BROWSING: Bosch
Actility raises funds to drive private network sales, IoT sector acquisitions
French low-power IoT specialist Actility, operating and selling LoRaWAN infrastructure, has raised €16 million ($17.2m) in a new funding round to drive its own growth in the private networks space and consolidation in the wider low-power IoT market. The implication is that Actility remains...
Bosch, Infineon, Nordic, NXP, Qualcomm drive open-source RISC-V hardware
Heavyweights in the semiconductor industry have joined together to create a new company to accelerate production of products based on the new open-source RISC-V (RISC-five; reduced instruction set computer-V) architecture. Robert Bosch, Infineon Technologies, Nordic Semiconductor, NXP Semiconductor, and Qualcomm Technologies will jointly invest...
Bosch strikes deal to buy building tech supplier Paladin to enter Canadian market
Bosch has announced a deal to acquire Vancouver-headquartered systems integrator Paladin Technologies to expand its building services business in North America, and specifically to enter the Canadian market. Paladin Technologies, which also supplies security and safety solutions, will be integrated into its building technologies...
Telcos not seeing killer use cases for 5G monetization in India
Both Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio Infocomm offer 5G networks in all major cities across India
Indian carriers Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio Infocomm are not seeing killer use cases of 5G technology which can help operators to monetize their investments in the 5G field,...
‘The driver is not low latency’ – Airbus is positive, also cautious, on private 5G
Airbus listed the key benefits of private cellular networks, more or less in order, at Hannover Messe last week, and said, as it has before, that the initial business case hinges on coverage, mostly, in terms of both outdoor reach and indoor penetration. The...
Bosch bets big on industrial tech as sustainability gets trendy
Bosch has said it wants to increase sales of industrial technology by around 40 percent over the next five years, to top €10 billion by 2028. It said rising interest in environmental sustainability will drive revenues, with sales of so-called ‘green tech’ solutions reaching...
Capgemini to coordinate next-gen IoT project in Europe
Partners in this IoT project include ABB, Atos, Bosch, Ericsson, Sorbonne University, Aalto University and RWTH University
French IT services firm Capgemini said it has been selected to coordinate the Next Generation IoT project in Europe as part of the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet...
New Samsung UWB chipset for auto and IoT; plus new short-range portfolio brand
Samsung Electronics has announced its first ultra-wideband (UWB) chipset, the Exynos Connect U100, for use in mobile, automotive, and IoT devices. The new hardware solution offers precise distance measurements, down to “single-digit centimetres”, reckons the South Korean firm. It has introduced the U100 as...
DT, T-Mobile US launch network APIs and joint developer platform
The two telcos said the new network APIs are integrated onto Microsoft Azure Programmable Connectivity
BARCELONA—Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile US have developed a platform with joint Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) - called T-DevEdge – with the aim of making easier for the global developer community...
Bosch and Nokia combine on 6G research for Industry 4.0
MWC 2023: Bosch has said it is working with Nokia to develop industrial IoT solutions based on incoming 6G cellular networks. It follows the same joint work, formalised by the pair in a partnership in 2017, on 5G networks, now coming to market, mostly...
Nokia and Bosch carry out 5G positioning proof-of-concept
Nokia said that the proof-of-concept was deployed in a Bosch production plant in Germany
Nokia and Bosch are jointly working on the development of a 5G-based precision positioning technology targeting new Industry 4.0 use cases, the vendor said in a release.
The two firms have deployed...
‘Don’t promise heaven and earth’: Bosch on industrial 5G now, and a 6G future
When it comes to industrial 5G capabilities, the technology has yet to live up to the hype, according to Andreas Mueller, head of communication and network technology in the corporate research department of Robert Bosch. Speaking at the Brooklyn 6G Summit this week and...
‘All eyes were on Germany; now they’re now on the US’ – a picture of private 5G at large
Note, this is a revised version of the intro/outro statements at Private Networks European Forum earlier this month, presented then as a way to invite conversation about the state of ‘things’ in Europe, and re-presented now as a think-piece for the same. It considers...
Bosch launches its cybersecurity procurement platform in the UK
Bosch CyberCompare supports companies and the public sector when purchasing cybersecurity for enterprise IT, Operational Technology and IoT used in production or products
German company Bosch announced plans to launch its cybersecurity procurement platform Bosch CyberCompare in the U.K. market.
Bosch CyberCompare supports companies and the...
Cradlepoint, Bosch and T-Mobile US to offer IoT via 5G tech
Cradlepoint noted that its 5G Wireless WAN solutions enable IoT firms to immediately deploy solutions with the security and remote management capabilities needed to support IoT deployments at scale
Cradlepoint announced a collaboration with T-Mobile U.S. and the Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners to enable...
“Start small, start smart” – the Industry 4.0 road to scalability, sustainability with Bosch
Some time back – actually months back, ahead of Hannover Messe 2022 – Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Sven Hamann, chief executive at Bosch Connected Industry to discuss the interplay between 5G connectivity, IoT sensing, and AI analytics as a developing Industry 4.0...
Multiverse, Bosch announce quantum digital twin initiative
The Multiverse software solution will leverage data to assess the performance of individual equipment as well as broader production processes
Quantum computing company Multiverse Computing announced a collaborative research project with the Bosch Automotive Electronics plant in Madrid to leverage the power of quantum computing...
Airtel sets up 5G private network at Bosch manufacturing facility
Airtel has implemented two industrial use cases for quality improvement and operational efficiency at Bosch’s facility
Indian operator Bharti Airtel said it has completed a trial of what it claims to be India’s first 5G private network, at the Bosch Automotive Electronics India (RBAI) facility...
The trouble with private 5G for Industry 4.0 | Part 4 – the features
This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the report is available here. Subsequent instalments are listed below (linking either to the original...
Totally overhyped and utterly indispensable – why private 5G matters
What to say about the state of the private 5G market – about the state of ‘things’, if you like, at the top-end of the IoT game? I was asked to speak for five minutes to introduce the latest Private Networks Forum (PNF), put...
Bosch to make billions with green tech – 5G, IoT, AI subsumed in green Industry 4.0 push
German industrial giant Bosch has shifted its messaging, perhaps, in time for Hannover Messe, Europe’s big industrial trade fair, which sees its return next week after three calendar years of pandemic and disruption. Very squarely, the message from Bosch in its pre-show strategy update...
Nokia shifts private 5G sales strategy to go all-indirect, zero-touch, mega-sized
Another challenge, apart from devices, with the mission to scale industrial 5G is with sales channels. Speaking a while back, following its “flagship” arrangement with system integrator Kyndryl for its various Industry 4.0 gear, Nokia says its strategy on private networks has shifted, decisively....
A ‘most complex’ challenge – Bosch and AWS knit together global logistics services
Bosch and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are combining on a new digital services platform for the logistics industry, to launch in Europe, India, and the US in late 2022. Bosch is in charge of the platform itself, developing and operating the solution, which includes...
Sympathy for the devil – a private 5G story (thoughts on MWC)
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...