This year’s Hannover Messe trade fair, arguably the second biggest event for the telecoms market in Europe, has been postponed until July. Deutsche Messe, which runs the show, made the announcement today (March 4), to put the event back by two months on account of global developments related to coronavirus. The event had been set…
Connectivity has been the main blocker for industrial IoT, and not the fragmented hardware and software markets. So says Federated Wireless, one of the companies pioneering usage of private LTE and 5G in the CBRS band in the US. The firm has announced “one-click” CBRS-as-a-service availability via AWS and Microsoft Azure, and trumpeted its “overnight”…
Deutsche Telekom has installed a dual-slice private LTE ‘campus network’, hived off its public LTE network, at a BMW plant in Leipzig. Ericsson has supplied the networking gear for the project. The German operator said the deployment marks its fourth such campus installation. It has deals as well with German lighting company OSRAM, German car…
Cisco is working with Oxford University spin-out company Oxbotica on a UK trial to explore how autonomous vehicles can securely and automatically share data via public Wi-Fi hotspots. The idea is to utilize public Wi-Fi infrastructure to support their access to data, as autonomous vehicles come into range, around service stations and urban areas, and…
Amsterdam-based Ingy has confirmed it is using wireless mesh protocol Wirepas as the foundational technology for its smart lighting offer, and the key component to scale smart lighting for hundreds of thousands of nodes in single networks buildings, including in offices, warehouses, hospitals, and industrial plants. The firm reckons rival mesh networking technologies, including Bluetooth…
More detail has emerged about the private industrial 5G operations Lufthansa has pegged to its new holding in the 3.7-3.8 GHz spectrum in Germany, with Vodafone emerging, as well as Nokia, as early partner for the German airline’s technical services division. Separately of Nokia’s proclamation yesterday (February 27) it has provided telecoms gear for a…
More detail has emerged about the private industrial 5G operations Lufthansa has pegged to its new holding in the 3.7-3.8 GHz spectrum in Germany, with Vodafone emerging, as well as Nokia, as early partner for the German airline’s technical services division. Separately of Nokia’s proclamation yesterday (February 27) it has provided telecoms gear for a…
Sprint announced collaborations with Swiss operator Swisscom and Nordic carrier Telia to extend the Sprint Curiosity Internet of Things (IoT) platform to Europe. Sprint said that thanks to this new deal, Swisscom and Telia Company customers will now be able to better serve their customers in the U.S. With in-country access using a local…
German airline Deutsche Lufthansa (Lufthansa) has gained a spectrum licence for operating private LTE and 5G in the 3.7-3.8 GHz band in Germany. The licence is with Lufthansa subsidiary Lufthansa Technik, which provides technical aircraft services to airline carriers. Lufthansa Technik has built a 5G network with Nokia at its Hamburg facility to enable remote…
Irish postal company and fleet operator An Post Mails & Parcels (An Post) has contracted Irish Sigfox operator VT Networks to equip and monitor “several thousand” roll cages and containers for parcel processing and distribution. The state-owned logistics firm said the move, to embrace connected IoT tracking, is part of its transformation strategy, to go…
