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Print services company Lexmark has stepped up its adventures in IoT service provision with the introduction of a new edge AI solution for Industry 4.0 projects, and for the manufacturing sector, in particular. The firm noted the trend towards edge computing in the industrial...

Agricultural tech provider Solinftec is working with agricultural cooperative GROWMARK in the US to deploy and develop its new automated field robot during the 2022 farming season, “from planting to harvesting”. Solinftec, headquartered in São Paulo in Brazil and also West Lafayette in Indiana in...

Note, for more on this topic, and to hear more from Vodafone and others, join the Enterprise IoT Insights webinar on Industrial 5G (From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard) on April 28 – also featuring speakers from ABI Research, MFA (MulteFire Alliance)/Nokia, and Schneider...

Telefónica Tech, the digital change unit of Spain-based operator Telefónica, has acquired UK-based digital transformation and data analytics company Incremental for £175 million. Incremental, a major Microsoft partner in the UK, will be integrated into Telefónica Tech business in the UK and Ireland. In the...

Industrial automation and energy management provider Schneider Electric is to install NTT’s new private 5G solution at its flagship ‘smart factory’ production facility in Lexington, Kentucky, and progressively through the French firm’s factories and data centres. It appears, as well, that Schneider Electric will...

As with the telecoms industry’s travails with NB-IoT, only just starting to resolve, there is a classic chicken-and-egg scenario with industrial 5G, around availability of networks and devices. In other words, why should an enterprise install a 5G network if there aren’t any enterprise-grade...

This started, provisionally, as a roundup of five key private 5G deployments in five key private 5G industries in five key private 5G markets, spurred by a couple of recent announcements we missed originally, by Spanish construction firm Ferrovial at the Silvertown Tunnel project...

UK-based civil engineering company BAM Nuttal has switched on a private 5G network to provide connectivity for construction services at a 55,00 square-metre site in the Shetland Islands in the UK, where it has been contracted by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) as...

AT&T is working with Microsoft to enable US enterprises to roam from private LTE and 5G networks using the shared CBRS band to public networks using its own licensed spectrum and national infrastructure. The new AT&T Private 5G Edge product will sit alongside Microsoft’s...

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how businesses view and use their workspaces. While employees have begun returning on-site, concerns about health and safety remain high. As a result, real-time workspace-utilization insights are mission critical. With a data-driven picture of how people are using office spaces,...

Barcelona based IoT antenna company Ignion is promising to reduce IoT antenna design “from days or weeks to minutes”, following the release of its new design and simulation platform on AWS. The platform, it said, will allow developers to integrate its so-called ‘virtual antenna’...

Telefónica is working with La Marina de València, the maritime district in the southeastern port city of Valencia in Spain, to ‘digitise’ electricity and water supply for boats, including with various IoT, 5G, cloud computing, analytics and blockchain solutions, it has said. The firm’s...

Software AG has struck a deal to acquire US-based cloud data integration business StreamSets for €524 million, as the Germany-based firm makes good on its stated ambition to expand through merger-and-acquisition (M&A) in the US market. StreamSets, headquartered in San Francisco, has posted compound...

MWC, Barcelona: The industrial sector loves the idea of digital change, says Verizon, and private 5G as a platform for it, but it’s just not very good at showing it. Speaking at a packed industrial 5G (Industry City / Manufacturing Summit) conference stream at...

MWC, Barcelona: Vodafone has launched a blockchain-based trading platform for IoT devices and sensors. The new Digital Asset Broker (DAB) platform, nominally geared to drive an ‘economy of things’, allows verified connected devices to transact securely without human intervention, but with human (‘owner’) control,...

Eighteen months after its acquisition of Cradlepoint, Ericsson has integrated Cradlepoint's NetCloud platform with its own IoT Accelerator platform and extended SIM management to Cradlepoint’s LTE and 5G routers and adapters. The move allows enterprise connectivity providers on the Ericsson portal to provide enterprise...

Nokia has announced go-to-market deals for private LTE and 5G with the cloud division of Chinese web giant Alibaba and with French cloud services company Atos. Both companies will integrate and resell its Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) private wireless solution, which is driving much...

Core network provider Druid Software has partnered with IoT positioning firm Polte to bring the Texas firm’s ‘cloud location over cellular’ (C-LoC) tech to private LTE and 5G networks, and also to enterprises tracking business assets from private onto public LTE and 5G infrastructure. Druid...

US-based Federated Wireless, offering shared spectrum services in the CBRS band, has raised $58 million in Series D funding. The new investment will go to accelerate growth in enterprise markets, it said, with a major focus to “simplify” and “democratise” private LTE and 5G...

Network vendor Nokia is working with New York-based managed infrastructure services provider Kyndryl, separated from IBM late last year, to jointly sell and develop private networking and edge computing solutions for the Industry 4.0 market. The partnership has emerged from a joint private 5G...

Note, this article forms the introduction to a new editorial report from Enterprise IoT Insights, Hybrid Low-Power IoT – How The IoT Industry Is Balancing Function And Efficiency. The report is available here, or by clicking on the image below. Is there a trend...

Business solutions provider NTT is working with US software firm ServiceNow to introduce an “AI-enabled end-to-end workflow automation platform” to its private 5G proposition. The idea is enterprises will be able to migrate business processes onto the cloud using ServiceNow’s cloud platform, which incorporates...

Industrial IoT is the tech answer to the business challenge of environmental sustainability. Everyone says so; everyone knows so. And yet only a third of enterprises are putting their money where their mouths are, and investing in industrial IoT. That is the message, effectively,...

Telstra has announced a AUS$100 million deal with utility services provider Intellihub to provide up to 4.1 million cellular IoT SIMs for smart energy meters in Australia over the next 10 years. The operator said it was its “largest ever IoT deal”, in terms...