
Telefonica, Gestamp unveil 5G-connected factory use case in Barcelona
Spanish carrier Telefónica and Gestamp, which is a multinational company that designs and manufactures automotive components, have implemented a 5G-connected factory use case in one of Gestamp’s plants in …

Australia trials LoRaWAN smart lighting in bid to save turtle hatchlings
The wellbeing of turtle hatchlings appears to have swung the case for smart lighting along the coast in Queensland, in Australia. A short strip of street lighting in the Shire of …

Printable NB-IoT tracking labels: Vodafone, Bayer and the deal to make IoT ‘massive’
Note, a version of this article appears in a new report on the asset tracking sector, called Asset Tracking – and the March Towards Massive IoT. The report can be …

Sierra Wireless provides ‘full-stack’ IoT for fertilizer tank LTE-M solution
IoT provider Sierra Wireless has been selected by IoT tracking firm Ekatra to underpin its industrial tank monitoring solution, which is geared particularly towards fertilizer tanks in the farming industry. …

Australian rail firm ARTC gets on track for digital change with Hitachi-ABB
Australia is both the flattest continent on earth and, with the exception of Antarctica, the driest. You can travel 2,000-odd miles across its plains, between Sydney and Perth, without seeing …

The bee’s knees – four ways IoT and AI are helping to save honey bees
World Honeybee Day is on the third Saturday in August every year, and this weekend (August 15) this year. North Carolina based analytics firm SAS Institute has used the occasion …

Football trials real-time BLE-based tracking and analytics ahead of new season
Real-time Bluetooth-based sports analytics is coming to football (soccer), says Finnish duo Wisehockey and Quuppa after putting their real-time locating system (RTLS) to the test in their home country. Player …

Bemis mixes Sigfox and BLE for indoor and outdoor tracking of smart shopping carts
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 …

Fire truck maker Morita deploys BLE-based IoT solution to track production in Japan
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 …

Land Rover sees “unprecedented” response from Sigfox-based direct marketing
British car brand Land Rover has utilised Sigfox connectivity in an interactive marketing campaign to encourage UK drivers to book a test drive. The campaign saw a 10-fold jump in …