BROWSING: IoT

Sequans gets €11m from French government for 5G eRedCap R&D

French IoT chipmaker Sequans Communications, which saw its $249m takeover by Japan-based Renesas Electronics come undone at the eleventh hour at the end of last month, has been granted €10.9 million from the French government to go towards development of 5G-based ‘reduced capability’ (RedCap)...

IoT-packed ‘flying’ electric hydrofoil launches in Sweden, New Zealand

Swedish electric boat maker Candela is in the process of deploying its Candela P-12 hydrofoil ferry in both Sweden and New Zealand. The P-12, like other hydrofoils in the Candela range, “flies above the water on computer-guided hydrofoils”. It has limited drag in the...

Market for printed sensors to jump 130% to $960m by 2034

The market for printed sensors is set to reach $960 million by 2034, according to a new report by IDTechEx. The firm noted that demand for printed and flexible IoT sensors, produced in large areas on flexible substrates, is strong in the automotive industry,...

‘Complexity kills’ – Ray Ozzie sings a Blues (to rouse the IoT crowd)

IoT is hard, man. Even talking about it, in any proper detail, is hard. Except if you’re talking with Ray Ozzie – over a breakfast croissant at MWC in Barcelona last month. Ozzie, the avuncular former tech chief at Microsoft, who steered the US...

Penguin tracking in Antarctica – u-blox supplies ultra compact, low-power GNSS unit

US-based Cellular Tracking Technologies (CTT), which makes IoT solutions for wildlife monitoring, has developed a solution with Swiss IoT module maker u-blox to track a penguin colony on Ross Island, in Antarctica. The company was tasked by US wildlife conservation organisation Point Blue to...

‘Land and expand’ – Verizon’s big private 5G play (‘different to how we ever worked’)

Note, this article is continued from a previous entry, under the title: Pragmatism, partnership, progress – private 5G pipe ‘doubles’ for Verizon. Go here for the first part. As written, and to recap... Jennifer Artley is in charge of the fast-expanding ‘5G acceleration’ team...

Vodafone wins 10-year smart meter deal with Aqualia in Spain

One we missed, from late February: Spanish water company Aqualia has appointed Vodafone on a 10-year deal to automate and manage its advanced meter infrastructure, with a view to supply more than one million NB-IoT smart meters over the first five years of the...

Cellnex gets EU funds for shared 5G network for IoT, V2X on Czech-Poland border

Shared 5G infrastructure is to be deployed for smart vehicle and traffic communications, plus for rural connectivity, in cross-border areas between the Czech Republic and Poland. The project is funded by the European Union (EU) as part of its Connecting Europe Facility for digital...

Euro smart gas meters hit 45% penetration; NB-IoT to be ‘go-to’ connectivity in 2028

The installed base of smart gas meters in Europe reached 55.9 million in 2023, according to analyst house Berg Insights. This is equivalent to a penetration rate of 45 percent, it said. The number will grow at a compound annual rate (CAGR) of 6.8...

Pragmatism, partnership, progress – private 5G pipe ‘doubles’ for Verizon

What did we write about MWC last week – that it was enterprise, enterprise, enterprise, and that operators failed to show (for RCR Wireless, anyway; to talk private 5G, at least)? Well, that’s not entirely true; some of them did. Verizon Business did, and...

AWS to launch infrastructure region in Saudi Arabia in 2026

As part of its long-term commitment, AWS is planning to invest more than $5.3 billion in Saudi Arabia Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to launch an AWS infrastructure region in Saudi Arabia in 2026. AWS said in a release that the new infrastructure region will...

BICS White Paper: What is cybersecurity and why should enterprises care?

The primary goal of IoT cybersecurity is to protect these connected devices, the data they generate, and the overall IoT ecosystem from various security threats and vulnerabilities. As IoT devices become more prevalent in various sectors, including homes, industries, healthcare, and smart cities, the need for the...

Toyota Material Handling puts entire US factory on Ericsson private 5G network

Toyota Material Handling, the US-based forklift truck manufacturer, is running its business critical operations at its 200,000 square-foot (19,000 square-metre) factory in Columbus, Indiana, “exclusively” over an Ericsson-made private 5G network in CBRS spectrum, it has said. The private 5G installation was completed last...

Achieving ROI in an intelligent supply chain: It’s all about the network

In a recent report issued by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the digital transformation of manufacturing and supply-chain related industries is in full swing. PwC noted that half of the enterprises they surveyed have already adopted IoT, cloud-based data platforms, and connected services to support their operations....

Private 5G – basket cases, blood baths and bitching (a barroom sting in Barcelona)

How do you write a story you can’t tell? When the real plot, outside of the corporate narrative, can’t be revealed? Normally, you sit on the bank and watch the river flow – until the water rises and the bodies float by. But what...

Actility and Kerlink bundle radio and core into single private LoRaWAN IoT system

French LoRaWAN stalwarts Actility and Kerlink are integrating their LoRaWAN network hardware and connectivity software into a simplified private LoRaWAN network solution to enable “easy” deployment and scalability of industrial IoT projects, the pair have said. The combined solution includes network server (LNS), payload...

#TBT: LoRa’s path on the IoT trail; 5G, MEC at the Super Bowl; Boingo goes private … this week in 2021

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! LoRa's path on...

Itron picks Software AG to ‘expand AMI capabilities’ with LwM2M-Cumulocity combo

Utility metering specialist Itron has struck a deal with German enterprise software and data orchestration firm Software AG to use its Cumulocity IoT platform for management of low-power IoT devices. The pair will use the open Lightweight M2M (LwM2M) protocol to translate telemetry data...

Enterprise, enterprise, enterprise – MWC is not a telco show, 5G is not a telco story

MWC 2024: Bleary-eyed and dead-on-our-feet, after 72 hours in Barcelona and 24 hours in briefings… MWC is not just a telco show, anymore; it is not even a telecoms show, really. Which reflects well on the event itself, as well as the industry that puts...

1NCE intros global high-data IoT, buys Brazil telco for pan-America roaming

MWC, Barcelona: Cellular IoT provider 1NCE has introduced a high-power broadband IoT data service to its portfolio for higher bandwidth IoT applications. It is charging a flat fee of $5 per gigabyte of data, over and above its 10-for-10 flat-rate airtime fee ($/€10 for...

Deal off – Renesas’ $249m takeover of Sequans collapses for tax reasons

Renesas Electronics has terminated its proposed $249 million purchase of France-based cellular IoT module maker Sequans Communications. It said the decision was down to an “adverse Japanese tax ruling”, apparently about the fee it would be required to pay on “taxable gain” after integration...

Verizon to supply 4G/5G IoT to Sony-Honda AI-EV JV in US

US operator Verizon has struck a deal with Japan-based counterpart KDDI to provide connectivity in North America to a forthcoming electric vehicle from Sony Honda Mobility (SHM), a joint venture between Sony and Honda. Verizon will supply cellular IoT and broadband connectivity to the...

NTT and Schneider integrate private 5G into edge data-center bundle for Industry 4.0

MWC, Barcelona: UK-headquartered NTT has announced a go-to-market deal with energy management and automation specialist Schneider Electric to combine private 5G with the French firm’s ‘modular data centre’ proposition. They are pitching to industrial firms with large factories and remote sites. The solution uses...

Verizon builds custom multi-core private 5G at Audi test track – with Nokia, AWS

Verizon Business has deployed a “highly-customised” private 5G “environment” at a vehicle test track in Neustadt, Germany, belonging to automaker Audi. The setup uses multiple cores, radio frequencies, and network technologies, variously from network vendor Nokia, edge/cloud vendor Amazon Web Services (AWS), and system...