China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) subsidiary Cosco Shipping Ports said it has completed a 5G-enabled, automated vehicle trial at China’s Port of Xiamen. In a release, the company said that the trial was carried out in partnership with China Mobile and Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle on May 11. For the trial, an automated truck was…
US-based private NB-IoT network operator Puloli is offering IoT modules based on Qualcomm’s multi-mode 9205 LTE modem to critical industries, as part of its as-a-service industrial networking offer. Last July, San Francisco-based startup Puloli secured a minor 1 MHz paired chunk (2 MHz in total, split between downlink and uplink channels) of upper 700 MHz…
Ninety percent of companies in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry are yet to leverage digital technologies at scale, and that even the best equipped of them are struggling to make their digital deployments pay. This is the conclusion of a new report from SmarterChains, a Switzerland-based Industry 4.0 consultancy, which ran a poll of…
Singapore is trialing the usage of a robot dog from Boston Dynamics to assist with social distancing measures in parks, gardens and nature reserves. The announcement by Singapore’s Smart Nation and Digital Government Group, which comprises its The Smart Nation and Digital Government Office (SNDGO) and Government Technology Agency, has earned widespread coverage for the…
Atlas Copco Airpower, a manufacturer of compressors, vacuum solutions, generators, pumps, power tools, and assembly systems is collaborating with Ericsson and Orange Belgium to ensure intelligent manufacturing with 4G and 5G technologies. The Atlas Copco Airpower factory in Wilrijk, Belgium, is one of the world’s largest manufacturing sites for both portable and stationary compressors. At the facility, compressors are designed,…
Sidewalk Labs, the smart-city side project of Google-parent company Alphabet, has pulled the plug on its controversial tech-fuelled urban re-development project in Toronto, blaming “economic uncertainty” brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The firm said the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis was felt in the real estate market in Toronto, and had made the…
We are probably all well aware of what a SIM is. Those fiddley thin pieces of plastic we, or the phone salesperson inserts into our new cellular phone when we make a change. Over the years, SIMs have become smaller and smaller, yet, they still contain the same crucial information that identifies our cellular device…
Almost nine in 10 manufacturing businesses in the world’s industrial heartlands want their own private LTE and 5G networks to drive forward Industry 4.0 initiatives and digital transformation. Three quarters are set to upgrade their communications networks in the next two years. Wi-Fi and wireless LAN will hardly get a look in. These are the…
Almost nine in 10 manufacturing businesses in the world’s industrial heartlands want their own private LTE and 5G networks to drive forward Industry 4.0 initiatives and digital transformation. Three quarters are set to upgrade their communications networks in the next two years. Wi-Fi and wireless LAN will hardly get a look in. These are the…
At the end of last year, Orange Business announced a major strategic overhaul, placing analytics and automation at the heart of its operations, and stating that 2-to-3% per year of its future growth through 2023 will come from supplying connectivity and intelligence to enterprises, rather than consumers. Further, the company believes that the emergence of…
