French IoT specialist Sigfox has officially launched its IoT network in Indonesia, the company said in a release. In the first stage, Sigfox’s network is available in greater Jakarta area and Bandung. Sigfox said that the launch of Sigfox network is aimed at supporting the increasing adoption of IoT in Indonesia. “IoT is a…
An intro-video plays as the founders of The Things Network (TTN), take to the stage at their annual LoRaWAN bash in Amsterdam. A Hollywood-style voiceover crows about big-sounding tech – something about 5G and 0G, and all the other Gs – before the baritone unravels, the music falters, and the fanfare stops. “Gee-eze,” says the…
The UK government has announced the winners of a £35 million funding pot for rural and industrial 5G projects, alongside a new $30 million 5G development competition for the media, gaming, logistics, and tourism sectors. Projects include private networking with Vodafone, Industry 4.0 with Ford, neutral hosting with Cisco, and a virtual reality scheme to…
Cisco has announced advancements to its IoT portfolio that enable service provider partners to offer optimized management of cellular IoT environments and new 5G use-cases, the company said in a release. Cisco highlighted that new wireless technologies – such as 5G and Wi-Fi 6 – will lead to more devices, and new advanced Industrial…
An intro-video plays as the founders of The Things Network (TTN), take to the stage at their annual LoRaWAN bash in Amsterdam. A Hollywood-style voiceover crows about big-sounding tech – something about 5G and 0G, and all the other Gs – before the baritone unravels, the music falters, and the fanfare stops. “Gee-eze,” says the…
Japan-based train company and railway operator Odakyu Electric Railway is trialling machine vision technology from Nokia to improve safety at rail crossings. The firm has started testing at the Tamagawa Gakuenmae No.8 railroad crossingin Machida City, in Tokyo. It is using ‘scene analytics’ software from Nokia to apply machine learning to video images, to monitor…
Huawei said today at a London launch event for new 5G gear that it would prefer to go via the operator community to serve the Industry 4.0 movement, using slices of their licensed public networks to create dedicated networks for industrial automation and intelligence. It follows the line from Swedish rival Ericsson, to go through…
Smart IoT devices and sensors utilize a wide range of wireless protocols such as Wi-Fi, ZigBee, Z-Wave, LoRa, and BLE. The deployment of smart IoT devices and sensors – each with its own set of requirements – inevitably creates multiple overlay networks that are inefficiently managed by a confusing array of vendor-specific dashboards and controllers.…
Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), Bosch Group, and ZF Friedrichshafen Group have joined the steering committee for the Open Manufacturing Platform (OMP). BMW Group and Microsoft are already on board as founding members. OMP was established under the umbrella of the Joint Development Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation, almost a year ago (April 2019). Its…
Ericsson and Audi announced they are currently testing Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) capabilities for factory automation at the car manufacturer’s P-Labs facility in Germany. The two companies highlighted that smart factories of the future with automated production systems featuring robots and Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) will be driven in large part by 5G connectivity.…
