BROWSING: Sensors

Software AG, StarHub and the ‘blueprint’ for carrier-led industrial private 5G

Software AG remains set on its strategy to make mobile operators the go-to agents for private 5G in ‘vertical’ spectrum, and particularly in the Industry 4.0 space where it retains a developing crossover customer base in telecoms and industry. While most of the market...

Edzcom installs 5G at machine maker MGA’s Industry 4.0 biopharma lab in France

Finnish private networking specialist Edzcom has been appointed by industrial machine manufacturer MGA Technologies to build a private 5G network at its new Industry 4.0 innovation lab near Lyon, in France. Edzcom called the installation the “first private 5G lab” in France – for...

Morse Micro issues first Wi-Fi HaLow SoC samples for ‘new (mid-range) IoT use cases’

Semiconductor company Morse Micro, developing Wi-Fi HaLow for low-power mid-range IoT connectivity, has released system-on-chip (SoC) and module samples to select developers. The target is to raise interest in Wi-Fi HaLow among the IoT developer community to “enable new IoT use cases”. The samples...

Las Vegas deploys ‘largest private municipal LTE network’ – in just 45 days

California-based private network provider Terranet Communications claims to have installed the “largest private municipal LTE/5G network” in the US in record time with rollout of private LTE across the city of Las Vegas, in Nevada, in 45 days. The setup has been delivered, in...

Microsoft, NEC bundle private 5G, edge and cloud compute, IoT and AI for enterprises

Microsoft and NEC are working together to bundle edge and cloud computing, private 5G networking, and IoT and AI capabilities. The pair are cherry picking from each other’s portfolios, and going to market mob-handed to drive digital change among enterprises, they said. The pair have...

The long wait for massive IoT is almost over, says Sigfox’s top brass

Sigfox was just ahead of its time; the high-cost control-freakery of its business model has been a necessary consequence of its seismic undertaking, a decade ago, to create a market from scratch. But that work is finished, almost; demand among global enterprises for IoT...

A MulteFire matrix for ‘universal’ private 5G – and how to fix the ‘faulty’ 5G supply chain

MFA, formerly the MulteFire Alliance, is to deliver a set of ‘technology blueprints’ so every different business in every different industrial ‘vertical’ can specify and source industrial 5G devices, and the cellular side of the Industry 4.0 market moves faster. Its shift to ecosystem-building...

‘Fleets of AGVs driving mile after mile’ – Siemens teases new private 5G system

In a stage-managed webinar about industrial 5G, Siemens took the opportunity yesterday to talk up its emerging private 5G portfolio yesterday, including in-house radio and core networking elements. Private 5G, using privately licensed spectrum, is a key to unlock Industry 4.0, the firm said;...

Nokia deploys private 5G network for KUKA production site in Germany

Nokia is to deploy a private 5G network at industrial robot and automation specialist maker KUKA’s ‘smart’ production and development centre in Augsburg, in Germany. Nokia’s compact ‘digital automation cloud’ (DAC) private LTE and 5G solution, geared for quick-fire local-area deployments, will support product...

Soracom raises new funds from major customers and collaborators in Japan

KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has announced new investment from six technology firms, including from two major IoT customers, in the form Nippon Gas (NICIGAS) and Sourcenext Corporation in the Japanese utility industry, as well as from Japan-based trio Hitachi, Secom, and Sony Group,...

Taoglas buys Australian IoT provider Smartsensor Tech, goes on acquisition trail

Irish IoT antenna company Taoglas has acquired Australia-based IoT solution provider Smartsensor Technologies for an undisclosed fee. The company will be integrated into Taoglas’ ‘connected smart services’ business unit which provides managed IoT services. Taoglas has signposted further acquisitions. Smartsensor Technologies, founded in 2011, bundles...

IT firm COCUS taps Airspan for private 5G as SI bandwagon rolls on in home of Industry 4.0

The private LTE/5G bandwagon rolls on with system integrators (SIs) in Germany. Further to the report yesterday, that Ireland-based Druid Software has teamed up with IT specialist Becon in the home of Industrie 4.0, US radio equipment vendor Airspan Networks has announced a deal...

