Nokia gets Brazilian private LTE/5G gig to power smart grid, meters, vehicles
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailNokia has been selected by Brazilian elelctricity distributor Elektro to deploy a private LTE network to power its smart grid, smart meters, and electric vehicles in the municipality of Atibaia, …
The hard ROI of smart street-lighting – seven ways for cities to make their money back
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailOnly one smart city use case stands up to close scrutiny: smart street lighting. The business case for parking and garbage, the other functions in the holy trinity of smart …
Small cities can be smart, too, says Signify, as it lights up 5G poles with American Tower
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailCivic operational intelligence is not the preserve of the world’s mega-cities, said Dutch lighting company Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, as it continued deployment of 5G street-lighting poles with American Tower …
Five reasons to bet (now) on a fourth industrial revolution
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail“The kaleidoscope has been shaken; the pieces are in flux.” It is a phrase written for the political age, almost two decades ago. But as an analogy for ground-shaking change, …
The DT dozen: A look at Deutsche Telekom’s “multifaceted” smart city strategy in Poland
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailTwo hours from Warsaw, the town of Kazimierz Dolny has hardly changed since the Renaissance, when it thrived as centre for the grain trade. T-Mobile Poland has just announced plans …
Cisco re-org seeks to turn ideas into products, and drive IoT and 5G gains
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailCisco has reorganised its innovation team as a function of its engineering department, rather than its strategy unit, to drive commercial results from its more pioneering work around technologies like …
Sprint’s IoT platform will be finished and 5G-ready next month, says Ericsson
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailEricsson will have completed construction of Sprint’s new IoT core network and operating system (OS) by next month, it has said. The US carrier will be able to offer ‘internet …
The URLLC debate (pt4): What is the business case for MEC? (And where’s the edge at anyway?)
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailFor ultra low latency services, as enabled by incoming 5G technologies, multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a must. It provides the means to reduce latency, by degrees, as the compute …
The URLLC debate (pt3): How will 5G slices be provisioned? (Will operators retain control?)
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailNetwork slicing, allowing for multiple network layers on top of a single shared infrastructure, is arguably the most significant capability of incoming 5G technologies. It brings brand new business opportunities …
Cyber threats to utilities, and what to do about them
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThere was a time that physical attacks by one country on another occurred only during open war. In the past few decades, however, cyber attacks on critical infrastructure continue to …
