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Nokia leads sub-THz 6G R&D drive on sensor-less IoT sensing for healthcare monitoring

Nokia Bell Labs, the research and development (R&D) arm of Finish vendor Nokia, is working with the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), the Fraunhofer Society’s electrical engineering group, and Charité, Europe’s largest university hospital, in Germany to look at how sub-terahertz (sub-THz) wireless technologies...

KSB hospital in Switzerland taps Siemens for 2,000 IoT tags, 7,000 IoT sensors

The Kantonsspital Baden (KSB) in Switzerland, a public hospital in Baden in the Swiss canton of Aargau, is in the process of deploying 2,000 IoT tags and 7,000 IoT sensors to improve its patient care, hospital operations, and energy consumption. The hospital has worked...

Streamlining council waste management with IoT and LPWAN (Reader Forum)

UK local councils are grappling with severe financial strains, with projections suggesting that 20 percent could face insolvency by 2025. These councils are challenged to maintain essential services, including waste management, amidst increasingly stringent budgets and regulatory demands. To address these issues, councils must...

Where the wild things are—and how to connect them

Nevada System of Higher Education is exploring private cellular to connect remote environmental sensors used in a range of research initiatives LAS VEGAS—Ahead of the kick-off of Mobile World Congress Las Vegas, T-Mobile US sponsored a CIO Summit that brought together a range of enterprise...

Huawei explores the use of RedCap in various scenarios

A Huawei spokesperson highlighted that RedCap technology can reduce 5G NR module costs by 80% Chinese vendor Huawei has been exploring a broad range of scenarios for the implementation of 5G RedCap, also known as 5G NR Light technology, beyond wireless sensors and smart wearables,...

Quectel highlights benefits of 5G RedCap in diverse sectors

In industrial scenarios, 5G RedCap will enhance process automation, predictive maintenance and real-time monitoring, said Quectel Sectors such as manufacturing, automotive, healthcare and smart cites will benefit the most from 5G RedCap technology, Igor Černjava, product manager of 5G and LTE-A EMEA at Quectel, told...

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...

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...

Netmore to install 42,000 residential LoRaWAN sensors in Sweden

Sweden-based IoT network operator Netmore Group, with infrastructure operations in Europe and the US, has signed with Stena Fastigheter to deploy LoRaWAN technology across the Swedish real estate company’s property portfolio. Netmore will supply LoRaWAN connectivity at apartments in the cities of Stockholm, Malmö,...

Five easy pieces – how to get a tune out of Industry 4.0

This is not a definitive guide; this is not an exact science. But the logic is plain – to present a sensible way to think about devising an Industry 4.0 system that hits the mark. Because, when novel technology is brought to market by...

5G-Advanced to improve performance aspects of 5G: SoftBank

The SoftBank executive noted that he expects 5G-Advanced technology to gradually be implemented into commercial network equipment after 2025 The main features of future 5G-Advanced networks are expected to include further improvements in the fundamental performance aspects of 5G, such as coverage, capacity and mobility,...

The future of IoT-based security to protect lives (Reader Forum)

Property crime is the most common type of criminality in the U.S. There are 2.5 million burglaries annually in the U.S., 66% of which are home invasions, while the other 34% affect small businesses. Yet only 25% of Americans have a home security system...

Quickening scale with LoRaLAN, says LoRaWAN stalwart – TTI passes million mark

IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona is not just about cellular, of course. But its proximity in the calendar, as January turns to February, to the city’s big MWC monster-mash at the end of the month – and the closer alignment of their...

Well, technically… ‘thing’ is an intentionally vague term: RAIN RFID Alliance’s Aileen Ryan (Ep. 85)

The RAIN RFID Alliance's newly appointed President Aileen Ryan shares advice for woman looking to advance their careers and also the growing role of RAIN RFID technology in an increasingly connected world.

Sony preps “first” LTE-M/NB-IoT chipset – as “most advanced” cellular IoT solution

Sony Semiconductor Israel has introduced a new dual-band low-power cellular IoT chipset solution which it claims is the “first” to combine the both LTE-M and NB-IoT in a single integrated modem. The new ALT1350 chipset also supports satellite (non-terrestrial; NTN) connectivity, plus cellular, satellite-GNSS,...

Actility, Milesight partner to facilitate LoRaWAN deployments

Actility noted that Milesight LoRaWAN gateways are ideal for interconnecting and relaying messages between various sensors and the network server efficiently and reliably   Chinese IoT solutions provider Milesight has signed a strategic partnership with French firm Actility, a provider of IoT connectivity solutions, with the...

Europe on fire – an €8.5bn problem with a €900k solution (the case for IoT in wildfires)

Some of the most interesting IoT use cases on the conference circuit in the past months have been about wildfire monitoring. Through the heat of summer, as parts of Europe burned, smart people from clever companies took to the stage at various events to...

NNNCo launches IoT network in Australia’s Gold Coast City

NNNCo said that the new IoT network has the capacity to support more than 600,000 IoT sensors   Australian IoT operator National Narrowband Network Co. has launched its IoT network for the business community of the city of Gold Coast, the company said in a release. The...

Frankfurt Airport appoints NTT to deliver “Europe’s largest private 5G network”

Frankfurt-based airport operator Fraport, which operates Frankfurt Airport in Germany, has commissioned IT service provider NTT to build the “Europe’s largest private 5G campus network” (so-far announced), it has said. Work on the project will begin in the third quarter, with network tests in...

IoT spending in Asia-Pacific to reach $436 billion in 2026: IDC

According to IDC, China will represent 60% of the regional IoT spending in 2022   IoT spending in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is forecasted to reach $436 billion in 2026, growing at a CAGR of 11.8% during the 2021-2026 period, according to a new report by...

Telit opens its new global headquarters in California

Telit said that the new Irvine office will also serve key projects and customers in the region   Global IoT specialist Telit announced the opening of its new global corporate headquarters in Southern California. The new office is located in the City of Irvine, in Orange County’s technology...

Ericsson, BT ink deal to provide private 5G networks in the UK

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...

General Motors deploys Cisco wireless backhaul technology for vehicle testing

The Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul for vehicle-to-trackside connectivity enables General Motors engineers to capture data from vehicle sensors in real time General Motors is the first auto manufacturer to deploy Cisco wireless backhaul technology for real-time, high-speed performance testing of pre-production vehicles. Deployed at...

SAS helps improve vaccine cold chain integrity with IoT analytics

The NC Collaboratory turned to SAS Analytics for IoT and Microsoft Azure for this project   The North Carolina Collaboratory and analytics specialist SAS are using IoT analytics and sensor data from vaccine storage freezers to strengthen cold chain integrity and improve dosage delivery, particularly to...