
“An exciting adventure” – Nokia opens 5G/6G lab in Australia to drive Industry 4.0
Nokia has announced a five-year deal with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) to build and run a 5G innovation facility at the university’s Tech Lab campus in Sydney, Australia. …

Seeq teams up on industrial IoT for utilities, oil and gas, manufacturing in Asia Pacific
Seattle-based industrial analytics company Seeq, a star of industrial IoT on the venture capital scene, is targeting the power and utilities, oil and gas, semiconductor, chemical, and process manufacturing industries, …

Europe announces major release, review of public-private 5G funds to spur economy
The European Commission has published a major review of funding for 5G-based and 5G-related industrial transformation, including €10 billion of new public-private partnership (PPP) funding to drive the region’s digital …

Oil and gas sector dispenses with in-house IoT to splurge $712.7m on cloud analytics
Spending on big data and analytics in the oil and gas industry is increasing at a rate of about 75 percent per year, as companies rapidly dispense with in-house IoT …

Private LTE / 5G market jumps seven percent during industry’s annus horribilis
The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has sharpened industrial appetites for private LTE and 5G based networking solutions, with the market growing in the face of global economic crisis in 2020 by …

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 …

Sequans shows ‘vision of future’ with energy harvesting in cellular IoT module
Chip and module make Sequans has showcased a cellular-based LTE-M and NB-IoT connectivity solution at CES in Las Vegas that harvests solar energy to do-away with a battery completely, and …

‘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. …

The trouble with co-creation in industrial IoT – why cities and telcos are dragging their heels on digital change
All this talk about a (industrial) revolution, and sometimes stuff gets left out. Scratching around for news last week, looking through half-written pieces from last year, this jumped out; about …

Signify on 2021: ‘Restoring order after Covid chaos’ – 11 key IoT trends for 2021
A year of unprecedented disruption and change has come to a close. Ahead lies an exciting 2021 when life will presumably get back to something like normal and long-pent-up economic …