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Private 5G for ‘universal healthcare’ – on the Covid-19 frontline with Vodafone in Italy

Note, this article is taken from a new editorial report on the state of digital change in the healthcare sector (see image below). The report – Challenges with Digital Change in Healthcare – from low-level IoT sensing to big-bang 5G and AI, and how...

Private wireless podcast – 2020, the year everything changed (episode #3)

RCR Wireless News · Private wireless podcast – 2020, the year everything changed (episode #3) 2020; what a year! As society has sought new ways to work amid the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the telecoms industry has accelerated deployments of cellular-based LTE and 5G...

Deutsche Telekom annexes public network in Bonn to “milestone” 5G hospital

Deutsche Telekom has deployed a 5G ‘campus’ network in the 3.6 GHz spectrum band for University Hospital Bonn (UKB). The setup uses the German carrier’s public cellular network, optimised with new radio installs on the university campus.  The pair said the network allows for UKB...

Industry to drive URLLC-era 5G market to $23bn by 2030 – with boom for operators

It is a little early, some way ahead of the standardisation schedule, but the first (?) market-sizing forecast is in for Release-17 era ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), pegged as the blue-riband version of 5G, geared towards more rarefied industrial change.  The crystal ball gazers over...

Fashion brand Desigual deploys blockchain solution to keep tabs on supply chain

Spanish clothing brand Desigual has deployed a blockchain solution to improve transparency and resiliency in its supply chain, the company has announced. It is working with Finboot, also headquartered in Barcelona, to integrate the blockchain group’s MARCO track and trace application into its import and...

LoRa Alliance, Semtech in talks with Amazon to switch Sidewalk over to LoRaWAN

The LoRa Alliance, the technical and marketing group promoting the LoRaWAN protocol for wide-area network (WAN) communications, is looking at ways to tweak the LoRaWAN specification for Amazon, so the retail and cloud giant switches its Sidewalk wireless networking platform from a proprietary version...

Doctor, doctor; what’s up with my IoT? “Well, it’s here and it works, and it saves us bother”

Note, this article is taken from a new editorial report on the state of digital change in the healthcare sector (see image below). The report – Challenges with Digital Change in Healthcare – from low-level IoT sensing to big-bang 5G and AI, and how Covid-19...

How is Nokia doing with private LTE / 5G? ‘Good, better than Ericsson, except that…’

How is Nokia doing with private networks for enterprises? Pretty well, and probably better than Ericsson, choruses the analyst community in response. Except its strategy is too narrow, its offer is too inflexible, and its competition – beyond its traditional vendor peers, and beyond...

From remote monitoring to remote control – four ways 5G will help in healthcare

Note, this article is taken from a new editorial report on the state of digital change in the healthcare sector (see image below). The report – Challenges with Digital Change in Healthcare – from low-level IoT sensing to big-bang 5G and AI, and how...

Building IOT, BuiltSpace inks partnership to control building assets

  Smart building service provider Buildings IOT has partnered with BuiltSpace, a specialist in building data and asset tracking. The aim of the partnership is to offer new services to track, monitor and control building assets. "COVID-19 has brought increased attention to the cleanliness of indoor spaces,"...

‘It’s not about consumers (or telcos)’ – Nokia and Athonet on the new 5G landscape

There has been a paradigm shift when it comes to who is involved in delivering enterprise network connectivity; Catherine Sbeglia chats with Athonet and Nokia about the unfolding landscape.  Private cellular networks are seen by many as a major opportunity to set up bespoke...

Industry to drive Wi-Fi 6 investments up by 17% in next decade to underpin IoT charge

Global investment in Wi-Fi infrastructure in the industrial space will grow from $1.7 billion in 2021 to $6.9 billion in 2030 at a compound rate of almost 17 percent per year, as the latest Wi-Fi 6 generation of the technology is deployed to support...

