Ericsson provides private 5G for EU Industry 4.0 pilot at Ford plant in Spain
Ericsson is to deploy a standalone private 5G network at a Ford engine plant in Valencia, in Spain. The trial installation is part of a European Union initiative to drive …
Bosch counts upside of AI, IoT – even as sales slide in Covid-ravaged industrial sector
Bosch said this week it has so far sold 10 million connected power tools, home appliances, and heating systems, and has added about €300 million in revenue by adding artificial …
DT ties-up on dual-mode LTE-M/LoRaWAN, as LoRa 2.4GHz catches sail
Deutsche Telekom is working with The Things Industries (TTI), the industrial solutions division of LoRaWAN network provider The Things Network (TTN), to combine licensed and unlicensed low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies …
Private 5G steadies Nokia enterprise unit – despite lower group sales, ‘challenging’ 2021
Nokia said it deployed private LTE and 5G networks with 79 new customers in the final quarter of 2020, finishing the year with 260 enterprises on its books for private …
Orange to open nine 5G labs in Europe, with strong Industry 4.0 focus
France-based telecoms operator Orange has said it will open nine ‘5G labs’ in Europe in 2021, for local enterprises to collaborate with the firm to bring [enterprise-oriented] 5G use cases …
Japanese trio NTT, NEC, Fujitsu join with Thai telcos to pitch private 5G to Asia Pacific
Mobile operator NTT DoCoMo has convened with a Japanese-Thai consortium of telecoms companies, including NEC and Fujitsu, to develop an off-the-shelf private 5G system to sell to global enterprise customers. …
Peachtree Corners puts Level 3 autonomous car on public road for ‘real-world’ V2X tests
The Atlanta suburb of Peachtree Corners, in Georgia in the US, has ‘filled the tank’ and pressed ‘go’ on a new Level 3 autonomous test vehicle, based on an open-source …
‘Factories will learn from farms’ – how John Deere is putting Industry 4.0 on wheels
Farming is just outdoor manufacturing, says John Deere; the whole concept of ‘smart manufacturing’ is only novel to cloistered production, taking place indoors, out of the rain. Farmers have been …
Dell, VMWare, SK Telecom bundle private 5G and MEC to help carriers sell Industry 4.0
Dell Technologies and VMware are working with South Korean operator SK Telecom to bundle together private 5G and multi-access edge compute (MEC) to help carriers sell Industry 4.0 to enterprises, …
‘We must speed up’ – France plays catch-up with Germany on 5G-geared Industry 4.0
The French government has announced funding for new national industrial 5G projects, as parts of its France Relance (France Relaunch) package. It has also raised alarm bells that the country …
