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Signify launches new smart pole with IoT apps, connectivity

Dutch lighting company Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, has launched a new smart pole dubbed BrightSites, the firm said in a release. The new BrightSites smart pole accommodates a wide variety of IoT applications, connectivity, cameras and environmental sensors as well as controllable high-quality energy-efficient LED lighting, the company...

ABB and HPE join on industrial IoT networking for connected maintenance

ABB and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have struck a deal on wireless connectivity for large industrial customers, where ABB sensors attached to industrial equipment are connected to the cloud via HPE gateways. An integrated solution, slated to be available late 2019 and targeted at...

LoRa shoots for 75% of IoT market, versus 25% for 5G; aims for stars with satellite constellation

Three quarters of the IoT market will be given over to low-power wide-area (LPWA) network solutions, compared with just one quarter for high-bandwidth low-latency 5G applications. So says the LoRa Alliance, which continues to push its line about being the key technology in low-power...

Vodafone and PTC combine to simplify IoT and AR for industry and developers

Vodafone has signed a deal with industrial IoT and AR specialist PTC to help developers and enterprises deploy digital-change applications. The deal is an extension of an existing three-year arrangement, they said. Milwaukee-based PTC quoted market analysis from LNS Research that says less than 10...

New French model for public-private 5G networks will prevail, says Orange

Orange told 5G World in London yesterday (July 12) that private networks are too expensive, and that hiving off spectrum for the industrial sector to run private networks will throttle the development of 5G networks. The French operator is trialling campus-style networks with industrial players...

AT&T and Uber partner on 5G drones for ridesharing, deliveries and industrial IoT

Uber is working with AT&T to develop always-on connectivity using 4G and 5G networks for passenger and cargo drones, with the groundwork informing AT&T's work in the industrial IoT space too. The pair have announced a “mulit-phase” partnership that will focus in its first year...

Cellular IoT to outgun 5G, says Ericsson, offering early snapshot of industrial 5G, private networks

The number of cellular IoT connections, mostly to machines, will continue to outrun the number of 5G connections, mostly to people, for at least five years. Ericsson predicts cellular IoT connections will reach 4.1 billion by 2024, compared with 1.9 billion 5G connections. According...

One third of industrial companies, half of large firms, will apply for 5G licenses

One third of industrial companies, and almost one half of large industrial organisations, will apply for their own 5G licenses. The interest from enterprises in spectrum licenses, as well as in network management, is highest among US and French firms, with more than two...

The $17tn 5G opportunity will explode in cities first – but industrial 5G revenues will drag for a decade

New 5G technologies will generate $17 trillion in economic growth in the period to 2035, with the initial stimulus coming from smart-city applications piggybacking on urban 5G rollouts. But operators' revenues from industrial 5G, hyped as the will not outpace revenues from consumer 5G...

Cisco to buy industrial IoT cyber-security firm Sentryo

Cisco is set to acquire French cyber-security firm Sentryo, with which it has worked to author digital change solutions in the industrial IoT sector. Headquartered in Lyon, France, Sentryo provides device visibility and security solutions for industrial control system (ICS) networks, promising availability and resiliency...

Connecting agriculture: LoRa, NB-IoT, LTE, and 5G – once and future kings of smart farming (part 3)

As we have heard, the UK’s 5G RuralFirst project is trying to do with 5G (or 5G-related tech) what the telecoms industry has failed to do with previous generations, and connect the unconnected, including farming communities looking for a digital edge. It is transformative...

LoRa and Sigfox get five-year boost with LTE-M and NB-IoT failures

LoRa and Sigfox have maintained and extended their market-share lead over their cellular equivalents LTE-M and NB-IoT, as the latter technologies have been “plagued by network hardware and connectivity module issues. LoRa has been boosted by the rollout of private networks, and Sigfox remains...

