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AMRC demos UK’s first 5G SA testbed for manufacturing firms

The 5G project, which required the investment of over £10 million ($12.4 million), was completed at the end of March The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) carried out a demonstration of what it claims to be U.K.’s first, fully operational 5G Standalone...

Digital Catapult, Ofcom unveil O-RAN testing facilities in the UK

So far, 15 vendors and 36 O-RAN products have collaborated with SONIC Labs U.K. digital accelerator Digital Catapult, working with telecommunications regulator Ofcom, has announced the opening of its new Open RAN (O-RAN) testing facilities as part of the SONIC Labs program. SONIC Labs is...

Sunderland takes smart-city 5G to uni areas; West Midlands wins £10m for 5G innovation

Sunderland City Council and the University of Sunderland in the UK have appointed BAI Communications (BAI), already engaged on a 20-year deal with the city council to build and operate a 5G network to support municipal services and the local manufacturing sector, to also...

Telefónica, Deloitte-backed 5G accelerator launches UK smart-city competition

UK-based 5G consortium 5PRING, which includes Telefónica and Deloitte, has partnered with local authorities in the West Midlands in the UK, a regional focus of the UK government’s developing 5G ‘testbed’ trials, to launch a new accelerator challenge to find new 5G applications for...

Siemens joins Ericsson-led UK industrial 5G accelerator, declares private 5G the only way

Siemens has joined an industrial 5G accelerator programme as part of a collaboration between Ericsson and UK innovation agency Digital Catapult. US data storage company Seagate and UK robotics specialist Tharsus are also on board. The work is geared around private 5G setups; the...

Verizon joins UK accelerator scheme to foster new 5G retail experiences

US carrier Verizon has joined with UK digital accelerator Digital Catapult to develop 5G solutions for retail. The pair will make use of Verizon’s new 5G Lab in London, opened in February, to offer startups a production house to test their 5G based innovations. Companies...

What is ‘co-creation’ in IoT (with doughnuts), and what can 5G providers learn from it?

The enterprise IoT sector has moved up a gear, out of the lab and onto the ‘shop floor’, because the various parties involved have hit upon a way to collaborate on digital-change solutions. Perhaps the remarkable aspect of this is that it has taken...

“IoT is meaningless without 5G” – UK puts 5G at heart of industrial-change strategy

“The internet of things is meaningless without 5G.” That was the line this week from Siemens, or at least its UK chief, speaking as chair of the UK government’s new industrial change strategy, which makes 5G its linchpin. Juergen Maier, chief executive at Siemens UK,...

UK tech incubator sets up Industry 4.0 demo labs to show LoRa based IoT solutions

UK tech incubator Digital Catapult is sponsoring a pair of UK firms to set up as Industry 4.0 showcase labs for the rest of the UK manufacturing industry. County Durham based fabrication and machining firm Dyer Engineering, and Hereford based superalloy manufacturer Special Metals Wiggin...

Turing Institute to host hackathons for London-based AI start-ups

London start-ups are being technical support to develop and scale their artificial intelligence (AI) projects. The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s centre for data science and AI, will host a series of five-day ‘hackathons’ to help UK innovators, based in the capital, to nail down...

The market is too fragmengted, even for the punk ethos of IoT, says LoRaWAN leader TTN

The LoRaWAN movement has something of the do-it-yourself ethos of punk music in the late 1970s. The Things Network (TTN), an Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN curation project, is one of its leaders, offering a simplified set of 'internet-of-things' (IoT) connectivity solutions and developer tools, and a...

LoRaWAN initiatives combine to create UK’s largest free-to-use LPWA network

UK tech incubator Digital Catapult has meshed its Things Connected LoRaWAN network in with the UK footprint of Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN project The Things Network (TTN). The result is the UK’s largest free-to-use low-power wide-area (LPWA) network deployment and innovation community, according to its architects. UK...

Ericsson to end manufacturing in Sweden – Internal report

Ericsson is reported to be planning to close its remaining manufacturing sites in Sweden. A new CEO is yet to be announced. Ericsson could be about to end its 140 years manufacturing tradition in Sweden as it plans to close down its two remaining...