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KT partners on 5G smart factories with Hyundai Heavy Industries

Korean carrier KT Corp. and compatriot shipbuilding conglomerate Hyundai Heavy Industries Group announced a collaboration to jointly develop advanced smart factory solutions based on 5G, Korean news agency Yonhap reported. In May, the two companies had inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to join...

SMEs can ‘punch above their weight’ with carrier-IoT as-a-service, says Vodafone

Small and medium sized enterprises can “punch above their weight” in global markets by taking IoT as-a-service from mobile operators. Where large organisations will go it alone, and develop their own IoT platforms internally, smaller companies must seek specialist partners. At the same time,...

‘Ericsson, Sprint, LoRa, Zigbee – tell us, what’s your favourite IoT use case?’

Between them, US telecoms operator Sprint and Swedish telecoms vendor Ericsson claim considerable experience in the IoT space. The variety of IoT use cases is vast, and ever-growing, they say. Just look at their websites to see their enterprise IoT stories stacking up. But...

Nokia and Microsoft bundle private LTE and Azure IoT for operators

Microsoft and Nokia are offering a private LTE and IoT bundle for operators and enterprises. UK based BT is the first operator to resell the package, offered as a managed service. The arrangement, which sees the Microsoft’s Azure based cloud and analytics offered with...

Nokia to deploy private LTE for Brazilian mechatronics centre to drive Industry 4.0

Nokia is to equip a major state-run industrial training facility in Brazil with 5G and AI to accelerate Industry 4.0 skills, trials, and deployments in the region. The Finnish vendor will deploy connectivity and analytics solutions at the country’s National Service for Industrial Training (SENAI-SP)...

KT to make massive investments to become an AI company

Korean telecommunications company KT announced plans to invest 300 billion won ($257 million) over the next four years to become an artificial intelligence (AI) company, Korean press reported. The Korean telco also said it aims to hire nearly 1,000 specialists in the AI field with the...

There are only three IoT use cases, and one doesn’t exist yet – simplicity, scale, and the state of ‘things’

IoT Solutions World Congress, in its fifth year (2019), has the whiff of MWC about it. It’s in Barcelona, at the same venue, and the faces are familiar -- with a number of the European telecoms giants, big cloud brands, and systems integrators scattered...

Microsoft adds rush of features to IoT Central platform and Azure cloud

Microsoft has added a rush of new capabilities variously to its IoT development platform and its IoT cloud platform to simplify and scale IoT deployments. It has added a number of features to its IoT Central app development platform. The platform is designed to make...

Deutsche Telekom launches blockchain trading platform for German enterprises

Deutsche Telekom has launched a blockchain marketplace for German enterprises. The new German blockchain ecosystem (GBE) will enable customers to “map” different applications using blockchain. The service, from Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems, will allow businesses to map a product's entire supply chain in a distributed...

Rotterdam recruits Traxens to handle IoT data for Container 42 smart-port project

French IoT firm Traxens has joined the Port of Rotterdam’s new smart container project, Container 42. It will provide the sensors in the container, to measure various physical and environmental impacts, as the container makes its way around the world in a bid to...

Verizon signposts ‘massive forward steps’ in industrial 5G with Corning factory trial

Verizon has installed millimeter wave 5G at Corning’s fibre optic cable factory in Hickory, North Carolina. The pair will build a “factory of the future” to take “massive steps forward in robotics and automation”. At the same time, Verizon has announced it has added Dallas,...

Seven start supply chain consortium to standardise blockchain for mining industry

Seven mining and metals companies have joined a World Economic Forum initiative to design and deploy blockchain solutions for the whole industry. The seven founding companies are Antofagasta Minerals, Eurasian Resources Group, Glencore, Klöckner & Co, Minsur, Tata Steel, Anglo American/De Beers (Tracr). The group...

Siemens to buy US edge software startup Pixeom to expand digital factory offer

Germany industrial giant Siemens has announced a deal to acquire US startup Pixeom for an undisclosed fee, in a move to boost its industrial automation and digitalization division.  Pixeom, responsible for the original Raspberry Pi-based personal cloud platform back in 2014, offers a software-defined edge...

ABB and Microsoft set up cybersecurity alliance to tackle threats to OT systems

A new global alliance has been established by ABB and Microsoft, alongside a cross-section of industrial technologists, to tackle cybersecurity threats to operational technology (OT), as it is increasingly connected to IT systems in order to drive new analytics and automation technologies. The new...

NVIDIA unveils EGX edge AI platform, Aerial 5G SDK; teams up with Microsoft, Ericsson

NVIDIA has announced a combination of edge computing and 5G networking innovations around its graphics processing unit (GPU) technologies, to drive scale of artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), and 5G applications. Its new NVIDIA EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform is geared for rapid-fire data...

Sierra Wireless bundles devices, connectivity into ‘full-stack’ IoT platform for OEMs

Sierra Wireless has released its new Octave IoT platform, first announced in June as an integrated offer with Microsoft’s Azure IoT cloud solution. It claims the platform is "unique" as the only ‘full-stack’ IoT package on the market, combining hardware, connectivity, and management software...

Three private LTE deployments in the mining industry

The mining industry continues to recruit operators and vendors to deploy new industrial LTE and 5G networks on the promise of industrial change. Here is a summary of recently announced deployments. 1 |  Minera Las Bambas, Peru Minera Las Bambas in Peru, the ninth largest copper mine...

Operators to gain $700bn from industrial 5G, says Ericsson – if they play cards right

Private networks and cellular IoT will be keys for operators to unlock $700 billion of new revenues from industrial 5G services community in the next decade, as industrial sectors look to drive digital change on cellular networking, reckons Ericsson. But operators must redefine their service...

Four prime sectors for industrial LTE in private or shared spectrum

The steady liberalisation of radio spectrum for private and shared usage in various markets, along with the growing realisation among traditional network operators that their licensed spectrum mat be better used for dedicated applications in under-covered locales, means the industrial set has a number...

Coal, copper and gold – three smart mines, digging with data

1 | Anglo American, Capcoal coal mine, Queensland, Australia British mining company Anglo American has just started work in Australia on what it envisions as “one of the most technologically advanced underground mines in the world”. It is pumping $226 million into the expansion of...

Tech Mahindra and Cisco devise 5G factory blueprint for Industry 4.0

Tech Mahindra and Cisco have come up with a new digital factory blueprint that puts 5G at the heart industrial operations. Tech Mahindra said the solution sets a model for IT-OT integration and security.  The solution covers certain factory functions, including wireless networking on the...

ZTE takes part in 5G-based smart factory project in China

  ZTE and China Telecom assisted Australian firm Bluetron in commissioning what they claim is China's first 5G Standalone site, which put 5G slicing, edge computing and smart manufacturing into trial to help Bluetron build a new 5G smart factory. In order to meet data requirements...

MIOTY joins with OT platform as plug-and-play industrial IoT bundle

BehrTech, the Toronto-based startup in charge of the MIOTY low-power wide-area (LPWA) technolgy, has signed with industrial software company MAJiK Systems, from Ontario, to connect legacy industrial equipment with analytics software. BehrTech’s MYTHINGS-branded connectivity platform, for managing MIOTY-based sensors and connectivity, has been integrated...

Bullish BehrTech eyes ‘two-horse’ race with LoRaWAN, as it opens APAC, primes channel

Toronto-based BehrTech, licensee of the new MIOTY low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology, has come out swinging, it says, both as it gathers business from incumbent LPWA rivals and as it sets itself for a full tilt at the IoT connectivity market in 2020. The firm has...