Irish delivery service An Post recruits Sigfox for “thousands” of logistics trackers
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailIrish postal company and fleet operator An Post Mails & Parcels (An Post) has contracted Irish Sigfox operator VT Networks to equip and monitor “several thousand” roll cages and containers …
Lufthansa gets spectrum licence, deploys Nokia private 5G for remote engine checks
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailGerman airline Deutsche Lufthansa (Lufthansa) has gained a spectrum licence for operating private LTE and 5G in the 3.7-3.8 GHz band in Germany. The licence is with Lufthansa subsidiary Lufthansa …
Industrial alliance forms around telegram-splitting LoRaWAN and NB-IoT-rival MIOTY
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailA band of research organizations and industrial companies have formed the MIOTY Alliance to promote telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB), commercialized as MIOTY, as an alternative low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology to the …
‘Vulnerability makes us strong’ – team LoRa urged to embrace paranoia of open IoT
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAmsterdam-based LoRaWAN group The Things Network (TTN) has instructed the IoT community at large to draw strength, as a collective working with open technologies, from its apparent weaknesses as a …
Dell-backed edge AI firm FogHorn gets $25m fund, signs Stanley B&D, Honeywell
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailCalifornia-based industrial AI developer Foghorn has closed $25 million in a series C round of funding, led by LS Corp, part of $25 billion South Korean industrial conglomerate LS Group. …
“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 …
Private nets with Voda, Industry 4.0 with Ford, Robin Hood lives – UK’s £35m 5G trials
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe UK government has announced the winners of a £35 million funding pot for rural and industrial 5G projects, alongside a new $30 million 5G development competition for the media, …
5G, 0G, all these Gs? Gee-eze – the IoT pie is bigger than that, says LoRaWAN champ
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAn intro-video plays as the founders of The Things Network (TTN), take to the stage at their annual LoRaWAN bash in Amsterdam. A Hollywood-style voiceover crows about big-sounding tech – …
Operators are best placed to serve Industry 4.0 with 5G slices, says Huawei
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailHuawei said today at a London launch event for new 5G gear that it would prefer to go via the operator community to serve the Industry 4.0 movement, using slices …
BMW, Microsoft recruit InBev, Bosch to help resolve IoT connectivity and analytics
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAnheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), Bosch Group, and ZF Friedrichshafen Group have joined the steering committee for the Open Manufacturing Platform (OMP). BMW Group and Microsoft are already on board as …
