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Telekom Slovenia switches on hybrid public-private 5G smart factory network

Telekom Slovenia (Telekom Slovenije) has hailed the rollout of its 5G-connected smart factory in Slovenia, deployed with local industrial networking provider Iskratel, claiming it is making rapid headway to define its 5G-geared Industry 4.0 proposition for the wider market. The state-owned network operator is following...

Siemens unveils body temperature solution for buildings

Siemens Smart Infrastructure announced the launch of Siveillance Thermal Shield, which is a solution package that measures the body temperature of a person seeking to access a building. The new solution also enables the results to be integrated into the video and access systems of...

Siemens spies ‘golden opportunity’ for industrial ‘leapfrog’ after Covid-19 crisis

German industrial giant Siemens has called for the planet to urgently prioritise digital technologies, of the type it is selling, in order to meet environmental and societal challenges, and to equip the economy with the working tools to better cope in mass-crisis scenarios, such...

Sidewalk Labs blames Covid economy for shock shutdown of $1bn Toronto venture

Sidewalk Labs, the smart-city side project of Google-parent company Alphabet, has pulled the plug on its controversial tech-fuelled urban re-development project in Toronto, blaming “economic uncertainty” brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The firm said the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis was felt in...

Industry 4.0 latest: 90% want private LTE and 5G, 75% will upgrade within two years

Almost nine in 10 manufacturing businesses in the world’s industrial heartlands want their own private LTE and 5G networks to drive forward Industry 4.0 initiatives and digital transformation. Three quarters are set to upgrade their communications networks in the next two years. Wi-Fi and...

BrainBox AI secures new financing to expand international operations

Canadian company BrainBox AI, which specializes in autonomous building technology, announced the closure of a CAD12 million ($8.59 million)?convertible debt round, which would allow the firm to fund its business expansion North America and international markets like the U.K., Ireland, and Australia. The company noted...

Private 5G and edge AI will unlock ‘boundless XR’ for industry, says Qualcomm

Qualcomm has introduced the idea of extended reality (XR), combining and going beyond the disciplines of augmented (AR), virtual (VR), and even mixed (MR) reality technology. More than this, it is talking about 'boundless XR', which leverages industrial 5G and distributed AI, when powerful...

Federated Wireless Q&A: ’10 Gbps over Wi-Fi 6 or 5G – that’s the opportunity at 6GHz’

The decision last week by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to make 1,200MHz of spectrum in the 6 GHz band in the US available for unlicensed usage, covering low-power operations over the full allocation and standard-power devices in 850MHz of the band, is a...

Quarter of private LTE and 5G networks will be managed by smart cities in 2025

By 2025, almost one quarter (23 percent) of all private LTE and 5G networks will be deployed by smart cities, either at local or national government level. Other major industrial sectors to negotiate their own spectrum and manage their own wireless networks will be,...

Bosch ramps-up production after 17% COVID reverse with focus on efficiency, innovation

Bosch is preparing to ramp up production again after shutting down production at nearly 100 facilities globally in the COVID-19 pandemic, on the back of a 17 percent slowdown in March, a 7.3 percent fall in the first quarter, and a refusal to forecast...

Dassault Systèmes supplies digital thread for rapid construction of COVID-19 hospitals

France-based industrial software provider Dassault Systèmes and China-based facilities management company Aden Group are combining their digital twin and modular architecture platforms to fast-track hospital construction. The arrangement is in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dassault Systèmes was involved with China’s Central-South Architectural Design Institute...

How fast, how near, how private? The role of 5G and AI in industrial AR

Note, this article is taken from an editorial report on industrial AR, called Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers. The report is available to download here.  Let us start with the scenario the main article finishes (see report) with: a connected...

iinside releases safe-distance analytics for building, venue operators

iinside, a spcialist in indoor motion analytics for airports and other public venues, announced the release of SafeDistance, a free upgrade to its LiDAR-powered solution for monitoring and analyzing crowd density in public spaces. The company said the new launch is an effort to help...

Zigbee and DALI to improve compatibility of smart lighting connectivity and control

The Zigbee Alliance and the Digital Illumination Interface Alliance (DiiA), the organisation for DALI lighting control, are working together to bring further standardisation and system interoperability to IoT-based luminaires in the smart lighting space. The pair said the collaboration will help realise the benefits of combining...

‘Industrial IoT is a first mover’ – Federated sets path to 1000MHz of private LTE/5G

Federated Wireless has announced it has secured $13.7 million in additional Series C funding from existing investors Allied Minds and Pennant Investors. The funding will accelerate its partnership with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure to offer connectivity-as-a-service, which has seen most business in the...

Danfoss deploys private LTE network at Finnish factory with Nokia, Edzcom, Etteplan

Danish engineering firm Danfoss is piloting a private LTE network at its factory in Vaasa, in the northwest of Finland. It is working with Finnish systems integrator Etteplan, which has partnered with country-mates Nokia and Edzcom on the project. The pilot started in January,...

DOE offers funding to train emergency response and building professionals

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced $4.5 million in funding for training programs for professionals who interact with distributed energy resources, including smart building technologies, solar energy systems, storage systems and electric vehicles. These professionals include those that lead the nation?s emergency response and resilience...

Chinese smart meter firm Hexing bundles Arm Pelion and Wi-SUN for global push

Chinese smart metering firm Hexing is bundling the Pelion IoT platform, from UK-based silicon design company Arm, and low-power Wi-SUN connectivity into its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), as it seeks to expand into Southeast Asia, India, South America, and Europe. Hexing is offering Wi-SUN based...

CES inks partnership with Siemens Building Technologies

Comprehensive Energy Services (CES) announced the creation of a new value-added partnership with Siemens Building Technologies to offer its customers the latest in the Building Automation Systems (BAS) field. The partnership allows CES, which is a BAS provider, to have the opportunity to provide an advanced option relating...

IoT sector re-engineers low-power sensor solutions for battle against Covid-19

The low-power and short-range segments of the wider IoT market, along with industrial majors, are seeking to re-engineer and innovate afresh in order to produce rapid low-cost IoT sensing solutions to assist with the global Covid-19 pandemic. Notably, IoT solution developer WMW, part of Belgian...

Sigfox Germany bolsters portfolio with new range of smart building IoT sensors

Sigfox Germany has expanded its product portfolio with the introduction of a range of sensors from Finnish IoT firm Connected Inventions. The new range includes sensors for monitoring dust, temperature, humidity, CO2, and motion. Connected Inventions, is the hardware arm of Sigfox operators Connected Finland,...

BMW talks €30bn future-tech fund, new blockchain experiment, plus COVID impact

German car giant BMW will invest €30 billion in “future-oriented” technologies during the next five years. The group has confirmed it will expand a blockchain pilot for purchasing front lights to suppliers of other car parts. The announcements, made at the end of last month,...

CBRE partners with Negawatt Utility to serve smart buildings in Hong Kong

CBRE?s Property Management Team and proptech company Negawatt Utility have announced a strategic partnership with the goal of delivering building management and energy saving technologies to buildings in Hong Kong. Under the terms of the agreement, CBRE will leverage its client network and professional capabilities to help landlords...

Nokia, KONE and other Finnish firms form smart building data ecosystem

Nokia and industrial firms partner to develop new building data-based applications Finnish companies KONE, Nokia, YIT, Caverion, Halton, Netox and VTT have founded an ecosystem known as KEKO, with the main goal of creating the global standard in building data ecosystems. The project is supported by...