Digital factory revenues to to top $1tn in 2030, spurred by 5G, AI, AR, AGVs
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe global manufacturing sector will spend over $1 trillion on smart software, hardware and services in 2030, almost quadrupling the $259 billion spend in 2019. The volume of wireless connections, …
IBM to help Italian road operator to monitor infrastructure using AI platform
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail Italian road operator Autostrade per l’Italia (ASPI) is launching a new real-time infrastructure monitoring and management system using IBM’s artificial intelligence-based (AI) Maximo software platform. The new digital platform …
Bosch applies for private 5G licences, says owner-operator model is best for industry
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailGerman industrial giant Bosch, an early champion of privately operated industrial 5G for manufacturing, has confirmed it has applied for localised spectrum licenses in Germany and will trial private 5G …
‘Spending like the Jetsons, living like the Flintstones’ – the trouble with smart-city 5G
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe Lord Mayor of Dublin cut through the glad-handing and future-selling on the main stages at Smart City Expo World Congress 2019 in Barcelona yesterday (November 20), revealing at once …
What is LEO, and how will LEO satellites transform the IoT sector?
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailSatellite connectivity, spurred by new projects from the likes of Amazon and SpaceX, will support 24 million IoT connections by 2024, bringing new competition to established IoT technologies like LoRaWAN, …
What is smart infrastructure? How IoT and 5G are making digital assets of everything
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailWhat is smart infrastructure? It sounds like a silly question, almost. But the rise of new digital technologies — spearheaded by IoT, AI, and 5G, as the tools of digital …
AT&T joins Qualcomm’s smart cities gang, as industry seeks closer collaboration
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAT&T has joined Qualcomm’s smart cities accelerator programme, which now counts almost 70 members and met for the first time in San Diego last week. The initiative has been convened …
OT industry puts IT industry back in its ‘magic box’ in battle for IoT hearts and minds
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe operational technology (OT) industry moved to shore up its position as the arbiter of industrial change at PI World 2019 in Sweden today by declaring that new-fangled digital technologies …
Nokia and Telefónica tie-up five-year private LTE deal with copper mine in Peru
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe mining industry continues to recruit operators and vendors to deploy new industrial LTE and 5G networks on the promise of industrial change. Minera Las Bambas in Peru, the ninth …
Gatwick’s ‘smart airport’ ambitions take flight as Vodafone rolls-out 5G
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailVodafone has deployed a high speed, high capacity fibre optic network at Gatwick Airport in the UK to support 5G services, and enable higher levels of automation and intelligence in …
