Itron signs smart metering deals with Versant Power and Pacific Northern Gas
Electric transmission and distribution utility Versant Power will deploy advanced metering solutions and smart meters in Maine, in the US, with a view to modernize its electricity grid. Versant Power …
IIC joins with Smart Manufacturing Institute to refine core rules of industrial IoT
Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII), which brands itself as the Smart Manufacturing Institute in the US, are working together to accelerate the development, …
Nordic Semiconductor brings ‘tiny’ AI to BLE-based IoT chips, claims ‘industry-first’
IoT chipmaker The move follows a partnership with US-based Edge Impulse, which makes miniaturised machine learning (or ‘TinyML’) tools for chips in resource constrained IoT modules. Nordic Semiconductor said it …
Orange on 2021: Hardship spurs innovation – and so with Covid-19 and Industry 4.0
The Covid-19 pandemic has deeply disrupted existing ‘just-in-time’ models of supply chain management and manufacturing. Around the world, many production lines ground to a halt in 2020, and a light …
Aerospace manufacturer builds first SME-based private 5G network in UK
Precision engineering firm AE Aerospace, which makes prototype components for the aerospace, marine, and defence industries, is the first UK SME to deploy a private 5G network, it has been …
Federated Wireless on 2021: CBRS-based 5G takes hold – as Wi-Fi 6 is ‘dead on arrival’
The race to make 5G a viable platform for Industry 4.0 has shifted up a gear with the availability of shared CBRS spectrum for private wireless networks, and private 5G …
Vodafone on 2021: IoT, 5G, MEC – and the move to performant industrial networking
Technologies have always tended to converge. Smartphones are an example of this: a phone merged with a media player and a camera to create something unique, which performs multiple tasks …
Ports, warehouses, construction sites – UK lines up £28m for nine new 5G testbeds
The UK government has announced a further £28.3 million in joint public-private funding to support nine new 5G testbeds, as part of its £200 million campaign to leverage 5G to …
‘Only companies that unlock AI and IoT will succeed’ – Bosch trumpets edge-AI at CES
German industrial giant Bosch is using CES 2021 in Las Vegas to promote its development of edge-based AI solutions, where the data processing is carried out on the device itself. …
Elisa buys German software firm camLine to spur Industry 4.0 charge
Finnish mobile operator Elisa is to acquire Germany-based industrial software provider camLine Group, in order to enhance its smart manufacturing expertise and portfolio. The fee has not been disclosed; Elisa restated its strategy …
