BROWSING: Enterprise

The partners will set up a joint 5G innovation lab for developing locally developed use cases for the Indian and global markets   Indian telco Bharti Airtel and compatriot tech and business services company Tech Mahindra, announced a strategic partnership to build and market 5G-based solutions...

eMTC and NB-IoT were both introduced simultaneously in Release 13   eMTC (enhanced machine-type communication) is a type of LTE-M network published by 3GPP in the Release 13 specification. eMTC is a low power wide area technology which supports IoT through lower device complexity and provides...

The first Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) in Africa has opened in Rwanda, with a focus on data governance, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning. It joins a network of 15 C4IR venues on four continents, and sets its agenda to “put ...

As well as a new private 5G deployment in Hamburg for IT service provider Dataport, covered Wednesday (March 30), O2 Telefónica has confirmed a private 5G setup at the Helios Park-Klinikum, a private psychiatric and orthopedics hospital, in Leipzig. O2 Telefónica led the installation,...

Dutch semiconductor manufacturer Nowi, a specialist in energy-harvesting IoT chips, has introduced a new chipset with extended energy harvesting and power management capabilities. The new product, called Diatom (pictured), is designed to extract power from a range of ‘energy harvesters’ to charge batteries and...

Everynet's LoRaWAN network includes over 130 logistics points across the U.S. Everynet, a global operator of national LoRaWAN networks said that its coverage is already available in nearly 370 U.S. cities including more than 130 key logistics points. Everynet claimed to be the only network provider...

Global revenues from cellular IoT modules increased by 58 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021, compared with the year-ago period, with more than 40 percent of the total revenue in the period in China. 5G-based IoT modules contributed to nearly a quarter of...

Helium, the company in charge of the crowd-sourced Helium non-cellular IoT and cellular 5G networks, has rebranded as Nova Labs, and announced $200 million of Series D funding from New York-based investment company Tiger Global and Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Besides...

Nokia has signed a deal with telecoms operator E&, formerly Etisalat Group, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to deploy 5G private networks for enterprises in Abu Dhabi. The pair will target “various industries, including ports, oil and gas, government and critical infrastructure”, they...

Dataport and O2 Telefónica have agreed on a cooperation package for the construction and operation of Dataport's 5G lab   German telco O2 Telefonica said that compatriot IT service provider Dataport is commissioning the first private 5G Standalone campus network in Hamburg for its new 5G...

Dutch chip manufacturer NXP Semiconductors has introduced a new IoT authentication device, part of its EdgeLock authenticator family, to raise security across multiple standards in various IoT ecosystems. The new NXP EdgeLock A5000 authenticator is described as a “scalable solution” for authentication applications in...

It is a silly headline, and an opt-in competition, but the World Economic Forum’s list of ‘lighthouse factories’, acknowledged for their use of Industry 4.0 kit, now stretches to 103 manufacturing facilities, and includes at least six sites that have been separately acclaimed for...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has added 13 new smart factories to its ‘global lighthouse network’ of flagship sites for advanced manufacturing; its total network, proclaimed for their use of “Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies”, now stretches to 103 manufacturing facilities and “value chains”. Besides,...

Cisco took time out with Enterprise IoT Insights at MWC a couple of weeks back to discuss its late entry into the private 5G market, plus its channel strategy around system design and network support, and partner strategy around radio access network (RAN) components....

Maybe it is just the way we ask the questions, but… test and measurement company Keysight Technologies has sought, effectively, to dispel any rumour and disquiet in the ranks about delays with industrial-grade 5G devices to go with industrial-grade private 5G networks. The US-based...

Celona said that the proceeds will be used to accelerate the firm’s worldwide expansion, channel growth and R&D efforts   California-based Celona announced that it has closed a $60 million Series C financing round led by DigitalBridge Ventures, the venture capital initiative of DigitalBridge Group. The financing...

The operator pack, as one would expect, is dividing in two around the Industry 4.0 market, suggests UK-based BT, with serious-minded enterprise-geared providers restructuring their sales operations in order to ‘prime’ the pumps, and switch on a new flow of private 5G, industrial IoT,...

NNNCo. said that the LoRaWAN was funded as part of the Victorian Government’s On-Farm Internet of Things (IoT) trial   Australian IoT operator NNNCo has deployed a new network spread across 32,000 square kilometers in Victoria to help local farmers make better use of digital technologies...

The Industry IoT Consortium (IIC) has released an industrial IoT and AI framework (IIAIF) to raise awareness of the value artificial intelligence (AI) can bring to industrial IoT systems, and to address emerging requirements and implementation challenges. The 60-page document says AI will become...

UK-based Wyld Networks has launched a range of sensor-to-satellite LoRaWAN devices for IoT applications where there is little or no terrestrial connectivity. The new hybrid terrestrial and satellite IoT devices, marketed under the Wyld Connect name, transfer data directly to terrestrial networks or via...

Another late entry from the MWC files, this time from a discussion with IBM; but another one, again, where the talk is somehow timeless, at least in a 2022/3 timeframe, and also sometimes abstract. “Sure, it is a ramble; but, then, nothing is certain,”...

Qualcomm said that the new camera IoT solution is designed to help safeguard environments with smart devices at the connected intelligent edge   Qualcomm Technologies unveiled the firms’ latest smart camera IoT solution, with the aim of supporting safety across enterprises and cities. In a release, the...

Vodafone and Nokia have deployed a private LTE and 5G network to underpin “the world’s first marine-focused 5G testbed” in the UK port city of Plymouth, on the Devon coast. The new installation – “deployed by Vodafone in partnership with Nokia” – is located...

Boingo's new facility will serve as a launch pad to test, trial, and demonstrate 5G, Wi-Fi 6/6E, Wi-Fi 7 and IoT pilot programs   Boingo Wireless has announced that it will set up an innovation center in Las Vegas. The new facility will be located at the...