BROWSING: utilities

French water distribution company Société de Gérance et de Distribution d'Eau (Sogedo) has signed a 10 year deal with Singapore-based IoT development house Unabiz, which owns the Sigfox IoT network technology, to enhance water conservation and management in France. Sogedo will deploy more residential...

US private cellular Ondas Holdings has completed the acquisition of Israeli drone system and platform developer Airobotics through a merger acquisition, in a deal worth $15.2 million. The new drone unit is to be combined with American Robotics, acquired by Ondas Holdings for $70.6...

Massive IoT – or massive machine-type communications (mMTC) – is all around us. We live in a vast connected ecosystem of data-gathering applications that draw on comparatively low levels of data at source but which, when aggregated by application vendor or enterprise user, is...

Taiwanese IoT metering company Ubiik has won a $17 million tender from Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) for the deployment of an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system to host 450,000 additional smart meters. It is the company’s fourth consecutive AMI-tender win in Taiwan, it said,...

Regional US electric utility Xcel Energy has signed a deal with Anterix to lease its 900 MHz spectrum for private LTE across its service area in eight western and midwestern states. The deal is another sign of momentum for Anterix, which has signed a...

Swedish vendor Ericsson has completed the rollout of a private LTE network for regional US electric utility Evergy, covering 20 cell sites in Kansas and Missouri. Locally-headquartered engineering consultancy Burns & McDonnell has been engaged, also, on the new network’s design and build, and...

Singapore-based Unabiz, owner of Sigfox, has entered the United Arab Emirates (UAE) through a deal with InfraX, a subsidiary of Digital DEWA, the digital arm of public service infrastructure company Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA). Unabiz is to make “custom designed IoT solutions”...

US power company Ameren has appointed Ericsson on a 10-year deal to provide private LTE and 5G network infrastructure to cover its operations across Missouri and Illinois. The project will consolidate “disparate network solutions” into one cellular network in the 900 MHz spectrum band,...

The partnership will combine Itron’s distributed intelligence ecosystem with SmartThings Energy service to provide real-time energy readings and consumption patterns   Itron announced it is working together with Samsung subsidiary SmartThings to connect Itron’s industrial IoT (IIoT) network solution and SmartThings’ services and solutions. The collaboration will...

Senet has expanded its public LoRaWAN network across all five boroughs of New York City through a combination of Senet-owned infrastructure, roaming deals with partner networks, and formal integration with Helium network, the company has said. The US LoRaWAN operator is on a charm...

As US IoT chipmaker Silicon Labs opens the (virtual) doors to its third Works With event (September 12-14), and readies a rush of new product releases (coverage incoming), Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Ross Sabolcik, the firm’s general manager for industrial and commercial,...

The other Industry 4.0 announcement from Nokia’s enterprise group this week, ahead of Hannover Messe USA next week, is about 5G devices, plus spectrum access and new dashboarding for private 5G systems. The Finnish firm, fresh from talking industrial software, and following its separate...

South Korean tech firm Samsung has announced a tranche of new private 5G deployments in its home country, including with three public sector agencies and two private sector hospitals. All the deployments utilise the newly-liberated 4.7 GHz and 28 GHz bands in South Korea,...

Using Digi solutions, a power company can optimize grid performance, prevent outages, restore outages faster when they do occur, and enable consumers to manage their own energy usage right down to the individual networked appliance. The routers were a desirable choice for ElectriCities because of...

Vodafone has suggested the industrial 5G market in the UK will be skewed unfairly towards elite private enterprises, in position to invest more easily in their own private network infrastructure, and collectively screwed out of £7 billion per annum in potential economic gains, mostly...

Ericsson exec: 'Private cellular networks are principal catalysts for the utilities sector' Ericsson has opened a Global Utilities Innovation Center at its facility in Plano, Texas that houses a purpose-built operating lab and demo environment locations designed for utilities to experiment with 4G and 5G use cases...

  Despite the increasing adoption of IoT and 5G by firms operating in the utility sector, these technologies will enable more innovative use cases in the future compared to the initial use cases under implementation at the moment, Sameh Yamany, CTO of VIAVI Solutions, told...

Ericsson believes that the real promise of 5G for a utility is the introduction of lower network latencies   The adoption of 5G technologies could be a game changer for utility companies, Per Wahlen, vice president and head of Business Development at Ericsson North America, told...

Both firms aim to offer IoT end-to-end solutions to smart cities and smart utilities across these two countries Universal Communications Group (UCG) and National Narrowband Network Communications (NNNCo) announced a strategic alliance agreement to offer IoT end-to-end solutions to smart cities and smart utilities across...

UK-based civil engineering company BAM Nuttal has switched on a private 5G network to provide connectivity for construction services at a 55,00 square-metre site in the Shetland Islands in the UK, where it has been contracted by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) as...

Note, this article is taken from a new editorial report from Enterprise IoT Insights, Hybrid Low-Power IoT – How The IoT Industry Is Balancing Function And Efficiency. The report is available here, or by clicking on the image at the bottom of the page....

  Finnish vendor Nokia has signed a contract with 450connect, a joint venture backed by German companies from the energy and water sectors, to build its nationwide "LTE450" radio network. In a release, Nokia said that the agreement will cover the supply of radio system technology...

  Samsung Electronics America and Amdocs said they will collaborate to deliver end-to-end 4G and 5G private network solutions to U.S. enterprises. In a joint statement, the firms said that the agreement includes delivery of Samsung’s complete set of private network solutions, including Citizen Broadband Radio...

Taiwanese industrial IoT provider Ubiik has released a Release 15 level dual-mode LTE-M and NB-IoT unit that can operate as a small cell or access point. It is pitching the product to mobile network operators and private LTE network providers, supplying industrial enterprises. The...