BROWSING: smart cities

Ericsson noted that MTN has initially launched its 5G offering in capital Lagos Mobile operator MTN and Ericsson have launched 5G services in Nigeria, the vendor said in a release. Ericsson noted that the deployment includes 5G radio access network and NonStandalone packet core, with the...

Analyst house ABI Research, in association with US network design and services firm Betacom, has put out a white paper about private 5G in warehousing, and Enterprise IoT Insights has had a quick read and (borrowed and stolen and) come up with five takeaways...

As US IoT chipmaker Silicon Labs opens the (virtual) doors to its third Works With event (September 12-14), and readies a rush of new product releases (coverage incoming), Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Ross Sabolcik, the firm’s general manager for industrial and commercial,...

ERTICO, the European public-private collective of road transport agencies and organisations, has signed a provisional deal with the European Space Agency (ESA) to collaborate on space technology and services to improve the safety and reliability of assisted and automated vehicles on European roads. The...

Note, this article is continued from a previous entry, available here.  So what happens behind the ‘green curtain’, exactly? What is the trick that non-cellular IoT leader Semtech is looking to pull off with its purchase of cellular IoT maker Sierra Wireless? Or rather, how...

Paris La Défense, the major metropolitan business district in Paris, has called for applicants to run 5G neutral-host and use-case trials in 26 GHz mmWave spectrum at its site in the French capital. The two trial streams will be open, respectively, to public mobile...

Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) has said it will invest a further $100 million in 5G, AI, and IoT startups via its Singtel Innov8 corporate venture arm. The new funds will take its total capital commitment to $350 million. New investments will be focused on early-...

Thye Hua Kwan Moral Charities (THKMC), a voluntary welfare organisation in Singapore, has deployed a number of air quality sensors from IoT provider Unabiz, via Finnish Sigfox operator Connected Finland, at two care homes in Singapore following a corporate social responsibility (CSR) assessment to...

It has taken three years to appear, but four cities (“communities”) are to adopt and test a set of visual icons, originally developed and announced as part of the Google parent-company Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs project, on smart-connected infrastructure around their streets and neighbourhoods. The...

The APAC smart electricity metering market will grow at a CAGR of 6.2% during the 2021-2027 period   The smart electricity metering market in Asia-Pacific is expected to reach 1.1 billion units in 2027, up compared to 757.7 million in 2021, according to a report from...

Vodafone has suggested the industrial 5G market in the UK will be skewed unfairly towards elite private enterprises, in position to invest more easily in their own private network infrastructure, and collectively screwed out of £7 billion per annum in potential economic gains, mostly...

Spanish IoT provider Libelium has acquired local firm HOP UBIQUITOUS (HOPU), which produces IoT solutions for environmental and meteorological monitoring. The deal follows Libelium’s capital injection from venture capital fund Axon Innovation Growth IV, part of Spain-based Axon Partners Group, a year ago, which...

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...

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 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...

Finland-based Edzcom and Netherlands-based Signify have entered a partnership to build a private smart-city 5G and IoT network using street-lighting and other road infrastructure for the city of Tampere, in Finland. The network, which is to be deployed and densified in quick-time by Edzcom...

T-Mobile US has recruited Nokia to help it with private 5G and hybrid public-private 5G networks. The pair will develop products for T-Mobile’s new suite of network solutions for enterprise and government customers, which will afford a higher degree of network ownership and control,...

The smart city and climate-neutral initiative will receive 360 million euros of Horizon Europe funding   The European Commission (EC) announced the 100 EU cities that will participate in the EU mission for 100 climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030, the so-called Cities Mission. The commission noted...

France-based facility services company Derichebourg Multiservices has integrated 1,200 IoT sensors into the LED ceiling lights at its new headquarters in Créteil (pictured), near Paris. Data from the sensors will help the firm optimise its energy management at the site, as well as to...

LoRaWAN software and services provider Senet is working with IoT platform provider Dhyan Networks and Technologies to offer a ‘turnkey’ streetlight package for customers, to make it easy to add smart streetlights as an application on top of LoRaWAN networks. The pair are targeting...

Everynet's LoRaWAN network includes over 130 logistics points across the U.S. Everynet, a global operator of national LoRaWAN networks said that its coverage is already available in nearly 370 U.S. cities including more than 130 key logistics points. Everynet claimed to be the only network provider...

Dutch chip manufacturer NXP Semiconductors has introduced a new IoT authentication device, part of its EdgeLock authenticator family, to raise security across multiple standards in various IoT ecosystems. The new NXP EdgeLock A5000 authenticator is described as a “scalable solution” for authentication applications in...

Qualcomm said that the new camera IoT solution is designed to help safeguard environments with smart devices at the connected intelligent edge   Qualcomm Technologies unveiled the firms’ latest smart camera IoT solution, with the aim of supporting safety across enterprises and cities. In a release, the...

Vertical sectors in France are already permitted to use frequencies in the 2.6GHz and 26GHz bands for industrial 5G   The French government announced new measures aimed at promoting access to 5G for manufacturers and vertical sectors in the country, with the aim of accelerating the...