
Industry 4.0 in the UK – four 4G/5G installs, four 4G/5G industries (and four Nokia wins)
This started, provisionally, as a roundup of five key private 5G deployments in five key private 5G industries in five key private 5G markets, spurred by a couple of recent …

Container tracking firm Traxens raises €23m, buys rival NEXT4, plots global expansion
France-based container tracking company Traxens has raised €23 million in a further funding round, led by existing investors, and at the same time acquired local rival NEXT4, which produces removable …

Orange teams up with satellite firm SES to bolster maritime services
Orange has struck a deal with Luxembourg-based satellite company SES Networks to bolster its connectivity offer for the maritime industry. The French operator said integration of satellite connectivity from SES …

Ericsson preps 5G mesh network to break satellite ‘monopoly’ on maritime comms
Ericsson is readying a new ‘maritime mesh network’ solution, based on LTE and 5G, as an alternative to ‘high-cost, high-latency, low-throughput’ satellite-based communication for the shipping industry, which it has …

High-flying Traxens signs deal for pharma and auto-parts tracking to Africa
French IoT firm Traxens has struck deals with logistics and transport providers Inter Transit Pharma (ITP) and Inter Transit et Prestations Logistiques (ITPL) for real-time precision tracking of consignments of …

Orange Business Services connects cargo ships on Northern Sea Route
Orange Business Services, the enterprise division of French carrier Orange, has won a contract to connect cargo ships along the Arctic shipping route, making them “offices at sea” with virtual …

Caterpillar and OSIsoft debut AI platform to reduce costs for shipping industry
The marine division of US machinery and equipment maker Caterpillar has integrated OSIsoft’s data management system into its industrial artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help shipping companies reduce fuel and …

AT&T takes WING with Nokia IoT network to offer global services and slicing
AT&T has agreed with Nokia to use the Finnish vendor’s ‘worldwide IoT network grid’ (WING) to offer enterprise customers global IoT connectivity. Nokia’s WING service covers core network, dedicated IoT …

Hitachi to make Stena Line smartest ‘cognitive shipping’ company by 2021
European ferry operator Stena Line is working with Hitachi to review its digital operations and smarten-up its fleet with artificial intelligence (AI). The pair will combine to review Stena Line’s …

Cisco and IBM finish Kinetic-Watson integration, hook-up Port of Rotterdam
Cisco and IBM have completed the integration of their Kinetic platform and Watson IoT system to improve data processing and intelligence at the network edge. The partnership is being brought …