Manufacturer WEG tests private and public 5G with Nokia and Anatel in Brazil
Brazilian electronic equipment manufacturer WEG is working with the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) and Finnish network vendor Nokia on parallel Industry 4.0 testbeds using public and private 5G networks …
Itron, Microsoft combine on ‘performant’ cloud-based smart meter management
Industrial IoT provider Itron, specialising in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solutions for utilities, is working with Microsoft to provide cloud-based meter data management (MDM) services to customers. The pair have …
Silicon Labs intros new range of Wi-SUN SoCs for smart meters, lights, cities
Austin-based chip-maker Silicon Labs has announced a new range of system-on-chips (SoCs) with support for Wi-SUN, an alternative for low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking like LoRaWAN and Sigfox. It said its …
Scarborough, Maine, migrates smart street-lighting from Echelon to Dhyan
The town of Scarborough in Maine, in the US, has migrated its smart street lights onto a cloud management platform from California-headquartered Dhyan Networks and Technologies, and away from smart …
Private LTE for all nuclear power plants in France – EDF sets Thales, Ericsson to work
Électricité de France (EDF) has appointed Thales and Ericsson to design and supply private industrial-grade LTE networks at all of its nuclear energy sites in France. The company has 56 …
Semtech claims major LoRa meter rush; Helium tees-up blockchain-based LoRa gear
US manufacturing company Vision Metering is ramping up production of LoRa based smart energy meters connecting on LoRaWAN networks. The South Carolina firm claimed it has been “quickly onboarding” municipal …
Nokia and EY combine to ‘unleash the potential’ of industrial 5G across globe
Nokia has teamed up with professional services consultancy Ernst & Young (EY) in Finland to help enterprises and mobile operators ”unleash the business potential” of ‘private wireless’ solutions, the umbrella …
Senet certifies Lorax gas meter and service shutoff valves on LoRaWAN network
US IoT provider Senet has struck a deal with Canada-based Lorax Systems, a safety and environmental solutions company, around utility monitoring against natural gas incidents. The companies have certified Lorax’s …
French auto-tech firms form Software République to push Europe-made smart mobility
French firms Atos, Dassault Systèmes, Groupe Renault, STMicroelectronics, and Thales have joined together to create a new ‘Software République’ to develop home-grown “sustainable mobility” solutions for cities, regions, and businesses, …
Bosch trumps its own Industry 4.0 fantasies with (wait for it)… a smart factory floor
It sounded, at the time, like a sci-fi vision of the future of manufacturing: that with a hyper-connected 5G factory, the only fixed assets will be the floors, walls and …
