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Note, this is the second part in a feature about Nokia'snew industrial strategy. The first instalment can be found here.  Nokia’s latest results, which saw shares slip on a slow forecast for 2019 5G sales, present the company’s strategic re-organisation around three so-called ‘pillars’ –...

Ericsson has redefined its portfolio and vision for cellular IoT technologies in four categories, including two new segments for Broadband IoT and Industrial Automation IoT. It said the objective of the exercise is to “outline the evolution” of IoT technologies, to encompass higher-powered LTE and...

The total installed base of LoRa enabled chips and nodes reach around 80 million units at the end of 2018, according to California based semiconductor company Semtech, which owns the LoRa technology and licenses the chips. Semtech said the number of LoRa gateways is now...

In simple terms, the prevailing wisdom is the more data, the better. More data equals better decisions, which equals better products, and more users. That is the theory, anyway. The problem is the volume of processed data, at least from industrial setups, has been largely...

Nokia’s biggest opportunity, it explains, is to go beyond its traditional customer base to serve industrial markets directly, with private networking solutions. The total market for private LTE, and later private 5G, masts is potentially twice as large in straight volume terms as the...

This week, 1,500 business types from every-sized enterprise in the burgeoning IoT space will descend on Amsterdam in The Netherlands to chat LoRaWAN, the low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking technology that saw 60 per cent growth last year. The occasion is The Things Conference (January 31...

Amazon is to take a seat on the Zigbee Alliance board of directors. The Zigbee Alliance said the decision shows the IoT market is convening around its technology as a short-range technology for smart devices, notably in smart home and smart city applications. The move...

Note, this was originally intended to be a two part series covering Airbus' four essential lessons for Industry 4.0. Here, we are inserting another entry and another lesson, of sorts, into the middle of the planned schedule. Watch out for the final instalment; sign...

Sigfox USA has confirmed its president, Christian Olivier, has left the business. It said the decision was mutual, and the business is preparing a new appointment to drive the “next stage” of expansion of its network operations in the US. The French IoT firm also...

Study finds executives appreciate the benefits the Fourth Industrial Revolution will bring but many lack a clear strategy Political and corporate leaders gathered in Davos, Switzerland, this week for the World Economic Forum are examining the far-reaching impacts the Fourth Industrial Revolution will create in...

UK tech incubator Digital Catapult is sponsoring a pair of UK firms to set up as Industry 4.0 showcase labs for the rest of the UK manufacturing industry. County Durham based fabrication and machining firm Dyer Engineering, and Hereford based superalloy manufacturer Special Metals Wiggin...

European aerospace firm Airbus has a 10-year back-log of orders, explains Sébastien Boria, R&D technology leader at Airbus. “Which means we have no problem selling aircraft.” Demand is high because the product is good, he says. The company, which has made strides as an innovator,...

  The combined solution will allow companies to monitor shipments and assets through IoT technologies   Internet of things company Aeris announced it is working with Roambee, an IoT supply chain and enterprise asset visibility company, to help enterprises improve their monitoring of shipments and assets through...

I read it somewhere, and it made sense; the application of new digital technologies in the global supply chain is about two critical functions – ‘sensing’ and ‘sense-making’, where the first is about connecting and managing assets in transit, and the second is about...

Driverless trucks by equipment manufacturer Komatsu are the first in the mining industry to be passed to run on a private LTE network in commercial operations. Komatsu’s ‘autonomous haulage system’ (AHS), which governs unmanned operation of its ultra-class FrontRunner mining trucks, passed qualification after a...

The number of LoRaWAN network operators jumped by more than 60 per cent in 2018, according to the LoRa Alliance. It said its global operator count stands at more than 100, as of the end of December. These include operators of both private and...

Sigfox reckons is the only network technology in position to support battery-less devices for low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT solutions, at least in early prototype mode today. Speaking with Enterprise IoT Insights, Bertrand Ramé, senior vice president of international operations at Sigfox, said the French IoT...

Revenues generated by technology in the global supply chain will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 11 per cent over the next five years, reaching $440 billion by 2023. Among emerging technologies, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) will have the most...

International carrier services company BICS has gone from a useful clearing house for airtime to a close strategic partner for communications providers of every type. Importantly, the company can bring the rangy 'internet of things' (IoT) market into line for the mobile operator community,...

Note, this is the second part of a feature/interview Sigfox; click the link for the first, about the company's ‘Zero-G’ strategy and global rollout plans. When it comes to wireless network deployment, US states are like countries, reckons IoT company Sigfox. Of all its achievements,...

IoT networking company Sigfox has big plans for 2019. Every IoT company does, of course, but the French firm has set a target to secure 'global' coverage by setting up in China, India, and Russia, finally, and plugging three major gaps in its existing...

  Sprint said the new track will enable the trial of advanced automotive technology   Sprint announced a collaboration project with the city of Peachtree Corners, Georgia for the development of an intelligent vehicle test track using Sprint's 5G technology combined with Curiosity IoT and micropositioning. "Curiosity Lab at...

IoT company Senet is providing LoRaWAN connectivity for a new range of disposable and rechargeable ID cards for staff and students on college and university campuses. The smart LoRaWAN ID cards will be subsequently rolled out to corporate campuses, hospitals, elderly homes, and construction...

“The potential for 5G is awesome,” Verizon chief tech officer Kyle Malady wrote in an open letter this week, in protest at the early marketing of rather middle-of-the-road ‘5G’ services being pushed by the telecoms industry at large. “The potential to over-hype and under-deliver is...