Spanish telecom giant Telefónica and Idrica, which specializes in technologies for water management, have signed a global partnership agreement to provide services to companies in the water sector, Telefonica said in a release. Telefonica said that this new agreement includes the development of solutions using NB-IoT, LTE-M and future 5G massive IoT, that will…
Deutsche Telekom expects, in most cases, to manage private networks for enterprises, even if they are deployed in privately-owned spectrum, which is not licensed directly by the operator itself. Following its deal with BMW last month to install a dual-slice private LTE ‘campus network’ at the car maker’s production plant in Leipzig, using spectrum hived…
The vertical farming industry in its infancy, with most practitioners stuck in hobbyist production. But the fragile case for growing food in warehouses – automated and dynamic local production, using less water, less fertiliser, less energy – is alive and kicking, in the British countryside. Jones Food Company runs one of the largest indoor farms…
The vertical farming industry in its infancy, with most practitioners stuck in hobbyist production. But the fragile case for growing food in warehouses – automated and dynamic local production, using less water, less fertiliser, less energy – is alive and kicking, in the British countryside. Jones Food Company runs one of the largest indoor farms…
The city of Cardiff in the UK has started a tender process to procure a lighting supplier for the £4.5 million upgrade of 23,750 residential streetlights in the city with LED bulbs and smart controls. The move follows completion of a residential pilot in the suburb of Radyr, four miles from the Welsh capital, involving…
The Société du Grand Paris (SGP), the state owned industrial company responsible for the Grand Paris Express metro project, has contracted Nokia to deploy a private LTE as part of the network extension in Paris, France. Development of the Grand Paris Express is billed by the SGP as the largest transport project in Europe. It…
Qualcomm has hailed the progress with cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology in recent months, including with certification of seven products using its own Qualcomm 9150 C-V2X chipset. C-V2X is a global solution for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and V2X communication, standardized in 3GPP. It is designed to enhance road safety and smart transportation systems, including support of automated…
Around 40 per cent of organizations are deploying IoT solutions already and a further 22 per cent planning to deploy in the next two years. But the rate of adoption is slower than expected, according to open-source IoT group the Eclipse Foundation. The same percentage that are in deployment-phase (39 per cent) are either without…
Cellular is the best connectivity technology for smart street-lighting in cities, reckons Netherlands based lighting company Signify. The rise of ultra narrowband (UNB) for outdoor smart lighting in cities, popularized by UK rival Telensa, will not cut it, the company has said. Proprietary UNB-based technologies, also deployed by utility companies for smart metering, work fine…
An IoT sensor platform has helped a team of geologists from York University in Canada and the University of Zurich in Switzerland to monitor the stability of the terrain over the tomb of the 18th dynasty of pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. The Valley of the Kings, an ancient necropolis where…
