BAE Systems, Nissan line up behind new £30m UK fund for industrial 5G
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe UK government has awarded £30 million to six new 5G testbeds, as part of a wider £200 million campaign to leverage 5G to energise the UK industrial sector, and …
Nokia promises “groundbreaking” 5G robotics from new India-based R&D facility
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNokia has announced a collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), for research and higher education in science and engineering, to establish a new ‘centre of excellence’ for networked …
Telefónica pitches rejigged IoT and AI portfolio for post-Covid retail
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailTelefónica’s new digital-change unit, Telefónica Tech, has adapted its existing catalogue of IoT and big data solutions for the post-coronavirus recovery of the retail, tourism, hospitality, transport, and mobility sectors, …
T-Systems and KUKA bundle edge-based robots, analytics, services for SMEs
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailDeutsche Telekom’s IT and cloud services division T-Systems has teamed up with robot maker and automation specialist KUKA to offer a combined Industry 4.0 package for small and medium-sized enterprises …
Vodafone offers NB-IoT for UK tree-monitoring and environmental research
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailVodafone has partnered with the UK department for environment, food and rural affairs (Defra) and leading forestry group Forest Research to investigate how narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) technology can help monitor tree …
ABB intros IT-OT analytics bundle to release 80% of trapped Industry 4.0 data
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailSwiss engineering conglomerate ABB has released an analytics software and services suite to combine data from information and operation technology (IT and OT). The new ABB Ability Genix product “collects, …
Bird’s-eye view – why 5G MEC on streetlights is the only way for autonomous vehicles
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailA three-year industrial research project in Germany into how to bring safety and intelligence to next-generation transport systems has concluded the only way to is to combine IoT sensors, edge …
Private 5G is ‘only’ way for Industry 4.0 – first private 5G network goes live in UK with BT
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailUK telecoms provider BT has been appointed as the lead technology partner for the Worcestershire 5G Testbed (W5G), billed as the UK’s first live private 5G network. Swedish vendor Ericsson …
U-Blox teams up with UK startup to offer MQTT-SN based home-care IoT monitor
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailHealth tech startup Upstream Health has developed a low-cost IoT monitoring solution with the UK-based Thingstream division of IoT semiconductor maker U-Blox (branded ‘u-blox’) to help with remote care of …
Unlocking the benefits of the industrial internet of things (Reader Forum)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail The industrial internet-of-things (IIoT) is here to stay. Many heavy industry companies in fields such as engineering, mining, oil and gas, and manufacturing are accelerating their adoption of digital …
