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Sigfox provides athlete and delegate tracking at Special Olympics

A Sigfox network in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) provided optional tracking for 10,000 athletes and delegates at the Special Olympics World Games 2019 at the end of March. The Special Olympics World Games claims to be the world’s largest humanitarian sporting event. Organised...

Orange on IoT: “We’re different; we take innovation to the customer”

Having effectvely reduced the discipline of network operations to an elaborate marketing exercise, to sell look-alike SIM cards and airtime bundles, it seems the new 5G era has telecoms operators sounding different, again. It seems like their personalities are coming through, at last. This...

Druid strikes private LTE deals in US, Europe with Geoverse, Koning & Hartman

Irish cellular software company Druid Software has signed deals to capitalise on the private networking opportunity that has emerged with the availability of CBRS radio spectrum in the US, and to drive private network deployments with hospitals in Europe. Local US operator Geoverse, based in...

Automatic for the people – why private networks are public affairs (impressions of Hannover Messe 2019)

In Germany, they’ve made a verb out of the UK’s protracted divorce from the European Union: ‘to Brexit’ - sich verabschieden, aber nicht gehen (to say goodbye, but fail to leave). It was a joke doing the rounds at Hannover Messe 2019 last week,...

LoRa Alliance drives LoRaWAN usage in utility meters with closer DLMS integration

The LoRa Alliance and the DLMS User Association (DLMS UA) have signed a liaison agreement to define a new DLMS communication profile for LPWAN technologies such as LoRaWAN. The two organisations, representing the LoRaWAN community and the standardisation of DLMS for meter communications, respectively,...

Digital transformation investments focused on process automation, Accenture says

Future 5G investments will focus on creating service revenues HANNOVER, Germany--Despite major marketing efforts coming out of the telecoms sector, industrial manufacturers today aren't focused on "leveraging 5G within the four walls of the plant," Accenture Senior Managing Director and Product Industry X.0 Lead Eric...

Bosch: The only fixed assets with industrial 5G will be the floors, walls and ceilings

German industrial giant Bosch has set out a vision for a 5G-enabled factory where every part of the production environment is fluid, except for the floors, walls, and ceilings. Industrial machines, devices, and vehicles will be made mobile by 5G and made intelligent by...

Industrial control will not come just by waiting for 5G, says Nokia

The telecoms community and the industrial space must engage more closely if they are to achieve the kind of heightened control and intelligence in factories and warehouses that 5G promises. This was the thrust of a presentation from Nokia at Hannover Messe 2019, which...

Sigfox operator WND hits 85% UK population coverage, targets ports and airports

Sigfox operator Wireless Network Developments (WND) has covered 85 per cent of the UK population with it Sigfox network, having deployed 1,500 Sigfox base stations. The deployment has been on time and in budget, said WNDUK, and the 85 per cent threshold means the...

L-SPARK, TELUS launch accelerator for Canadian IoT ventures

Canadian firms BlackBerry and Solace are also participating in the IoT acceleration initiative  Canadian software-as-a-service (SaaS) accelerator L-SPARK and compatriot telecommunications services company TELUS have inked a partnership to launch the Secure IoT Accelerator program in collaboration with BlackBerry Limited and Solace. The Secure IoT Accelerator...

Bosch targets €1bn gains on the blood-rush of 5G to its factory nervous system

Bosch has raised more than €1.5 billion in revenue from the implementation of Industry 4.0 techniques in its own factories, as well as its customers’ factories, during the past four years, it has said. The company has set an incremental revenue target of €1...

Software AG intros “game-changing” self-serve analytics tool to put IT powers into OT hands

Germany-based Software AG has released a new self-service analytics tool to enable operational staff to rapidly spin-up analysis of real-time streaming data from industrial machines and solve and predict production issues. The new solution, called Analytics Builder, is effectively a skin for Software AG’s Apama...

Arm wins major meter management deal, “pulls in” Pelion customers in retail, logistics

Arm is going after energy providers and device makers after striking a deal with Singapore-based EDMI, manufacturer of IoT modules for utilities, to provide the management platform for smart meter devices, connectivity, and data. EDMI, owned by Osaki Electric Company in Japan, has major smart...

Over 100 carriers in 52 countries already launched NB-IoT or LTE-M: GSA

The entity also said that 140 operators are currently investing in NB-IoT networks globally A total of 102 operators in 52 countries have already deployed either narrowband internet of things or LTE-M technology, according to a recent study by the Global Mobile Suppliers Association. Of these,...

Nokia builds private LTE and 5G network for German car industry

Nokia is building private LTE and 5G coverage for the ARENA2036 automotive research factory in Stuttgart in collaboration with members of the German car and manufacturing industries, including Daimler, Bosch and TRUMPF. Nokia will provide full private 4G/LTE and 5G New Radio coverage for the...

Telefónica takes three-pronged approach to private networks, unlicensed spectrum

Among telecoms operators grappling with the concept of private industrial networks, and ways to coexist with enterprises seeking control of their own LTE and 5G infrastructure, Telefónica cuts an assured figure. It has been developing its strategy around private networks for 18 months at...

Australian city of Darwin appoints Telensa to connect and make-smart 10,000 streetlights

The city of Darwin in Australia has appointed UK-based lighting-controls provider Telensa to connect and make-smart around 10,000 new LED street lights. Darwin is replacing 10,000 lights on its public lighting network with LEDs. Telensa is providing the connectivity and management platform. This will introduce...

Report available now: From supply chain to demand chain – how IoT and AI are enabling the supply chain to flex to changing demand

AUSTIN, Texas, March 25, 2019 — Digital transformation of the supply chain will be bookended by two key technologies: the internet-of-things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). Everything else is held in place by these twin digital capabilities. This is the conclusion of a new editorial...

Bosch proclaims 5G, OPC-UA, and TSN, as Industry 4.0 finally gets ‘practical’

Incoming 5G technologies will be key for higher reliability and lower latency of industrial automation processes, said Bosch Rexrouth, the automation technology unit of German industrial giant Bosch Group, ahead of the Hannover Messe 2019 next week. Bosch reckons the so-called Industry 4.0 movement, capturing...

Ericsson pre-packs private LTE and 5G for factories and warehouses

Ericsson has launched a private network solution that seeks to simplify the deployment and management of private LTE and 5G networks for industrial enterprises with no prior experience of cellular network operations. Compatriot transport company Scania has already implemented the package, dubbed Ericsson Industry...

LTE and 5G for industrial IoT: What are private networks, and how do they work?

Private cellular networks are standard 3GPP-based cellular networks offering a combination of low-power wide-area (LPWA), broadband LTE, and even ‘massive’-scale, ultra-reliable 5G connectivity for exclusive use by private parties. They are deployed and managed separately of public cellular networks, but function in the same way....

The supply chain is dead; long live the demand chain! How AI is tilting the balance between supply and demand

For digital transformation of the supply chain, artificial intelligence (AI) is effectively the only game in town. This is because it is the only technological discipline that knits together a chain of supply, making its parts work in concert to bring intelligence across its...

Deutsche Telekom, Nokia tests show edge computing is only way to make 5G-V2X safe

5G networks will only achieve the required reliability and latency for autonomous driving if sufficient edge compute functions are brought close to the roadside and architected correctly. Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications, between vehicles and with road infrastructure and services, will not enable driving systems to...

LTE docks at Oulu, as Nokia and compatriots go mob-handed on private networks

Finnish network vendor Nokia and Finnish private LTE provider Ukkoverkot have signed a five-year deal to bring connectivity, automation, and intelligence to the Port of Oulu, also in Finland. The project will start with the establishment of a private LTE network, attaching to internet...