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Chunghwa Telecom, Ericsson use 5G network slicing for healthcare sector

This trial was completed at St. Paul's Hospital on Chunghwa’s 5G SA network and used an Ericsson network slicing solution Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom and Swedish vendor Ericsson have implemented network slicing technology to help improve healthcare services in Taiwan, the latter said ina release....

Vodafone UK highlights potential losses for NHS if 5G rollout slows

Vodafone UK noted that 5G networks will enable more patient care to be delivered remotely The U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) could lose up to £1 billion ($1.24 billion) a year if 5G is not rolled out quickly across the country, according to a new...

M1 launches 5G telemedicine for Singapore maritime industry

M1 also launched 5G-powered maritime surveillance for onboard security as part of its SMARTsecure solution offerings Singapore operator M1 Limited (M1) said it has partnered with Fullerton Health, a healthcare platform in Asia, to introduce 5G-enabled telemedicine services for the maritime sector. In a release, the...

Verizon private 5G to help Ohio clinic realize ‘fully digital’ vision

The private 5G network will enable use cases like patient check-in kiosks and assisted surgery and imaging, said Verizon Verizon Business has deployed a private 5G network at the new Cleveland Clinic hospital in Mentor, Ohio. The network, based on an Ericsson platform, will help to...

China to reach 10.25 billion IoT connections by 2026: report

IoT connections related to the manufacturing and public facilities sectors will reach approximately 300 million and 2.2 billion by 2026 China is expected to experience a strong growth in the Internet of Things (IoT) sector and and the Asian nation is expecting its overall base...

KPMG targets healthcare sector with Verizon’s 5G private network

Verizon operates several 5G Labs in the U.S. that specialize in developing use cases for diverse industries KPMG has deployed a Verizon private 5G wireless network into its Ignition Center inside KPMG Lakehouse as part of the two companies' alliance to deliver 5G solutions designed...

LoRaWAN-based remote patient monitoring arrives in US, targeting rural and tribal areas

Patient monitoring device maker Telli Health has partnered with US IoT operator and system provider Senet to launch the first remote patient monitoring (RPM) hardware to run on LoRaWAN connectivity, the pair have said. The new RPM device is being offered as a standalone...

5G-IoT connections to jump 1100% to 116m by 2026 – mostly in healthcare, cities

The number of 5G-based IoT connections, deployed for higher-performance machines, will reach 116 million globally by 2026, reckons market research firm Juniper Research. The forecast represents a big jump on current numbers, with just 17 million IoT sensors so far (early 2023) running on...

A smarter diagnsois – machine learning in personalized medicine (Reader Forum)

The benefits of machine learning have been abundantly clear for decades, but perhaps nowhere more so than in the field of medicine. With physics-based simulations, 3D modeling, and machine learning methods, medical professionals and researchers have made significant strides in numerous specialties. While there...

“It is still a bit of a zoo” – BT sets up as Industry 4.0 keeper and private 5G leader

Contrary to the popular narrative among new telco upstarts that traditional mobile operators will be left behind in the Industry 4.0 race – on the grounds they are entrenched and parochial, geared for box-shifting and hobbled by local assets – UK-based BT says the...

KORE signs deal with Google Cloud to pair IoT and AI functions, drive sales

Google Cloud and KORE have signed a multi-year go-to-market alliance to pair the former’s data analytics capabilities with the latter’s IoT connectivity services. KORE suggested it is the “first time” that Google Cloud will offer an IoT platform and IoT solutions for healthcare, fleet,...

‘America’s inventive spirit at its finest’ – CBRS model must be extended, says industry

Twenty-six organizations and alliances in the US with active interests in private and shared cellular for enterprise usage have jointly written to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to hail the “success” of the Citizens Broadband Radio...

Fujitsu tests private 5G for equipment inspection, remote recovery at data centres

Japanese IT firm Fujitsu is to start testing private 5G for equipment inspection at its major data centre in Yokohama, in the Kanagawa prefecture, as a springboard to drive “operational resilience and process automation” in the broader data centre market. The Fujitsu project, to...

The first rule of 5G club – and other lessons from Private Networks Europe Forum

A panel session at Private Networks European Forum earlier this month put the spotlight on the discipline of private 5G and edge system management, specifically, where traditional mobile operators are increasingly facing-off with rival factions in the developing Industry 4.0 supplier market. These other...

French regulator Arcep awards 13 private 5G licences in 3.8-4.0 GHz band

French regulator Arcep has awarded three new trial spectrum licences for enterprises to deploy private 5G networks in the 3.8-4.0 GHz band, taking its total roster of enterprise trialists in France to 13. The band is being liberated for French enterprises, in line with...

An IoT conundrum – poor planning, long delays hobble quick returns, high hopes

Two thirds (67 percent) of enterprises want to see a return on their IoT investments (ROI) within 12 months of starting-out, and yet almost half (49 percent) reckon the biggest roadblock to ROI is long deployment times. Clearly something is up, says a survey...

Nowi, E-Peas strikes deals to expand energy harvesting in IoT, as market jumps 10%

A couple of interesting press notes about energy harvesting in IoT modules during the past week, all originating in the Low Countries; Dutch firm Nowi, a key supplier of energy harvesting circuits, has said Chinese IoT chip design company Telink Semiconductor is using its...

Samsung headlines five private 5G gigs in South Korea as part of Industry 4.0 ramp-up

South Korean tech firm Samsung has announced a tranche of new private 5G deployments in its home country, including with three public sector agencies and two private sector hospitals. All the deployments utilise the newly-liberated 4.7 GHz and 28 GHz bands in South Korea,...

The top 10 industry sectors for private 5G

A California-based research firm, called TECHnalysis Research, has polled 400 US-based organisations either using or interested in using private cellular networks, and come up with a handy (regional-anecdotal) snapshot of the state of the market, with some decent figures to consider. Among them, it...

Vodafone, Bayer deploy private 5G inside German greenhouse

The private 5G network will support advanced tools like autonomous robots, artificial intelligence and digital imaging Vodafone has deployed a 5G private network at a Bayer greenhouse in Monheim, Germany to improve its research into insecticides. The network will support advanced tools like autonomous robots,...

Paris La Défense preps 5G neutral-host and use-case trials in 26 GHz mmWave bands

Paris La Défense, the major metropolitan business district in Paris, has called for applicants to run 5G neutral-host and use-case trials in 26 GHz mmWave spectrum at its site in the French capital. The two trial streams will be open, respectively, to public mobile...

Telefónica and Boston Scientific, Nokia and OneLayer look to secure hospital 5G

Note, this article is not about remote 5G surgery! A couple of press notes across the desk at Enterprise IoT Insights this week make a play of 5G security in hospital settings. Firstly (in no order), Spain-based network operator Telefónica is working with US...

Soracom taps IDEMIA to bundle low-power eSIMs for NB-IoT and LTE-M apps

KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has announced a deal with France-based outfit IDEMIA, a supplier of identity-related security services, to offer enterprise customers an optimised low-power embedded SIM (eSIM) with its power-constrained cellular IoT products in North America and Europe. IDEMIA’s eSIM proposition, called DAKOTA...

The trouble with private 5G for Industry 4.0 | Part 6 – the channel

This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the report is available here. Subsequent instalments are listed below (linking either to the original...