
Three LTE ‘campus’ networks – DT debuts public-private LTE in Austria, Czech, Hungary
Deutsche Telekom has public-private ‘campus’ networking setups with various customers, offering a kind of proto-slicing, as a precursor to industrial 5G. It has so far announced deals with German lighting …

Why 5G doesn’t amount to a hill of beans, and it is not enough for operators
Telecoms operators must do more than just sell connectivity. It is a maxim that gets repeated, often, and always – and one that, in the end, becomes more like a …

Where in the world is Industry 4.0 strongest? Napkin analysis of the ‘smartest factories’
As the headline suggests, this analysis should be seen in context. It offers only rapid arithmetic around the World Economic Forum’s (expanding) list of ‘lighthouse’ factories, which claim the most …

Five steps on the road to industrial 5G – licences / fees (step #3)
This article, in five parts, is continued from Step 2, about spectrum and regulation; Step 2 can be found here. “Once frequency usage fees have been clarified – a significant …

18 of the smartest factories in the world – featuring Hitachi, Infineon, Renault, Unilever
The World Economic Forum has named 18 new factories, mostly from Asia (and mostly in China), as part of its ‘global lighthouse network’ of advanced manufacturers. They join the existing …

Itron on 2020: Easier funding, higher priority, better data integration for smarter cities
Itai Dadon, director of smart cities and IoT, Itron: 1. The finance industry takes an interest “Cities continue to grow at a fast pace; at the same time, they …

Sierra Wireless on 2020: IoT integration, sub-6GHz 5G, Industry 4.0
Cloudification of IoT accelerates Philippe Guillemette, chief technology officer, Sierra Wireless: “The complexities that companies experience building out and maintaining IoT infrastructure has hindered growth of the sector, leading to the …

Sigfox on 2020: Three key areas for growth and democratization of IoT
Ajay Rane, vice president for global business development, Sigfox: The IoT, and the networks that devices run on, are poised for growth and maturity in 2020. Key to this …

Digital transformation to go? The 80/20 rule in IT/OT ‘co-creation’, and how to scale IoT
Note, this is an excerpt from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – co-creation, co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. Go …

ABI on 2020: 5G wearables, self-driving trucks, yadda yadda – what won’t happen in 2020
Analyst house ABI Research has pulled together its big guns in each vertical sector to consider how technologywill change things in 2020 – or, rather, how it won’t. Some seasonal …