BROWSING: smart factories
Telstra and Ericsson supply private 5G for Australian agri-tech collective
Telstra has deployed a private 5G network for industrial tech organisation AgriFood Connect in Australia. It has worked with Ericsson on the deployment; it is the Swedish vendor’s first private-5G install in Australia. AgriFood Connect is a not-for-profit seeking to drive tech adoption in...
Verizon strikes deal with Google Cloud to complete the 5G-MEC set in the US
Verizon and Google Cloud have confirmed a partnership on 5G and multi-access edge computing (MEC). Verizon said it is the first US operator to offer “5G mobile edge computing” with “all” of the major cloud providers. It is working with Microsoft Azure at the...
The year of industrial AI – so long as it is underpinned and understood (Bosch on 2022)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gaining momentum as a key technology for industrial applications and will be one of the big focus topics in 2022. Many companies are curious and open to try out new AI functionalities. Their goal is usually quite simple: greater production...
Electronics manufacturer Compal installs private 5G smart-factory network from Enel
Compal Electronics has deployed a private 5G network with a core network from Stockholm-based telecoms software and cybersecurity outfit Enea. The Taiwanese firm, one of the world’s largest original design manufacturers (ODMs), said it will use the 5G setup for manufacturing a range of...
Porsche test drives private 5G from Ericsson at Leipzig production plant
German sports car manufacturer Porsche has recruited Ericsson for a private 5G network at its manufacturing production complex in Leipzig, in Germany. Porsche is using an enterprise 5G licence from German regulator BNetzA in the 3.7-3.8 GHz ‘vertical’ spectrum band. It said the deployment...
Buy more 5G kit or miss your CO2 targets – says 5G kit vendor, in warning to Europe
Industrial 5G and IoT – or at least, the digital pyrotechnics sprung from 5G and IoT networks – can help the planet reduce carbon emissions, reckons the tech and telecoms market. Telecoms vendor Ericsson, chorusing the message from telecoms operator Vodafone a couple of...
Top 10 global manufacturers using 5G
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Global manufactuers are starting to adopt 5G to improve manufacturing processes. 5G technology offers manufacturers the chance to build smart factories and truly take advantage of technologies such as automation,...
Vodafone Idea taps Athonet for Industry 4.0 trials in dedicated test spectrum in India
Indian mobile operator Vodafone Idea Limited, doing business as Vi, is working with Italy-based private 5G specialist Athonet to test 5G-based solutions for Industry 4.0, and related disciplines. The partnership is looking at industrial 5G use cases for smart construction, smart warehousing, smart agriculture,...
Druid Software recruited by Proximus and BICS to enable private-public 5G SA roaming
Ireland-based private core network provider Druid Software has been recruited by Proximus to serve enterprise customers running private 4G and 5G installations. It has been working with the Belgian network operator, along with its international roaming business BICS, to test outbound roaming between public...
Nokia mixes private 5G and edge compute in new MXIE master bundle for Industry 4.0
Nokia has bundled industrial-grade compute, storage, and networking into a single edge solution for mission-critical Industry 4.0. The new package comes with industrial IoT sensing and analytics applications, as well, plus a “single pane of glass” management platform to draw together newly-connected operational technology...
Siemens targets smart buildings, smart factories with Wattsense buy, Zscaler tieup
Siemens has bought French startup Wattsense, a hardware and software company offering a plug-and-play IoT management system for small and mid-size buildings, including schools, offices, warehouses and retail. Meanwhile, it has announced a deal with US cloud security company Zscaler to secure IT/OT crossover...
Vodafone urges UK to bundle 5G and IoT targets and incentives into net zero strategy
Vodafone has urged the UK government to write targets and incentives for 5G and IoT adoption into its forthcoming net-zero strategy blueprints, due to be published later this year. The UK-headquartered operator said the UK government should create a regulatory and policy framework that...
John Deere Industry 4.0 Lead: ‘5G is really important to us’
Non-Standalone 5G deployment at U.S. facilities will form template for expansion to global John Deere manufacturing facilities
DENVER--Representatives from John Deere, a global manufacturer of agricultural machinery headquartered in Moline, Illinois, have gradually become mainstays at telecoms and technology events as the company looks to...
5G manufacturing use case spotlight: Automated guided vehicles
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Automated guided vehicles are just one part of 5G manufacturing
An automated guided vehicle (AGV) is a portable robot that follows along marked long lines or wires on the floor, or...
Anritsu and InterDigital team up on 5G and MEC slicing demo for smart factories
Anritsu and InterDigital have combined on a new smart factory demo to showcase the “feasibility and readiness” of carrier-led 5G and multi-access edge compute (MEC) for Industry 4.0 use cases.
The setup, to be streamed as part of Anritsu’s virtual activity at Mobile World Congress...
Telenor, Ericsson ink cooperation agreement to boost 5G in Norway
Telenor Norway and Ericsson have entered into a joint innovation cooperation to create new 5G-powered opportunities in areas such as entertainment, autonomous transport, smart factories and remote healthcare.
“5G is more than a new network, it is a bridge into the future. 5G will have...
German regulator has already approved 123 private 5G networks
The German federal network agency Bundesnetzagentur has already awarded 123 spectrum licenses for private 5G campus networks.
The Federal Network Agency provides the spectrum in the range 3.7-3.8 GHz for local networks. The frequencies are used in particular for Industry 4.0 applications in the fields...
Telefónica and Microsoft combine private 5G and edge compute for Industry 4.0
Telefónica has signed a deal with Microsoft to combine their private 5G networking and edge computing capabilities, respectively, for the industrial sector. The pair said their “joint vision” is to deploy integrated industrial-grade 5G communications and computing solutions on customers’ premises.
The arrangement is between...
IT/OT ‘heavyweights’ Microsoft and Siemens join Open Industry 4.0 Alliance
Microsoft and Siemens have signed up to the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance, a two-year old consortium of “European” industrial companies geared to drive cross-vendor interoperability for factories and warehouses. They join as “heavyweights” of the IT and OT sides of the conjoined industrial IoT...
Fujitsu, Trend Micro run the rule over private 5G security at Japanese smart factory
Japanese IT company Fujitsu and US-Japanese cyber security company Trend Micro have partnered to “focus on” the security of private 5G networks. The pair said they will use a simulated smart factory environment at a Fujitsu factory in Japan to run the rule over...
What do enterprises really think of 5G? Frankly, we hear, they don’t give a damn
It is just another networking technology, after all; Appledore Research tells of the trouble with the telco sector’s ‘god complex’.
Note, this is an excerpt from an interview that appears in a new editorial report from Enterprise IoT Insights on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full...
Bosch trumps its own Industry 4.0 fantasies with (wait for it)… a smart factory floor
It sounded, at the time, like a sci-fi vision of the future of manufacturing: that with a hyper-connected 5G factory, the only fixed assets will be the floors, walls and ceilings. But Bosch appears effectively to have trumped its own fanciful trade-show talk, from...
Vodafone sets the controls for the heart of the (private 5G network) ‘run’
As promised last week, in an op-ed write-around of the same conversation, here is the full interview with Phil Skipper, group head of IoT business development at Vodafone, on the subject of industrial 5G performance KPIs and management SLAs – and the role of...
SAP and Software AG team up on self-service analytics for smart factories
Software AG and SAP have announced a deal to offer the former’s TrendMiner industrial analytics software on the latter’s industrial cloud platform for Industry 4.0 operations. The pair said factories can use TrendMinder as a self-service tool to bring new insights to shop floor...