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Carriers can broker vertical spectrum access for private LTE and 5G, says Nokia

Note, this article continues from a previous post, entitled, ‘Three-tiered private 5G offer emerges as telcos embrace vertical, unlicensed bands’. Click here to go to the first instalment.   Nokia has warned mobile operators to grasp the nettle of private cellular, even if they are stung...

LG U+, LG Electronics join initiative to boost AI in South Korea

AI One Team focused on collaborative R&D activities Korean companies LG Electronics and LG U+ have joined the AI One Team, an industry-academic consultative body formed by compatriot companies with the aim of developing artificial intelligence in the Asian country. This week, Koran telecommunications operator KT...

Telefónica and Siemens combine on Industry 4.0 cybersecurity in Spain

Spain-based telecoms operator Telefónica and Germany-based industrial provider Siemens have announced a deal to offer combined IT / OT cybersecurity for the Industry 4.0 sector in Spain, marrying their respective strengths in IT and OT security. The Spanish division of Siemens is offering its digital...

LTE-M and BLE combine in US power controller to slash water-heater wastage

US engineering and product design agency Apricity has devised a combined LTE-M and BLE solution for utilities in the US to control demand from domestic water heaters and reduce supply from coal-fired auxiliary power stations. Domestic water heaters are estimated to be responsible for up...

UK private LTE provider Quortus targets US and Japan with fresh funding, new portfolio

Private LTE and 5G provider Quortus has secured investment from US-based edge analytics firm Communications Systems Inc (CSI) and UK-based telecoms solutions provider cellXion to drive sales in North America, Europe, and Japan, as the market for private industrial networking gathers pace. Quortus, based in...

Li-Fi fixes shortcomings of 5G for industrial IoT, says Industrial Internet Consortium

In research for a new report on industrial AR, Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Farid Bichareh, smart factory chair at the Industrial Internet Consortium and chief technology officer at research and engineering firm AASA (and also at subsidiary LiFi solution provider 01LightComm). Bichareh...

Three-tiered private 5G offer emerges as telcos embrace vertical, unlicensed bands

Network operators are looking to segment their private LTE and 5G offers for enterprises into gold, silver, and bronze tiers to distinguish between standalone systems using slices of public networks, managed services using privately-licensed ‘vertical’ spectrum, and plug-and-play installations running in unlicensed bands. So says...

Telenor creates silo-busting Nordic Hub to drive regional 5G and IoT business

Norwegian telecoms group Telenor has created a new silo-busting enterprise 5G and IoT office to stimulate collaboration between its Nordic operations. The new Nordic Hub will take a ‘lean’ approach to co-innovation, the company said, seeking to foster collaboration between teams and technologies in the...

Mitsubishi Electric starts testing local 5G system in Japan

  Japanese company Mitsubishi Electric Corporation‘s Nagoya Works facility in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture has begun a demonstration test of a local 5G system, the company said in a release. Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) has allowed the company to test this local 5G...

Telekom Slovenije deploys multi-slice 5G network to automate Port of Koper

Telekom Slovenije is to build a 5G test network at the Port of Koper (Luka Koper) in Slovenia as a platform for new automation and intelligence tools to bring greater efficiency to port and shipping operations. The European Union (EU) backed project, which goes under...

NTT, Dell help UC Berkeley to implement connected campus project

  The University of California, Berkeley and NTT announced a partnership to carry out a connected campus pilot project. The initiative will leverage technology to transform the UC Berkeley Parking and Transportation Department by analyzing patterns, easing traffic congestion and increasing pedestrian safety in the Bancroft...

‘4ms latency on LTE? Yes, you can, if you know your stuff’ – radio tuning for Industry 4.0

In research for a new report on industrial AR, Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Justin Paul, director of marketing at Zeetta Networks, to discuss the challenges with AR (and VR) setups in the industrial space, as well as Zeetta Networks’ involvement in the...

Siemens, Ondas in radio supply exclusive for rail sector, amid US spectrum shakeup

Siemens has struck a deal with private network provider Ondas Networks to range the California firm’s wireless radio systems under its own brand in North America, as part of its offer to the railroad sector. The German industrial giant will integrate radio technology from Ondas...

FCC approves ‘small-but-mighty’ 900 MHz tranche for private LTE for US utilities

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to approve usage of six megahertz of 900 MHz spectrum for private networking by utility companies in the US, declaring the ‘juice is worth the squeeze’ despite its diminutive spread. The six-megahertz is split between two five-megahertz holdings...

Puloli taps Qualcomm to expand private standalone NB-IoT offer for critical industry

US-based private NB-IoT network operator Puloli is offering IoT modules based on Qualcomm’s multi-mode 9205 LTE modem to critical industries, as part of its as-a-service industrial networking offer. Last July, San Francisco-based startup Puloli secured a minor 1 MHz paired chunk (2 MHz in total,...

Consumer packaged goods industry is struggling with Industry 4.0, says report

Ninety percent of companies in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry are yet to leverage digital technologies at scale, and that even the best equipped of them are struggling to make their digital deployments pay. This is the conclusion of a new report from SmarterChains,...

Orange Business: ‘5G, the IT and OT convergence are critical Industry 4.0 drivers’

At the end of last year, Orange Business announced a major strategic overhaul, placing analytics and automation at the heart of its operations, and stating that 2-to-3% per year of its future growth through 2023 will come from supplying connectivity and intelligence to enterprises,...

‘AR is more forgiving’ – HPE on connectivity and compute setups for industrial AR/VR

In research for a new report on industrial AR, Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Ian Henderson, chief technologist for manufacturing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to discuss the challenges with contemporary AR (and VR) setups in the industrial space. Here is the interview, in...

Industry 4.0 latest: 90% want private LTE and 5G, 75% will upgrade within two years

Almost nine in 10 manufacturing businesses in the world’s industrial heartlands want their own private LTE and 5G networks to drive forward Industry 4.0 initiatives and digital transformation. Three quarters are set to upgrade their communications networks in the next two years. Wi-Fi and...

Augmented, virtual, mixed, extended – so many realities, so little meaning?

Note, this article is taken from an editorial report on industrial AR, called Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers. The report is available to download here.  What is the deal with all of these alternative realities? The industry has come up with...

Buvac resigns as Nokia’s enterprise chief as reshuffle and rumour continue

Nokia’s enterprise chief Kathrin Buvac has quit the Finnish vendor to take a role at another technology firm. Her departure, scheduled for the end of the month, follows on the heels of the announcement Rajeev Suri, the company’s president and chief executive, will also...

Private 5G and edge AI will unlock ‘boundless XR’ for industry, says Qualcomm

Qualcomm has introduced the idea of extended reality (XR), combining and going beyond the disciplines of augmented (AR), virtual (VR), and even mixed (MR) reality technology. More than this, it is talking about 'boundless XR', which leverages industrial 5G and distributed AI, when powerful...

New editorial report out now: ‘Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers’

The trick with AR in industry is to keep lights on and services flowing even during periods of absence, as enforced in extremis by the new coronavirus pandemic. The kinds of remote assistance tools being offered by companies like Microsoft and PTC, and some...

Nokia keeps business on track with 19% enterprise surge on private LTE sales

Nokia’s enterprise business showed growth of almost 20 percent during the first quarter of 2020, compared with a year ago, on the back of continued sales momentum for private LTE networks to the industrial sector. The Finnish firm, in the process of fielding a hostile...