German car giants Volkswagen and BMW have confirmed massive Industry 4.0 investments, and firmed up their interests in private industrial 5G as a means to factory automation and slicker production. Volkswagen has announced “further” investment in digital technologies at its flagship plant in Wolfsburg. The company announced a €4 billion injection in digitalization last summer,…
Belgian mobile operator Proximus and the port of Antwerp have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a digital transformation project. As part of the initiative, Proximus will develop a private 5G network that can be a driving factor for innovation and digital transformation in the Antwerp port. During a six-month pilot phase, several…
By 2025, 5G connections should cover 40 per cent of Europe’s workforce, 70 per cent of its industrial sites, and 80 per cent of its main logistics routes. This was the message from DigitalEurope, the trade association for the European tech industry, at the launch of a new Industry 4.0 policy document. Speaking at its…
CK Hutchison, owner of the Hutchison telecoms group in Asia and Three (3) mobile brand in Europe, has opened a centre of excellence to provide bespoke private LTE and 5G networks for large enterprises. It cited as prime candidates for industrial LTE and 5G enterprises that manage campus environments, such as transport hubs, logistics operations,…
Spanish telecom giant Telefonica, together with testing, inspection and certification specialist Dekra, unveiled an advanced research and development laboratory in the Spanish city of Malaga, in Andalusia, for the development of connected driving. The center will have all the infrastructure needed to test 5G solutions as well as V2X (vehicle to everything) technologies. The…
Nokia signed “nearly” 40 new customers for private LTE networks in the three months to the end of 2019, it said. It grew its private LTE client base by around 50 per cent in the period. Nokia now has contracts for private LTE networks with 122 customers in total, it said. The Finnish vendor drew…
Industrial IoT’s biggest problem? The fear of failure in a risk adverse industry. So says Ericsson, which recommends a two-pronged approach to spur takeup among overly-cautious manufacturing companies. The first fix is to drive starter IoT with proven low-level sensor solutions; the second is to drive advanced industrial automation with higher-end networking and analytics. One…
Deutsche Telekom has public-private ‘campus’ networking setups with various customers, offering a kind of proto-slicing, as a precursor to industrial 5G. It has so far announced deals with German lighting company OSRAM, German car parts maker ZF Group, and the RWTH research institute at Aachen University. LTE-based ‘campus’ networks, delivered by operators and configured correctly,…
When John Deere first began supplying agricultural tools in 1804, it was pitchforks and shovels; today, it’s connectivity and data When John Deere first began its initiative to provide farmers with better connectivity, it was primarily dealership-focused, in the sense that it really only concerned itself with making sure John Deere was alerted to any…
When John Deere first began supplying agricultural tools in 1804, it was pitchforks and shovels; today, it’s connectivity and data When John Deere first began its initiative to provide farmers with better connectivity, it was primarily dealership-focused, in the sense that it really only concerned itself with making sure John Deere was alerted to any…
