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The juggernaut workload and geopolitical tangles to make 5G work for critical industry

Critical Communications World (CCW) in Vienna this week (June 20-23) told the now-familiar story of how an influential industrial sector, which has existed in a horizontal tech vacuum until now, is coming to terms with its future as an extreme vertical in a broader...

Ultra-cheap, long-life, green-by-design – Sigfox teases biodegradable IoT at $0.30

Note, in the week following publication of this article, Sigfox filed for bankruptcy. Coverage of receivership procedings against Sigfox can be found here; read on to hear about the kind of big ideas that, perhaps, undermined Sigfox in the end – but which also...

Poised for success—a new market for connectivity (Reader Forum)

Despite being hailed as a breakthrough technology, NB-IoT connectivity has so far failed to live up to its initial hype, with delayed deployments, and connections currently in the millions, rather than the billions promised. Applicable to anything static or mobile which can support a sensor...

From vehicles to vaccines (and BLE to NB-IoT): five key asset tracking use cases

1 | FedEx + BLE – for tracking vaccine shipments FedEx has introduced a new Bluetooth based asset tracking system in time for anticipated shipping of COVID-19 vaccines, as well as for other emergency pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. Customers in the aerospace and retail sectors will...

Nokia deploys NB-IoT system in collaboration with Vodafone, Telit

The NB-IoT trial took place at Vodafone’s Open Lab in Dusseldorf. Nokia, Vodafone and Telit are collaborating to expand the "internet of things" ecosystem using narrowband-IoT technology. Nokia said it has deployed an integrated NB-IoT system at Vodafone's Open Lab in Dusseldorf, Germany, using...

The elements required for IoT and a 5G network

DALLAS–Prabhakar Chitrapu, lead member of the technical staff for small cell platforms at AT&T, gave a presentation on the road to a 5G network as part of a workshop titled Small Cell Forum@SCWS: The Path to 5G Workshop at SCWS 2016. He mapped out some...

The elements required for IoT and a 5G network

DALLAS–Prabhakar Chitrapu, lead member of the technical staff for small cell platforms at AT&T, gave a presentation on the road to a 5G network as part of a workshop titled Small Cell Forum@SCWS: The Path to 5G Workshop at SCWS 2016. He mapped out some...