Connecting agriculture: LoRa, NB-IoT, LTE, and 5G – and a ‘network of networks’ for smart farming (part 2)

Low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking technologies like LoRaWAN and NB-IoT, among others, are helping farmers to connect their work to the internet, as we have heard. This connectivity provides a platform for them to start to introduce new automation and intelligence into their operations. But LPWA...

AT&T, KPN, Orange and Swisscom strike deal on LTE-M roaming

AT&T, KPN, Orange and Swisscom have switched on LTE-M roaming across their respective IoT networks in North America and Europe. The deal means LTE-M modules activated with any of the carriers will be able to roam on AT&T’s networks in the US and Mexico,...

Deutsche Telekom intros NB-IoT-connected bins for sensitive documents

Deutsche Telekom has teamed up with logistics company Rhenus and the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (Fraunhofer IML) to develop an NB-IoT connected smart bins for disposing of sensitive documents. An NB-IoT sensor in the containers issues a signal to Deutsche Telekom’s cloud-based...

Connecting agriculture: LoRa, NB-IoT, LTE, and 5G – and the digital divide in smart farming (part 1)

The biggest fragmentation in smart agriculture is with base-line connectivity, which establishes the platform for the analytics and automation tools that will change farming. “Connectivity is a neccessary evil,” says Pete DeNagy, president and co-founder, Internet of Things America. “No business is advantaged by...

Tencent, Siradel strike deal on design of LoRa network in Shenzhen

Chinese internet giant Tencent and Siradel, which provides advanced wireless network design and smart city planning tools, have partnered on the design of a LoRa network in key areas of Shenzhen City, in China. As part of the network design, Siradel carried out a study...

Telefonica partners with Schindler to provide IoT connectivity for escalators

Telefónica and Schindler announced a global partnership under which the Spanish telco will be the IoT and network connectivity partner for Schindler’s digital offering for smart elevators and escalators. Telefonica will provide the services under its Telefonica Business Solutions unit. The cloud-based digital platform Schindler Ahead is a...

Telia Sweden builds 5G network at uni grounds to test industrial IoT and AI

Swedish operator Telia is to build a university-based 5G network for research and testing of industrial uses of high-bandwidth low-latency cellular connectivity. The 5G network will be located at Mid Sweden University, a Swedish state university in the middle of Sweden, with campuses in the...

Smart farming Q&A: “Farmers are in-the-know about their assets”, says ABI Research

Two million farms and 36 million cattle will be connected to the internet by low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, and other technologies, by 2024. This is the calculation from analyst house ABI Research, in a new report that considers the opportunity for internet-of-things (IoT) technologies in field...

Amazon, Comcast, NXP, Schneider develop Zigbee interoperability updates

The Zigbee Alliance is coordinating efforts from the likes of Amazon, Comcast, Landis+Gyr, NXP, Osram and Schneider Electric to make smart home and IoT products easier to develop, deploy, and sell across ecosystems. The new All Hubs Initiative, driven by a Zigbee Alliance workgroup, is...

Why farming needs 5G, and not just LoRaWAN and NB-IoT – an investor’s view, from NGP Capital

Certain functions of smart farming will not work on low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, even while technologies like LoRaWAN and NB-IoT tend to support most smart agricultural technologies, as they exist today. LTE and even 5G networks are required to provide total coverage of fields, in...

This hard land: From cotton gin, to combine harvester, to computer vision (by way of The Boss)

Farming is hard. It always has been. There is a song called This Hard Land by Bruce Springsteen, rock’s great chronicler of every-day struggle in modern America, which captures something of the labour and luck of working the land. “Mister, can you tell me...

Three Sweden leases public spectrum for private usage to stop spectrum carve-up

Network operator Three has rented out 50MHz of its 2.6 GHz frequency holding in Sweden in bid to boost local industry and stop regulator PTS carving-up the 3.5 GHz band for private usage. Three Sweden has struck a deal with Finland-based “micro-network” operator Ukkoverkot to...