BROWSING: Smart Factory

Note, for more on this topic, and to hear more from Vodafone and others, join the Enterprise IoT Insights webinar on Industrial 5G (From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard) on April 28 – also featuring speakers from ABI Research, MFA (MulteFire Alliance)/Nokia, and Schneider...

Telefónica Tech, the digital change unit of Spain-based operator Telefónica, has acquired UK-based digital transformation and data analytics company Incremental for £175 million. Incremental, a major Microsoft partner in the UK, will be integrated into Telefónica Tech business in the UK and Ireland. In the...

The total number of private LTE and 5G networks will increase to 13,500 installations globally by 2026, according to analyst group Berg Insight; this is a 10-fold increase, roughly, from a figure today of “more than” 1,000 private LTE deployments and 200–300 private 5G...

Vertical sectors in France are already permitted to use frequencies in the 2.6GHz and 26GHz bands for industrial 5G   The French government announced new measures aimed at promoting access to 5G for manufacturers and vertical sectors in the country, with the aim of accelerating the...

Industrial automation and energy management provider Schneider Electric is to install NTT’s new private 5G solution at its flagship ‘smart factory’ production facility in Lexington, Kentucky, and progressively through the French firm’s factories and data centres. It appears, as well, that Schneider Electric will...

As with the telecoms industry’s travails with NB-IoT, only just starting to resolve, there is a classic chicken-and-egg scenario with industrial 5G, around availability of networks and devices. In other words, why should an enterprise install a 5G network if there aren’t any enterprise-grade...

This started, provisionally, as a roundup of five key private 5G deployments in five key private 5G industries in five key private 5G markets, spurred by a couple of recent announcements we missed originally, by Spanish construction firm Ferrovial at the Silvertown Tunnel project...

Chile-based copper mining group Antofagasta Minerals has recruited Nokia to deploy a private LTE network at its Minera Centinela (Centinela mine) open pit copper mine in the Antofagasta region in northern Chile. It is the latest in a string of wins for the Finnish...

IDC noted that the worldwide market for private LTE/5G wireless infrastructure continued to gain traction throughout 2021   The global private LTE/5G wireless infrastructure market is forecast to reach revenues of $8.3 billion by 2026, an increase compared to revenues of $1.7 billion in 2021, according...

UK-based civil engineering company BAM Nuttal has switched on a private 5G network to provide connectivity for construction services at a 55,00 square-metre site in the Shetland Islands in the UK, where it has been contracted by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) as...

Cellnex Telecom is to deploy a private 5G network, plus edge componentry, for the automotive branch of engineering group SEGULA Technologies in Germany. The project is being handled by Edzcom, the Spanish company’s private networking division. Edzcom will install the edge networking and compute...

AT&T is working with Microsoft to enable US enterprises to roam from private LTE and 5G networks using the shared CBRS band to public networks using its own licensed spectrum and national infrastructure. The new AT&T Private 5G Edge product will sit alongside Microsoft’s...

South Korea aims to award frequencies in the 28 GHz band for private 5G networks   LG CNS, the IT division of South Korea's LG Group, has applied for government permission to become the second domestic operator of a private 5G network, Korean news outlet Aju...

This might seem like a cop-out, but the irresistible narrative from MWC over the week, that the grand-standing on the show floor masked (and revealed) a battle between three industries for the soul of 5G, is not quite right. The idea that the traditional...

NTT-owned IoT MVNO-enabler Transatel has introduced a private LTE/5G extension for its IoT roaming SIM to enable connected devices to switch between public and private cellular networks. It described the new feature as “critical given the massive adoptions of private 5G in factories and...

MWC, Barcelona: The industrial sector loves the idea of digital change, says Verizon, and private 5G as a platform for it, but it’s just not very good at showing it. Speaking at a packed industrial 5G (Industry City / Manufacturing Summit) conference stream at...

US private networks and small cells provider Boingo Wireless is working with Qualcomm to “streamline” IoT deployments for enterprise customers, it has said. The Los Angeles firm has joined Qualcomm’s ‘smart cities accelerator’ programme, and is offering integrated Qualcomm-based IoT solutions with its own...

Nokia has announced go-to-market deals for private LTE and 5G with the cloud division of Chinese web giant Alibaba and with French cloud services company Atos. Both companies will integrate and resell its Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) private wireless solution, which is driving much...

MFA, formerly the MulteFire Alliance, has released a set of ‘technology blueprints’ for industrial 5G networks and devices to help enterprise users, device makers, and application developers select key 3GPP features for their specific 5G private network deployments and solutions. The new work was...

Core network provider Druid Software has partnered with IoT positioning firm Polte to bring the Texas firm’s ‘cloud location over cellular’ (C-LoC) tech to private LTE and 5G networks, and also to enterprises tracking business assets from private onto public LTE and 5G infrastructure. Druid...

UK-based (Sweden-owned) IoT connectivity specialist Wyld Networks and US-based IoT solution provider TrakAssure have announced the first fruit of their joint labour, also with LoRaWAN system provider Senet and satellite operator Eutelsat, to deliver a “first-to-market” terrestrial-and-satellite IoT solution for the supply chain industry....

  French IT firm Atos recently launched its "Factory of the Future" project in Angers, France, the company said in a release. With this new factory, Atos said it aims to improve the quality of life at work for its employees, while meeting the "highest technological...

Following Cisco’s soft-launch at the start of the month – and also leapfrogging it with an immediate commercial release – rival IT vendor Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced a new private LTE and 5G system for serious-minded enterprise usage, including in the prized...

The (real) IoT market is both highly fragmented and deeply incestuous. This is not news, of course; it is to be expected for a market that is competitive and collaborative at the same time, and which coalesces systematically and regularly around new innovations. It...