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The decision last week by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to make 1,200MHz of spectrum in the 6 GHz band in the US available for unlicensed usage, covering low-power operations over the full allocation and standard-power devices in 850MHz of the band, is a...

By 2025, almost one quarter (23 percent) of all private LTE and 5G networks will be deployed by smart cities, either at local or national government level. Other major industrial sectors to negotiate their own spectrum and manage their own wireless networks will be,...

Bosch is preparing to ramp up production again after shutting down production at nearly 100 facilities globally in the COVID-19 pandemic, on the back of a 17 percent slowdown in March, a 7.3 percent fall in the first quarter, and a refusal to forecast...

France-based industrial software provider Dassault Systèmes and China-based facilities management company Aden Group are combining their digital twin and modular architecture platforms to fast-track hospital construction. The arrangement is in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dassault Systèmes was involved with China’s Central-South Architectural Design Institute...

The World Economic Forum has released a blockchain toolkit offering guidance to enterprises seeking to deploy the distributed ledger technology. It cited the global pressure created by the COVID-19 outbreak on global trade as reason to cooperate to strengthen international supply chains, and look...

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.  AR hardware has a reputation for being expensive and cumbersome. How is the experience, actually? Not...

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.  Let us start with the scenario the main article finishes (see report) with: a connected...

    Ericsson has announced that ABB Power Grids will use the 5G-ready Ericsson Industry Connect system at its transformer factory in Ludvika in Sweden, in order to increase productivity and performance. This is the first commercial application of the latest version of the system at a fully...

Federated Wireless has announced it has secured $13.7 million in additional Series C funding from existing investors Allied Minds and Pennant Investors. The funding will accelerate its partnership with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure to offer connectivity-as-a-service, which has seen most business in the...

This article continues from here. It is an excerpt from a full report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is...

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.  Research firm Strategy Analytics has worked through a detailed example of an industrial maintenance and repair...

Danish engineering firm Danfoss is piloting a private LTE network at its factory in Vaasa, in the northwest of Finland. It is working with Finnish systems integrator Etteplan, which has partnered with country-mates Nokia and Edzcom on the project. The pilot started in January,...

This article continues from here. It is an excerpt from a full report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is...

This article continues from here. It is an excerpt from a full report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is...

This is an excerpt from a full report called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. The report, part of Enterprise IoT Insights’ ongoing Digital Factory Solutions series, is available to download (for free)...

A new IoT innovation centre in Finland has been rigged up with private 5G from Elisa and IoT devices from Qualcomm. The facility will be opened shortly by new Finnish tech firm UROS, alongside US chip maker Qualcomm, as a “next generation” IoT showroom...

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has put focus on various communications technologies, if only as an adjunct to disciplines like healthcare and government, and as a means to work and play in lockdown. As well as driving stay-at-home video traffic to services like Netflix and Zoom,...

The LoRa Alliance has announced a certification programme for affiliate non-members to obtain LoRaWAN device certification. The new $10,000 affiliate programme covers full protocol testing, including of interoperability and radio performance. It will increase the volume and variety certified LoRaWAN devices available in the market,...

Sigfox is offering to waive connectivity costs for US-based IoT projects developed on its connectivity infrastructure that seek to address critical challenges related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The French firm’s US office has issued a called to the IoT community to “join forces” to...

Mission critical communications and broad IoT support among private network applicaitons For several years now, Nokia has been touting 5G as the enabler of Industry 4.0 efforts to digitize industries of all sorts and using technology to increase efficiency, advance automation and drive global economic...

Swiss IoT company u-blox has bought UK-based Thingstream, which offers low power wide-area (LPWA) IoT connectivity based on the MQTT lightweight messaging protocol. The sale closed for at CHF 10 million (€9.5m / $10.4m), plus coverage for some deferred staff retention. MQTT, short for message...

Finnish private wireless provider Ukkoverkot, which has won a number of industrial LTE contracts with country-mate Nokia, has rebranded as Edzcom, and set a strategy for international growth, the company has announced. The company already has 26 operational private LTE networks in the Nordic region,...

  Spanish telecom giant Telefónica and Idrica, which specializes in technologies for water management, have signed a global partnership agreement to provide services to companies in the water sector, Telefonica said in a release. Telefonica said that this new agreement includes the development of solutions using...

The vertical farming industry in its infancy, with most practitioners stuck in hobbyist production. But the fragile case for growing food in warehouses – automated and dynamic local production, using less water, less fertiliser, less energy – is alive and kicking, in the British...