Singapore-based mobile operator StarHub is working with Nokia on application programming interfaces (APIs) to monetise its 4G and 5G network assets with local enterprises. The pair are looking to enable 4G and 5G access for developers to use network data about such things as...
Meanwhile in other Sigfox news, Sigfox-parent Unabiz has sold a large-scale LoRaWAN network to a major shopping mall in the northeast of Singapore. NEX, a seven-storey shopping mall at the Serangoon bus station, located where the city-state’s Northeast and Circle metro lines cross, has...
In order, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Beijing, London, and Seoul ranked as the top five smart cities, or ‘digital cities’, in a new study by Economist Impact. New York, Sydney, Singapore, Washington DC, and Paris rounded out the top 10, meaning Europe and Asia Pacific contributed...
Singapore-based IoT service provider UnaBiz has raised a further $25 million as part of a Series B funding round led by Tokyo-based investment company SPARX Group. The round was oversubscribed, the company said, with participation also from Taiwanese venture and private equity firm CDIB...
M1’s 5G standalone network covers nearly 50% of Singapore
Singapore’s M1 and its sister company, Keppel Land, have introduced several 5G services at the Keppel Bay Marina, including automated ship analysis and real-time monitoring capabilities. The new services will be offered on M1’s 5G Standalone...
Singapore-based infrastructure company Surbana Jurong has installed 3,000 Sigfox sensors at Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore. Local IoT provider and Sigfox operator UnaBiz has provided the sensors, as well as the airtime to connect them. The sensors will feed data into a digital twin model...
The 5G Standalone network will use the 3.5 GHz spectrum band
The joint venture between Singapore’s M1 and Starhub, Antina, has selected Nokia to support the establishment of a 5G standalone (SA) Radio Access Network (RAN) Sharing network. According to Nokia, the network, which is...
The National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore Technologies (ST) Engineering have signed a $6.6 million deal on a multi-year research programme to build a “people-centric smart future” for Singapore. A press statement from the pair says the research is for “Singapore, and beyond”,...
Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) has started on a four-year project to construct a digital twin of its Pulau Bukom petrochemical manufacturing site in Singapore. On completion in 2024, and in pilot between times, the virtual replica of the Pulau Bukom facility will be the...
Singapore is on track to offer nationwide 5G coverage by 2025
Two mobile operators in Singapore, StarHub and M1, which signed an exclusive agreement to cooperate and submit a joint bid for a 5G license in January, have selected Nokia and Ericsson for their network...
Singapore is trialing the usage of a robot dog from Boston Dynamics to assist with social distancing measures in parks, gardens and nature reserves.
The announcement by Singapore’s Smart Nation and Digital Government Group, which comprises its The Smart Nation and Digital Government Office (SNDGO)...
Singapore, ranked the smartest city in the world in certain polls, has warned cities they must get a handle on artificial intelligence (AI) if they are to succeed as ‘smart cities’, trusted by citizens and enterprises to manage data correctly.
The warning came at Smart...
5G spectrum licenses in Singapore are expected to be given out by the middle of 2020
Last week, Microsoft and Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) signed a Memorandum of Intent to provide a "development environment" to facilitate the creation of 5G applications, services and...
Studies show that Singaporeans are the most frequent gamers in Asia
Considered the next frontier for the gaming industry, 5G cloud gaming, with its combination of high bandwidth and low latency, will allow users to stream high-resolution, graphics-rich games to mobile devices from the cloud....
The original 5G network rollout included only two with nationwide coverage
Singapore plans to roll out four commercial 5G networks in 2020, and by the end of 2022, expects to have at least 50% of the city-state covered with a standalone network, according to the...
No city in the world is ready for the disruption that artificial intelligence (AI) will bring. This is the conclusion of a new review by management consultancy Oliver Wyman, which considers the readiness of 105 cities to cope with AI-inspired digital change, and finds...
M1 details plans for 5G in Singapore
While it covers a land area of a little more than 275 square miles, the island nation of Singapore is an economic powerhouse with a GDP per capita that puts it in the top 10 globally. The country...
Container ports are at the crucible of digital change for the global supply chain. Artificial intelligence, blockchain, the industrial internet-of-things (IoT) technologies afford an opportunity for the shipping industry at large – comprising cargo owners, shipping lines, terminal operators, trucking companies, rail freight operators,...
Visual surveillance, public transport, and street lighting will command nearly one quarter of spending by smart cities this year, according to new figures from research house IDC.
The Asia-Pacific region, including China and Japan, will account for 42 per cent of spending in 2018, followed...
Forget the notion of an integrated smart city platform for a moment, says Jonathan Reichental chief information officer for the city of Palo Alto in the US. “What does a park system, a police system, and a library system even have in common?”
We have...
Singapore's industrial development agency JTC has appointed engineering group ST Engineering to build an open smart city platform for its green-field Punggol Digital District (PDD) project, a new tech hub in the north of the city-state, being constructed as a showcase for its Smart...
New research by McKinsey Global Institute has evaluated the planet’s smartest cities on both their underlying infrastructure and their over-lying applications, and ranked them in order on both counts. Here, we consider the second of these measures - the top 10 smart cities, globally,...
New research by McKinsey Global Institute has evaluated the planet’s smartest cities on both their underlying infrastructure and their over-lying applications, and ranked them in order on both counts. Here, we consider the fist of these measures - the top 10 smart cities, globally,...
South Korea, Germany and Singapore are best positioned to lead the world for industrial automation, thanks to their approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics.
These three, along with Japan and Canada, are the top five countries for “automation readiness”, according to a new report...
