Operators face growing pressures to improve telecom sustainability
Network operators are facing increasing pressure to improve telecom sustainability, and it's coming from multiple directions: More, and more detailed, reporting and movement toward net-zero emissions are being required by regulators around the world; investors and...
Siemens has won a major deal to retrofit 60 government buildings in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with IoT sensors and software. The UAE government has set a plan to reduce energy and water consumption by 27 percent per annum across the properties. Its...
In today’s business and technology landscape, organizations across industries are being challenged to reimagine their manufacturing and supply chain operations, differentiated product and service offerings and customer experiences to drive innovation, reduce time to market and improve efficiency and productivity. These capabilities disrupt traditional...
IoT is not dead, of course – in case it needs saying. As a broad tech movement, and an awkward tech sobriquet, which arguably describes every single connected-thing that isn’t a personal mobile computer, it is more powerful and important than ever. It’s just...
Across most developed economies, the scale of telecom equipment decommissioning — the process of retiring legacy infrastructure — is continuing at an astonishing pace. These markets were the first to adopt earlier generations of communications technology at scale, but they now need to make...
Network energy performance benchmarking is critical as operators work to cut energy costs and achieve sustainability targets
Several network key performance indicators (KPIs) are relatively easy to understand and relatively simple to measure. Communications service providers (CSPs) themselves, their users and third-party organizations regularly measure...
The DoCoMo hydropower system converts electricity from water flow into a form suitable for powering a base station
NTT DoCoMo has demonstrated what it claims to be Japan's first self-powered hydropower cellular base station using its hydroelectric power-generation system and a jet turbine developed by...
Japanese IT company Fujitsu is to deploy an AI model on a set of cameras around Hachijo Island in the Philippine Sea, one of 11 so-called “Tokyo Treasure Islands” about 300 kilometres south of the Japanese mainland, in order to chart the migration of...
