BROWSING: industry 4.0

A couple of years back, Nokia talked up its private 5G cloud system like a Netflix-style content platform; almost three years later, it is looking to deliver on that concept by loading its MXIE edge-compute servers with Industry 4.0 applications. It is a telling...

STMicroelectronics has updated its STM32 family of Industry 4.0 microprocessors (MPUs) with a new architecture and higher performance. The new STM32MP25 product line combine 64-bit core processing units with on-device edge AI acceleration, advanced multimedia features, graphics processing, and “digital connectivity”, said a statement....

US chip maker Analog Devices is to invest €630 million into its European headquarters in Limerick, Ireland, to build a new research and manufacturing facility in order to spur development of semiconductor solutions for the industrial, automotive, and healthcare sectors. The firm expects to...

UK telecoms group BT has folded its Division X business, founded early 2022, further into its BT Business division. The consolidation, which makes Division X a part of its product team within BT Business, has seen Marc Overton, managing director at Division X, call...

A bit late, but of some note; last month, Mines Nancy, a major grande école for engineering in France, opened a private 5G innovation platform at its campus in Nancy in northeastern France to enable engineering students and university partners to develop 5G-based industrial...

Finnish vendor Nokia and Colombian operator Claro have deployed a private LTE network at Sociedad Portuaria Puerto Bahía in Cartagena, billed as the “most modern” multipurpose maritime port in Colombia. The solution includes Nokia’s Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) private networking solution, plus its MX...

This article is continued from a previous post, under the header, “The last word from Industry 4.0’s Mister 5G’; to read the intro-part, click here. The explanation from Daniel Mai, replacing Sander Rotmensen as Mister 5G at Siemens, that the German firm’s new private network...

“I don't know why I should have to defend that, actually”, says Sander Rotmensen at Hannover Messe a couple of weeks back, still in position with Siemens at the time as the firm’s Mister 5G, responsible for stewarding its box-fresh private 5G system into...

Nokia has released a cellular-connected drone solution for enterprises to run remote security and maintenance inspections of sites and equipment. It claims it is the first CE-certified cellular drone solution, meeting European health, safety, and environmental protection standards. It works with public and private...

Airbus listed the key benefits of private cellular networks, more or less in order, at Hannover Messe last week, and said, as it has before, that the initial business case hinges on coverage, mostly, in terms of both outdoor reach and indoor penetration. The...

Vodafone has launched an all-edge private 5G service offering in the UK for enterprise-geared on-premise cellular connectivity. The package, branded simply as Vodafone MPN (for mobile private network), offers standalone and non-standalone 5G (SA and NSA) radio (RAN) and core networks, plus system management,...

First impressions count – and the trains are late, the stairs are broken, and the food is wrong. This is not the fabled German efficiency we came here to discuss – and see projected into the digital age across 17 cavernous halls of the...

DTC will work with companies including Open Health Systems Laboratory (OHSL), Axomem and Dell Technologies The Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) announced it has expanded its regional branch organizer (RBO) program to include India and Southeast Asia. In a release, DTC said it will work with members...

The first fruit of NTT’s new tie-up with Cisco on private 5G; the pair have combined to deploy a private 5G network for research purposes at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) in Aachen, in Germany. It is that valuable thing for an industry looking...

Bosch has said it wants to increase sales of industrial technology by around 40 percent over the next five years, to top €10 billion by 2028. It said rising interest in environmental sustainability will drive revenues, with sales of so-called ‘green tech’ solutions reaching...

Electronics and appliance manufacturers are leading the way for Industry 4.0 ‘maturity’, according to a new poll of 500 industrial companies by Nokia and ABI Research. Their research says that electronics and appliance manufacturers are marginally further along with their digital transformation than companies...

Nokia said that these new applications enable use cases such as early alerts and anomaly detection, condition monitoring, preventive and predictive maintenance Nokia announced the launch of four applications for MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) developed by third parties, which will help enterprises connect, collect and...

Logicalis claims to be the first U.S. partner to deliver Cisco's private 5G as-a-service, including professional services Managed service provider Logicalis U.S. announced the launch of its private network services, supported by compatriot networking company Cisco. Logicalis, which is a Cisco integrator, said it combines its...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will, at some point, replicate its managed private 5G service offering in global markets, it says. The product, currently limited to CBRS installations in the US, has underpinned 200-odd private cellular deployments so far – mostly LTE-based, mostly using componentry...

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has opened a six-week consultation with a view to open more cellular spectrum for shared and private usage. It said the success of its Shared Access Licence (SAL) framework, which opened four bands for a range of enterprise users in...

Swedish vendor Ericsson has acquired secure access software provider Ericom Software via its US-based enterprise networking division Cradlepoint. The transaction, for an undisclosed sum, shores up Cradlepoint’s secure access service edge (SASE) and zero-trust offerings for hybrid 5G and wireline environments, the company said. New...

The third part in a loose trilogy on the late rise of the IT crowd in the new private cellular space, following announcements by HPE and Cisco at MWC last month, and a direct followup to the Cisco entry a couple of weeks back;...

A snapshot from a session at Telco Cloud & Edge Forum this week, which asked about edge-oriented use cases in enterprises, and threw up a couple of interesting examples – which tell how computer vision, specifically, attached to edge-based cellular networks and computing systems,...

A loose poll – please don’t roll your eyes – of 2,000 adults in the US about the likely impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the jobs market says, basically, that nothing good will come of it, at least insofar as the availability of...