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SoftBank Robotics partners with UnaBiz to integrate IoT sensors, robotics

This alliance is part of SoftBank Robotics’ roadmap to implement an IoT system onto a unified smart facility management platform   SoftBank Robotics Group (SBRG) has announced a partnership with IoT provider UnaBiz, with the aim of integrating IoT sensors and robotics in building management and...

NTT announces new managed campus networks services enhancements

NTT’s Managed Campus Networks solution complements NTT’s Managed SD-WAN and Managed Private 5G offerings   NTT, a global technology and business solutions provider, announced a number of enhancements to its Managed Campus Networks service, a portfolio of consulting, technical and managed services designed to provide integrated...

1NCE upon a time in the West – how 1NCE brought order to the global IoT game

Yes, we have done the Leone analogy before, kind-of (see: 1NCE upon a time in America), but the original Spaghetti Western title works even better to tell the story, briefly, of how cellular IoT rode into town on a horse called 1NCE, and brought...

Sigfox sale gets delayed to April 21 – ‘a week to convince the government,’ says UnaBiz

The Commercial Court of Toulouse in France has delayed its decision on the sale of Sigfox until April 21. The decision, originally scheduled for today (April 14), gives Singapore-based UnaBiz, the long-time front-runner to buy ailing IoT firm, another week to appeal against the...

France’s Derichebourg Multiservices installs 1,200 sensors into ceiling lights at new HQ

France-based facility services company Derichebourg Multiservices has integrated 1,200 IoT sensors into the LED ceiling lights at its new headquarters in Créteil (pictured), near Paris. Data from the sensors will help the firm optimise its energy management at the site, as well as to...

Sigfox spies skulduggery – UnaBiz blocked (and appealed) as Sigfox sale gets political

Singapore-based UnaBiz, the front-runner in the race to buy Sigfox, has had its bid for the ailing French IoT firm blocked by the French Ministry of Economy, as political hyper-sensitivity around economic nationalism, and even protectionism, mounts ahead of the French presidential elections on...

Smart buildings to reach 115 million in 2026: Juniper Research

Juniper Research found that the global shipments of sensors used in smart buildings will exceed 1 billion annually in 2026    The number of buildings globally deploying smart building technologies will reach 115 million in 2026, an increase from 45 million in 2022, according to a...

A ‘most complex’ challenge – Bosch and AWS knit together global logistics services

Bosch and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are combining on a new digital services platform for the logistics industry, to launch in Europe, India, and the US in late 2022. Bosch is in charge of the platform itself, developing and operating the solution, which includes...

“The fate of Sigfox is in your hands” – Henri Bong’s open letter to President Macron

An Open Letter to Presidential Candidate Macron Subject: Resumption of Sigfox activity #SauvonsSigfox #ReviensLeon Presidential candidate Macron, You gave me a taste for politics. You have given me hope in a government with progressive values, capable of destroying dogmatic practices that chained France to immobility and futile...

Lufthansa Technik doubles-down on private 5G in Hamburg workshops

Lufthansa Technik, which has arguably set down the definitive private 5G deployment in the Industry 40 sector, has extended its private 5G network in Hamburg, Germany, to a second aircraft engine ‘overhaul workshop’, it has announced. The firm is now running remote parts inspection...

5G could be a game changer for the utilities sector: Ericsson

Ericsson believes that the real promise of 5G for a utility is the introduction of lower network latencies   The adoption of 5G technologies could be a game changer for utility companies, Per Wahlen, vice president and head of Business Development at Ericsson North America, told...

GCF joins with 5G-ACIA to ‘investigate’ industrial 5G certification needs

The Global Certification Forum (GCF) and the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) have signed a cooperation agreement to jointly investigate industrial 5G certification needs. The pair said they will share information on industrial IoT use cases and related requirements for testing...

Swedish motorcycle maker RGNT selects Telenor IoT

Telenor IoT currently operates 17 million of IoT connections globally and has access to over 500 networks in more than 200 countries   Swedish electric motorcycle manufacturer RGNT Motorcycles has selected Nordic operator Telenor IoT to scale their connectivity solutions. With Telenor IoT’s connectivity service, RGNT will...

Hillwood offers Ericsson’s ‘Waze for wireless’ for driverless vehicle tests at MIZ test zone

Ericsson is working with US real estate developer Hillwood to offer a tool for autonomous and connected vehicle companies to access “secure and constant” 4G and 5G connectivity at the Mobility Innovation Zone (MIZ) within the 27,000-acre AllianceTexas development in Fort Worth, in Texas....

FedEx to test autonomous drone cargo deliveries with new Elroy Air system

FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx, is working with California-based aerial cargo startup Elroy Air to launch test flights for autonomous drone cargo deliveries in 2023. The deal is billed as a “first of its kind agreement” in the US. FedEx Express said it...

And then there were four (and then two) – bidders bail as UnaBiz, OTEIS await Sigfox fate

An update on the Sigfox takeover, taken from largely from a report in La Tribune Toulouse, the local business paper in Toulouse, France, where the seven candidates offering to rescue the ailing French IoT firm had their bids reviewed at the city's commercial court...

Bluetooth growth fixed at 20% for five years in key IoT segments

Annual shipments of Bluetooth devices will pass seven billion in 2026, according to the latest annual market update from the Bluetooth SIG (via ABI Research); the forecast number represents a seven percent CAGR jump on 2021, when 4.7 billion Bluetooth devices shipped. And while...

AWS collaborates with ARC to support the ‘Internet of Battlefield Things’

ARC said the partnership aims to help shape the future of ground warfare with weapons sensing and other technologies   Armaments Research Company (ARC) announced a collaboration with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Federal Small Business Team with the aim of helping shape the future of...

MGA Tech taps Edzcom (taps Nokia) for 5G-based Industry 4.0 co-creation platform

Custom-machine manufacturer MGA Technologies has engaged Finland-based industrial networking specialist Edzcom, owned by Spanish tower company Cellnex, to deploy a private 5G network from Nokia at its new MGA TechLab 4.0 in Lyon, in France. The network went live in January; new Industry 4.0...

Senet and Dhyan pre-pack LoRaWAN streetlighting for cities and utilities

LoRaWAN software and services provider Senet is working with IoT platform provider Dhyan Networks and Technologies to offer a ‘turnkey’ streetlight package for customers, to make it easy to add smart streetlights as an application on top of LoRaWAN networks. The pair are targeting...

Samsung, ABB target commercial buildings with new partnership

Samsung said its SmartThings platform allows users to monitor and control ABB’s portfolio of devices, like cameras and sensors   South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics announced a partnership with global technology company ABB to expand Samsung SmartThings integration into commercial and residential buildings. “With SmartThings, Samsung...

Scotland opens 5G hubs in Strathclyde, Glasgow – to be at ‘forefront’ of Industry 4.0

The Scotland 5G Centre (S5GC), a government-sponsored research centre with the universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, has opened new private 5G network testbeds in Aberdeen and Kilmarnock, in Scotland. The new additions take the total number of S5GC testbeds to five, following installations in...

LoRaWAN, que je t’aime – Orange reaffirms LoRa affair, keeps the WAN in LoRaWAN

Mobile operator Orange has reaffirmed its support for LoRaWAN in France “until at least 2027”, committing to maintain the non-cellular technology as a terrestrial IoT network with nationwide coverage in the country of its birth – even as cellular 5G expands as an IoT...

Saudi operator STC joins with Public Investment Fund to form new IoT company

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and local carrier STC have announced the signing of a joint venture agreement to establish a new company, with focus on the Internet of Things (IoT). The partners said that the JV still needs to obtain the relevant approvals from...