Mercedes-Benz, Samsung intro in-car control of smart home with new S-Class
Mercedes-Benz has integrated its in-car voice assistant system with the home-based Samsung-owned SmartThings platform to enable drivers and passengers to interact with connected devices in their homes. It is the …
Cellnex to install private 5G network for BASF’s facility in Spain
German chemicals company BASF and Spanish telecommunications infrastructure and services operator Cellnex Telecom have signed an agreement to install what Cellnex says will be the first private network based …
BICS teams up with GNSS provider Gurtam to offer asset tracking in 200 countries
Telecoms roaming broker BICS has struck a deal with telematics provider Gurtam to provide international IoT asset monitoring and fleet management in 200-odd countries. The collaboration combines BICS’ global IoT …
Smart cities put faith in ‘tech-first optimism’ as Covid-era tech-spend set to triple
Cities must keep faith in “tech-first optimism” as they grapple with the fallout from the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in the next five years. A new forecast for smart-city spending in …
Three ways Covid-19 has spurred asset tracking and the march on massive IoT
Note, this article is taken from a new report on the asset tracking sector, called Asset Tracking – and the March Towards Massive IoT. The report can be downloaded here. …
Industrial IoT connections to double to 37bn by 2025, spurred by manufacturing
The number of industrial IoT connections will double in volume (up by 107 percent) in the next five years, going from 17.7 billion in 2020 to 36.8 billion in 2025; …
NXP expands UWB portfolio for IoT smart locks and RTLS tags
Dutch chip-maker NXP Semiconductors has expanded its ultra-wideband (UWB) portfolio to include new integrated circuits (ICs) for IoT use cases including smart locks and real-time location system (RTLS) tags. UWB …
Orange to offer private 5G on ‘global scale’, as Port of Antwerp deployment gears-up
Orange has announced new partners and revealed the results of new use cases to test private industrial-grade 5G at the Port of Antwerp in Belgium, the second largest port in …
Microsoft’s Affirmed Networks underpins private 5G setup in Taiwanese-first
Electronics manufacturer Inventec has deployed a 5G standalone (5G SA) network at its plant in Taiwan, to bring automation and intelligence to its production line. The setup uses networking software …
Integrator Smart Mobile Labs tees-up first German private 5G SA system – with Nokia
German system integrator Smart Mobile Labs is working with Nokia to deploy a private 5G network at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany, according to the Finnish vendor. It called …
