
Boom year for private 5G? Telcos restructure to take enterprise bull by network horns
A new report by analyst house ABI Research says the traditional telco community is restructuring its enterprise operations, including by establishing brand new business units, in order to deliver custom …

SIs in trouble, hyperscalers indifferent – the case for carrier-led private 5G
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘Software AG, StarHub and the blueprint for carrier-led industrial private 5G’, available here. Bernd Gross, chief technology officer at Software …

‘Open to any discussion’ – Sigfox on hooking up with LoRaWAN, scaling up with Google
Let’s cut to the chase: will Sigfox and LoRaWAN, painted as arch rivals at the low-power end of the IoT space, ever be combined into a single IoT solution? Will …

Siemens integrates Google’s cloud and analytics into factory automaton suite
Siemens is to integrate Google’s cloud and analytics technologies with its factory automation portfolio. The pair said their offer will help manufacturing companies to move away from fragmented legacy software, …

Telensa on 2021: Standards, platforms, surveillance, privacy – and 12 IoT forecasts
Jon Lewis, director of strategy at UK-based smart street lighting company Telensa highlights a dozen tech trends to watch for in the year ahead. Here goes… 1 | The ‘smart …

Sidewalk Labs blames Covid economy for shock shutdown of $1bn Toronto venture
Sidewalk Labs, the smart-city side project of Google-parent company Alphabet, has pulled the plug on its controversial tech-fuelled urban re-development project in Toronto, blaming “economic uncertainty” brought on by the …

Zigbee and DALI to improve compatibility of smart lighting connectivity and control
The Zigbee Alliance and the Digital Illumination Interface Alliance (DiiA), the organisation for DALI lighting control, are working together to bring further standardisation and system interoperability to IoT-based luminaires in the …

Decision on Sidewalk Labs delayed as Toronto seeks public review
Waterfront Toronto, in charge of the $1 billion redevelopment of Toronto’s waterfront neighbourhood, has extended the deadline on whether to move forward with Google sister company Sidewalk Labs’ proposal for …

Does AI need to be regulated? Views from the World Economic Forum
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already being used in a variety of applications, including automated analysis of video captured by security cameras or to assess the quality of items moving down …

Amazon trumps Google in smart home sales; smart lighting tops growth forecasts
The smart home market in Europe continued to grow in the third quarter of 2019, reaching almost 23.8 million units, an increase of 18.1 per cent compared to the same …