BROWSING: Internet of Things (IoT)

Cellnex-owned Edzcom, one of the pioneer firms in the industrial private cellular market, has a deal with electronics firm OMRON to provide industrial enterprises with a managed private LTE/5G service with the Japanese firm's industrial robotics products. The partnership has been formalised in the...

IoT provider Blues and hardware maler RAKwireless have combined their connectivity and hardware products in a modular industrial IoT developer solution, offering interchangeable IoT components and global IoT connectivity. The solution combines a pre-configured IoT connectivity solution from the former with a composable interface...

Network operator Hutchison Drei (Three) in Austria is rolling out a nationwide LoRaWAN network in its home work to provide industrial IoT connectivity for Industry 4.0 use cases, including for manufacturing companies, energy companies, solution providers, smart cities, retail companies, and facility management services....

Note, this article is taken from the RCR editorial report on Critical 5G Edge Workloads, published in September. The following is the first part of the foreword to the report. Go here to download the full report. The subject will be further explored in the upcoming...

The business arm of US wireless carrier UScellular has installed a private 5G network at KPMG’s customer co-creation centre at its headquarters in Chicago. The venue, dubbed the Ignition Center, measures 30,000 square feet and houses KPMG’s technology solutions teams. The new 5G network...

Unabiz is to distribute a new Sigfox tracking solution for the postal industry in Europe. The solution has been developed by KYOCERA Communication Systems Company (KCCS), the Sigfox operator in Japan, which has traditionally specialised in IoT trackers for returnable transport packaging assets. The...

Netherlands-based LoRaWAN operator Everynet is offering network access in the US and the UK via AWS’s managed LoRaWAN Network Server (LNS) on its AWS IoT Core service. The deal means IoT devices can be connected to its public LoRaWAN in the US and the...

Note, this article is taken from the RCR editorial report on Private 5G for IoT, published in July. The following is the first part of the foreword to the report. Go here to download the full report. It also takes and collates excerpts from...

Ahead of its Network X trade event in Paris next week (October 24-26), UK publishing and exhibitions group Informa has said the telecoms industry faces a “pivotal moment” to monetise its fibre and 5G network investments and reassert its influence in the developing digital...

IoT module maker u-blox is the first out of the blocks, it says, to have its LTE-based Cat 1 and Cat 4 IoT modules certified as “gold-standard” cyber-secure by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). The company’s LARA-R6 (Cat 1) and LARA-L6 (Cat 4)...

Global cellular IoT module shipments saw a three percent annual decline in the second quarter of 2023, compared with the year-ago period, according to the latest IoT module tracker by Counterpoint Research. The firm cited “lower demand and weaker economic sentiments”. China-based duo Quectel...

For more on smart metering, and to hear more from Neil Bosworth, check out the RCR Wireless webinar on smart metering (October 19; available on-demand). The urgency to address environmental concerns plays a crucial role in the development and adoption of smart meters. Approximately...

Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited (KFTL) has selected Nokia to deploy a private LTE/5G network at its container terminal in Kingston, Jamaica, in the Caribbean. The deployment has been handled by US-based system integrator EGC International. KFTL is taking both Nokia’s Digital Automation Cloud private...

For production companies to thrive in today’s competitive market, going digital is not merely an option but a necessity. Workflows where paper still dominates are often the bottlenecks that frustrate employees. Implementation of a manufacturing execution system (MES) can help to effectively manage transformation...

France-based startup Dracula Technologies, offering low-light energy-harvesting solutions for passive (battery-less) LoRaWAN-based IoT connectivity, has confirmed its new smart factory will start “high-volume” production in “early 2024”. The new 2,500 metre-square facility, in Valence in southeastern France, is to be fully automated, with capacity...

Private network specialist Betacom, cloud provider Google Cloud, and IT distributor Ingram Micro have opened an Industry 4.0 showcase at the Factory Floor Lab in the Digital Manufacturing (MxD) Institute, located at the National Center for Cybersecurity in Manufacturing in Chicago in the US....

Nokia has hailed RedCap “successful” trials with telecoms firm BT Group and module maker MediaTek in the UK. Without saying much about the tests themselves, the trio took the opportunity to talk up the potential of reduced capability (RedCap) 5G to benefit both business...

Not enough is being made of smart meter data in the UK, despite one of the most expansive and productive metering rollouts in Europe. The existing system for regulation and management of energy data is strangling tech innovation and sustainability drives, says Energy Systems...

So we know the equation, then: eSIM = MFF2 + eUICC. We now want to know what the left-hand side expression means for smart meters – so that, by extension, because metering is the biggest story in IoT-town, we can know what it means...

In a major show of industry collaboration, Deutsche Telekom has combined with AWS and VMware, plus Mavenir and Dell, to develop a global private 5G network and edge compute platform for enterprises. The new proof of concept is dubbed a “globally distributed enterprise network”,...

US energy and automation conglomerate Honeywell has reorganised its business into four separate units, with enhanced focus on industrial automation, in order to realign with what it perceives as three global economic “megatrends” – being automation, aviation, and energy. The firm has folded its...

IoT MVNO startup FloLIVE claims to have solved the challenge of IoT roaming in Turkey, one of several major markets to impose restrictions on permanent roaming. The London-based firm has worked with SIM specialist Kigen and local telco provider Protahub to enable globally-provisioned eSIMs...

As a matter of record, commonly missed, it is worth noting that eSIM and eUICC are different technologies. Asked about the application of eSIM (and iSIM) in smart metering, specifically, Neil Bosworth, head of vertical segments and IoT products at Telit Cinterion, wants this...

US satellite communications provider Ligado Networks is to offer a private LTE solution from Taiwanese advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and private network provider Ubiik to run in Band 54 spectrum at 1670-1675 MHz. It is targeting the utilities sector, and other mission-critical customers. Band...