BROWSING: Platforms
PG&E deploys AI cameras to help detect wildfires in California
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is testing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) on a widening network of high-definition (HD) cameras in order to detect wildfires across 70,000 square miles of northern and central California. It claims to have “eyes in the...
Hyperscalers outrunning telcos – but 75% of enterprises want hybrid public-private 5G
Hyperscalers, with only varied and newly acquired in-house 5G knowledge, are outpacing telcos, with 40 years in the game, at private 5G, according to new research from Omdia. The analyst house has named Microsoft as the ‘top innovator’ in the field, ahead of AT&T...
UK industrial AR startup XYZ Reality targets North America with AR hardhat solution
London-headquartered industrial AR startup XYZ Reality has released its new AR headset, the Atom, for the construction industry. The new product (see promo video at the bottom of the page) goes with its Holosite AR platform, and follows a £20 million Series A funding...
‘A thousand flowers will bloom’ – should carriers climb into bed with hyperscalers?
It is a good question, and maybe the only question for mobile operators going into the Industry 4.0 space. Camille Mendler, a chief analyst at Omdia, asked it of Google Cloud in a recent webinar, which went under the same header, about why mobile...
Athonet tells enterprises to ‘bring your own’ private 5G RAN
Private network specialist Athonet is telling enterprises to ‘bring your own RAN’ with the introduction of a facility in its network management system to select from a combination of radio products according to “the needs of the mix of applications” in their edge environments.
The...
Orange plays SI in supply of non-cellular BLE tracking for Safran Aircraft Engines
Orange Business Services, the IT and system integrator (SI) division of mobile operator Orange, has delivered a non-cellular Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based indoor tracking system for aerospace manufacturer Safran Aircraft Engines across two sites in France. The solution pulls together tracker tags from...
Five on treasure island – the key players sharing the spoils at the industrial edge
Speaking yesterday (November 15) with Enterprise IoT Insights about a new deal to supply BLE-based trackers to France-based aerospace manufacturer Safran Aircraft Engines, Orange Business Services portrayed itself as the orchestrator, practically, of Industry 4.0. It is a telling assessment, and an interesting case:...
IoT turns a corner (plus five IoT lessons from the top)
From IoT for internal efficiency to external productivity
A new report by analyst house Transforma Insights for IT hardware and services provider Oracle says enterprise internet of things adoption has turned a corner, and gained some newfound maturity. It is a decent read, which draws...
Updates from LoRa-land – air-quality installs in urban forests, wildfire hotspots, buildings
Various updates from LoRa-land, and beyond... Semtech, the owner of LoRa tech and licensing, said environmental IoT provider ICT International, is using LoRa-based devices on LoRaWAN networks to improve urban forest management and carbon accounting. ICT International’s “plant physiology devices” are able to monitor...
Viasat buys Inmarsat for $7.3bn to forge global satellite broadband and IoT network
US satellite broadband provider Viasat has agreed a deal to acquire UK-based counterpart Inmarsat for $7.3 billion. The combined company will integrate their spectrum, satellite, and terrestrial assets as a “global high-capacity hybrid space and terrestrial network”, the pair said. It will focus on...
SCF preps blueprints for private 5G – as platform for Industry 4.0, smart cities, C-V2X
Small Cell Forum (SCF) is to develop a new set of private 5G ‘blueprints’ for enterprise and industry, to build on parallel work already completed by the likes of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), and the MulteFire Alliance. The...
Portland upgrades to Dhyan’s streetlight platform, as Echelon fallout continues
The city of Portland in Maine, in the US, has migrated its smart street lights onto a cloud management platform (CMS) from California-headquartered Dhyan Networks and Technologies, and away from smart lighting company Echelon. It is the same switchover carried out by the town...
Red Hat and Intel combine on edge ‘smarts’ for Industry 4.0
Red Hat and Intel have extended their Industry 4.0 partnership to combine their open source software and industrial edge hardware to spur the smart manufacturing and smart energy sectors. The pair are looking to sell integrated hardware and software to provide the ‘smarts’ in...
IoT outfit u-blox teams up with Softbank on global GNSS, Taoglas on COWBOY ebikes
Swiss-based u-blox is working with SoftBank to develop common global navigation satellite system (GNSS) augmentation services for Japan, the US, and Europe. The pair have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to cooperate on GNSS 1 augmentation services for global markets, with a view...
US IoT firm Zyter and Qualcomm combine on twin private LTE and IoT deals
US IoT platform provider Zyter is working with Qualcomm, and other Qualcomm partners in the San Diego-based chipmakers smart cities accelerator project, on a couple of private LTE installations in the CBRS band. One is to support a smart warehouse solution for video conferencing...
Celona scores hat-trick of private LTE deals in CBRS band – in schools, cities, factories
Private LTE provider Celona has announced a hat-trick of private network projects. The Cupertino firm is working with Joint Venture Silicon Valley (JVSV), a local enterprise forum in Silicon Valley, to bring CBRS-based private LTE to the Campbell Union Elementary School District in the...
Nokia adds third-party apps to MXIE edge system, claims 100Gbps on single 5G server
Nokia has added a number of applications from third-party Industry 4.0 vendors to its new MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) solution, released last week, including PTC’s ThingWorx IoT platform and Kepware industrial connectivity engine, plus the Linux Foundation’s Fledge framework for IT/OT data aggregation. It...
Satellite IoT market to hit 15.7m connections in 2025, growing 35.8% per year
The number of satellite IoT subscribers will increase at a compound rate of 35.8 percent per year to reach 15.7 million in 2025, from around 3.4 million in 2020. Analyst firm Berg Insight, with a new research report, said the market for satellite IoT...
Druid Software recruited by Proximus and BICS to enable private-public 5G SA roaming
Ireland-based private core network provider Druid Software has been recruited by Proximus to serve enterprise customers running private 4G and 5G installations. It has been working with the Belgian network operator, along with its international roaming business BICS, to test outbound roaming between public...
Nokia mixes private 5G and edge compute in new MXIE master bundle for Industry 4.0
Nokia has bundled industrial-grade compute, storage, and networking into a single edge solution for mission-critical Industry 4.0. The new package comes with industrial IoT sensing and analytics applications, as well, plus a “single pane of glass” management platform to draw together newly-connected operational technology...
Siemens targets smart buildings, smart factories with Wattsense buy, Zscaler tieup
Siemens has bought French startup Wattsense, a hardware and software company offering a plug-and-play IoT management system for small and mid-size buildings, including schools, offices, warehouses and retail. Meanwhile, it has announced a deal with US cloud security company Zscaler to secure IT/OT crossover...
Airspan and Druid, joined at hip, to supply private 5G system for German SI Opticoms
Private networking duo Airspan Networks and Druid Software, providing cellular radio access (RAN) and core network solutions, find themselves together again in Germany, this time with Munich-based system integrator (SI) Opticoms at its new 5G co-creation lab in the Bavarian capital.
Opticoms is betting on...
Qualcomm adds apps, functions, members to smart cities IoT accelerator
Qualcomm has said its smart cities accelerator project has expanded to over 400 members. Industrial 5G system integrator Booz Allen Hamilton, which works with the US military and government, is among the new joiners. Meanwhile, Qualcomm said its IoT services suite has expanded to...
Lexmark chases $50bn opportunity with launch of new IoT services business
Print services company Lexmark has launched a new IoT portfolio for manufacturing companies to monitor usage of their connected devices in-market, and provide their customers with a platform of analytics-based maintenance and service solutions. The company put the total market opportunity, for industrial IoT...