Verizon, University of Michigan test 5G network for driverless cars
A number of 5G features make the technology perfect for testing and improving autonomous vehicles Verizon and University of Michigan’s Mcity are using 5G technology to advance transportation safety and shape …
Verizon intros LTE-based meters and management to PenLight power system
Peninsula Light Company (PenLight) has appointed US carrier Verizon to upgrade its power distribution system in Washington State with an LTE-based system, comprising smart electricity meters and a data analytics …
T-Mobile US launches asset tracking solution via NB-IoT network
T-Mobile US announced it will start selling what it claims to be the first asset tracking solution in the United States, the telco said in a release. T-Mobile US partnered …
Verizon hits go on guard-band NB-IoT network with 50KB $1 price-plan
Verizon has formally launched its narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) network in the US, offering an initial entry-level price plan of 50KB of data for $1 per month, shareable across NB-IoT devices …
Verizon drops price of Sequans LTE-M/NB-IoT chips to $6.50 for ThingSpace customers
The original Monarch system-in-package (SiP) from French chipmaker Sequans Communications has been made available Verizon’s ThingSpace IoT ‘accelerator programme’ for just $6.50. The new price point is a significant advance …
State of things | Smart manufacturing (part 2): An alternative truth
This article is the second instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The …
Verizon, Nokia CEOs talk Fourth Industrial Revolution in Davos
Nokia CEO on Fourth Industrial Revolution: “If ever something was worth working, it’s this.” Harnessing steam to drive mass production; tapping electricity to globalize manufacturing; widespread computing–all past industrial revolutions …
Why 5G is a slow-burning enterprise saga – and Verizon’s criticism of 5G marketing doesn’t go far enough
“The potential for 5G is awesome,” Verizon chief tech officer Kyle Malady wrote in an open letter this week, in protest at the early marketing of rather middle-of-the-road ‘5G’ services …
Sequans adds cloud positioning to Monarch chip, intros Verizon-approved IoT tracker
French IoT chipmaker Sequans has announced it will embed ‘cloud location over cellular’ (C-LoC) software to its LTE-M and NB-IoT Monarch platform, creating a IoT location solution that does not …
Verizon launches new development toolkit for IoT
The new offering uses Verizon’s ThingSpace platform and is powered by Amazon FreeRTOS Verizon has launched a new internet of things development toolkit using the carrier’s ThingSpace platform …