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Nokia mixes private 5G and edge compute in new MXIE master bundle for Industry 4.0

Nokia has bundled industrial-grade compute, storage, and networking into a single edge solution for mission-critical Industry 4.0. The new package comes with industrial IoT sensing and analytics applications, as well, plus a “single pane of glass” management platform to draw together newly-connected operational technology...

Singapore Zoo installs 1,000 LoRaWAN meters in bid to save 10% of water, electricity

Semtech Corporation has teamed with Singapore-based IoT metering company Sindcon to deploy around 1,000 (“plus”) LoRaWAN energy and water metering devices at the Singapore Zoo. Sindcon worked with local utility Electrique Energie & Metering on the project, also. The target is to save 10...

Siemens targets smart buildings, smart factories with Wattsense buy, Zscaler tieup

Siemens has bought French startup Wattsense, a hardware and software company offering a plug-and-play IoT management system for small and mid-size buildings, including schools, offices, warehouses and retail. Meanwhile, it has announced a deal with US cloud security company Zscaler to secure IT/OT crossover...

What is discrete manufacturing and does 5G have a role to play?

In the discrete manufacturing field, each process can be individually started or stopped and can be run at varying production rates

Did IoT just get ‘massive’? Vodafone signs multi-million multi-market NB-IoT deal

Note this article is taken from a forthcoming editorial report from Enterprise IoT Insights on the state of the NB-IoT market; the report will appear here next week. An Enterprise IoT Insights webinar on the same topic, with panellists from BICS, Nordic Semiconductor, and...

Cybersecurity and patent abuse hold back industrial IoT’s true potential (Reader Forum)

Between device hijacking, data breaches, and intellectual property theft, there are many known risks associated with a cybersecurity compromise in internet of things (IoT) applications. At the same time, many are excited about the potential IoT offers across enterprise use cases – and for...

Kore Wireless goes public, as it preps for the ‘decade of IoT’

IoT connectivity and solutions company Kore Wireless has begun trading on the New York Stock Exchange, after completing its combination with Cerberus Telecom Acquisition Corp. (CATC). Kore Wireless President and CEO Romil Bahl sees a huge decade ahead for IoT; the company expects to see...

Nokia envisions Airport 4.0 where ‘connectivity is no longer a commodity’

Airport 4.0 combines connectivity, automation, AI, robotics, digital twins Nokia's vision for Airport 4.0, as articulated in a recent piece titled, "The time for airports to digitalize is now," encompasses a range of wireless and wired technologies working together to digitalize processes, drive operational and...

Sequans partners with iBASIS to offer global eSIM connectivity on NB-IoT and LTE-M

France-based chipmaker Sequans has partnered with roaming provider iBASIS to integrate embedded SIM (eSIM/eUICC) technology and global LTE-M and NB-IoT connectivity with its Monarch 2 GM02S NEKTAR development kit (EVK). The pair claimed the arrangement provides “global cellular connectivity for worldwide deployments of massive...

Airspan and Druid, joined at hip, to supply private 5G system for German SI Opticoms

Private networking duo Airspan Networks and Druid Software, providing cellular radio access (RAN) and core network solutions, find themselves together again in Germany, this time with Munich-based system integrator (SI) Opticoms at its new 5G co-creation lab in the Bavarian capital. Opticoms is betting on...

We built this (smart) city… on blockchain and LoRaWAN – San José picks peer-to-peer IoT

The city of San José in Silicon Valley, in California, has struck an arrangement with blockchain-based LoRaWAN provider Helium to extend broadband access to local residents and enterprises in exchange for hosting and expanding new peer-to-peer IoT network infrastructure. Under the terms of the deal,...

Ericsson intros new IoT Accelerator facility to connect cellular IoT devices to AWS, others

Ericsson has introduced a ‘cloud connect’ function into its IoT Accelerator platform to make it easy for enterprises to connect cellular IoT devices to public cloud endpoints. A press statement from the firm led with connectivity to Amazon Web Services (AWS), and included a...

