
Hyundai Motor to pilot autonomous car-hailing RoboRide service in Seoul
Hyundai Motor plans to operate an initial demonstration service for internally selected personnel Hyundai Motor Group announced it will pilot a RoboRide car-hailing service in Gangnam district, in Seoul, …

Operators advised to start again with private 5G in spectrum markets they still control
More operator-bashing this morning at a two-day Informa event in London (Private Networks in a 5G World, June 14 and 15); the opportunity to take cellular into enterprise premises is …

European IoT spending continues its double-digit growth: IDC
IDC noted that the largest share of IoT spending this year is expected to be in the manufacturing and resources sector Enterprise IoT spending in Europe is expected to …

Rockwell Automation opens new facility in Korea
The new facility will be located at the Rockwell Automation Seoul office Industrial automation specialist Rockwell Automation recently announced the opening of its Customer Experience Center (CEC) in Korea at …

Integration, simplification, multiplication – three signs private 5G has come of age
This is a rehash (and extension, in the end) of a previous post, to an extent; but it distils the message from before, and says there are sure signs, at …

Global shipments of cellular IoT modules grow 39% y-o-y in 2021: Study
Quectel, Fibocom, Sunsea AIoT, Thales and Telit, hold 68% of the cellular IoT modules market in terms of revenues last year European IoT analyst firm Berg Insight reported that …

Edzcom, Signify to build private smart-city network on 5G lightpoles in Finland
Finland-based Edzcom and Netherlands-based Signify have entered a partnership to build a private smart-city 5G and IoT network using street-lighting and other road infrastructure for the city of Tampere, in …

Siemens buys UK industrial IoT firm Senseye for global smart factory push
Siemens has acquired UK-based industrial IoT firm Senseye for an undisclosed fee. Senseye, founded in 2014, provides analytics-based (“AI-powered”) predictive maintenance solutions for industrial machines, offering ways to manage and …

Softbank takes equity stake in 1NCE – as “only company that can deliver global IoT”
Global cellular IoT provider 1NCE has confirmed a long-trailed deal with Softbank, a major investor already in the firm, to release equity to the Japan-based carrier in return for exclusive …

Nokia and Edzcom/Cellnex renew private 5G vows, hit the Industry 4.0 trail in Europe
It is a partnership of industrial-minded telco country-mates that effectively helped to build the early private LTE and 5G market, with joint references in a number of key installations in …