
Samsung, ABB target commercial buildings with new partnership
Samsung said its SmartThings platform allows users to monitor and control ABB’s portfolio of devices, like cameras and sensors South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics announced a partnership with …

Industrial IoT is the answer to good and green business, says everyone – says ABB
Industrial IoT is the tech answer to the business challenge of environmental sustainability. Everyone says so; everyone knows so. And yet only a third of enterprises are putting their money …

GSMA and 5G-ACIA team up on industrial 5G for Industry 4.0
The GSM Association (GSMA) and the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) are to collaborate more deeply on industrial 5G for smart manufacturing. The pair have signed a …

Ericsson intros ‘time-critical’ 5G-URLLC software enhancements for Industry 4.0
Ericsson has launched a new “software toolbox” to “guarantee” consistently low latency and high reliability in 5G networks for time-critical applications. Its new Time-Critical Communication product, available via a new …

5G manufacturing use case spotlight: Collaborative robotics
Singtel said that the emergence of 5G will make robot use in manufacturing faster and more efficient without the heft or limitation of cables

Vodafone slices 5G network for UK Power Networks as part of major smart grid trial
Vodafone has kickstarted a trial with UK Power Networks to connect the UK electricity network on a dedicated slice of its national 5G network. The initiative is part of the …

Industry to drive URLLC-era 5G market to $23bn by 2030 – with boom for operators
It is a little early, some way ahead of the standardisation schedule, but the first (?) market-sizing forecast is in for Release-17 era ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), pegged as the …

ABB co-develops new digital twin solution for energy and process industries
Swiss engineering conglomerate ABB and French simulation company CORYS have signed a deal to “advance digital twin modeling and simulation technology” across the energy and process industries. CORYS supplies transportation, …

Australian rail firm ARTC gets on track for digital change with Hitachi-ABB
Australia is both the flattest continent on earth and, with the exception of Antarctica, the driest. You can travel 2,000-odd miles across its plains, between Sydney and Perth, without seeing …

Bosch and Ericsson hone 5G for Industry 4.0, rollout private 5G in Germany
Bosch has started to build a private industrial 5G network at its semiconductor factory in Reutlingen, in Baden-Württemberg in Germany, to test for Industry 4.0 compatibility and network optimisation, along …