Fold-away factories and modular assembly: Two visions of industrial 5G, one dream of digital supply
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailInside the factory of the future, everything will be fluid, except for the floors, walls, and ceilings. Industrial assets – machines, devices, and vehicles – will be animated by 5G …
Samsung, KT to launch NB-IoT service through public safety LTE network in Korea
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics and compatriot carrier KT announced the a new partnership to deploy what the companies claim is the world’s first Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) …
Qualcomm: Industrial 5G will start late 2019, taking its cues from consumer 5G
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe industrial 5G market will benefit from the consumer 5G market, with network deployments starting in earnest in late 2019 and early 2020, as industrial devices take advantage of the …
Nokia lines up private 5G test network for Chinese auto-maker FAW
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailFinnish vendor Nokia will build a private 5G test network for Chinese auto-maker FAW to spur digital transformation of its industrial machines and processes. The pair have signed a “strategic” …
Audi: ‘Could a carrier run our 5G network? Why not? Everything’s on the table’
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailCar maker Audi, like other giants of German manufacturing, is sitting on a tranche of vacant radio spectrum that has been liberated by the German telecoms regulator for test purposes …
NIB: Semtech offers free LoRaWAN training; Digital Colony buys small-cell firm iWireless; Soracom announces IoT funding
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailSemtech opens-up and makes-free its LoRaWAN Academy Semtech, the Californian chip-maker that owns and licenses the LoRa technology, is offering free educational modules via its LoRaWAN Academy for students, engineers, …
AT&T on reducing cellular IoT costs and complexities for developers: “Time to revenue is shorter”
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAnother from the MWC 2019 vaults, which has so far slipped through the gaps of a hectic quarter at Enterprise IoT Insights. This time, we catch up with Cameron Coursey, …
Verizon drops price of Sequans LTE-M/NB-IoT chips to $6.50 for ThingSpace customers
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe original Monarch system-in-package (SiP) from French chipmaker Sequans Communications has been made available Verizon’s ThingSpace IoT ‘accelerator programme’ for just $6.50. The new price point is a significant advance …
Volkswagen to build private 5G networks from 2020; invites tenders from kit vendors
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailGerman automotive manufacturer Volkswagen will start construction of its own 5G mobile networks in 122 factories in Germany in 2020, according to a report in Wirtschaftswoche, the German business magazine. …
Deutsche Telekom: “People underestimate what it takes to manage a network”
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailDeutsche Telekom said private networks are easy to talk about, but hard to manage, at Hannover Messe 2019 last week, swatting away the perceived jeapordy for operators in the industrial …
