BROWSING: Smart Cities
Citymesh heads €3.9m EU smart-city project with 5G build in Belgium
Belgian private network provider and industrial connectivity specialist Citymesh has said its smart-city consortium project with the city of Wavre in Belgium has received a €3.9 million grant from the European Digital Fund to build a private 5G network to make the city, a...
IoT’s role in managing smart cities (Reader Forum)
Governments and local authorities all around the world are turning to technology to help navigate the resource and spatial constraints associated with a global population that’s recently surpassed 8 billion, and with urban development steadily rising, today around 56% of people live and work...
Druid Software ramps up private 5G activity in France, Germany
Core network specialist Druid Software has announced a deal with French neutral host operator and system integrator TDF to jointly provide private 5G systems to critical industry in France. The announcement is part of a charm offensive by the Irish firm both home and...
Huawei, Zain KSA partner to build ‘5.5G’ city in Saudi Arabia
Huawei and Zain will also collaborate to develop new use cases for the IoT and private network solutions
Chinese vendor Huawei and Saudi Arabian telecommunications operator Zain KSA have recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on their "5.5G" City joint innovation project.
Under the terms...
Orange to carry out 11 pilot projects to boost 5G in Belgium
Through these pilot projects, the government of Belgium aims to encourage the creation of new initiatives in the 5G field, Orange said.
Orange Belgium said it has been selected by the government of Belgium to carry out a total of 11 pilot projects supported by...
Citymesh launches 70 drones to give Belgian emergency services ‘eyes on the scene’
The fleet of safety drones from Citymesh are mounted with 4K cameras and 5G radios, and give local police and fire services a rapid assessment of incidents before dispatching crews.
Belgium-based private cellular specialist Citymesh has launched 70 5G-connected ‘safety drones’ to support local emergency...
HPE takes a seat in the private 5G dining car – and sees no telcos aboard
Put a pin in the bombast and a rinse in the dazzle; if MWC is an industry waypoint on the telecoms road, then the 2023 version said private cellular, as a bountiful diversion, is probably just about on the horizon line. Unlike two years...
LoRaWAN crowd expects to captain hybrid IoT crew – talks cities, utilities, buildings
Ahead of LoRaWAN Live in Orlando next week (March 14-16), and on the back of interesting recent crossover deals with both the cellular and non-cellular IoT crowds, RCR Wireless caught up with Donna Moore (pictured), chair of the LoRa Alliance, to discuss how the...
Bright eyed, bushy tailed, mob handed – AWS is best-in-show at Barcelona IoT bash
How do you judge the best-in-show? By the bright eyes and bushy tails? Probably not if it is a tech fair. So how should one rate the stands at IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona? Is it a size thing? Is it a...
Sentrisense and Sateliot combine on satellite NB-IoT extension for grid monitoring
Barcelona-based satellite IoT provider Sateliot, in the process of deploying a low-earth orbit (LEO) constellation of NB-IoT satellites, has struck a partnership with power grid solutions company Sentrisense to launch a satellite-augmented IoT service for electric grid sensors. The Sweden-headquartered firm’s IoT devices attach...
Quickening scale with LoRaLAN, says LoRaWAN stalwart – TTI passes million mark
IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona is not just about cellular, of course. But its proximity in the calendar, as January turns to February, to the city’s big MWC monster-mash at the end of the month – and the closer alignment of their...
Germany ramps-up smart electric meter rollout to hit 2030 ‘zero-energy’ deadline
The German government has passed a bill, to come into force in the next few months, to accelerate smart electricity meter rollout by removing competition restrictions on hardware selection and making grid operators shoulder more of the cost. The Ministry for Economic Affairs and...
NextWave and Airspan complete first phase of wide-area NYC private network
US outfit NextWave, engaged historically in various wireless spectrum pursuits, focused lately on municipal private cellular, has said its New York metro-area rollout is gathering pace with 120 eNodeB radio stations from Airspan Networks now operational as part of phase-one of its city-sized infrastructure...
Five key IoT trends for the logistics sector – supply chains in 2023 (Reader Forum)
Tech trends in the logistics sector, in general, have not changed much in the past few years, and IoT remains in the spotlight. However, the accent has shifted. 2022 showed how vulnerable a logistics network really is, with unprecedented disruptions to supply chains, closures...
Unabiz ties-up with iWire on Sigfox (plus any-LPWAN) IoT push in MEA region
Dubai-based IoT network and solutions provider iWire Global, at one time in the running to buy Sigfox, has signed a regional collaboration and development deal with Singapore-based IoT outfit Unabiz, which eventually won the race to buy Sigfox’s technology assets in France. The partnership...
A better balance between standardization and differentiation in IoT (Reader Forum)
From AI-capable endpoint devices to autonomous systems, IoT developers are building a diverse ecosystem of products and services, only set to grow. The number of IoT connected devices worldwide is projected to reach over 15 billion in 2023. MicKinsey estimates its market value will...
A note about Enterprise IoT Insights… last orders at the bar, the party is moving on
This is difficult to write.
It is a pivotal moment for IoT, and we think – the team at Arden Media, publisher of RCR Wireless News and Enterprise IoT Insights thinks – that it will not survive. At least, not as we know it, or...
Sierra Wireless intros new eSIM service to enable IoT network switching across globe
Canada-based cellular IoT specialist Sierra Wireless, under the stewardship of US LoRaWAN outfit Semtech since last month, has launched a new eSIM / eUICC service offering multi-carrier connectivity in the US, it has said. The new service, called Smart Connectivity Premium, uses the eSIM...
Amdocs teases new private 5G use cases – in healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing
US telecoms software and services outfit Amdocs has claimed to have developed a bunch of new private 5G use cases at its sandbox lab in Dallas, Texas. The new applications, being prepped for show at MWC in a couple of weeks, include 5G-sprung scenarios...
LoRaWAN-based remote patient monitoring arrives in US, targeting rural and tribal areas
Patient monitoring device maker Telli Health has partnered with US IoT operator and system provider Senet to launch the first remote patient monitoring (RPM) hardware to run on LoRaWAN connectivity, the pair have said. The new RPM device is being offered as a standalone...
EU backs $100m venture capital fund for ‘Industry 5.0’ (Industry 4.0 with-a-conscience)
Zurich-based venture capital group Momenta has launched a $100 million target fund for ‘Industry 5.0’ tech – basically, for startups pushing Industry 4.0 with-a-conscience. The new fund is backed by the European Commission, which told IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona, where the...
IoT tracking in the supply chain (pt 4) – putting the IoT edge at the heart of operations
Note, this article follows directly from a previous post (part 3; January 27) – about roadmap errors and design issues in the rollout of IoT in the supply chain sector, which followed from other posts in the series onJanuary 25 (part 2) and January...
IoT tracking in the supply chain (pt 3) – roadmap errors and design issues
Note, this article follows directly from a previous post (January 25) – about how IoT solved the global supply-chain edge, which followed another entry (January 24) about why logistics is the hardest sector of all for IoT; all articles are taken from a new...
IoT operator Netmore intros public LoRaWAN in France, extends across Europe
Swedish IoT operator Netmore Group has started to deploy a public LoRaWAN network in France, it has said. Its French debut follows a period of busy expansion in 2022, following its acquisition of Nordic IoT Networks in early 2021 and its strategic shift to...