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5G for industry – coal miners could ‘wear suits and ties at work’, says Huawei chief

Huawei in February opened the Intelligent Mining Innovation Lab in Shanxi province Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei, speaking at the opening of the company's Intelligent Mining Innovation Lab in China's Shanxi province, discussed how the "main goal" of 5G is enabling the digital transformation of vertical...

How private 5G networks will serve as a foundation for Industry 4.0

Industrial-grade enhancements coming to 5G with 3GPP Releases 16 and 17 Initial 5G network deployments, beginning in 2018 and continuing today, have largely been focused on providing consumers with an enhanced mobile broadband experience. However, as operators continue to invest in network capabilities enabled by...

5G will unleash the power of enterprise AR (Reader Forum)

Consumer marketing of 5G feels ubiquitous right now. While the advantages of 5G are certain to eventually deliver significant benefits to consumer devices, applications, and the people who use them, enterprise customers will be first to leverage the significant advantages of 5G. The ecosystem of...

Editorial Report: Smart Manufacturing and OEE – Transform Your Performance

Technology investments are typically made to solve specific business problems. Smart manufacturing is about more than investments in digital transformation and the attendant technologies. Smart manufacturing, at its core, is about the pursuit of continuous process improvement. Standard KPIs - like OEE - may seem...

Editorial Webinar: Smart Manufacturing and OEE – Transform Your Performance

Technology investments are typically made to solve specific business problems. Smart manufacturing is about more than investments in digital transformation and the attendant technologies. Smart manufacturing, at its core, is about the pursuit of continuous process improvement. Standard KPIs - like OEE - may...

Editorial Webinar: Smart Manufacturing and OEE – Transform Your Performance

Technology investments are typically made to solve specific business problems. Smart manufacturing is about more than investments in digital transformation and the attendant technologies. Smart manufacturing, at its core, is about the pursuit of continuous process improvement. Standard KPIs - like OEE - may...

BT on 2021: Four forecasts for digital change – and why 5G will be ‘bigger for enterprises’

2020 was a year that no person or company will ever forget. The Covid-19 pandemic changed everything. Overnight, people, communities, businesses and public sector organisations were faced with a health crisis not seen in this magnitude in over a century. From a business perspective particularly,...

Telefónica on 2021: Private 5G and the ‘massification’ of industrial IoT

2021 will be the year industrial IoT gets ‘massive’, when companies decide, after the impact of Covid-19, to make change, and to accelerate their digital transformation. In technology terms, a major driver of this ‘massification’ will be 5G, and in particular private deployments of...

OT vs IT in the supply of IoT, and migration and consolidation in IIoT (Analyst Angle)

Following four years of research and interviews with leaders in the industrial IoT (IIoT) space, Cambashi has settled on nine ‘verticals’, or ‘connected market areas’ for IIoT applications. These are: buildings, cities, infrastructure, products, production, supply chain, transportation, and workers. Although the internet is often involved...

The top five industrial IoT platforms – Microsoft and AWS make their moves

Time for an update on the state of play in the industrial IoT platform market; there are numerous studies and rankings of the principle platforms in the space, but Gartner’s annual Magic Quadrant review remains the gold standard, and the one Enterprise IoT Insights...

Unlocking the benefits of the industrial internet of things (Reader Forum)

The industrial internet-of-things (IIoT) is here to stay. Many heavy industry companies in fields such as engineering, mining, oil and gas, and manufacturing are accelerating their adoption of digital transformation journeys due to recent global events. The barriers to adopting IIoT technology has also...

FCC approves Ligado’s use of L-band for IoT, 5G

The Federal Communcations Commission has voted unanimously to allow Ligado Networks to use L-Band spectrum at 1.6 GHz to provide a low-power terrestrial network aimed at supporting private 5G and industrial internet of things services. The FCC said in a release that granting Ligado's request...

Cisco aims to expand IoT reach with Fluidmesh acquisition

Mission critical IoT connectivity a goal of Cisco acquisition U.S. networking company Cisco announced the intent to acquire privately-held Fluidmesh Networks, a specialist in wireless backhaul systems, the former said in a release. Fluidmesh’s technology delivers wireless solutions for mission critical applications. Fluidmesh’s solutions are quick to deploy...

Qualcomm Ventures invests $8 million in IIoT firm Augury

  AI-based machine health solution provider Augury announced that it has received an investment by Qualcomm Ventures, with the aim of accelerating the transformation of the industrial sector. Qualcomm Ventures said it had identified Augury as a leader in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) based...

Vodafone quickest off mark with AWS at 5G network edge; Verizon, SK, KDDI to follow

Vodafone is embedding AWS compute and storage services at the edge of its 5G network in Europe, starting in the UK and Germany and rolling out to other European territories. IoT devices and developers will be able to take advantage of single-digit millisecond latencies,...

‘The future bubbles up’ – IIC on the principles and practicalities of industrial IoT

Stephen Mellor picks up where he left off, and where we left him: the challenge with industrial IoT to gain widespread adoption is as much to do with interpretation as with deployment. Different industrial disciplines have different demands, even if they sometimes appear the...

What’s the difference between an IoT sensor and an IoT actuator?

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has added new definitions of ‘IoT sensor’ and ‘IoT actuator’ to its updated ‘dictionary’ of technical definitions for the industrial IoT (IIoT) sector. These terms describe similar IoT devices with dissimilar definitions, it says. We consider these definitions, below. The...

These industries are starting to realize the IoT potential

The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to bring about a truly connected future, powering everything from smart homes to smart cities. Where we see a particular impact, however, is in the Industrial IoT (IIoT), where the exponential potential of connected sensors, machinery...

5G and Me: And Industrial IoT

  5G is emerging. Industrial IoT is growing. Everyone has heard the phrase, it’s the next ‘big thing’. It’s faster internet, but what does it really mean for you? Check out this series of blogs to help you understand exactly what 5G means. We are going...

Differences of trust and security in IT and OT systems – and their interplay in IIoT

Hats off to the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), which continues to publish comprehensive and constructive guides on how to design, deploy, and manage digital change systems in highly individualistic ‘vertical’ sectors, as part of this broader Industrie 4.0 concept. Its recent publication, Managing and Assessing...

IIC releases AI contract tool, IIoT security guides and IIoT maturity gauge

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) is piloting a contract automation tool that uses artificial intelligence to negotiate between industrial companies, without human involvement, to arrive at contract terms both sides can settle on. In recent weeks, the organisation has also issued comprehensive and constructive guides on trust and...

The top industrial IoT platforms – and the only three worth considering?

Old familiars Hitachi, PTC, and Software AG ranked top again among industrial IoT (IIoT) platforms in Gartner’s latest ‘Magic Quadrant’ assessment of the sector. But Software AG swapped places with PTC at the summit, this time, and Hitachi followed behind this pair.These three ranked...

Chinese high-tech firms create industrial internet association: report

A group of China’s largest tech companies have formed an association with the aim of accelerating initiatives to foster the industrial internet in the country, Chinese paper China South Morning Post reported. These firms, including Huawei Technologies and internet giant Tencent, have established the...

Cambium Networks goes public

Cambium Networks is making an initial public offering of its stock, paying down debt and continuing its focus on providing economical wireless network equipment to mid-size network operators around the world. The company, based in the Chicago, Illinois area, will trade under the symbol CMBM....