BROWSING: Wired Networks, Fiber
IoT leaders proclaim smart business of green tech – as LoRaWAN goes (Iggy) pop
The powers-that-be in LoRaWAN World have decided LoRaWAN will save the planet, and the tech ecosystem that has grown around it will get rich in the process – and the customers it engages will do both, as newly sustainable and newly profitable enterprises. That...
The trouble with private 5G for Industry 4.0 | Part 3 – the spectrum
This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the report is available here. Subsequent instalments are listed below (linking either to the original...
The trouble with private 5G for Industry 4.0 | Part 2 – the devices
This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the report is available here. Subsequent instalments are listed below (linking either to the original...
Nokia helps Orange replace copper with passive optical LAN deployment
The passive optical LAN solution will connect more than 5,000 end points including Wi-Fi and hard-wired terminals across more than 20 sites in France
Nokia is deploying a passive optical LAN (POL) solution for Orange at its headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux, as well as more than...
The trouble with private 5G for Industry 4.0 | Part 1 – the standard
This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the report is available here. Subsequent instalments are listed below (linking either to the original...
Senet intros ‘location estimator’ tool to bring network geo-logic to any LoRaWAN device
US LoRaWAN operator and global LoRaWAN cloud platform provider Senet has announced a new network-based Location Estimator service to make any LoRaWAN device connecting to its own network in the US, and via its roaming partners more widely, location aware. The functionality is available...
EchoStar Mobile launches pan-European LoRa-enabled IoT network
In May, EchoStar announced the launch of an early adopter program for pan-European LoRa -Enabled IoT service
EchoStar Mobile, which provides mobile satellite services and is a subsidiary of EchoStar, says it has deployed a pan-European LoRa-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) network.
In a release, the...
Actility, Motorola Solutions to enable LoRaWAN IoT deployments
Actility said that the gateway is fully configurable and manageable from the standard ThingPark Enterprise console
French IoT specialist Actility has announced the integration of Motorola Solutions’ MC-EDGE Intelligent Gateway into its ThingPark platform with the aim of simplifying and acceleratinp the deployment of low-power,...
Sigfox brand retained; everything else subsumed into expanding UnaBiz family
The UnaBiz takeover of Sigfox has been rubber stamped in letterheads, employment contracts, marketing outreach, and a concerted push on social media activity; “starting July, SIGFOX (sic) is now a UnaBiz Technology,” wrote Henri Bong, co-founder at Singapore-based UnaBiz, and one half of the...
Virgin Media O2 and Nokia deploy private 5G network for NHS hospital in UK
The business arm of Virgin Media O2 (now being abbreviated as VMO2, we are informed) in the UK is working with Finnish vendor Nokia on a private 5G deployment for an NHS hospital in South London, to variously support remote patient monitoring, remote maintenance...
IoT is good for the planet, but trade-offs are necessary (Analyst Angle)
The use of IoT hardware and software applications will have a very positive impact on global sustainability but the trend masks significant variations between use cases, and over the lifecycle of the device. This was one conclusion from a recent report from Transforma Insights,...
Siemens issues private 5G ‘reality check’ – ahead of 2023 launch, and R17 magic drop
The big news out of Hannover Messe a couple of weeks back was that there was no news – not from Siemens about private 5G, anyhow. Not real news, at least; just word that its new private 5G system – incorporating home-made 5G core...
Athonet makes private 5G club to handle the sell-build-run of CBRS networks in the US
Consortiums, alliances, ecosystems – there are too many to count, and too many to report. But news that Athonet has started its own private 5G club in the US, to combine and recommend suppliers for deploying cellular networks in shared and unshared CBRS spectrum,...
Cisco partners with GDIT to offer private 5G to US government agencies
Cisco said that the partnership will enable the provision of end-to-end tailored solutions for government entities
Cisco announced its expanded relationship with General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a business unit of General Dynamics, to deliver Cisco private 5G services to government entities in the U.S.
Cisco...
Spending on ESG consultancy services to jump 32.3% per year to $158bn in 2025
Spending on (mostly tech-linked, commonly IoT-linked) business services to streamline and manage environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance will grow to $158 billion in 2025, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32.3 percent. Analyst house IDC said most of the money –...
UK must level-up private/public 5G ‘playing field’ for enterprises (operators) – Vodafone
Vodafone has suggested the industrial 5G market in the UK will be skewed unfairly towards elite private enterprises, in position to invest more easily in their own private network infrastructure, and collectively screwed out of £7 billion per annum in potential economic gains, mostly...
Vodafone installs 5G private network at Skoda Auto manufacturing plant
Skoda Auto noted that the 5G research network allows data to be locally transmitted securely in real time
Czech car manufacturer Škoda Auto has launched a mobile private 5G network in cooperation with mobile operator Vodafone at its Mladá Boleslav site, the former said in...
Vodafone rigs-up 1.5 million Wimbledon strawberries with IoT monitoring, tracking
Vodafone is working with Hugh Lowe Farms to use IoT to deliver 1.5 million strawberries to Wimbledon, the UK grand slam tennis championship, which started in London this week. The 2022 supply of strawberries are sustainably produced, efficiently delivered, and the best-tasting, said Vodafone,...
Libelium buys Spanish smart cities firm HOPU, sets sights on future IPO
Spanish IoT provider Libelium has acquired local firm HOP UBIQUITOUS (HOPU), which produces IoT solutions for environmental and meteorological monitoring. The deal follows Libelium’s capital injection from venture capital fund Axon Innovation Growth IV, part of Spain-based Axon Partners Group, a year ago, which...
Asset tracking in five years – 24bn assets in transit, $45bn in pockets, 180-200% growth
Spending on IoT-based asset tracking solutions, for monitoring goods in transit, will reach $45 billion globally by 2027, according to Juniper Research. The total spend will jump from $16 billion in 2022, representing growth of 184 percent over the five-year period. It said the...
Druid supplies Raemis core into new private 5G radio system from German SI HMF
Ireland-based Druid Software has announced a deal to supply private LTE and 5G componentry to German critical comms system integrator Hytera Mobilfunk (HMF). HMF has developed a “brand new private 5G radio solution”, called 5G Smart Box, which will utilise Druid Software’s Raemis system...
Global IoT community set for jamboree LoRaWAN event in Paris (Sponsored)
The LoRa Alliance expects over 2,000 delegates in Paris next week (July 6-7) for the LoRaWAN World Expo, billed as its first global jamboree event for the LoRaWAN community, and the wider IoT market beyond. It is set to be, by some margin, the...
Between the lines, Vodafone study asks how to sell to SMEs just trying to “stay afloat”
Whatever Vodafone’s intention when polling 1,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK, and whatever its conclusion from their responses, one thing is also clear: business is hard in this economic climate. What also seems apparent, reading between the lines of Vodafone’s enterprise...
5G-CARMEN autonomous driving project carries out 5G pilot
The 5G autonomous driving test used infrastructure deployed by TIM, Magenta and Deutsche Telekom
The 5G-CARMEN project, funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the Bruno Kessler Foundation, demonstrated the outcomes of an autonomous driving pilot that connected low latency, autonomous and assisted driving...