Driverless shuttle buses require four separate safety solutions to ensure they operate safely and reliably even in the event of technical failures. So says Bosch, which has led a €4.3 million research initiative to scope out back-up systems to guarantee automated public transport stays on the road. Bosch said shuttle buses, for carrying passengers around…
Hannover Messe has been cancelled for the first time in its history as coronavirus continues to take hold in Europe, and other markets. Deutsche Messe, which runs the show, said at the start of March it had delayed the industrial technology trade show for two months because of coronavirus, pushing it back to mid-July. But…
Finnish private wireless provider Ukkoverkot, which has won a number of industrial LTE contracts with country-mate Nokia, has rebranded as Edzcom, and set a strategy for international growth, the company has announced. The company already has 26 operational private LTE networks in the Nordic region, including with the likes of port equipment suppliers Konecranes, Sandvik,…
Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo said in a note published on its corporate website that it will discontinue its NB-IoT commercial offering from March 31. The carrier’s NB-IoT service had been initially launched on April 25, 2019. The Japanese operator said that “in light of the current business environment, we have decided to stop providing…
Swiss IoT company u-blox has bought UK-based Thingstream, which offers low power wide-area (LPWA) IoT connectivity based on the MQTT lightweight messaging protocol. The sale closed for at CHF 10 million (€9.5m / $10.4m), plus coverage for some deferred staff retention. MQTT, short for message queuing telemetry transport, is designed for constrained environments with low…
Finnish private wireless provider Ukkoverkot, which has won a number of industrial LTE contracts with country-mate Nokia, has rebranded as Edzcom, and set a strategy for international growth, the company has announced. The company already has 26 operational private LTE networks in the Nordic region, including with the likes of port equipment suppliers Konecranes, Sandvik,…
California based Ondas Networks has won contracts to deploy private LTE networks for two major railroads in North America, the company has announced. It has refused to reveal the identity of the customers. Ondas Networks, formerly called Full Spectrum, said it had fulfilled a purchase order from a Class 1 railroad for the deployment of…
5G officially arrived this year. In certain parts of the US, it’s already providing AT&T users with upload speeds as fast as 500 megabytes per second and significantly reduced latency. It reached South Korea in 2018, and was launched in China in October by three wireless carriers. The direct benefits to consumers will be many,…
The hottest new digital tech in the automotive space is not the electrification or automation of vehicles. It is not, actually, sensors or analytics in production facilities. Instead, it is augmented reality (AR), brought to life on voice-operated wearable computers, and sold as connected worker solutions. In terms of digital pyrotechnics, augmented reality is delivering…
SAP has announced a trio of Industry 4.0 initiatives in Singapore, Tokyo, and Berlin to help startups integrate with its solutions and customers. The programmes are run by so-called ‘foundry’ setups in each market, organized by SAP.iO, the company’s early-stage venture arm. In each case, a cohort of startup companies has been drafted in to…
