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“An exciting adventure” – Nokia opens 5G/6G lab in Australia to drive Industry 4.0

Nokia has announced a five-year deal with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) to build and run a 5G innovation facility at the university’s Tech Lab campus in Sydney, Australia. The new lab will see Nokia and UTS test 5G use cases with partners...

Peachtree Corners puts Level 3 autonomous car on public road for ‘real-world’ V2X tests

The Atlanta suburb of Peachtree Corners, in Georgia in the US, has ‘filled the tank’ and pressed ‘go’ on a new Level 3 autonomous test vehicle, based on an open-source platform, from automaker Ford, for smart-city developers to try out new mobility technologies on...

‘Smart city tech works in towns, too’ – Kerlink proclaims small-town IoT in France

Smart city tech, traditionally the reserve of the world’s major metropolitan centres, works just as well in small towns. So says French IoT provider Kerlink, which has installed a LoRaWAN network in Saint-Grégoire, in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in northwestern France, a city of 9,700 residents, in...

Ericsson intros 5G RAN slicing to help guarantee private 5G for industry

The capability works with radio slicing of public 5G networks, for carriers to offer and guarantee virtual private (or ‘dedicated’) mobile networks; it also works with radio slicing of dedicated and hybrid private networks, using privately-licensed spectrum managed by enterprises themselves, or by mobile...

5G and Wi-Fi 6 ‘blueprint’ sets out ‘limitless potential’ in Industry 4.0, smart cities

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has released a “blueprint” for the combination of 5G and Wi-Fi 6 in the broad IoT sector, notably for smart industry, smart cities, smart buildings, and the smart home, as well as sundry edge-based network deployments. It said, done...

A1 Telekom boosts global mobility bundle with deal for Austria smart-city startup

Austria-based A1 Telekom has acquired a majority share in local smart-city analytics startup Invenium, in which the mobile operator has held a stake since 2017. The unit, originally a spin-off from Technical University Graz and the Graz-based Know-Center, a European research center for data...

E-scooter brand Voi picks Ericsson and Arkessa for global IoT management

Electric scooter brand Voi has selected UK-based IoT roaming provider Arkessa and Swedish telecoms vendor Ericsson to provide cellular IoT airtime and management to manage its scooter fleets worldwide. Arkessa uses the Swedish firm’s IoT Accelerator platform for connectivity management and automation; at the same...

Ericsson (again) on 2021: IoT to drive change in healthcare, manufacturing, public safety

2020 was a disruptive and also exceptional year for connectivity, as the world grappled with remote working, social distancing and lockdown mandates. While the pandemic brought many challenges, it emphasized the need for certain technologies, including cellular IoT. Fast, reliable and secure connectivity was...

The trouble with co-creation in industrial IoT – why cities and telcos are dragging their heels on digital change

All this talk about a (industrial) revolution, and sometimes stuff gets left out. Scratching around for news last week, looking through half-written pieces from last year, this jumped out; about the Industry 4.0 market’s struggle to knock heads together in the name of ‘co-creation’,...

Signify on 2021: ‘Restoring order after Covid chaos’ – 11 key IoT trends for 2021

A year of unprecedented disruption and change has come to a close. Ahead lies an exciting 2021 when life will presumably get back to something like normal and long-pent-up economic energies should burst forth to drive economic expansion. On the tech front, IoT will continue...

Telensa on 2021: Standards, platforms, surveillance, privacy – and 12 IoT forecasts

Jon Lewis, director of strategy at UK-based smart street lighting company Telensa highlights a dozen tech trends to watch for in the year ahead. Here goes... 1 | The ‘smart city’ becomes a reality  The idea of a smart city has been in the ‘trough of...

Semtech on 2021: Availability and simplicity to drive critical mass for LPWAN systems

One thing that became abundantly clear during the Covid-19 pandemic was the importance of the supply chain throughout the enterprise. From the factory floor through distribution to retail stores and deliveries, there is an increased imperative to track and manage billions of items as...

