
Walmart Canada pumps $3.5bn into IoT, AI, blockchain in smart logistics splash
Walmart Canada is investing $3.5 billion in digital transformation over the next five years, including to develop smarter stores and distribution centres, and to strike new deals with local tech …

German giants Bosch and Siemens reorganise for renewed Industry 4.0 assault
Cars featured about 10 million lines of software code a decade ago; they will have closer to 500 million lines of code by the time they drive themselves, some time …

Private 5G to outrun public 5G for spend and spectrum – but it will take 15 years
Spending on private and shared enterprise networks will surpass spending on public cellular networks in about 15 years. The traditional operator community has a fight on its hands to guarantee …

World Economic Forum: $10tn GDP, 395m jobs by 2030 by prioritising nature – and tech
The World Economic Forum has published a study that says “nature-positive” enterprise solutions can create 395 million jobs and $10 trillion in revenue by 2030. A major subtext of the …

Ericsson to deploy private 5G for Groupe ADP, Air France at three Paris airports
Ericsson is to deploy private LTE and 5G networks at three major Paris airports as part of a new contract with Groupe ADP (Aéroports de Paris) and Air France, as …

Over 70% of indoor private, shared cellular to be operated by new entrants by 2026
As much as 30 percent of the installed base of outdoor small cell networks and 71 percent of indoor enterprise systems in the next five years will be operated by …

New kid on the IoT block – fine-ranging with UWB and what it means for IoT
Note, this article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, out tomorrow, on the combination of low-power short- and long-range communications technologies in hybrid IoT systems (see …

Finland issues first private LTE/5G licence, urges industry to pile in
Finland has issued its first private cellular licence for industrial LTE and 5G at 2.3 GHz. State-owned energy company Fortum Power and Heat will use the licence at its power …

Ericsson to build private 5G for Grundfos, help lead Danish Industry 4.0 charge
Danish pump manufacturer Grundfos is to replace wired connections with a private 5G network from Swedish vendor Ericsson and local operator TDC NET at its production plant in Bjerringbro, north …

Three times LPWA networks work best for backhauling short-range IoT sensor systems
Sometimes IoT technologies work better in concert. The standard model for IoT networks to combine two or more different connectivity technologies is when short-range wireless protocols are used in the …