Ingenu to launch 72 LEO satellites into space – to build ‘largest space IIoT network’

IoT connectivity company Ingenu has announced a plan to launch 72 satellites into space to support low-power machine communications for the smart energy, manufacturing, agriculture, cities, logistics, oil and gas, and mining sectors. The San Diego firm has struck a deal with Arizona-based Phantom...

Qualcomm adds apps, functions, members to smart cities IoT accelerator

Qualcomm has said its smart cities accelerator project has expanded to over 400 members. Industrial 5G system integrator Booz Allen Hamilton, which works with the US military and government, is among the new joiners. Meanwhile, Qualcomm said its IoT services suite has expanded to...

Lexmark chases $50bn opportunity with launch of new IoT services business

Print services company Lexmark has launched a new IoT portfolio for manufacturing companies to monitor usage of their connected devices in-market, and provide their customers with a platform of analytics-based maintenance and service solutions. The company put the total market opportunity, for industrial IoT...

Semtech hails new ‘zero-maintenance, zero-carbon’ energy-harvesting LoRa solution

Semiconductor maker Semtech has announced a new LoRa-based solution, combining a power-efficient microcontroller and an edge tracker module, that harvests ambient energy from the environment to preclude the need for a battery completely. The California-based firm called the solution “maintenance free” and “zero carbon”,...

Massive IoT starts to come online as NB-IoT roaming and billing get sorted, says BICS

International cellular provider BICS has said it has NB-IoT roaming coverage in a dozen countries, with new NB-IoT deals being signed at a faster rate than on LTE-M, and a loose target of “more than 20” NB-IoT roaming contracts by the year-end. The Belgium-based...

Landis+Gyr buys meter maker Luna, as part of busy spree in AMI and EV sectors

Landis+Gyr has acquired Turkey-based smart meter maker Luna Elektrik Elektronik for a “high double digit million dollar fee”, it said. It is the latest in a string of deals for the Swiss energy management company in 2021, in both the smart metering and electric...

Bosch and Capgemini strike deal on Industry 4.0 software and services

Bosch and Capgemini have struck a deal to develop Industry 4.0 software and services to help with the digitization and sustainability of industrial production plants, and to drive sales of both. The pair will collaborate around Bosch’s Nexeed system for industrial software, offered by...

Everynet and American Tower set sights on nationwide LoRaWAN in Spain

Netherlands-based LoRaWAN operator Everynet has partnered with tower company AT España, a subsidiary of American Tower, to expand its public network footprint in Spain. Through last year, Everynet deployed LoRaWAN networks in Madrid and Barcelona. It is working “synergically” with AT España, it said,...

MTS launches LTE/5G private network for Russian mining company

MTS first announced plans to build the private network using Ericsson Dedicated Networks solution in October 2020 Russian operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has launched the country’s first commercial 5G-ready private network for gold and silver producer Polymetal International plc. at the Nezhdaninskoye gold deposit in...

5G manufacturing use case spotlight: Collaborative robotics

Singtel said that the emergence of 5G will make robot use in manufacturing faster and more efficient without the heft or limitation of cables

Thread vs Bluetooth: The IoT battle of low-power protocols (Reader Forum)

  The war of Internet of Things (IoT) connections is here. Following years of trial and error to connect battery-based devices with Wi-Fi — the ubiquitous yet power-sucking internet access method preferred around the world — the market is finally embracing low-power radio internet protocols. However,...

Truphone hooks-up with Sony and Kigen on global iSIM for NB-IoT and LTE-M

Truphone has combined with chipset maker Sony Semiconductor Israel and SIM specialist Kigen on an integrated SIM (iSIM) solution for global IoT deployments. Altair and Kigen have worked separately to offer a proprietary version of iSIM technology for remote provisioning of cellular IoT devices...