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Atos, Johnson Controls partner to provide decarbonization services for buildings

  French IT company Atos and smart buildings specialist Johnson Controls announced a global partnership with the aim of helping private and public sector customers accelerate their net-zero strategies. Under the terms of the partnership, the two companies will provide a set of end-to-end advisory services,...

Johnson Controls and Phylagen sign healthy buildings joint development agreement

  Smart buildings specialist Johnson Controls announced it has signed a joint development agreement with Phylagen, a biotechnology company in the field of microbiome optimization of indoor environments. Through this agreement, which includes a strategic investment in Phylagen, the companies said they are developing technology that...

Landis+Gyr buys meter maker Luna, as part of busy spree in AMI and EV sectors

Landis+Gyr has acquired Turkey-based smart meter maker Luna Elektrik Elektronik for a “high double digit million dollar fee”, it said. It is the latest in a string of deals for the Swiss energy management company in 2021, in both the smart metering and electric...

Bosch and Capgemini strike deal on Industry 4.0 software and services

Bosch and Capgemini have struck a deal to develop Industry 4.0 software and services to help with the digitization and sustainability of industrial production plants, and to drive sales of both. The pair will collaborate around Bosch’s Nexeed system for industrial software, offered by...

University of Colorado Boulder launches research center for building technology

    The University of Colorado Boulder announced the foundation of a major research center for sustainable building technology. The Building Energy Smart Technologies (BEST) Center is a five-year multi-university initiative funded by the National Science Foundation to advance sustainable building projects ranging from HVAC manufacturing, to...

Vodafone urges UK to bundle 5G and IoT targets and incentives into net zero strategy

Vodafone has urged the UK government to write targets and incentives for 5G and IoT adoption into its forthcoming net-zero strategy blueprints, due to be published later this year. The UK-headquartered operator said the UK government should create a regulatory and policy framework that...

University of Birmingham recruits Siemens to build ‘world’s smartest campus’

The University of Birmingham in the UK has devised a plan to be “the world’s smartest global campus” by deploying IoT sensing and AI sense-making technologies to link academic research and teaching, and influence consumer habits, as part of a broader agenda around renewable...

Siemens, Nexii form strategic alliance to support sustainable building development

  Siemens Corporation and Nexii Building Solutions have signed a partnership to further the development of buildings with a reduced environmental impact, the former company said in a release. The collaboration combines Nexii's expertise in delivering green building products with Siemens' digital power distribution solutions and...

Wirepas secures €10m funds to hasten launch of non-cellular private ‘5G’ system

Wirepas has received an additional €10 million cash injection from Estonia-based early-stage venture capital firm Karma and Finnish state-owned investment firm Tesi to accelerate development of its new mesh-based non-cellular industrial ‘5G’ technology. Both Karma and Tesi are existing investors in Finland-based Wirepas. Wirepas is...

Bosch opens local Industry 4.0 academies, global Industry 4.0 apprenticeships

Bosch has opened two new Industry 4.0 academy venues in Germany, and is offering Industry 4.0 apprenticeships and qualifications to staff at 240 Bosch plants worldwide, as well as to employees at partner organisations, via an international network of chambers of industry and commerce. The...

Deutsche Telekom builds industrial 5G network for Berlin’s Future Factory Hub

Deutsche Telekom is to build a private 5G campus network at the Future Factory Hub, a research campus being built at the Werner-von-Siemens Centre for Industry and Science in Siemensstadt, in the Spandau district of Berlin. The project, funded by the city of Berlin, is...

Lockheed Martin opens new smart manufacturing facility in California

US aerospace and weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin has opened a new 215,000 square-foot smart manufacturing facility at its Skunk Works campus and headquarters in Palmdale, in California. It called the new production setup “intelligent” and “flexible”, and said it puts it in position to...

Verizon and IBM combine on 5G test cases, ‘management approaches’ for Industry 4.0

IBM and Verizon are collaborating on 5G use cases and ‘management approaches’ for Industry 4.0 at IBM’s ‘industry solution lab’ in Texas, in the US. The pair are offering industrial enterprises a test environment to experiment with 5G networking, cloud-and-edge compute, and analytics-based AI...

Telefónica to build private 5G NOCs to serve industry in Spain, Brazil, UK, Germany

Note, this article is taken from an upcoming report on operator-run private 5G enterprise NOCs. Look out for the report next week; sign up here (last chance!) for the webinar on private 5G enterprise NOCs on August 11, featuring ABI Research, Radisys, Vodafone and...

Nokia to scale-up drone-mounted 5G-powered machine-vision farming solution

US farming company AeroFarms has recruited Nokia on a multi-year deal to supply private 5G, computer vision, machine learning, and autonomous drones. The pair are testing the technologies with current crop varieties, as part of an autonomous drone-mounted machine vision application connecting between a...

Johnson Controls? NA building solutions revenues reach $2.2 billion in Q3

Smart building solution company Johnson Controls recorded revenues of $2.2 billion in its North America building solutions segment in fiscal Q3 2021, up 10% compared to revenues of $2 billion in the same period the previous year, according to the company?s earnings release. The firm...

Globalworth chooses Honeywell Forge SaaS solution for buildings energy efficiency

  Honeywell announced that Globalworth, an office investor in Central and Eastern Europe, will implement Honeywell Forge enterprise performance management software-as-a-service to drive digital transformation at two of its buildings in Bucharest, Romania. The company will initially implement Honeywell Forge Energy Optimization and Predictive Maintenance to...

MNOs vs NEPs vs SIs – the pitched battle (in numbers) over private 5G management

Note, this is part of a forthcoming report on operator-run private 5G enterprise NOCs. Look out for the report next month; sign up here for the upcoming webinar on carrier-run private 5G enterprise NOCs, featuring ABI Research, Radisys, Vodafone and others. What do we think we know...

Will operators build dedicated NOCs to run private 5G for key industrial enclaves?

Note, this is part of a forthcoming report on operator-run private 5G enterprise NOCs. Look out for the report next month; sign up here for the upcoming webinar on carrier-run private 5G enterprise NOCs, featuring ABI Research, Radisys, Vodafone and others. At times, during the...

5G could add £6.3bn to UK manufacturing sector by 2030, says Vodafone

Adoption of 5G could add £6.3 billion to the value of the UK manufacturing industry by 2030, according to a new report from Vodafone. Investment in 5G in manufacturing could increase growth in the sector across the country, especially in the UK industrial heartlands...

Coventry University to create digital building with Schneider Electric and Planon

    Coventry University has partnered with Schneider Electric and Planon to upgrade its Engineering and Computing Building. The work will help to effectively future proof the building, improving sustainability, asset resilience and occupant experience, while reducing operational costs. ?One of our main goals is to move away...

SIs in trouble, hyperscalers indifferent – the case for carrier-led private 5G

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘Software AG, StarHub and the blueprint for carrier-led industrial private 5G’, available here. Bernd Gross, chief technology officer at Software AG, is presenting the case for telcos as the go-to agents for private 5G. He...

Intel ramps up private LTE with Federated Wireless, California school districts

Federated Wireless has signed with Intel to use its Smart Edge platform to pursue private network trials using CBRS spectrum in the education sector in the US. The move is part of Intel’s drive to push edge networking in sundry enterprise sectors. The firm...

Software AG, StarHub and the ‘blueprint’ for carrier-led industrial private 5G

Software AG remains set on its strategy to make mobile operators the go-to agents for private 5G in ‘vertical’ spectrum, and particularly in the Industry 4.0 space where it retains a developing crossover customer base in telecoms and industry. While most of the market...