
Nordic Semi on 2021: 10 times more with 10 times less – for a new golden age of tech
It’s hard to believe that at the start of last year some people were still openly questioning whether IoT was real, or if it would ever arrive in any significant …

IIC joins with Smart Manufacturing Institute to refine core rules of industrial IoT
Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII), which brands itself as the Smart Manufacturing Institute in the US, are working together to accelerate the development, …

‘Automation favors capital’ – WEF to take on the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The World Economic Forum pushed back its annual meeting from January in its perennial home of Davos, Switzerland, to May in Singapore, but the group is still convening political, business …

Orange on 2021: Hardship spurs innovation – and so with Covid-19 and Industry 4.0
The Covid-19 pandemic has deeply disrupted existing ‘just-in-time’ models of supply chain management and manufacturing. Around the world, many production lines ground to a halt in 2020, and a light …

Aerospace manufacturer builds first SME-based private 5G network in UK
Precision engineering firm AE Aerospace, which makes prototype components for the aerospace, marine, and defence industries, is the first UK SME to deploy a private 5G network, it has been …

CBRS Alliance rebrands, repositions as go-to group for shared spectrum globally
The CBRS Alliance, the industry working group dedicated to wireless services in the 3.5 GHz ‘CBRS’ band in the US, has rebranded as the OnGo Alliance in order to advance …

Ericsson (again) on 2021: IoT to drive change in healthcare, manufacturing, public safety
2020 was a disruptive and also exceptional year for connectivity, as the world grappled with remote working, social distancing and lockdown mandates. While the pandemic brought many challenges, it emphasized …

Small Cell Forum on 2021: Diversification from network densification – three ways
The most important watchword in 2021 will be diversification. This will be key to growth for the mobile industry in the 5G era, on multiple levels. In the past, cellular …

Federated Wireless on 2021: CBRS-based 5G takes hold – as Wi-Fi 6 is ‘dead on arrival’
The race to make 5G a viable platform for Industry 4.0 has shifted up a gear with the availability of shared CBRS spectrum for private wireless networks, and private 5G …

Vodafone on 2021: IoT, 5G, MEC – and the move to performant industrial networking
Technologies have always tended to converge. Smartphones are an example of this: a phone merged with a media player and a camera to create something unique, which performs multiple tasks …