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German 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. Volkswagen, the largest automaker by worldwide sales, has issued a tender to network equipment vendors....

Having effectvely reduced the discipline of network operations to an elaborate marketing exercise, to sell look-alike SIM cards and airtime bundles, it seems the new 5G era has telecoms operators sounding different, again. It seems like their personalities are coming through, at last. This...

The city of Irving, Texas, has selected Rubicon Global to provide a smart city pilot program to improve residential waste and recycling services for its more than 240,000 residents. Rubicon Global provides software-as-a-service products for waste, recycling, and smart city solutions, and it collects...

Arm is going after energy providers and device makers after striking a deal with Singapore-based EDMI, manufacturer of IoT modules for utilities, to provide the management platform for smart meter devices, connectivity, and data. EDMI, owned by Osaki Electric Company in Japan, has major smart...

The city of Darwin in Australia has appointed UK-based lighting-controls provider Telensa to connect and make-smart around 10,000 new LED street lights. Darwin is replacing 10,000 lights on its public lighting network with LEDs. Telensa is providing the connectivity and management platform. This will introduce...

  The new platform will allow cars from these three manufacturers to have access to a wide range of connected car services   Global automotive alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi announced the production release of the Alliance Intelligent Cloud, a new platform that is enabling Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors...

The supply chain links the whole Industry 4.0 movement. For higher-grade operational intelligence to be brought to bear across the wider industrial market, the supply chain needs to mesh-in with the various stages of production and delivery. It has to be integrated in order...

Australian operator Telstra has recruited German IT and IoT integration company Software AG to help it devise a software solution for automated water management. Telstra already uses Software AG’s Cumulocity IoT platform as the basis of its own IoT platform offering. Their new water management...

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled 'Software AG cites deals with AT&T, AWS, Dell in pursuit of €24bn IoT opportunity'. Click here to go to the previous article.  New Software AG chief Sanjay Brahmawar has been seven months in the...

Germany-based Software AG has reorganised its channel strategy to prioritise IoT platform deals with the likes of AT&T, ‘hyper-scale’ cloud deals with the likes of AWS, edge hardware deals with the likes of Dell, and IT and IoT reseller deals with the likes of...

  One of the agreements stipulated the implementation of Nokia’s WING platform for the delivery of IoT solutions for enterprises   Nokia and Zain Saudi Arabia have signed two memorandums of understanding that will enable the Arab carrier to launch IoT services and applications and provide end-to-end...

German software company SAP has launched a new internet of things (IoT) suite for its Leonardo platform, as well as closer cloud integration with Microsoft’s Azure IoT Hub. SAP Leonardo IoT enables customers to combine business process data with IoT data garnered from machines...

Siemens made its case this week as the global leader for Industry 4.0 at a pre-show meet ahead of Hannover Messe 2019. The German industrial powerhouse suggested it has the form, momentum, and strategy to deliver industrial transformation on a grander scale than rival...

This article is the fourth instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine...

This article is the third instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine the...

As part of Enterprise IoT Insights' investigation into edge-cloud setups in industrial plants, we have unearthed a number of case studies showing how manufacturing companies and technology providers are collaborating to bring intelligence closer to the action. Here, we present four examples from Software...

UK smart street lighting company Telensa has launched an open data platform for smart cities to collect, protect, and make use of urban data. The city of Cambridge in the UK is the first to sign up. The initiative, branded the Urban Data Project, is...

  The Singaporean telco, together with Noki,a had launched a nationwide NB-IoT network in 2017   Singaporean telco M1 said it will use Nokia’s Impact IoT platform to bolster its carrier’s current smart city and internet of things portfolio. The carrier said the new addition will allow the...

Las Vegas is working with network operator AT&T and IoT provider Ubicquia to trial a new smart street-lighting solution that makes use of existing lighting infrastructure. In a flurry of announcements from the city, timed for the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the network operator...

A slew of enterprise funds and venture capital has been staked on the enterprise-facing internet-of-things (IoT) sector in recent months, as vendors have got a better grasp of the technology and industrialists have got a better grip of digital transformation at last. Most investments in...

  SAP and Software AG said they have developed the new smart city platform in compliance with the standards of the EU’s open urban platform initiative   German software companies SAP and Software AG announced a cooperation agreement for the development of an open smart city platform. The...

  The Canadian firm has already launched connected car offerings with nine carriers globally   Vancouver connected-car startup Mojio announced that it has partnered with T-Mobile Polska to power Smart Car, the European carrier’s new connected car service. As part of the agreement, Mojio will deliver a suite...

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has announced results from a pair of testbeds investigating, alternatively, artificial intelligence (AI) for smart buildings management and ways to connect up old factories to new smart manufacturing tools. In the first case, Dell EMC and Toshiba have developed an...

What is a ‘smart city’, exactly? Is it a city with a neat collection of smart solutions, or is it one where everything works together to create new innovations? As it stands, the term is attached to practically any urban centre with a network of...