Danish IoT MVNO Onomondo has been appointed to supply global IoT connectivity to brewing company Carlsberg Group to connect draught beer taps in pubs, bars, and restaurants around the world. The solution includes an IoT management platform, integrated into Carlsberg’s new DaughtMaster cloud analytics...
Verizon has deployed a private 5G network at the 5,500 square-metre ‘smart factory’ at Wichita State University in Kansas, in the US. The showcase facility, dubbed Smart Factory @ Wichita, is on the university’s science research campus. It is sponsored and “convened” by the...
Siemens has acquired UK-based industrial IoT firm Senseye for an undisclosed fee. Senseye, founded in 2014, provides analytics-based (“AI-powered”) predictive maintenance solutions for industrial machines, offering ways to manage and reduce unplanned downtime and to boost productivity and sustainability.
The firm, headquartered in Southampton, was...
Private networks enable new applications and IoT capabilities such as asset tracking, predictive maintenance and connected sensors
BT and Ericsson announced a new partnership to provide commercial 5G private networks for the UK market, the latter said in a release.
The two companies have signed a...
German airline services company Lufthansa Technik has introduced new condition monitoring tools for Airbus and Boeing operators, available with its AVIATAR digital platform. The new releases have come out of a year-long joint-project with United Airlines to combine their engineering know-how and data science...
Note, this article is continued from a previous entry, under the headline: 'A "different beast" in the telco pack – often it’s not about 5G at all, says Orange'. For the first instalment, go here.
We should rewind, and hit play again on the Safran...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gaining momentum as a key technology for industrial applications and will be one of the big focus topics in 2022. Many companies are curious and open to try out new AI functionalities. Their goal is usually quite simple: greater production...
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There is no doubt that the emergence of 5G technology will have a great impact in the way Industry 4.0 manufacturers, or “smart factories,” produce and distribute goods. The key...
According to a new study, IoT has made the top of the list of the most important technologies of 2021. Additionally, the market for commercial and industrial IoT is booming, with manufacturing taking the largest share of enterprise IoT implementations.
There’s no doubt that recent...
What if nearly every network operation could be predicted using machine learning and AI?
Ericsson launched its Operations Engine in January to assist communications service providers with moving away from incident driven and reactive operations to predictive and preventative operations. The engine, which leverages machine...
IBM has introduced a new suite of industrial internet of things (IoT) solutions for preventative and predictive downtime and maintenance that leverage artificial intelligence and advanced analytics.
The solution will reduce the risk of failure of physical assets including vehicles, manufacturing robots, turbines, mining...
Lift maker KONE has selected AT&T to connect it elevators and escalators in North America in order to gather data, enable predictive maintenance, and improve safety and performance.
AT&T said it had been chosen to provide internet-of-things (IoT) “connectivity and service management”. The pair will...
Telecoms vendor Nokia and engineering firm Altran have announced a predictive maintenance solution to streamline the upkeep of trains from all manufacturers.
Nokia said it will make trains up to 30 per cent more reliable in terms of their availability, and 20 per cent more...
Huawei’s Robust Network Service has been already tested by a number of telcos in China, Europe and Latin America
MUNICH, GERMANY- Huawei released a new offering dubbed Robust Network Service to measure network health, predict network risks and control failures.
The new solution applies artificial intelligence...
Semiconductor maker Intel has applied predictive maintenance to monitor the health of its fan filter units (FFUs) in its semiconductor production facilities through deployment of industrial IoT (IIoT) sensors and edge computing. The idea was to alert technicians to potential problems, define a proactive maintenance...
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has established a ‘smart printing factory testbed’ in collaboration with Fujitsu, IBM, Real-Time Innovations (RTI) and Toshiba to develop technologies to help the printing industry automate production and maintenance processes.
The IIC said the group is using the testbed to...
As we have seen already, through separate discussion of Hitachi’s approach to ‘predictive quality’ and ‘dynamic scheduling’, the digital transformation of industry is multi-faceted. There is a third way, apart from managing defects and bottlenecks, for industrial operatives to set about this change, the...
Quo vadis SDN in provider networks?
With its promise of network simplification and new revenue streams, software-defined networking has certainly captured the interest of service providers. At its core, this technology is about disaggregating physical network functions from software control, creating an ecosystem of open...
Connected ice re-surfacer represents an IoT product-as-a-service
Name two companies that make ice re-surfacers. I'll wait. Seriously though, Zamboni is the gold-standard in ice re-surfacers--the things that smooth out skating rinks between periods in a hockey match, among other uses--so much so that the machine...
Predictive maintenance brings efficiencies to aircraft, train and elevator operations
As the internet of things (IoT) drives the digital transformation of a variety of industries, predictive maintenance has emerged as a key use case. The ability to use sensor-based monitoring to identify and mitigate mechanical...
Predictive maintenance is a key IoT use case that's improving railroad operations
At a high level, the internet of things (IoT) is all about maximizing asset availability, reliability and efficiency. This is highlighted in the railroad industry, both passenger and cargo, where timelines has a...
