
StarHub supplies University of Singapore with 5G for connectivity and IoT co-creation
The National University of Singapore (NUS) is working with operator StarHub to leverage 5G and IoT as part of a two-year trial to build a ‘smart campus’ infrastructure to bring …

Mitsubishi Electric, NTT Docomo team up on private 5G for Industry 4.0 in Thailand
Japanese manufacturing group Mitsubishi Electric has inducted country-mate NTT Docomo into its new Industry 4.0 alliance in Thailand in order to offer private 5G with smart manufacturing solutions from other …

What is the net environmental impact of dirt-cheap massive-scale IoT?
This discussion is missing something, of course; IoT is not supposed to be written about as an environmental risk. The idea that billions of disposable trackers might litter the planet …

German city and uni expand LoRaWAN into smart city, Industry 4.0 apps, 5G crossover
Pforzheim University in Germany has expanded its LoRaWAN network, originally deployed for research purposes at the university faculty of technology, for usage by smart city and Industry 4.0 applications, as …

Telefónica strikes deal for up to 650,000 NB-IoT water meters in Spain
We are a little late with this, but it is a sizeable deal, which might also be construed as significant because it is for low-power wide-area (LPWA) connectivity in Spain, …

GSMA and 5G-ACIA team up on industrial 5G for Industry 4.0
The GSM Association (GSMA) and the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) are to collaborate more deeply on industrial 5G for smart manufacturing. The pair have signed a …

Telstra and Ericsson supply private 5G for Australian agri-tech collective
Telstra has deployed a private 5G network for industrial tech organisation AgriFood Connect in Australia. It has worked with Ericsson on the deployment; it is the Swedish vendor’s first private-5G …

Rogers installs private 5G at Canada gold mine – plus 5G extension for ‘off-grid’ locals
Rogers Business, the enterprise division of Canadian operator Rogers, has installed a private 5G network at Detour Lake, an open pit mine in northern Ontario belonging to gold producer Kirkland …

LoRaWAN gets a lift with Helium – with new roaming in Canada, to go with US, Europe
Helium has followed roaming deals with LoRaWAN operator Senet in the US and LoRaWAN platform provider Actility in Europe with a new roaming tie-up with LoRaWAN provider X-TELIA in Canada. …

Signify intos new line of LTE and 5G ‘broadband luminaires’ for smart cities
Netherlands-based lighting firm Signify is to integrate LTE and 5G into a new range of ‘broadband luminaires’ for the smart cities market. Signify has signed a deal with smart-city broadband …