BROWSING: Buildings

Anyone who has used a public Wi-Fi hotspot for more than the occasional web browsing and emailing knows how unpredictable it can be. Wi-Fi’s lack of predictability has held back the deployment of wireless in many enterprise applications where predictable performance is essential. Fortunately...

Germany-based industrial IT hardware company Phoenix Contact has produced the first industrial 5G router for private networks, using a 5G module from China-based Quectel, and with impetus and testing from Swedish telecoms vendor Ericsson. The trio had collaborated from an early stage, they said, to...

Chipset makers Nordic Semiconductor and Qorvo have said they will collaborate on dual-mode IoT products running low-power short-range Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and ultra wideband (UWB) technologies, they have announced. The deal follows Qorvo’s acquisition of Ireland-based UWB pioneer Decawave in February. Decawave produces UWB...

US carrier Verizon has joined with UK digital accelerator Digital Catapult to develop 5G solutions for retail. The pair will make use of Verizon’s new 5G Lab in London, opened in February, to offer startups a production house to test their 5G based innovations. Companies...

Swedish network vendor Ericsson is offering trial kits of private industrial 5G networks to enterprises via its mobile operator customers. It has confirmed Deutsche Telekom in Germany as its first operator partner to resell the test networks to local industry. Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom already...

Salesforce and Siemens have bundled their workplace management tools in a new IoT suite to help businesses reopen after lockdown and embrace new practices for physical workplaces, as a so-called ‘new normal’ takes shape in the shadow of the global coronavirus pandemic. The principle is...

Qualcomm is working with Maryland-based systems integrator Infinite Computer Solutions to offer a ‘plug-and-play’ smart cities package on a subscription. The pair claim to have compiled an “end-to-end” IoT solution for sundry players in the smart cities space, including government, healthcare, construction, entertainment, transportation, manufacturing,...

IBM has unveiled Watson Works, a set of products that embeds?Watson?artificial intelligence (AI) models and applications to help companies navigate many aspects of the return-to-workplace challenge following lockdowns put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19. IBM noted that Watson Works provides data-driven insights...

For three years Bemis Manufacturing had been looking to engineer a smart shopping cart. It had cycled through various IoT technologies only to draw a blank each time, with coverage failing on way or another. And then it came across Sigfox, and then it...

IoT specialist BehrTech said that?Andorix, an expert in smart building readiness and infrastructure solutions, has leveraged MYTHINGS?to enable multiple IoT solutions in commercial buildings managed by?QuadReal Property Group,?which is a global real estate investment, operating and development company. The smart buildings will be enabled with...

Deutsche Telekom is offering a sensor-based people counting solution and alert system to retailers in Germany manage in-store traffic volumes and social distancing as they reopen after lockdown. The solution uses LTE or LoRaWAN for local-area sensor connectivity, and LTE, LoRaWAN, Wi-Fi, or Ethernet for...

German industrial giant Bosch restated its expectation to capitalise both ways on new industrial connectivity and analytics in the next years as it revealed a 25 percent jump in sales of its own Industry 4.0 solutions, and a new €500 million investment to procure...

Japanese fire truck manufacturer Morita Group has deployed a Bluetooth-based IoT solution at a 57,000-square metre factory in Osaka, in Japan, to track the location and status of trucks as they are being built. The solution, by Japanese firm Kokusai Kogyo, utilises Bluetooth Low Energy...

  ExteNet Systems announced the deployment of ?its advanced mobility network at?1515 Market Street?in Philadelphia. The 20-story Class A office building totaling 502,236 sq. ft.?is located in the heart of Philadelphia?s commercial office district and sits above the city?s main transportation hub. The building?s amenities include...

Polte, which focuses on Cloud Location over Cellular (C-LoC) technology, has launched Polte Proximity, a solution that delivers secure social distancing and contact tracing to support organizations returning to work safely amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The company noted that the new solution does not require...

New research from Nokia says one third of enterprises in the energy, manufacturing, cities, and transportation sectors are already using 5G to drive industrial performance and digital change. Three in five enterprises will look to mobile operators for direction when planning 5G services, according...

UK-based Zeetta Networks has struck a deal with Germany-based open networking specialist Stordis to develop and distribute its management software for private LTE and 5G networks to enterprise resellers globally. The deal covers distribution of the Zeetta Enterprise network management platform, which affords enterprises control...

Note, this article continues from a previous post, entitled, ‘Three-tiered private 5G offer emerges as telcos embrace vertical, unlicensed bands’. Click here to go to the first instalment.   Nokia has warned mobile operators to grasp the nettle of private cellular, even if they are stung...

Siemens has acquired Swedish service and software company Vizendo, maker of augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) training solutions for automotive manufacturing. The deal sees it deepen its Industry 4.0 contracts with the likes of BMW, Daimler, and Ford, which it already serves...

A first principle of private cellular in shared or unlicensed spectrum is LTE-based networks can be quickly deployed in emergency scenarios. This is the idea with various network-in-a-box solutions, which can be helicoptered in to crisis zones. Of course, crisis zones have become a feature...

Private LTE and 5G provider Quortus has secured investment from US-based edge analytics firm Communications Systems Inc (CSI) and UK-based telecoms solutions provider cellXion to drive sales in North America, Europe, and Japan, as the market for private industrial networking gathers pace. Quortus, based in...

The trade groups representing Bluetooth technology and the DALI smart-lighting interface are working together to promote their technologies as complementary IoT standards for commercial indoor lighting systems. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the trade association that oversees Bluetooth technology, and the Digital Illumination Interface Alliance...

  South Korea’s largest telecommunications operator SK Telecom, together with Omron Electronics Korea, has developed a 5G-powered autonomous robot to fight COVID-19. Featuring technologies such as 5G, AI, autonomous driving and IoT, the robot carries out diverse activities such as contactless temperature screenings for visitors and...

Planon and Leica Geosystems have announced a global partnership to integrate Planon?s software for real estate, space, and asset management and Leica Geosystems? reality capture, cloud-based visualization and collaboration solutions to accelerate digital transformation in the building industry.With the digitalization of the real estate...