Bosch confirms private 5G rollouts with Nokia, targets 250 5G factory networks

Bosch has put live a private 5G network with Nokia at its factory in Stuttgart-Feuerbach, and confirmed another at its research campus in Renningen. The firm said it will “gradually” deploy 5G in all 250 of its factories around the world. Bosch has been arguably...

Spica develops workplace experience app for Mace?s London headquarters

  U.K. company Spica Technologies is developing a workplace experience app for Mace, which will initially be available at the international consultancy and construction business' global headquarters in London. The new offering builds upon previous work Spica and Mace have done together deploying a workspace occupancy...

Schneider Electric invests in Planon to expand its digital building offering

  Energy management and automation company Schneider Electric announced a strategic minority investment in Planon, a cloud-based software provider in Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS). The deal will extend Schneider?s digital building lifecycle software offering, the firm said in a release. Schneider Electric and Planon will jointly...

“It is right in front of us” – John Deere preps for 5G factory ‘revolution’ with CBRS bountry

From tractor maker to network operator; should we be surprised Deere & Company, in charge of the John Deere machinery brand, has snapped up five mid-band CBRS licenses in five counties in the US? Not really; not at all, even. It has a reputation...

IoT heavyweights eye new app-layer connectivity standard for smart buildings

A number of major IoT outfits are collaborating under the auspices of the Zigbee Alliance to develop a new application-layer connectivity standard for the smart buildings market. Members of the strategy group leading the work include the likes of Legrand, Nordic Semiconductor, NXP Semiconductors,...

Helsinki Hospital preps 5G ‘video robots’ for remote monitoring of Covid-19 patients

HUS Helsinki University Hospital is working with Finnish carrier Elisa to lay the ground for 5G-enabled ‘video robots’ to enable doctors and nurses to interact with coronavirus (Covid-19) patients remotely. The pair have already deployed a prototype video robot that uses the hospital Wi-Fi network....

Bouygues Teleco and IBM team up on 5G for factories, hospitals, utilities, cities

France-based Bouygues Telecom has joined with IBM to collaborate with enterprises on industrial 5G use cases in the manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, energy and utilities, and smart city sectors. Bouygues Telecom said the rollout of 5G networks in France in the coming weeks will give rise...

Rohde & Schwarz installs Nokia private 5G network to run rule over Industry 4.0 creds

Rohde & Schwarz has installed a private 5G network from Nokia at its plant in Teisnach, Germany. The network test company wants to run the rule over cellular-enabled Industry 4.0 applications in a dedicated 5G setup. Nokia is involved in the testing, too; the...

Manufacturing, construction, agriculture to drive 80% of £15bn 5G boom in UK

Over three quarters of projected economic growth from 5G in the UK will be driven by just three sectors: manufacturing, construction, and agriculture. These industries, considered to be linchpin ‘verticals’ of the broad Industry 4.0 movement, will contribute £5.2 billion, £4.2 billion, and £2.2...

Philip Morris smokes-out cigarette production with Industry 4.0 pyrotechnics in Italy

Cigarette brand Philip Morris International has signed a deal with Italian tower operator INWIT to build a 4G LTE network at its new  €1 billion research and production plant in Bologna, in Italy, to headline the firm’s developing Industry 4.0 agenda. The facility makes combustion-free...

Industrial IoT outfit MYNXG taps Nokia to install, integrate ‘mission-critical’ private 5G

Germany-based industrial IoT specialist MYNXG has recruited Nokia to deploy a private 5G campus network at its development centre Nuremburg to run the rule over the technology as a platform for industrial-grade networking and integrate with its own IoT platform offering. The company said it...

Lacroix appoints Orange, Ericsson to install 5G for French Industry 4.0 factory ‘flagship’

French electronics manufacturer Lacroix Group has appointed Orange to deploy an indoor 5G network from Ericsson at a factory in France to run the rule over its value as a springboard for Industry 4.0, and as a foundation stone for its ‘flagship’ new ‘factory-of-the-future’. Lacroix...