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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...

  The new platform will allow cars from these three manufacturers to have access to a wide range of connected car services   Global automotive alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi announced the production release of the Alliance Intelligent Cloud, a new platform that is enabling Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors...

Siemens has released new edge analytics tools to process data from workpiece machining, and deliver new insights and efficiencies to manufacturing operations. It has also revealed new edge hardware to simplify cloud connectivity for industrial IoT functions. Its new MyWorkpiece applications, part of its Sinumerik...

ADLINK Technology and Illinois-based manufacturer Charles Industries have demonstrated the industry’s first micro-edge low-latency AI solution that can be co-located on LTE small cell poles or with emerging 5G radios. The California-based edge solution provider has also announced a deal with Google Cloud to integrate...

  Loriot said it aims to complete the deployment of 5-6 new IoT networks this year   Danish broadcaster and telecom firm Teracom, together with global internet of things provider Loriot, is launching a nationwide long-range IoT network in Denmark. Loriot provides the management system of the LoraWAN-based...

BMW Group has a global roster of about 1,800 suppliers, scattered at 4,000 points across the globe. Together, they deliver 31 million parts to 30 BMW production sites, worldwide, every day. At the same time, almost 10,000 vehicles come off its production lines daily,...

  The new rules were criticized by the GSMA, which urged Europe to adopt the C-V2X technology instead of Wi-Fi-based DSRC technology   The European Commission (EC) has implemented new rules stepping up the deployment of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) on Europe's roads and supporting Dedicated...

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘Industrial companies are building private networks because they have to, says Nokia’. Click here to go to the previous article.  Where were we? Oh yes: part-way through a narrative about the desire of industry to...

Itron has signed with Lubbock Power & Light (LP&L) to deploy smart electricity meters and management software to improve service for around 107,000 electricity customers in Texas. The move will bring LP&L up to speed with most other utilities in the state. The new equipment...

The supply chain links the whole Industry 4.0 movement. For higher-grade operational intelligence to be brought to bear across the wider industrial market, the supply chain needs to mesh-in with the various stages of production and delivery. It has to be integrated in order...

Australian operator Telstra has recruited German IT and IoT integration company Software AG to help it devise a software solution for automated water management. Telstra already uses Software AG’s Cumulocity IoT platform as the basis of its own IoT platform offering. Their new water management...

Industrial companies will invest in their own private LTE and 5G networks because the business case for digital change is irresistible, and because they want control of their own infrastructure. This leaves operators, betting on new revenue from enabling industrial transformation, in the cold,...

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled 'Software AG cites deals with AT&T, AWS, Dell in pursuit of €24bn IoT opportunity'. Click here to go to the previous article.  New Software AG chief Sanjay Brahmawar has been seven months in the...

  The smart lockers allow firms with large field engineering teams to gain more efficiency   BT’s supply chain business, Final Mile, said that it has deployed 1,000 smart delivery lockers across the UK. Following a number of customer contract wins, the U.K. carrier said that the business...

NB-IoT connections will comprise the vast majority of cellular IoT by 2021, at up to 75 per cent and around one billion devices, according to Huawei. The number will climb from around 30 million in 2018 to 200 million in 2019, it reckons. Huawei outlined...

Germany-based Software AG has reorganised its channel strategy to prioritise IoT platform deals with the likes of AT&T, ‘hyper-scale’ cloud deals with the likes of AWS, edge hardware deals with the likes of Dell, and IT and IoT reseller deals with the likes of...

Vodafone will use a range of private networking options to serve industrial verticals, it has said, as it develops its advanced LTE and emerging 5G proposition for enterprises. These options include spot usage of unlicensed LTE, localised usage of public LTE, and dedicated slices...

IoT America designs solutions for precision agriculture, livestock management and infrastructure monitoring French internet of things (IoT) specialist Kerlink and Internet of Things America (IoT America), a U.S. company dedicated to deploying IoT solutions across rural America, have recently teamed up to enable the deployment of IoT...

Dutch industrial tech provider Koning & Hartman and Irish private-network provider Druid Software have extended their work to bring automation and intelligence to operations at the Port of Rotterdam. The pair have established a private LTE network at the port, using spectrum licensed by...

  Škoda drivers will have access to a wide range of connected cars services across Europe Cubic Telecom has signed a contract with Czech automobile manufacturer Škoda Auto to enable connectivity for Škoda drivers across Europe. The new IoT solution will be available first in the new...

Both partners have already carried out 5G verification at the Port of Qingdao BARCELONA-Ericsson and China Unicom said they are currently developing a 5G-enabled smart harbor at the Port of Qingdao in China. Ericsson said that the announcement follows a technical solution verification at Qingdao and...

LTE-based cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology will launch in earnest in the next months, as new automotive chipsets and platforms are released. The first vehicles to feature 5G-based C-V2X, enabling autonomous control of critical driving functions, will come off the production line in 2022, said...

What is 5G anyway? Ericsson kicked off Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 by stating it is deploying 5G networks at pace, faster than anyone else. But these networks – alongside those of its peers, and all the slick handsets (some foldable) on the stands – just...

Cameron Coursey, vice president of IoT product development at AT&T, got a laugh from the audience Sunday afternoon at the Mobile IoT Summit, a curtain raiser for Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. “All this talk of putting up walls,” he said. “We’re tearing...