Cellular is the only solution for smart-city lighting, says Signify – UNB won’t cut it
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailCellular is the best connectivity technology for smart street-lighting in cities, reckons Netherlands based lighting company Signify. The rise of ultra narrowband (UNB) for outdoor smart lighting in cities, popularized …
Stockholm recruits Itron to manage smart-city streetlighting
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe city of Stockholm in Sweden is to deploy a software platform from Itron to manage its streetlights, according to the US-based industrial networking company. Itron has signed a contract …
Nokia deploys private LTE in underground NORCAT mine in Canada
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNokia has installed a private LTE network in an underground mine belonging to NORCAT in Ontario, in Canada. The work has been carried out with Canada’s Centre of Excellence in …
Industry 4.0 at tipping point for telcos – the story that would have been told (but for COVID-19)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailMobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona in February is the major venue and the key date for the telecoms industry. Yes, the cards have been dealt, but the show works …
IoT connections to reach almost 25 billion globally by 2025: GSMA
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail IoT connections will reach almost 25 billion globally by 2025, up from 12 billion in 2019, according to a new report by the GSMA. “The business case for IoT …
Sunderland preps vendor-tender for UK’s first city-owned neutral host 5G network
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe city of Sunderland in the UK is looking to establish a ‘strategic consortium’ and procure a “strategic delivery partner” to establish the country’s first city-owned ‘neutral host’ network for …
T-Systems bundles Senet’s LoRaWAN airtime and support for US enterprises
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe US arm of T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom’s digital services division, is bundling LoRaWAN connectivity plans and hardware offers from US-based Senet with its own IoT platform. Senet said it had …
Huawei heads new IIC testbed on critical and non-critical LTE for metro trains
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has announced a new testbed to show the feasibility of adapting LTE for the urban rail sector. The new project is being led by Huawei, …
Federated Wireless on CBRS – 40 networks in bag, 100 in pipe, white-label offer on way
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailConnectivity has been the main blocker for industrial IoT, and not the fragmented hardware and software markets. So says Federated Wireless, one of the companies pioneering usage of private LTE …
DT deploys dual-slice LTE for BMW, pledges integration with private 5G spectrum
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailDeutsche Telekom has installed a dual-slice private LTE ‘campus network’, hived off its public LTE network, at a BMW plant in Leipzig. Ericsson has supplied the networking gear for the …