Qualcomm readies ‘super-30’ IoT bundles, ‘cracks code’ for smart-city ROI

Qualcomm has released a new ‘services suite’ that pulls together full-stack tech IoT componentry into a modular plug-and-play IoT solution for cities and city-based ‘verticals’. The chip-maker declared it has “cracked the code” for smart cities with the bundle, on the grounds it removes...

Verizon and AWS roll out 5G-based MEC to Dallas and Miami to drive new V2X trials

Verizon has rolled out 5G-based edge computing with AWS to Dallas and Miami, taking the total city-count for their combined infrastructure to seven cities in the US. The setup is geared towards trials of a number of new latency-sensitive industrial applications, notably around healthcare...

Telstra, Ericsson devise edge-cloud 5G bundle to drive Industry 4.0 Down Under

Telstra and Ericsson have struck a deal to bundle localised edge-based 5G connectivity and compute functions for enterprises in Australia. The pair are looking to develop a reusable “edge cloud solution”, out of a test model deployed already with an unnamed financial services company,...

BT builds 5G university-campus network to spur local research, enterprise, uni life

BT has installed a dedicated public 5G network at the University of Warwick in the UK in what it reckons is a first for the country. The new setup comprises a public 5G cell site on the university’s main campus. The campus covers an...

Smart cities put faith in ‘tech-first optimism’ as Covid-era tech-spend set to triple

Cities must keep faith in “tech-first optimism” as they grapple with the fallout from the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in the next five years. A new forecast for smart-city spending in the period suggests they will embrace such a philosophy. Frost & Sullivan has issued a...

NNNCo builds LoRaWAN in Sydney – from North Shore to Blue Mountains

Australian IoT operator National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) has turned on a city-wide LoRaWAN network in Sydney, Australia, stretching north of the city along the Upper North Shore and west of the city towards the Blue Mountains. NNNCo said the infrastructure, covering 2,700 square kilometres,...

Senet offers RAN planning to help newbie LoRaWAN operators into IoT game

US IoT provider Senet has released a suite of radio access network (RAN) planning and management tools to support rollout of LoRaWAN networks by traditional infrastructure providers, and other new entrants, so they can get 'skin' in the IoT services game. It is also...

Australia trials LoRaWAN smart lighting in bid to save turtle hatchlings

The wellbeing of turtle hatchlings appears to have swung the case for smart lighting along the coast in Queensland, in Australia. A short strip of street lighting in the Shire of Livingstone, a small coastal locality near the city of Rockhampton in Central Queensland, has...

Bosch, Mercedes team up on autonomous valet parking at Stuttgart airport

Bosch and Mercedes-Benz have teamed with garage operator Apcoa to test out a new automated driverless valet parking at Stuttgart airport.  The new automated valet parking system co-developed by Bosch and Mercedes is being tested in two parking spaces at the P6 parking garage at...

Greece reserves prime spectrum, quarter of auction revenues for industrial 5G research

Greece has reserved spectrum in low, mid, and high frequency bands for 5G innovation projects, geared towards digital change. It will offer 25 percent of the income (upwards of €90 million) that it raises from the forthcoming national 5G auction back into these research...

Ireland intros €2m open 5G testbed to hone next-gen platform for digital change

A new €2 million open networking testbed has been unveiled in Ireland, for leading researchers in the field to collaborate with industry on 5G wireless radio, optical fibre, and data centre initiatives, and for Irish and European-led research into next-generation telecoms projects. The infrastructure...

Ericsson buys $1.1bn Cradlepoint, puts carriers at heart of expansion strategy

Ericsson has signed off a $1.1 billion deal to purchase US-based Cradlepoint, which provides LTE and 5G wide-area networking (WAN) for the emergency services sector, office and retail spaces, and IoT manufacturing market. The Swedish vendor pitched the deal squarely as a boon for...