Industry 4.0 at tipping point for telcos – the story that would have been told (but for COVID-19)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailMobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona in February is the major venue and the key date for the telecoms industry. Yes, the cards have been dealt, but the show works …
Huawei heads new IIC testbed on critical and non-critical LTE for metro trains
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has announced a new testbed to show the feasibility of adapting LTE for the urban rail sector. The new project is being led by Huawei, …
Federated Wireless on CBRS – 40 networks in bag, 100 in pipe, white-label offer on way
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailConnectivity has been the main blocker for industrial IoT, and not the fragmented hardware and software markets. So says Federated Wireless, one of the companies pioneering usage of private LTE …
“Humans should be arbiters of AI decisions” – Bosch sets down ‘red lines’ on industrial AI
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailGermany industrialist Bosch has set out a ‘code of ethics’ around the usage of artificial intelligence (AI) in its connected products, which says humans should be the arbiter of any …
5G should cover 70% of industrial sites by 2025, tech sector tells EU leaders
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailBy 2025, 5G connections should cover 40 per cent of Europe’s workforce, 70 per cent of its industrial sites, and 80 per cent of its main logistics routes. This was …
Three LTE ‘campus’ networks – DT debuts public-private LTE in Austria, Czech, Hungary
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailDeutsche Telekom has public-private ‘campus’ networking setups with various customers, offering a kind of proto-slicing, as a precursor to industrial 5G. It has so far announced deals with German lighting …
New UK player seeks to broker shared and private networking for enterprises, cities
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe Freshwave Group, a new UK network provider, is seeking to combine telecoms expertise and real-estate savvy to plug coverage gaps in public mobile coverage with shared and private networking. …
Decision on Sidewalk Labs delayed as Toronto seeks public review
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailWaterfront Toronto, in charge of the $1 billion redevelopment of Toronto’s waterfront neighbourhood, has extended the deadline on whether to move forward with Google sister company Sidewalk Labs’ proposal for …
UK to release 6 GHz and 100 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi in smart homes, offices, factories
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailUK regulator Ofcom is proposing to make 500MHz of contiguous spectrum in the lower 6 GHz band available for unlicensed indoor Wi-Fi and low-power outdoor Wi-Fi usage. It has also …
Does AI need to be regulated? Views from the World Economic Forum
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailArtificial intelligence (AI) is already being used in a variety of applications, including automated analysis of video captured by security cameras or to assess the quality of items moving down …
