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ZTE explains how to accelerate the upgrade of smart manufacturing

The full connectivity of digital infrastructure and the intelligent platform are the twin engines for smart factories to accelerate the intelligent manufacturing upgrade, according to Summer Chen, Vice President and General Manager of Branding and PR Strategies at ZTE. During a presentation at the Manufacturing...

10 new 5G projects get €50m EU funds – for healthcare, public safety, logistics

Ten new projects have been selected for €50 million of European Union (EU) funding from a second call for proposals under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Digital) programme. The focus of the funding is 5G for Smart Communities’, and includes a couple of notable...

A pioneer, a practitioner and a pragmatist walk into a factory…

For Industry 4.0, business case development and technical considerations are clearly important but maybe market catalyzation will come from leaps of faith Uptake of industrial 5G solutions has been a bit of a mixed bag. While the vision of Industry 4.0 hasn’t yet been relegated...

Siemens targets critical industry as US smart factory investments top $500m

Siemens has announced a new $150 million smart factory in Dallas-Fort Worth in the US to supply electrical equipment to US data centers and critical infrastructure. The new facility will make use of sundry Siemens-made IoT and AI software tools, notably to support digital...

Orange commits to LoRaWAN in France beyond 2027

Orange has committed to non-cellular IoT connectivity technology LoRaWAN “beyond 2027”. The France-based mobile operator effectively told the SIDO Lyon, the major France-based IoT and AI trade fair, today (September 20) that it will continue to support the development of its public LoRaWAN network...

Vendor HFR to install private 5G and Wi-Fi 6E for Korean aviation manufacturing

Network equipment vendor HFR has said it will supply a “converged private 5G and Wi-Fi 6E network” for a new industrial complex “in the metaverse” at the Kyungnam Techno-Park in the coastal city of Changwon in the southeast of South Korea. The Kyungnam/Changwon development...

Siemens samples own sustainability meds at smart campus in Switzerland

Germany industrial giant Siemens has opened the final wing of a new CHF250 million ($280m) ‘smart infrastructure’ facility in Zug in Switzerland which, it claims, takes advantage of the latest IoT sensing and AI sense-making technologies to optimise highly-efficient energy infrastructure and deliver a ...

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...

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...

Private 5G will be worth $96bn by 2030 – but half will go on problem-solving SI services

Ahead of a big week in Barcelona, when the telecoms set hits town for its annual MWC jamboree, and when the only talk of any outward substance will be about edge-based 5G for enterprises, analyst house ABI Research has stuck out a revised forecast...

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...

Nokia extends private 5G lab tests to validate Industry 4.0 devices, use cases

Nokia has expanded its private 4G/5G test lab facility, called ‘Lab-as-a-Service’, to validate third-party industrial equipment and devices connecting on its Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) and Modular Private Wireless (MPW) private LTE (4G) and 5G network solutions. The service, free to customers, supports device...

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...

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...

Ericsson, Mugler ink private 5G network partnership in Germany

Ericsson noted that the new private networks will be powered by the Ericsson Private 5G solution Swedish vendor Ericsson has signed a partnership with European network provider and system integrator Mugler for private 5G industrial networks in Germany. The two companies had previously carried out a...

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...

MFA, 5G-ACIA sign MoU to advance private 5G networks

MFA said it provides resources and tools through various channels for industry verticals to simplify their path to secure private networks MFA, formerly the MultiFire Alliance and now a private networking alliance, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries...

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...

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...