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Indian IoT provider Quantela targets US smart cities with T-Mobile NB-IoT bundle

India-based IoT provider Quantela has signed a deal with T-Mobile in the US to bundle the carrier's cellular IoT airtime with its smart-city solutions. Quantela is focused on cities and utilities in the US, it said, particularly in the smart street-lighting space. The firm said...

Surge in smart electric meters in US, Canada – on new upgrades and late adopters

The installed base of smart electricity meters in North America is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.8 percent during 2021-2027 to reach a total of 173.4 million units at the end of the period, according to a new...

IoT tracking in the supply chain industry – the lowest start and the biggest finish?

Note, this is the foreword from a new report on IoT tracking in the supply chain industry; the report is linked here and (repeatedly) in the article below – and also in the images at the bottom. The title of this piece might have...

Top five sectors for cellular IoT – c/o Telit

There is a reason why the logistics sector is the favourite market for IoT. Because IoT, arguably, consists of only two distinct applications – asset tracking and condition monitoring – and the first of these, by definition, is about the positional aspect of ‘things’-in-motion....

‘Largest private industrial 5G network in Europe’ – by Nokia, for ASN (Nokia)

The “largest private industrial 5G network in Europe” has opened in Calais, in France, using 59 small cell antennas to cover a 50,000 square-metre production site belonging to Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), the optical submarine division of telecoms vendor Nokia. The Finnish firm has...

Five days on the road – the journey of change for the supply chain (a truck-driving song)

There is an argument, gathering popularity, that the IoT market has grown up; that IoT just works, well enough, at last – so that technology is no longer the start-point for a conversation with industry about digital change. Instead, a linear narrative can now...

Airtel to connect 200,000 smart meters

Under the terms of the deal, the Indian telco will deploy its proprietary IoT platform 'Airtel IoT Hub'   India’s largest telecom operator, Bharti Airtel, announced that it has won a contract to provide a cellular IoT solution for TP Western Odisha Distribution Limited (TPWODL). TPWODL is...

Celona on CBRS-bashing by old telco crowd – plus global expansion, growth verticals

Last month, the CBRS community in the US made a swift counter-strike, in the form of a joint letter to the FCC and NTIA, against a report by telecoms lobby group CTIA that said private and shared cellular is bad for the US economy...

Siemens and Qualcomm test indoor private 5G in CBRS for building automation

Siemens has worked with Qualcomm to deploy an indoor private 5G network in CBRS spectrum at Siemens headquarters in Chicago, with a view to test and develop solutions to automate building functions and services. The private 5G trial network is being used, initially to...

Australian supermarket chain Coles deploys Sigfox tracking for poultry supply chain

Australian supermarket chain Coles is running track-and-trace of its poultry supply chain, based on an IoT tracking and monitoring solution by pallet pooling company Loscam and local Sigfox operator Thinxtra. The pair has attached sensors to 4,500 poultry ‘bins’ (containers) moving between its suppliers’...

‘Don’t talk tech just because you don’t get the vertical’ – the hardest industry of all

There was a good panel session, yesterday (November 29; see cover image, available on-demand), on IoT tracking in the supply chain, which brought insightful content and commentary from leading IoT outfits DeltaTrak, Telit, and Unabiz, plus from analyst house ABI Research. But even with...

Skyworks, Sequans combine on “smallest” LTE-M and NB-IoT system-in-package

Semiconductor firm Skyworks Solutions claims to have produced the world’s smallest dual-mode cellular IoT system-in-package (SiP) solution. The US outfit partnered with IoT chip and module maker Sequans Communications on the product, numbered SKY66431, to combine the France-based firm’s Monarch 2 modem with its...

Smart energy: Three things to remember this winter (Reader Forum)

Brace yourself: Winter is coming and this year looks tough. The double whammy of tight energy supplies and rising costs are placing pressure on consumers around the world. To make matters worse, Europe is already flagging energy restrictions. In Italy, for example, buildings will...

Supply chain scale-up project44 bags $80m from Maersk, others – takes value to $2.7bn

A sure sign of spiralling interest in asset tracking; US supply-chain software outfit project44 has raised an $80 million funding round led by UK-based investment company Generation Investment Management and Denmark-based A.P. Moller Holding, the investment arm of A.P. Moller Maersk, and parent of...

Reasons to track – eight percent of goods, 3.6 percent of profits vanish in supply chain

Eight percent of stock in the supply chain, between production and consumption, never even arrives – mostly because it either spoils in transit (4.3 percent) or is discarded as surplus (3.4 percent). This failure of stock preservation and demand forecasting (“overproduction”) in the supply...

Fujitsu tests private 5G for equipment inspection, remote recovery at data centres

Japanese IT firm Fujitsu is to start testing private 5G for equipment inspection at its major data centre in Yokohama, in the Kanagawa prefecture, as a springboard to drive “operational resilience and process automation” in the broader data centre market. The Fujitsu project, to...

New private 5G use-case shock! Paper manufacturer Holmen Iggesund gets smart

Okay, so not a new use case, as such; it is just another connectivity-in-manufacturing case. But still, it is process manufacturing… at a giant paper mill! Swedish pulp and paperboard company Holmen Iggesund has commissioned local system integrator Combitech to deploy a private 5G...

From a standing start in Texas – the story of Dow Chemical’s multi-site private LTE push

US system integrator Kyndryl has published a nice-looking blog post, complete with videos, on its headline work, announced at the start of the year, to deploy private LTE for Michigan-headquartered Dow Chemical Company, manufacturer of plastics, chemicals, and agricultural products. The post puts focus...

Public LoRaWAN arrives in the Great Lakes – for regional IoT water management

US LoRaWAN specialist Senet has been recruited by US engineering firm LimnoTech to deploy a public LoRaWAN network across the Great Lakes region of the US, providing connectivity across area wetlands, parks, coastlines, rural and urban areas, and open waters. The work is part...

Regional power utility Xcel Energy signs with Anterix for private LTE in eight US states

Regional US electric utility Xcel Energy has signed a deal with Anterix to lease its 900 MHz spectrum for private LTE across its service area in eight western and midwestern states. The deal is another sign of momentum for Anterix, which has signed a...

Electric utility Evergy deploys Ericsson-made private LTE across Kansas, Missouri

Swedish vendor Ericsson has completed the rollout of a private LTE network for regional US electric utility Evergy, covering 20 cell sites in Kansas and Missouri. Locally-headquartered engineering consultancy Burns & McDonnell has been engaged, also, on the new network’s design and build, and...

Cold chain tracking firm DeltaTrak signs with Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson

US-based cold chain management company DeltaTrak is working with Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson to provide global tracking and monitoring data for perishable food and biopharmaceutical products. An announcement says DeltaTrak is working with Ericsson “through Deutsche Telekom”; it adds that the firm is using...

Food giant Mars set to rollout IoT and AI across global production lines

US-based food manufacturing giant Mars has rolled out digital twin technology, marrying IoT sensor outputs with AI analytics inputs in a edge/cloud dashboard, across its factories in the US, specifically to reduce instances of over-filling packages in food production. The solution, designed with IT...

Veolia appoints Orange to supply secure AI and IoT to its water management services

Veolia Water Technologies, the digital solutions arm of French utility services company Veolia, is working with Orange Business Services, the global enterprise division of France-based telecoms operator Orange, to bring new analytics and security to its Hubgrade water cycle management platform. The pair will develop...