Keg tracking with Konvoy – how the beer industry got buzzed on IoT
Australian outfit Konvoy Group started three years ago, in the summer of 2019, as a keg rental business, offering logistics support to craft brewers in its home country. It has, …
Transatel on the “ultimate” public/private 5G mashup for Industry 4.0 (an MVNO story)
France-based virtual operator Transatel, busily offering somehow-unfashionable local MVNO and MVNE services in Europe for two decades already, has a second (actually, third and fourth) life, suddenly, in the global …
Colt and IBM unveil Industry 4.0 lab in the UK
Both firms will bring secured Edge Cloud services backed by IBM Cloud Satellite to end customer Colt Technology Services and IBM have launched a joint lab environment to help …
Soracom claims five million IoT connections (a million in 2022), applies to list on TSE
KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has claimed its five-millionth IoT connection, citing strong uptake in the energy, retail, healthcare, agriculture, and consumer electronics industries. The figure represents an advance of …
Spectrum, systems, slicing – five key challenges to bring private 5G to the masses
A session at Private Networks European Forum (PNEF) last month considered the challenges, and broader cultural shift, to bring ‘private 5G to the masses’. Koen Mioulet, secretary at the European …
‘America’s inventive spirit at its finest’ – CBRS model must be extended, says industry
Twenty-six organizations and alliances in the US with active interests in private and shared cellular for enterprise usage have jointly written to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National …
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 …
Federated Wireless and AWS kick off private 5G channel deal with Cal Poly installation
Federated Wireless is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) on a private cellular deployment with California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) to support the university’s new ‘5G innovation network’, geared …
How to unlock the technical barriers to digitalization
Industry 4.0 represents a shift from ‘islands of automation’ to cyber-physical systems Four industry experts came together at the 5G Manufacturing Forum to offer insight into how some of the …
UScellular taps Cradlepoint for enterprise 5G
Mobile network operator UScellular and wireless WAN networking equipment Cradlepoint announced a new partnership Wednesday that promises to deliver “enterprise-grade” 5G business internet services to UScellular’s enterprise customers. The companies …
