm has launched a new operating system (OS),...
Vodafone is looking to offer enhanced satellite positioning to locate IoT devices and autonomous vehicles within centimetres, rather than with standard metre-range accuracy, as with straight GNSS services. It is working with US-based GNSS system developer Topcon Positioning Group to test the new service...
Huawei recently held its Win-Win Innovation Week in late July 2022 in Shenzhen, China. After a flurry of presentations on a wide range of topics, it is possible to see how the telco landscape will continue to evolve over the next three to five...
5G drives higher speed, lower latency and greater capacity than 4G LTE networks, making it critical across industries globally. We have just started scratching the surface of the type of new use cases that become possible through 5G’s innovation potential. While the rollout of 5G...
The MDT solution taps user equipment (UE) to collect field measurements
Introduced in 3GPP Rel-10, Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) is a standardized mechanism designed to enable operators to use user devices in a network to collect mobile network data, and thus, reduce the need...
Cellular positioning was first introduced in the mid-nineties to meet regulatory requirements of emergency call positioning; since then, the possibilities for this feature have drastically expanded to address the needs of industrial verticals and use cases such as logistics, smart factories, autonomous vehicles, digital...
As well as a new private 5G deployment in Hamburg for IT service provider Dataport, covered Wednesday (March 30), O2 Telefónica has confirmed a private 5G setup at the Helios Park-Klinikum, a private psychiatric and orthopedics hospital, in Leipzig. O2 Telefónica led the installation,...
‘Enhancement to the 5GC location services’, included in Release 17, aims to provide support for very low latency and very high accuracy positioning
According to the 3GPP, the work item dubbed ‘Enhancement to the 5GC location services’, included in Release 17, aims to provide support...
Swiss-based u-blox is working with SoftBank to develop common global navigation satellite system (GNSS) augmentation services for Japan, the US, and Europe. The pair have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to cooperate on GNSS 1 augmentation services for global markets, with a view...
Verizon has introduced a new ‘hyper-precise location’ (HPL) service that uses ‘real-time kinematics’ (RTK) to deliver satellite-based location with centimetre-level accuracy. The HPL service is available via Verizon’s ThingSpace’s IoT platform to business customers and application developers using its 4G and 5G cellular networks...
A year of unprecedented disruption and change has come to a close. Ahead lies an exciting 2021 when life will presumably get back to something like normal and long-pent-up economic energies should burst forth to drive economic expansion.
On the tech front, IoT will continue...
