BROWSING: Enterprise

Sequans sees IoT growth in key verticals, including utilities, healthcare and asset tracking The vision of enterprise digital transformation is predicated on using Internet of Things (IoT) devices to turn data into an action that provides a business with an operational and/or financial efficiency. A...

So AWS responded about some of the finer details in its new private 5G offer, announced yesterday. What have we learned? Not much, at least in terms of the identity of the networking partners it is using for the project. But there was some...

In a new Q&A report series, Enterprise IoT Insights talks with select industry leaders about how digital systems – including 5G, AI, IoT, and edge, plus other key technologies – are transforming industry.   This report maps the vision, signs the obstacles, and charts a course...

Big news in the excitable private 5G universe; Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced its own private 5G service, AWS Private 5G, incorporating small cell radio access network (RAN) units, core and RAN software, and subscriber identity modules (SIM cards), plus sundry edge servers...

Enterprise IoT Insights rarely reports on executive appointments, but this one is apposite in light of the cellular IoT market’s grab for scale in late 2021, and the good work by virtual IoT operators to show it the way. Germany-based IoT provider 1NCE, which...

A team of scientists in Europe has bounced a LoRa message off the Moon. The feat sets a new distance record of 730,360 kilometres for the distance travelled by a LoRa-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT message. It was also the first time a data...

Compal Electronics has deployed a private 5G network with a core network from Stockholm-based telecoms software and cybersecurity outfit Enea. The Taiwanese firm, one of the world’s largest original design manufacturers (ODMs), said it will use the 5G setup for manufacturing a range of...

5G throughput and latency can deliver smart manufacturing use cases like machine vision and automated guided vehicles 5G is a powerful technology that is closely tied to conversations about the digital transformation of industrial verticals. For smart manufacturing, 5G opens up all sorts of time-...

Private 5G network revenues are still a tiny fraction of the overall revenues in the telecom network market, but activity is on the rise and companies around the world are reporting hundreds of engagements with companies to deploy such networks, according to new analysis. In...

STC will use NB-IoT SIMs for smart waste management Saudi telco STC has announced a partnership with Sensoneo with the aim of providing customers in Saudi Arabia with smart waste management technology. The smart waste management technology uses smart ultrasonic sensors embedded with STC NB-IoT SIMs...

The industrial 4G and 5G trial is part of the France Recovery plan Steel producer ArcelorMittal France, Orange Business Services and Ericsson announced the launch of 5G Steel to test 4G/5G connectivity at ArcelorMittal's industrial sites in France over the next three years. The French government...

German sports car manufacturer Porsche has recruited Ericsson for a private 5G network at its manufacturing production complex in Leipzig, in Germany. Porsche is using an enterprise 5G licence from German regulator BNetzA in the 3.7-3.8 GHz ‘vertical’ spectrum band. It said the deployment...

Nokia and Telia have combined to deploy a private 5G network for Canada-based Agnico Eagle Mines in Finland. The new 5G standalone (SA) setup will support above and below ground mining operations at the firm’s Kittilä mine in the Lapland province of Finland, billed...

German system integrator (SI) Siticom has secured a contract to deploy a private 5G network at the WISTA Science and Technology Park in Berlin-Adlershof in Germany. Siticom is working with Nokia on the project; it beat at least two of the three major mobile...

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is testing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) on a widening network of high-definition (HD) cameras in order to detect wildfires across 70,000 square miles of northern and central California. It claims to have “eyes in the...

Local smart-city IoT startup GreenCityZen is to connect up to 5,000 downpipes in the urban drainage network in the city of Marseille, in France, with Sigfox-based low-power IoT sensors. The downpipes, or ‘downspouts’, carry rainwater into the city’s river network. The sensors are being...

Hyperscalers, with only varied and newly acquired in-house 5G knowledge, are outpacing telcos, with 40 years in the game, at private 5G, according to new research from Omdia. The analyst house has named Microsoft as the ‘top innovator’ in the field, ahead of AT&T...

US smart buildings and performance materials conglomerate Honeywell is to open an advanced research and development (R&D) testing facility in the Czech Republic for its Honeywell Intelligrated warehouse automation business. The new facility, to establish central and eastern Europe as a warehouse automation hub...

London-headquartered industrial AR startup XYZ Reality has released its new AR headset, the Atom, for the construction industry. The new product (see promo video at the bottom of the page) goes with its Holosite AR platform, and follows a £20 million Series A funding...

It is a good question, and maybe the only question for mobile operators going into the Industry 4.0 space. Camille Mendler, a chief analyst at Omdia, asked it of Google Cloud in a recent webinar, which went under the same header, about why mobile...

    Japanese operator SoftBank and compatriot car maker Honda announced they have started a use case-based verification of technologies to reduce collisions between pedestrians and vehicles using a 5G Standalone mobile communication system and a cellular V2X communication system. Using SoftBank's 5G SA experimental base station...

UK telecoms integrator Colt Technology Services is leading a private 5G consortium including Accedian, ADVA, Airspan, and Athonet to test end-to-end private cellular in a real estate environment in France. The setup uses a disaggregated architecture, and has a bearing on related verticals, notably...

Vodafone added 24 million IoT SIM connections in the 12 months to September 30. Its total connections count stood at 136 million at the end of the period, at the end of the second half of the 2021/22 financial year, up from 112 million...

Private network specialist Athonet is telling enterprises to ‘bring your own RAN’ with the introduction of a facility in its network management system to select from a combination of radio products according to “the needs of the mix of applications” in their edge environments. The...