
Kerlink teams up with Japanese distributor on LoRaWAN construction, agriculture apps
French IoT firm Kerlink has teamed up with Japanese medical devices and electronics distributor GISupply on a set of LoRaWAN-based IoT solutions for the smart health and farming sectors. The …

BT switches on NB-IoT in UK to underpin country’s “largest” smart water pilot
UK water utility Yorkshire Water is in the final stages of an NB-IoT and AI pilot with BT to connect almost 4,000 acoustic, flow, pressure, and water quality monitors to …

BT and NHS use 5G to demo connected ambulance and remote ultrasound
UK medics and telecoms engineers have demostrated a 5G connected ambulance and a remote-controlled ultrasound scan over a public 5G network. The showcase has been carried out by telecoms provider …

UK aerospace firm tests Wi-Fi 6 in industrial 5G setup, with BT, Cisco, HPE, Intel
UK-based Mettis Aerospace, manufacturer of components for the likes of Airbus, Boeing and Rolls-Royce, is to test Wi-Fi 6 for connecting industrial machines and processes. The Wireless Broadband Alliance said …

BT deploys 1,000 IoT-based smart lockers across the UK
The smart lockers allow firms with large field engineering teams to gain more efficiency BT’s supply chain business, Final Mile, said that it has deployed 1,000 smart delivery …

UK launches 5G factory trials in Worcestershire
Companies already testing 5G in industrial environments are Worcester Bosch and Yamazaki Mazak The U.K.’s first live 5G factory trials have been launched at the Worcestershire 5G Testbed, …

The URLLC debate (pt5): Will enterprise 5G use cases scale? (Once more; is 5G just a proving ground for 6G?)
Throughout the ‘ask-the-experts’ session at URLLC 2018 in London earlier this month, serialised here across a number of posts, the conversation circled back time and again to 5G use cases. …

The URLLC debate (pt4): What is the business case for MEC? (And where’s the edge at anyway?)
For ultra low latency services, as enabled by incoming 5G technologies, multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a must. It provides the means to reduce latency, by degrees, as the compute …

The URLLC debate (pt1): Is 5G just a testbed for 6G? (Whisper it, is 5G the new 3G?)
“5G will do the boring stuff first”. The low-latency pyrotechnics that will fire the industrial sector into a new gear for the first time will come much later. The version …

Why ultra-low 5G latencies are not assured, and Europe is worst placed
The physics of time-division duplexing in radio communications means 5G could, in certain frequency bands, struggle to achieve the ultra low latencies it promises. Worse, in some markets, regulatory forces …