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Federated Wireless launches private wireless-as-a-service offering

Federated Wireless CCO: ‘Enterprises want to buy private wireless as a subscription, as something they can scale’ Federated Wireless has announced a new private wireless-as-a-service offering that enables enterprises to deploy a turnkey private cellular network using CBRS spectrum. According to Chris Swan, chief customer...

Itron partners with SmartThings to focus on utility energy analytics

The partnership will combine Itron’s distributed intelligence ecosystem with SmartThings Energy service to provide real-time energy readings and consumption patterns   Itron announced it is working together with Samsung subsidiary SmartThings to connect Itron’s industrial IoT (IIoT) network solution and SmartThings’ services and solutions. The collaboration will...

Ubiik intros network kit for NB-IoT, LTE-M on private LTE in 400MHz-2.6GHz range

Taiwanese industrial IoT provider Ubiik has released a network kit for running any LTE-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT technology on private and hybrid cellular networks. These cellular IoT technologies include Cat-1, LTE-M, and NB-IoT, and the package covers usage in 410MHz and 450MHz bands...

Origem recruits Speedcast, Nokia to deploy private LTE for gas production in Brazil

Australian satellite and IT comms provider Speedcast has deployed a private LTE network across four natural gas plants for Brazilian energy integrator Origem Energia in the state of Alagoas in the northeast of the country. The project has been carried out by Speedcast’s local...

Citymesh and Sensolus strike two-way deal on Sigfox tracking in Belgium

Tracking provider Sensolus has moved its IoT estate onto Citymesh’s Sigfox network in Belgium. The move follows Citymesh’s 2021 purchase of the local Sigfox network from French multinational utility company ENGIE, which had managed the infrastructure in the country under the ENGIE M2M brand....

Munich Airport deploys MIOTY system to connect, expand, automate energy metering

Munich Airport is looking to connect, expand, and automate its existing energy monitoring system, currently taking meter readings for water and electricity consumption – across the terminal buildings, baggage areas, and hangars – over local-area wired and wireless networks, to its developing low-power wide-area...

New Zealand window maker AGP connects trolley fleet to Thinxtra’s Sigfox network

New Zealand glass manufacturer Architectural Glass Products (AGP) has recruited local pair Pollin8 and Thinxtra, providing IoT gadgetry and IoT networking respectively, to deploy low-power wide-area (LPWA) battery-powered Sigfox trackers on 1,750 delivery trolleys, carrying glass products to customers around the country. The trolleys...

Ericsson shows how IoT can mitigate energy cost in properties

Ericsson noted that the report comes with a specific energy management value calculator designed to estimate savings and efficiencies based on energy prices and other factors   Swedish vendor Ericsson released a ‘Connected Buildings Energy Management’ report in partnership with Nordic property technology company Kiona and...

FloLIVE teams up with Skylo to offer 5G IoT over satellite – with no new hardware

London-based startup FloLIVE, offering aggregated hybrid-private 5G from global mobile operators for IoT use cases, is working with California-based satellite IoT provider Skylo to augment its footprint with the addition of non-terrestrial 5G network (NTN) coverage, to go beyond the reach of terrestrial mobile...

Airspan, Ambra, Integra, Itatel, others join Athonet’s fledgling private 5G club in the US

Core network provider Athonet has expanded its fledgling private 5G vendor club to include a broader cross-set of companies to promote and deliver new cellular systems for enterprises. The new joiners are Airspan, Ambra, Imagine Wireless, Integra Network Solutions, Itatel, RippleLink, Teal Communications, and...

Milestones in massive IoT – five large-scale (show-stealing) LoRaWAN deployments

The Things People – those in charge of the The Things Network (TTN) and The Things Industries (TTI) – took the magnanimous (though correct, given its place in the back-end IoT stack) step at its annual LoRaWAN developer event in Amsterdam, The Things Conference,...

Nvidia tackles the industrial metaverse with Omniverse Cloud

Omniverse goes IaaS with new managed services and a global delivery network Nvidia’s been pushing its metaverse concept, the Omniverse, as everything from a digital twin simulation system to a collaborative 3D playground for designers and researchers, an AI training and proving ground to make...

