
5G and Wi-Fi 6 ‘blueprint’ sets out ‘limitless potential’ in Industry 4.0, smart cities
The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has released a “blueprint” for the combination of 5G and Wi-Fi 6 in the broad IoT sector, notably for smart industry, smart cities, smart buildings, …

China fast-tracks Industry 4.0 with 30 5G factories, new ‘international’ IoT platforms
The parallel narratives around cellular 5G and Industry 4.0 are about to collide. China has said it will build 30 brand new ‘smart factories’ by 2023, all of them threaded …

IIC joins with Smart Manufacturing Institute to refine core rules of industrial IoT
Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII), which brands itself as the Smart Manufacturing Institute in the US, are working together to accelerate the development, …

Orange on 2021: Hardship spurs innovation – and so with Covid-19 and Industry 4.0
The Covid-19 pandemic has deeply disrupted existing ‘just-in-time’ models of supply chain management and manufacturing. Around the world, many production lines ground to a halt in 2020, and a light …

Aerospace manufacturer builds first SME-based private 5G network in UK
Precision engineering firm AE Aerospace, which makes prototype components for the aerospace, marine, and defence industries, is the first UK SME to deploy a private 5G network, it has been …

Private Wireless Podcast – private 4G versus private 5G (episode #4)
RCR Wireless News · Private Wireless Podcast – Private 4G versus private 5G (episode #4) Private 4G or 5G? That is the question, it seems, for enterprises looking at private …

CBRS Alliance rebrands, repositions as go-to group for shared spectrum globally
The CBRS Alliance, the industry working group dedicated to wireless services in the 3.5 GHz ‘CBRS’ band in the US, has rebranded as the OnGo Alliance in order to advance …

Private LTE and 5G infrastructure market to reach $5.7 billion in 2024
So says International Data Corporation (IDC), forecasting the aggregated spending on radio access (RAN), core, and transport network infrastructure, in licensed, unlicensed, and shared spectrum. Last week, Dubai-based market intelligence …

Federated Wireless on 2021: CBRS-based 5G takes hold – as Wi-Fi 6 is ‘dead on arrival’
The race to make 5G a viable platform for Industry 4.0 has shifted up a gear with the availability of shared CBRS spectrum for private wireless networks, and private 5G …

Vodafone on 2021: IoT, 5G, MEC – and the move to performant industrial networking
Technologies have always tended to converge. Smartphones are an example of this: a phone merged with a media player and a camera to create something unique, which performs multiple tasks …