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Honeywell said the alliance will integrate distributed energy resources owned by Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions with its battery energy storage systems and Smart Cities Software solution Honeywell and Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions (DESS), a commercial brand of Duke Energy, announced a deal to jointly develop...

Despite the UK government announcement on the 8th December regarding the phasing out of 2G and 3G networks in the UK, there remains a lack of clarity in the future of these technologies for the IoT market. This is because most providers are still...

UK-based civil engineering company BAM Nuttal has switched on a private 5G network to provide connectivity for construction services at a 55,00 square-metre site in the Shetland Islands in the UK, where it has been contracted by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) as...

Blockchain-based edge-operated network company Helium has a new roaming deal with Dutch LoRaWAN network operator Techtenna, allowing Techtenna-originated LoRaWAN devices to utilize Helium’s network in Europe and the US, and also in other markets. Helium, presently focused on LoRaWAN network building, has struck a...

Nokia said its radios are being used in 5G OI Lab’s field labs to test a variety of applications and use cases for rural farms Nokia announced that it has joined the 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab) as a corporate sponsor. In a release,...

Cellnex Telecom is to deploy a private 5G network, plus edge componentry, for the automotive branch of engineering group SEGULA Technologies in Germany. The project is being handled by Edzcom, the Spanish company’s private networking division. Edzcom will install the edge networking and compute...

AT&T is working with Microsoft to enable US enterprises to roam from private LTE and 5G networks using the shared CBRS band to public networks using its own licensed spectrum and national infrastructure. The new AT&T Private 5G Edge product will sit alongside Microsoft’s...

Sparkle IoT Global is a managed IoT connectivity service allowing companies to control their assets across multiple countries Italian company Sparkle has launched its new IoT Global solution during a press meeting held at Expo 2020 Dubai Italy Pavilion. Sparkle's IoT Global is a managed IoT...

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how businesses view and use their workspaces. While employees have begun returning on-site, concerns about health and safety remain high. As a result, real-time workspace-utilization insights are mission critical. With a data-driven picture of how people are using office spaces,...

Barcelona based IoT antenna company Ignion is promising to reduce IoT antenna design “from days or weeks to minutes”, following the release of its new design and simulation platform on AWS. The platform, it said, will allow developers to integrate its so-called ‘virtual antenna’...

South Korea aims to award frequencies in the 28 GHz band for private 5G networks   LG CNS, the IT division of South Korea's LG Group, has applied for government permission to become the second domestic operator of a private 5G network, Korean news outlet Aju...

Bouygues Telecom has announced it will shut down its LoRaWAN network in France from 2024, and start to sell new IoT business and migrate existing IoT accounts to its cellular-based NB-IoT and LTE-M networks. Following the bankruptcy last month of rival IoT firm Sigfox,...

Telefónica is working with La Marina de València, the maritime district in the southeastern port city of Valencia in Spain, to ‘digitise’ electricity and water supply for boats, including with various IoT, 5G, cloud computing, analytics and blockchain solutions, it has said. The firm’s...

Since their introduction in the late 1970's, cellular networks and technology have evolved tremendously, with successive generations (2G through 4G) representing significant milestones in the development of mobile connectivity. 5G, the latest incarnation, represents a step-change in performance over 4G, with throughputs of up...

Verizon Business said that the strategic partnership will focus on leveraging its On Site LTE and 5G network with Celona’s 5G LAN products   Verizon Business announced a new turnkey private networking solution with Celona, with the aim of accelerating the use of private 5G to...

This might seem like a cop-out, but the irresistible narrative from MWC over the week, that the grand-standing on the show floor masked (and revealed) a battle between three industries for the soul of 5G, is not quite right. The idea that the traditional...

Samsung said they expect to start providing commercial private 5G networks in Japan in the second quarter of 2022 Korean vendor Samsung Electronics announced it has been selected by Japanese operator NTT East, to jointly expand the private 5G network business in Japan, the former...

Deutsche Telekom has teamed up with Japanese module maker Murata and Dutch chip company Nowi on a small-sized energy-harvesting NB-IoT module (pictured) that uses the German operator’s proprietary iSIM solution, NuSIM. The trio have called it the world’s smallest battery-less NB-IoT module; it has...

NTT-owned IoT MVNO-enabler Transatel has introduced a private LTE/5G extension for its IoT roaming SIM to enable connected devices to switch between public and private cellular networks. It described the new feature as “critical given the massive adoptions of private 5G in factories and...

Deutsche Telekom said that the results of the proof of concept are convincing as cars are controlled by the system, with "absolute" stability and security   Deutsche Telekom performed a proof-of-concept with BMW Group and Valeo in the domain of automated valet parking. The European carrier said...

Software AG has struck a deal to acquire US-based cloud data integration business StreamSets for €524 million, as the Germany-based firm makes good on its stated ambition to expand through merger-and-acquisition (M&A) in the US market. StreamSets, headquartered in San Francisco, has posted compound...

Telefonica highlighted that the smart building platform aims to centralize, automate, collect and present data more efficiently   Spanish telecommunications operator Telefónica, in collaboration with Siemens, Bookker and BIM6D, has unveiled its smart building platform in a demonstration area at Mobile World Congress (MWC), being held...

Private 5G implementation is Non-Standalone mode and uses Corning radios BlackRock, the largest asset management firm on the planet, has engaged Verizon Business to build out a private 5G network. According to Verizon, BlackRock is targeting applications around training, AR, VR, security, edge compute and...

Note, this article was updated with additional information on March 2. Nine companies have entered bids for ailing IoT firm Sigfox, as the deadline for its sale passed last Friday (February 25). Bidders include Singapore-based IoT house and early front-runner UnaBiz, which had confirmed...