
Li-Fi fixes shortcomings of 5G for industrial IoT, says Industrial Internet Consortium
In research for a new report on industrial AR, Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Farid Bichareh, smart factory chair at the Industrial Internet Consortium and chief technology officer at …

Mexico City completes mass deployment of LTE-connected video cameras
Mexico City has completed one of the fastest-ever integrated deployments of a connected city-wide surveillance system. The Mexican capital has seen 13,720 LTE-based video cameras installed in four months. Austin-based …

‘AR is more forgiving’ – HPE on connectivity and compute setups for industrial AR/VR
In research for a new report on industrial AR, Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Ian Henderson, chief technologist for manufacturing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to discuss the challenges with …

Altran looks to federate MEC to deploy Industry 4.0 on private networks anywhere
Paris based system integrator Altran is working with London edge-cloud startup Ori Industries to promote federated multi-access edge computing (MEC) so developers can deploy Industry 4.0 solutions on private LTE …

BMW talks €30bn future-tech fund, new blockchain experiment, plus COVID impact
German car giant BMW will invest €30 billion in “future-oriented” technologies during the next five years. The group has confirmed it will expand a blockchain pilot for purchasing front lights …

Metals & Mining | Digging with data – unique challenges, cellular solutions (part 3)
This article continues from here (part 2). It is also available to download (for free) in full, as a standalone report – from here. The report features additional information. It …

Teracom recruits Ericsson for Industry 4.0-geared LTE/5G rollout in Sweden
Telecoms provider and broadcaster Teracom has said it will use radio and cloud products from Ericsson as it starts to roll out LTE and 5G in the 450 MHz band …

5G should cover 70% of industrial sites by 2025, tech sector tells EU leaders
By 2025, 5G connections should cover 40 per cent of Europe’s workforce, 70 per cent of its industrial sites, and 80 per cent of its main logistics routes. This was …

‘Manufacturers want proof’ – Ericsson looks to bottle fizz and pop of industrial IoT
Industrial IoT’s biggest problem? The fear of failure in a risk adverse industry. So says Ericsson, which recommends a two-pronged approach to spur takeup among overly-cautious manufacturing companies. The first …

Verizon, Honeywell help utilities to accelerate deployment of smart meters
Verizon has inked an agreement with Honeywell with the aim of helping utilities speed up the deployment of new communication-enabled, intelligent sensors and controls for the smart electric grid, both …