An IoT conundrum – poor planning, long delays hobble quick returns, high hopes

Two thirds (67 percent) of enterprises want to see a return on their IoT investments (ROI) within 12 months of starting-out, and yet almost half (49 percent) reckon the biggest roadblock to ROI is long deployment times. Clearly something is up, says a survey...

Senet bolsters public LoRaWAN in NYC with Helium extension, promo tour

Senet has expanded its public LoRaWAN network across all five boroughs of New York City through a combination of Senet-owned infrastructure, roaming deals with partner networks, and formal integration with Helium network, the company has said. The US LoRaWAN operator is on a charm...

Double-digit growth for cold chain IoT – to 9.2 million units, €1.2 billion by 2026

The number of active IoT devices for cold chain tracking reached 4.1 million worldwide in 2021, according to Berg Insight. The calculation measures refrigerated cargo and cargo carrying units, including trailers, intermodal containers, rail freight wagons, air cargo containers, cargo boxes and pallets. The...

Nestlé intros “first” all-private 5G in Latin America – with Ericsson, Claro, Embratel

Swiss food-and-drink manufacturing conglomerate Nestlé has tapped Brazilian telecoms duo Claro and Embratel, both subsidiaries of Mexican group América Móvil, to build a private 5G network at a factory in Caçapava, a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. Swedish vendor Ericsson...

Sigfox operator Heliot joins MIOTY Alliance – to bring ‘unified LPWAN’ a step closer

Heliot Europe, the biggest Sigfox operator in Europe, has joined the MIOTY Alliance, the group promoting MIOTY as an alternative to low-power IoT technologies like Sigfox, as well as LoRaWAN and NB-IoT. The move, which might once have been considered by the Sigfox crowd...

MTN building private 5G networks for ports, mines in South Africa

MTN currently provides 5G services in 38 cities across South Africa   South African telco MTN is currently building private 5G networks for 14 companies in the mining and ports sectors in South Africa, according to local newspaper the Sunday Times. MTN’s CEO Charles Molapisi said that...

Nokia furthers private network play with two manufacturing deployments

Both private network deployments involve the Nokia Digital Automation Cloud solution Nokia announced two 5G private network deployments yesterday: One in Brazil at the manufacturing facilities of electronics provider Flex Brazil, and another at MEXT, the Turkish Employers’ Association of Metal Industries Technology Center, in...

Physical prototypes soon to be obsolete? Altair survey reflects the rise of digital twins

A recent global survey commissioned by Altair found "breakneck adoption" in the use of digital twins, with 69% of companies reporting that their organization makes use of digital twins. Forty-three percent of those surveyed said that digital twins could make physical prototypes obsolete within...

Go big, or go home – private 5G for smart warehousing (five takeaways)

Analyst house ABI Research, in association with US network design and services firm Betacom, has put out a white paper about private 5G in warehousing, and Enterprise IoT Insights has had a quick read and (borrowed and stolen and) come up with five takeaways...

BT and Atos ink computer vision partnership

Digital Vision will use BT's 5G/FTTx multi-access connectivity and edge computing   U.K. telco BT and French IT firm Atos have announced the launch of Digital Vision, which is a computer vision solution for the industrial sector including manufacturing and logistics. Computer vision enables computers and intelligent...

SK Telecom-led consortium inks deal for air taxi pilot program

  SK Telecom said that the UAM pilot will be carried out in Jeju, one of South Korea’s main tourist attractions   An urban air mobility consortium led by Korean carrier SK Telecom and Hanwha Systems has inked a partnership with the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province with...

“Enough tinkering; time to deliver” – IoT gets “no-nonsense” ahead of big TTN/TTI show

Next week – in case you’ve been trapped under a heavy object, away from the business pages on social media – is The Things Conference, the annual LoRaWAN shindig in Amsterdam, hosted by the TTN/TTI Things collective. The show (September 22-23) has built a...