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Deutsche Telekom intros Industry 4.0 data-sharing market, amid Messe splurge

Deutsche Telekom is to launch a data-sharing platform for industrial enterprises, in particular, that allows direct access to information between enterprises providing data, and those scheduled to receive it. The Germany-based telecoms group described it as a “key element for the digital factory,” ahead...

The hype and the glory: Industry 4.0 look-outs at Hannover Messe

The real impact of industrial technologies will be discussed and demonstrated at Hannover Messe next week (April 23-27). Automation and digital twins, powered by data analytics and artificial intelligence, will be the mainstays of the developing Industry 4.0 movement, reckon Bosch, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom,...

Autonomous ships will launch before planes and cars, says Rolls-Royce

Autonomous ships will be a reality before robot aircraft or driverless cars, reckons Rolls-Royce, despite the maritime industry’s late start with digital technologies. The British engine maker said it will test autonomous tug boats in port waters along the Finnish coast this summer. The shipping...

Nokia partners with Smart City Capital to foster smart cities in Canada

Initiative will focus on applications including public safety, smart transit and autonomous cars Nokia and Smart City Capital are launching a joint program to help Canadian cities fund and reduce the risks associated with smart city initiatives. With available project funding from Smart City Capital exceeding...

5G Front and Backhaul demand a hybrid network solution

  What drives the capacity beast? Traffic! According to GSMA, 4G mobile connections surpassed one billion in 2015. Additionally, 3 billion LTE devices are expected to ship by 2020, doubling the quantity in 2017. Although 4G connections represented only 26% of mobile connections in 2016, they...

Nokia, KDDI trial eMBMS V2X technology in Japan

Vehicle trial leveraged sensors, eMBMS, Nokia MEC platform   Finnish vendor Nokia and Japanese communications firm KDDI said they have successfully demonstrated the use of LTE technology in Japan to deliver low-latency connectivity for vehicles. The partners claimed to be the first in the world to use...

Microsoft intros triple lock to secure IoT devices at the network edge

Microsoft has announced a new platform to secure ‘internet of things’ (IoT) devices. Dubbed Azure Sphere, it layers in three levels of enhanced IoT security, in its chip, operating system (OS) and cloud. Most significantly, Microsoft has introduced a new “cross-over class” of chip, or...

Actility underpins rollout of state-run open-access IoT networks in Sweden

IoT platform provider Actility has been appointed by Öresundskraft, a regional energy and fibre broadband provider in Sweden, to help it build out an open-access LoRaWAN network, starting in the town of Helsingborg, and rolling out across the country. Öresundskraft has established a new ‘city...

Dublin announces €1.2m funds for smart city problem-solving

Smart Dublin, a smart-city cooperative combining the four local authorities in the Irish capital, has announced €1.2 million ($1.5m) of new funding for smart city projects. The new projects, split across two funding blocks, are geared towards providing low-cost solutions to twin-sets of civic...

Qualcomm, Ericsson to develop IoT solutions for verticals in Brazil

Qualcomm has recently inked an agreement to set up a factory to produce processors for IoT applications in Sao Paulo Qualcomm Technologies and Ericsson announced plans to implement internet of things (IoT) infrastructure and solutions in the areas of agriculture, vehicle and asset tracking and...

DNA taps Cisco Jasper to launch Finnish IoT platform

Finnish operator DNA has debuted an ‘internet of things’ (IoT) platform for enterprises in its home country to launch national and international IoT services of their own. DNA’s new platform uses Cisco Jasper’s ‘control center’ product, providing enterprises with control over their IoT connectivity...

Planning ahead: Transitioning from 2G or 3G to LTE (Reality Check)

For years, 2G and 3G networks have provided businesses with appropriate connectivity — and ROI — for IoT applications. However, the cellular connectivity landscape is changing, as 2G and 3G will be phased out in favor of LTE technologies in the coming years. We...

Automation doesn’t cost jobs in Germany, concludes Industry 4.0 report

Automation technologies are creating more jobs than they are destroying in Germany, according to a new report by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW). Recent investments in digital technologies, including standard automation techniques like analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), have seen a one per...

Semtech’s LoRa technology expands to Spain, China

Integrated LoRa devices and RF tech make up smart water platform in California-based Semtech Corporation, a supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, announced that IoTsens, an Internet of Things solutions and services firm, has integrated LoRa devices and wireless radio frequency technology in...

Cisco claims world first by retro-fitting smart city lights in Manchester

Manchester city council in the UK has deployed a new smart city lighting system as part of its continuing CityVerve project, led by Cisco. The new lighting system can be fitted retroactively to existing infrastructure. Cisco has managed the installation with the council, in...

From drone-mounted AI to smart-city blockchains: five EU innovation projects

In the face of rising political disruption, the European Commission (EC) has in recent weeks redoubled its innovation schedule with new commitments to artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and digital healthcare applications. Here, we pick five of its best Horizon 2020 projects, covering everything from drone-mounted...

The IoT interview: “Business has changed for both sides,” says Ericsson

The fragmented IoT market is hard to understand for enterprises and hard to navigate for operators. Swedish vendor Ericsson says its new IoT 'accelerator' can help both sides. Enterprise IoT Insights chats with Jeff Travers, head of IoT at Ericsson, about the challenge to...

UK manufacturers falling behind Asia and US in smart factory rollout

UK manufacturers are falling behind their counterparts in Asia and the US in the international race for industrial transformation. They are also bottom of the pile for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into manufacturing processes. These are the findings of a new study by PwC research...

The promise — and peril — of smart cities

COLLEGE PARK, Md.--The telecom and tech industry tends to focus on the positive aspects of smart cities -- but panelists at the recent Wireless Connect event grappled not only with the potential good of smart cities but the unintended consequences. Some of the interest in...

Inside TRUMPF’s digital transformation process

A Q&A with Ulrich Faisst, digital transformation officer, TRUMPF A growing number of companies in several industries are adopting smart manufacturing strategies to improve operation efficiency and gain more value from business. One of the companies that has embraced digital transformation is TRUMPF, a German...

Nokia claims first “real-world” 5G smart factory trial with Telia and Intel

Finnish duo Nokia and Telia have combined with US chip-maker Intel to run a series of 5G smart factory tests using a trial 5G radio access network, operating in the 28 GHz frequency band. The 5G smart-factory tests used a video application to monitor and...

The importance of securing device data ahead of GDPR (Reality Check)

As we found with the recent Facebook/ Cambridge Analytica situation, companies and organizations across multiple sectors are collecting, managing, utilizing and processing vast amounts of consumer data every single day. This data, often stored across personal and company devices, is increasingly being accessed for...

355 smart-city projects in 221 cities; 18% cut across industry ‘verticals’

There are 355 smart city projects in 221 cities, according to a new report from Navigant Research; almost one in five now cut across multiple industry sectors, as smart city integration gathers pace. The total value of the smart cities market will more than...

Siemens secures $990 million contract to digitize Norway’s railway system

Siemens said the digitization project will be fully completed by 2034   German technology powerhouse Siemens has won a contract worth a total of 800 million euros ($990 million) to digitize Norway’s entire railroad network. As part of the contract, the company will equip around 4,200 kilometers...