YOU ARE AT:Enterprise

BROWSING: Enterprise

Troubled IoT firm Sigfox plunged into rapid three-week auction – sale closes Feb 25

The court-appointed receivers in charge of France-based ultra-narrowband IoT technology company Sigfox have initiated a competitive bidding process for the company’s various technology assets, customer accounts, and going-concerns, including its France based Sigfox network operation. The auction, to recover funds in default and potentially...

Mitsubishi Electric, NTT Docomo team up on private 5G for Industry 4.0 in Thailand

Japanese manufacturing group Mitsubishi Electric has inducted country-mate NTT Docomo into its new Industry 4.0 alliance in Thailand in order to offer private 5G with smart manufacturing solutions from other partners. Mitsubishi Electric called it “the first case of private 5G with Japanese equipment”...

Ubiik intros dual-mode Release-15 LTE-M/NB-IoT small cell for industrial IoT

Taiwanese industrial IoT provider Ubiik has released a Release 15 level dual-mode LTE-M and NB-IoT unit that can operate as a small cell or access point. It is pitching the product to mobile network operators and private LTE network providers, supplying industrial enterprises. The...

Comcast Business, Nokia partner to target 5G private wireless networks

  Comcast Business recently announced a non-exclusive partnership with Finnish vendor Nokia to extend its enterprise connectivity portfolio to deliver 5G private wireless networks. For this purpose, Comcast will use Nokia DAC (Digital Automation Cloud) industrial-grade private wireless solution and digitalization enabler platform. The first Comcast Business...

Digital Industry Solutions | Hybrid low-power IoT – how the IoT industry is balancing function and efficiency to drive massive IoT

The penny has dropped – IoT is not a winner-takes-all market. Increasingly, IoT solution providers are looking to mix and match low-power IoT technologies to serve complex use cases and drive efficiencies.   This report discusses the combination, variously, of wide-area IoT (LoRaWAN, Sigfox, NB-IoT, LTE-M),...

What is the net environmental impact of dirt-cheap massive-scale IoT?

This discussion is missing something, of course; IoT is not supposed to be written about as an environmental risk. The idea that billions of disposable trackers might litter the planet is an alarmist angle, arguably, on a tech-for-good story. Because, in most cases, the...

German city and uni expand LoRaWAN into smart city, Industry 4.0 apps, 5G crossover

Pforzheim University in Germany has expanded its LoRaWAN network, originally deployed for research purposes at the university faculty of technology, for usage by smart city and Industry 4.0 applications, as well as in industrial 5G crossover work with another university in the country's south.  These...

UiPath works with Deloitte in the Smart Factory @ Wichita initiative

  UiPath, a robotic process automation (RPA) software company, recently announced it has become a builder sponsor of The Smart Factory @ Wichita, a new Industry 4.0 immersive experience center by Deloitte. As a sponsor of The Smart Factory @ Wichita, UiPath said it will showcase...

NNNCo gets involved in LoRaWAN smart street lighting project in Uruguay

  Australian LoRaWAN network operator National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo) has signed a contract with technology provider Wellness TechGroup, to provide IoT network coverage to 70,000 smart streetlights in Uruguay’s capital Montevideo. In a release, the Australian firm said that the project will cover 200 square...

IoT platform market is innovating, expanding, about to boom – with $31bn of sales in 2026

The IoT platform market is innovating and expanding, and about to boom. So says ABI Research, which has counted 62 companies offering connectivity management platforms for enterprises to keep track of their varied IoT estates, and calculated $31 billion will be spent on them...

Telefónica strikes deal for up to 650,000 NB-IoT water meters in Spain

We are a little late with this, but it is a sizeable deal, which might also be construed as significant because it is for low-power wide-area (LPWA) connectivity in Spain, in Sigfox’s (other) backyard, and its comes to us in the days after Sigfox’s...

