Ericsson doubles five-year IoT forecast to 3.5bn LTE-M and NB-IoT connections
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailCellular ‘internet-of-thing’ (IoT) connections will reach 3.5 billion by 2023, from around 0.6 billion million today, with compound annual growth of 30 per cent per year, according to Ericsson, with …
3 things you can’t overlook for IoT success (Reader Forum)
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailWhile the IoT market is still in its infancy, it’s growing at a breakneck pace as more devices and machines connect each day. Cities, transportation, agriculture, manufacturing and other industries …
Ericsson adds ThingWorx to IoT Accelerator to ease IoT market’s growing pains
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailSwedish telecoms vendor Ericsson has added PTC’s Thingworx platform, offering tools for developing industrial ‘internet of things’ (IoT) and augmented reality (AR) services, to its cloud-based IoT Accelerator platform, designed …
ICT firms, manufacturing companies launch 5G alliance for connected industry
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail New alliance, dubbed 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation” (5G-ACIA), aims to promote adoption of 5G in industrial production A number of representatives of the automation and manufacturing …
Operators see revenue growth as key driver for entering the IoT: Ericsson
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail According to Ericsson’s new study, service providers still lack of a clear strategy to target the IoT business opportunity Revenue growth is currently the biggest driver for telecom service …
Ericsson and Fraunhofer Institute demo industrial 5G for making jet engines
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailTelecoms vendor Ericsson and the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology have joined together to explore and develop industrial applications of 5G, including the production of components for jet engines. The …
Qualcomm, Ericsson to develop IoT solutions for verticals in Brazil
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailQualcomm has recently inked an agreement to set up a factory to produce processors for IoT applications in Sao Paulo Qualcomm Technologies and Ericsson announced plans to implement internet of …
The IoT interview: “Business has changed for both sides,” says Ericsson
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThe fragmented IoT market is hard to understand for enterprises and hard to navigate for operators. Swedish vendor Ericsson says its new IoT ‘accelerator’ can help both sides. Enterprise IoT …
Ericsson carrier partnerships highlight NB-IoT momentum
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailNB-IoT deployments in Saudi Arabia, Greece focus on enterprise and industrial use cases Narrowband-internet of things (NB-IoT) connectivity is one of the 3GPP standards for massive IoT support. While the …
AI in telecoms: why carrier SON progress is not faster (clue: it’s not the tech)
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailArtificial intelligence (AI) is a crucial sub-text in the evolution of LTE and IoT networks. The deployment of AI-driven applications among the carrier community is limited so far. “We are …
