Editorial Report | Digital Factory Solutions: Industrial LTE and 5G
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailHow will incoming cellular technologies transform smart manufacturing? In the first installment in a new series on smart manufacturing technologies, UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman looks at the role …
Street-lighting to drive $15bn energy savings; Siemens tops smart-city review
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailJuniper Research claims street lighting upgrades will deliver $15 billion in cumulative energy savings for cities in the period to 2023. These savings will be achieved both by converting lamps …
Huawei strikes deal to deploy IoT, 5G solutions in the Middle East
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail Through an agreement with Alfanar, the Chinese vendor will initially launch specific solutions in Saudi Arabia Huawei has inked a partnership with Middle East electrical product manufacturer Alfanar …
Network and chipset advances will see NB-IoT shoulder the IoT workload, says Huawei
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNB-IoT connections will comprise the vast majority of cellular IoT by 2021, at up to 75 per cent and around one billion devices, according to Huawei. The number will climb …
The raw and the cooked – Impressions of MWC 2019, and the state of ‘things’
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailWhat is 5G anyway? Ericsson kicked off Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 by stating it is deploying 5G networks at pace, faster than anyone else. But these networks – alongside those …
UK launches 5G factory trials in Worcestershire
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail 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, …
Arm, AT&T, Ericsson, HPE et al join new Linux group to bring order to edge IoT chaos
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe Linux Foundation has started a new umbrella organisation, LF Edge, to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing that is independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. …
Vodafone claims European ‘firsts’ in live tests of cellular for cars and drones
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailVodafone has completed the first live tests in Europe of a full cellular system for both short and long-range vehicular communications, as well as for monitoring and managing multiple unmanned …
Huawei intros smart city platform, calls it only “full-stack” system for cities
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailHuawei has launched a digital platform for smart cities, claiming at the same time it is already working with 160 cities in over 40 countries on smart city solutions. Huawei …
Free trade in tech helps economies grow (Reader Forum)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailOver the past few decades, the liberalization of trade has allowed small and mid-sized enterprises to expand into global markets, while information communications technology (ICT) has become a key driver …