Vodafone supplies 5G and IoT to health-tech firm with ‘access’ to 90% of operating rooms

Vodafone has formalised a partnership with health-tech platform provider Proximie to supply sundry 5G networking, IoT sensing, and edge computing componentry for its surgical software, which is being deployed in hospital operating theatres and diagnostic rooms to help with training and operations. Proximie says...

GSMA and 5G-ACIA team up on industrial 5G for Industry 4.0

The GSM Association (GSMA) and the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) are to collaborate more deeply on industrial 5G for smart manufacturing. The pair have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly “promote and advance a shared understanding” of industrial...

Telstra and Ericsson supply private 5G for Australian agri-tech collective

Telstra has deployed a private 5G network for industrial tech organisation AgriFood Connect in Australia. It has worked with Ericsson on the deployment; it is the Swedish vendor’s first private-5G install in Australia. AgriFood Connect is a not-for-profit seeking to drive tech adoption in...

Deutsche Telekom launches 5G Standalone campus network solution

  German telco Deutsche Telekom has extended its campus network portfolio with the new offering of location-specific 5G mobile networks for companies based on 5G Standalone Technology (5G SA). In a release, the telco said that the new campus network offering is based on a local...

Sigfox placed into receivership in France – with six months to find buyers, save jobs

Sigfox has been placed into receivership in France, with a six month window to find a new owner. The company’s chief executive, Jeremy Prince, instructed the Toulouse Commercial Court to open the procedure yesterday (January 26), to place Sigfox, as well as local Sigfox...

Signify completes acquisition of UK smart street-lighting pioneer Telensa

Lighting firm Signify has completed its acquisition of UK-based Telensa, a pioneer in the smart street-lighting market, with a strong customer base among local councils and utility organisations, notably in the UK. The deal was originally announced last July; the transaction fee has not...

‘The last thing holding IoT back’ – Nokia and Nordic streamline IoT patent licences

Nokia and Nordic Semiconductor are to make Nokia-owned Standard Essential Patent (SEP) licences available with the purchase of cellular IoT hardware from the Norway-based chip and module maker. The cellular IoT industry has moved systematically over the past 12 months, or so, to tackle...

Rogers installs private 5G at Canada gold mine – plus 5G extension for ‘off-grid’ locals

Rogers Business, the enterprise division of Canadian operator Rogers, has installed a private 5G network at Detour Lake, an open pit mine in northern Ontario belonging to gold producer Kirkland Lake Gold. The private 5G setup uses Rogers’ “full range of spectrum frequency bands”...

Silicon Labs intros SoCs for edge ML – with Matter, Zigbee, OpenThread, Bluetooth

Chip-maker Silicon Labs has introduced two families of 2.4 GHz wireless system-on-chips (SoCs), featuring integrated AI/ML accelerators and support, variously, for short-range protocols including Matter, Zigbee, OpenThread, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and Bluetooth mesh. The Austin-based firm said integrated (tinyML) AI/ML hardware acceleration in the...

Nokia supplies private 5G system to auto manufacturer AD Plastik in Croatia

Nokia is working with the networking division of Croatian broadcaster and telecoms company OIV to install a private 5G network to drive Industry 4.0 operations for automotive component manufacturer AD Plastik Group in Croatia. The ‘campus’ deployment is billed as the first standalone private...

France and Germany to support joint private 5G projects

France and Germany have pledged a total of 17.7 million euros ($19.95 million) in support of four projects on 5G applications, the two countries' governments have said in a joint release. The aim of the joint initiative is to deliver innovative solutions that will...

Disposable dollar-priced IoT – how massive will it really get?

The narrative about the environmental impact of disposable IoT (see here and here; check back for upcoming report on The Green Credentials of 5G and IoT), begs the question, of course; how many, exactly? How massive does ‘massive IoT’ get? And how big is...

5G is here – businesses should be ready to take advantage of it (Reader Forum)

As businesses in the UK look to recover from the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, 5G and advanced network technologies will become more important to businesses than ever. Recent figures from Vodafone suggest 5G could boost output in the UK by £150 billion; a...