Telecom Italia activates Europe’s first 5G ‘Edge Cloud’ live network in Turin
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail Italian telco Telecom Italia (TIM) continued its longstanding smart city technology collaboration with Turin city council by switching on what the operator describes as Europe’s first 5G “Edge Cloud” …
Private LTE works for public-safety drones, says Nokia after tsunami trial
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPrivate LTE works as a control and communications technology for drones, said Nokia, after concluding a test flight of a drone on a private LTE installation in Japan. The Finnish …
‘5G? My indifference is unbounded’ – IIC on the bigger battles for industrial IoT
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThis is just the beginning, says the Industrial Internet Consortium. Preoccupations with technology are only ever fleeting. The stakes are higher; the future is still being mapped out. 5G – …
Rocky Mountain Power appoints Itron to upgrade smart grid capabilities
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailIoT system provider Itron has signed a deal with Rocky Mountain Power to deploy new smart meters and smart grid capabilities. The electric company, serving customers in Idaho, Utah, and …
UPS and CVS make first home deliveries of medical prescriptions by drone
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPostal company UPS has achieved another ‘first’ for drone deliveries by making a commercial delivery of a medical prescription from a pharmacy to a residential property. The firm’s drone subsidiary …
SMEs can ‘punch above their weight’ with carrier-IoT as-a-service, says Vodafone
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailSmall and medium sized enterprises can “punch above their weight” in global markets by taking IoT as-a-service from mobile operators. Where large organisations will go it alone, and develop their …
‘Ericsson, Sprint, LoRa, Zigbee – tell us, what’s your favourite IoT use case?’
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailBetween them, US telecoms operator Sprint and Swedish telecoms vendor Ericsson claim considerable experience in the IoT space. The variety of IoT use cases is vast, and ever-growing, they say. …
Nokia and Microsoft bundle private LTE and Azure IoT for operators
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailMicrosoft and Nokia are offering a private LTE and IoT bundle for operators and enterprises. UK based BT is the first operator to resell the package, offered as a managed …
Libelium pivots to go from IoT hardware provision to IoT systems integration
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailSpanish IoT hardware maker Libelium has announced a new strategy to expand its offer to include integrated hardware, software and systems. The company said at IoT Solutions World Congress 2019 …
There are only three IoT use cases, and one doesn’t exist yet – simplicity, scale, and the state of ‘things’
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailIoT Solutions World Congress, in its fifth year (2019), has the whiff of MWC about it. It’s in Barcelona, at the same venue, and the faces are familiar — with …