Digi International boosts industrial IoT portfolio with Ctek acquisition

US industrial IoT manufacturer Digi International has acquired California-based Ctek for an undisclosed fee. Ctek produces wireless and wired solutions for remote industrial monitoring and control. Digi International said the deal boosts its portfolio of edge automation solutions. Digi International bought Dallas-based Haxiot a year...

ArcelorMittal recruits Ericsson for private 5G across all steel plants in France

ArcelorMittal has cut the ribbon at a new ‘digital lab’ in Dunkirk, in France, adjacent to its largest Europe-based steel production site. The new lab, which opens in September, will host manufacturing partners, start-ups, and universities, and be the epicentre of the company’s digital...

Nokia intros eSIM/iSIM software for remote management of cellular IoT devices

Nokia has introduced new software to enable operators and enterprises to remotely manage cellular IoT devices with embedded and integrated SIM (eSIM and iSIM) functionality. The software works with standard consumer devices, as well, but eSIM and iSIM technologies make most difference in the...

Private operators, neutral hosts to deploy three quarters of enterprise 5G by 2026

By 2026, over three-quarters of enterprise small cells will be deployed and operated by private network operators or neutral hosts, according to Small Cell Forum (SCF). Deployments in shared spectrum will overtake those in licensed bands in 2025, it reckons. The latest market report from...

Orange, Nokia expand industrial 5G projects with SNCF and Schneider Electric in France

French rail company SNCF, in partnership with Orange and Nokia, has extended a state-sponsored industrial 5G testbed utilising the 26 GHz millimeter wave band at a train station Rennes, in the northwest of France, to two new industrial complexes in the city. The strategy...

Qualcomm tees-up Capgemini to push new Release-16 private 5G system in Industry 4.0

Qualcomm is teaming up with Capgemini to “unlock” private 5G for Industry 4.0, based on its new Release 16-capable 5G RAN platform and radio modem. Qualcomm and Capgemini will develop an off-the-shelf private network system, “tested and validated”, to provide clients a faster route...

False starts, funny looks – Nokia eyes 14m private LTE networks with MulteFire launch

After all the false starts and funny looks, is it time to take MulteFire seriously? Nokia says so. And, as the mainstream telecoms market wakes up to the Finnish firm’s long-time message about the industry-changing potential of private cellular, it is probably worth listening....

Sigfox-operator UnaBiz to connect 3,000 sensors at Singapore university campus

Singapore-based infrastructure company Surbana Jurong has installed 3,000 Sigfox sensors at Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore. Local IoT provider and Sigfox operator UnaBiz has provided the sensors, as well as the airtime to connect them. The sensors will feed data into a digital twin model...

MulteFire, finally – unlicensed LTE lifts off, rebrands, takes left-turn as 5G match-maker

The LTE-based MulteFire standard, one of the pioneer technologies in the private cellular market, is alive and kicking – well, alive, anyway – and also mutating into something brand new, which is potentially more powerful for the telecoms industry’s great hopes for 5G as...

Operator iWire raises $34m to launch Sigfox in 12 markets in Africa, Asia, Middle East

Sigfox operator iWire Connect has raised $34 million in Series A funding to build Sigfox networks in 12 countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. It has earmarked launches in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in 2022. Launches in India, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,...

Orange, Sierra Wireless, STMicro, Lacroix form all-in-one design house to scale IoT

Orange has banded together with hardware, software, design, and manufacturing companies in the IoT space to accelerate deployment of cellular IoT in Europe. Canadian module maker Sierra Wireless, French-Italian chip maker STMicroelectronics, and French manufacturing and design firm Lacroix are its new crewmates, working...

SIMCom combines with Infineon, Kigen on ‘smallest’ eSIM-based NB-IoT module

China-based IoT module maker SIMCom is offering its SIM7070 series NB-IoT device with an embedded SIM (eSIM) from German chipmaker Infineon, making the 24 mm x 24 mm SIM7070 the most compact eSIM-enabled module on the market. It is “significantly smaller” than standard eSIM-based...